Product manufacturers face several significant challenges. Market volatility, changes in government policy, rising prices, and tightening budgets can often put roadblocks in front of projects that need to be overcome as smoothly and cost-effectively as possible.
However, as competition continues to heat up in the marketplace, manufacturers also need to be cognizant of maintaining quality standards to build brand loyalty and increase profits.
It’s a balancing act that can keep OEM leaders up at night. However, XGP Arrow offers a unique one-stop business model that helps manufacturers balance costs with maintaining a high level of quality.
How XGP Arrow Fills A Critical Manufacturing Gap
As noted in our previous blog, we launched XGP Arrow to help connect manufacturers with the world’s largest metalworking network.
Under the XGP Canada brand, we helped customers in the automotive and industrial sectors safely transport their metal parts and components with high-quality steel racking, bins, and protective packaging solutions. Our dedication to our customers’ needs helped make us a North American leader in our industry.
Our recent alliance with Arrow Machine & Fabrication Group to create XGP Arrow connects our existing and future customers with a wide range of metalworking services, including design, material sourcing, machining, fabrication, welding, finishing, and assembly. Combining all that with our custom steel racking solutions creates a true one-stop solution that offers manufacturing a wide range of cost-effective benefits.
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What Are The Benefits To OEMs When Partnering With XGP Arrow?
Few manufacturers will turn down the opportunity to improve production efficiency, save money, and increase profits while maintaining their high quality standards. With XGP Arrow’s approach, we offer multiple opportunities to do all that and more.
Some of the key benefits of partnering with our company include:
Accessible Facilities You Can Inspect And Visit
In today’s global village, many manufacturers have the option to utilize multiple suppliers within their communities, across the country, or worldwide. However, many manufacturers like to visit their supplier’s production facilities and meet the teams behind the brand. When these locations are spread out across vast distances, travel time and costs quickly add up.
With XGP Arrow, the vast majority of our production facilities are within a short driving distance of one another, allowing you to visit and tour all of our local partnership locations in a single afternoon.
On a related note, having production facilities located so close together also reduces your shipping costs.
Faster Product Time To Market
Having to work with multiple service providers means managing several different contracts and production schedules. This is a time-consuming and often frustrating endeavour that can tie you in knots when schedules between suppliers don’t sync up. The results are delayed production, slower time to market, and decreased competitiveness.
Leveraging XGP Arrow’s connections to world-class metalworking services means having to deal with only one contract. We’ll handle all the backend scheduling and coordination for you, allowing you to focus on innovating and forming new business connections that drive revenue for your company.
Better Quality Control
All of XGP Arrow’s partner facilities share the same attitude toward providing nothing but the best quality results. All of our facilities hold relevant quality certifications, and our theory products undergo rigorous testing before anything leaves the facility. This approach helps us deliver consistent quality in everything we do, without compromise.
You risk not getting the same level of consistency and quality assurance when you deal with multiple suppliers, making our one-stop solution the preferred choice for manufacturers.
More Timely And Efficient Communication With Suppliers
Manufacturers who have had to make multiple phone calls to different suppliers for project status or to ask questions know how time-wasting and frustrating it can be. If different suppliers are in different time zones, the problems communicating with them, or between themselves, only get worse.
XGP Arrow offers a customer service solution that minimizes the number of contacts you have to make to complete your project. In many cases, you only need to deal with one person who will manage the backend for you while providing timely responses to your queries.
Furthermore, if someone on the production floor has a question for the designer or another engineer involved with your project, they can communicate and collaborate easily with them over the phone or simply by walking to their office.
A Dynamic, Responsive Supply Chain
The metalworking supply chain is a complex system. Materials can run short, production facilities can unexpectedly shut down, or goods can suddenly stop moving. Whatever the reason, a sudden break in the chain can significantly delay the manufacturing process.
With XGP Arrow, virtually every service you need to complete your project is under one roof, creating a dynamic supply chain impervious to influences that affect the outside manufacturing world. We’ve also utilized predictive models to develop contingency plans that ensure our supply chain remains reliable and resilient, regardless of the circumstances.
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XGP Arrow possesses the skills, knowledge, technology, and talent to deliver solutions that meet specifications, prioritizing performance, endurance, and quality. Visit www.xgparrow.com/contact to experience the XGP difference today!