3 Reasons Why Your Agricultural Purchasing Manager Might Need a New Bin Bolt Manufacturer

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Your agricultural purchasing manager’s job is to find and work with the best manufacturers—the ones that offer the best services and high-quality manufacturing components, like bin bolts, at the right price.

But finding the right manufacturer is no easy task. You can easily get into a business relationship with one that isn’t ultimately suited to your needs without even realizing it. Or you might be working with a great manufacturer whose performance, customer service, or quality was excellent at first but has unexpectedly started to suffer after years of satisfaction. If either of these two situations rings true with you, it might be time for your agricultural purchasing manager to find a new bin bolt manufacturer.

Here are three reasons why your agricultural purchasing manager might need to make the switch.

Low-Quality Bin Bolts

Although you don’t want to break the bank to purchase the highest-quality bin bolts in the world, you do expect to get quality for the money you’re putting into the purchase. When your bin bolt manufacturer cuts corners to save money, the quality of your bin bolts will suffer.

He’ll use low-grade materials that will weaken the components’ tensile strength, load proof, and yield strength. They won’t be able to hold up to the stresses or pressure being placed on them or the environmental conditions they’re meant to withstand. When it comes to agricultural products, you simply can’t settle for low quality. When your bolts are cheap or poorly made, they won’t be strong and they won’t be durable either. They’ll be quickly damaged by rust, wear, leaks, or pressure, which will destroy the integrity of your bin. You just can’t risk it. If you’re seeing poor quality from your bin bolt manufacturer, it’s time to switch to a new supplier.

Poor Customer Service

Your agricultural purchasing manager knows just how important customer service is to getting things done right. If there’s no proper communication between him and the manufacturer, issues can arise, problems won’t get fixed, questions will go unanswered, and shipments can be late—the list goes on and on. 

From the moment the agricultural purchasing manager asks for a quote, to the time he orders and then ultimately receives his product, he should have no doubts that everything is going smoothly. But this peace of mind and control over the purchase can only occur if there’s proper customer service. The relationship between your agricultural purchasing manager and manufacturer will deteriorate once communication starts to break down, which also means it’s time to find a new supplier—one that understands the need for customer service.

Additional Costs

When you’re dealing with additional costs that weren’t on your original quote, you have a big red flag that it’s time to switch to a more dependable bin bolt manufacturer. Additional costs can be caused by a shady supplier trying to gouge you for more money to see if he can get away with it. Or, they might be incurred because the bin bolts you received didn’t meet your needs—they weren’t designed to your specifications, they were made with cheap, low-grade materials, or they were poorly manufactured—and you had to send them back and get them replaced with what you actually wanted. Or, your shipment was late so your own labour, operational, and inventory costs increased because of it.

Many of these costs could have been avoided if your manufacturer had better customer service skills or if he wasn’t trying to cut corners. In any case, additional costs are also a reason to make the switch to a more reliable bin bolt supplier.

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