Products purchased from your favorite stores often involve distribution from a variety of sources. Getting a product to the market largely requires an effective marketing channel for companies that manufacture goods and other products. A supply chain typically features various middlemen between the manufacturer and the consumer. The most common in the supply chain are Factory, Wholesalers and Retailers
Factory or we called manufacturer of indoor plantation shutters are available in Australia, but we see many in China where their capability to handle the orders are massive compared with most factories here in Melbourne are relatively much smaller in terms of size, labour hired and productivity.
Wholesaler or alternatively named distributor is kind of middle man who has great barging power with manufacturer with their on-going purchasing orders. We generally speak the container load or truck load.Retailer – its the shopfront or online business who offers consumer with their service and product, of course the warranty as well. You may compare among different suppliers who can provide good customer service and has tracked history in terms or quality supply and installation.
Plantation Shutters Supply Chain
For Plantation Shutters industry, its impossible to find a manufacturer in Australia who can make the shutters from scratch. Almost all the raw material, semi finished parts and hardware are imported from oversea, only the labour involved can be local Aussie to do all the cutting and assembling work. While we do see lots of shutters are made in oversea particular in China. The price between Aussie and Off-shore made are largely different due to the high labour cost here locally.
Wholesalers deal with both manufacturers and retailers. Normally one wholesaler has hundreds of retailers accounts but one or two big manufacturers as major suppliers . They normally have small margin compared with retailers, and focus on the volume moving. It is hardly to see they deal with consumers as this is restricted by the terms with their retailers.
As a direct customer it is hard to reach manufacturers even we all know they offer the cheapest price as a bottom of supply chain. Without the volume, they wont care of your single order even you manage to find one. Plus the shipping from oversea for single order will surprise you and eventually you will give up when all cost added up.
Same rule applies to Wholesaler, and no chance you will deal with them, therefore, its very common you just compare among different retailers, and no surprise they may be by high chance getting shutters from same wholesaler.
You may find hundreds of retailers when you search on the google, and fancy offers like 50% off the RRP everywhere. Choose wisely to find reliable ones who can honour its service on time,in quality manner, and at reasonable price tag.
AAA Plantation Shutters is a retailer who has its own manufacturing facility in Melbourne, and offer both local made and off-short made Plantation Shutters. We are proud of our sound customer service across whole sales channels, in-house installation team and backed by our own factory with extensive parts for local warranty.
Unlike most retailers, we handle your order in more professional way, and fit them perfectly on your windows, through our nice and sound internal communicating systems. From pre-sale, check measure, to production and final hand over to installation, our in-house order process makes sure your order is passing by our own hands without outsourcing to 3rd party, so you are guaranteed to have shutter initially designed and fitted as your requested.
Read our feedback on Google and Productreview, and our long years served team members including sales people Gerry and Ritesh, Installer Mark and Bill are often mentioned and appreciated by customers for their hard working.
