The direct-sourcing pitch sounds clean: cut out the middleman, capture the spread. In practice, mid-volume programs pay for the middleman whether one exists on paper or not, through freight, QC, customs, and firefighting.
We wrote this from the other side of the table. Here is the actual cost of going direct at sub-$10M annual volumes, and the break-even where it starts to make sense.
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