A vantagem de estar a 2 dias de Berlim

Há anos que damos o mote aqui no blogue para o papel da rapidez, da flexibilidade, da proximidade, para compensar o factor custo, quando nos comparam com a Ásia.
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""We custom make everything. When an order comes in here, we make it to order," he says.
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Meyers says being just south of the U.S. border gives his company an advantage in the fiercely competitive global market. His firm gets access to a low-wage workforce in Mexico, yet it can still deliver products rapidly to their customers in the United States. His company's lead-time is just seven days, he says.

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"You're not going to get something from China in seven days unless you put it on an airplane," Meyers says. "Here, we put it on a truck, and it's in. We take an order, we custom build it, we ship it out, and it's out quickly."
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If a customer needs a product quickly, Meyer's team can build it, move it across to McAllen and have it on a FedEx flight within 24 hours. Myers says this is a service that manufacturers in Asia simply can't offer.
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"I would say about 40 to 60 percent of our companies are in one way or another experimenting with the whole concept of rapid response manufactures," he says. "We have some companies that literally don't build a product until it's sold."
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Patridge and other advocates of rapid response manufacturing are betting that agile, streamlined companies based along the border will have a competitive advantage over Asian firms selling products to the U.S. market.
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First, North American manufacturers can avoid having large inventories locked in shipping containers crossing the Pacific Ocean. Second, labor in the Mexican border factories is cheap, starting at roughly $10 a day. Third, from the border, companies can deliver a customized product, whether that's an engraved cell phone or a custom mechanical part, to a U.S. buyer in a matter of days."

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Há anos que vimos aqui defendendo esta vantagem competitiva face à Ásia. Os macro-economistas só vêem custos e esquecem-se do resto. E mais, o mercado europeu é mais exigente e requintado que o americano, suportando por isso preços mais elevados.

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A originação e captura de valor ainda pode ser maior se as PMEs não venderem minutos mas marca, mas experiência, mas conhecimento.

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Trecho retirado de "Border-Town Factories Give Manufacturers An Edge"