Programme Execution

Two days after the sample leaves Shenzhen it is sitting in a customs warehouse while your launch review waits for a charger nobody can open. Sample shipments rarely go wrong in transit; they go wrong on paper. This guide covers …

The first warranty claim usually arrives three to six months after a launch, when the channel has already sold through the first container. By then the process is either agreed or improvised. Deciding it before the first shipment is cheaper …

A brand rarely launches one charger. It launches a range, and the range is where cost and certification risk accumulate: three wattages, two port layouts, four plug types, and a retail box for each. The difference between a profitable range …

Most OEM charger projects do not fail because a stage takes too long. They fail because two stages run in the wrong order: artwork is approved before the enclosure is frozen, or certification is booked before a worst-case build exists. …

A trial report lands in your inbox with a dimensional table, a set of photographs and a list of corrections, and someone asks whether the tool can be approved. Reading it well is a skill, and it decides whether the …

Freight is quoted per container, but it is paid per unit. Ten millimetres off a master carton can move the number of units per container by a few percent, and across a season that difference is a real line in …

Packaging is the part of a charger programme where design ambition meets freight arithmetic. A retail box that looks premium on a shelf can add cost and volume in ways that are invisible in the unit price and obvious in …

The first reply to most charger enquiries is a price range, because the enquiry did not contain enough information to price. An RFQ that states the device list, the markets, the branding level and the quantity usually comes back as …

Certification is usually treated as a document order placed at the end of a project. It behaves much better as a project with its own scope, samples and critical path, run in parallel with tooling and packaging. The plan below …