Buying guides from the factory floor

Doubling an order changes more than the quantity. What moves first, what gets slower, and the lines that need re-quoting rather than multiplying.

A deposit is working capital, not goodwill. How a payment schedule maps onto production, and where a first order runs short of cash.

A contract priced in one currency and paid in another carries a risk nobody named. Where to put it in writing, and who absorbs it.

Every factory quotes a capacity figure. What that number is built on, and the three checks that turn it into something you can plan around.

Switching suppliers mid-project is a schedule problem before it is a price problem. What has to be re-qualified, and in what order.

Moulds outlive contracts. Who actually owns the tooling, what a factory may reuse without you, and the clause that settles it before it matters.