OEM Product Manager personal experience Talk

Entrepreneurship is not a casual thing!

By 2007, I have been in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Dongguan, three factories have been working for 10 years.
It was this time that I was about to be a father.
After a long period of work, I began to feel tired, to do, to do, is to do for the boss,
It is also at this time to think about career, the path of life, thinking needs not to do something.


At this time, there was a chance that one of my former clients had an order to make a phone case,
Not much, but the process is a little complicated, he looked for a lot of OEM plants are reluctant to answer.
Found me, asked me if I have any interest to do, although the list is not big, but if made to earn more than a penny.

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After going home, I was talking to my wife after three months of pregnancy,
Think that although some upfront investment, but the product for many years, the risk is small.
If the list has become, in addition to earning a small amount of money, or my own business, when the boss of a chance,
Can take the next list to do.


After I decided to do it, I used all the connections I had accumulated in my previous job,
Do their own design, contact the raw materials suppliers, find familiar open mold factory, let them do my first.
The previous steps were smooth and the components to be assembled into the final product were produced in the expected time.


When all the parts were put in front of me and I started trying to assemble the finished product myself, I was dumbfounded.
Because all of the components are assembled into finished products, one process needs to be done manually, and it is time consuming and laborious.
With this cost, the list is a loss, no matter how it is done.
At that moment, I understood why the other factories were not picking up this single reason.


At this time, immediately to the new year, I returned home, the wife asked, I dare not tell her the truth, only said that the basic normal.
In fact, it was one months to complete the list, in the year before the finished goods shipped to overseas demand side, is not finished.


Dragged for a few days, no longer to deceive the family, and his wife told the truth, discuss how to do?
Wife said, or you pull the parts back home, our family, including the launch of neighbors to assemble products, and then sold to domestic manufacturers.
At least it will take back some of the costs.


Hearing this, I am so thankful that I have a thick and thin, understanding my wife.
After that, I pulled all the parts of my handlebar home and started my acquaintance, including the new Year, and took two months to assemble all the products.


Although one months of the single, I took three months to make, the early delivery of the order deadline date.
But it is precisely because of such tedious process no one to answer such orders,
Cause my product to make out, and then find manufacturers to sell when it is easy.


Finally, I only recovered the cost of this order, I put myself and my family in a few months,
But also accepted the lesson, the long insight.
After that, because of the cost of the problem, I will not take such orders anymore.


After that, my wife gave birth to a child, and I also returned to work in the factory.
But with this experience, to a large extent, the impact of my work and life, growth in that three months have occurred.
This also allowed me to go back to the factory, and soon rose to two levels, as the director of the assistant, commanding the entire plant from design to delivery process.
From this point of view, this one is still profitable.

OEM Product Manager personal experience Talk