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Outsourcing Cabinet Doors Summary

Building Doors Yourself:

 

Advantages

  • Choice of wood
  • Make more profits off a job
  • Errors can be caught while in production
  • Can make patterns more suited to clients need

Disadvantages

  • Need more equipment and space
  • Costs more in overhead
  • Employees must be skilled for making doors
  • Less choice of profiles if not fully equiped
  • Need to order, unload, and store wood

Outsourcing:

 

Advantages

  • Lets you focus on more profitable tasks
  • Less equipment & space needed lowering overhead
  • Less employee cost
  • Have preset samples to show clients

Disadvantages

  • Less profit on a job
  • Less quality control
  • Can't finish before assembly
  • May be delivered late
  • Mistakes are known only after they are delivered

 

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