For one raw hide and wet blue supplier, success and sales growth came with a cost: an overburdened supply chain that threatened to reduce market share.

Although wet blue is very similar material to raw hide, it comes with no of difficulty; competition, industry use, price, etc.

The biggest challenges  for wet blue hides are grease content, chrome content, pH and shrinkage.

The higher fluctuations identified in wet blue will cause variations in tanning and dyeing processes, impacting on any finished leather with wet blue.

Many of our costumers require wet blues to meet stringent chemical content requirements (RSL) to get successful end product (finished leather) ensuring the finished product is of a safe and suitable quality standard.

• Production Planning:
  As it is a natural product, even you try your best to control the specs according to the costumer, it somewhat may change over each batch.
• Determine the right inventory level:
  It is quite difficult to determine the order and i=inventory due to testing difficulties as well as shipping difficulties.

• Optimize the supply chain for perfect order planning:
  The low quality of raw hide is the pressing issue in need of an immediate solution. Quality of these raw hides has implications on production costs and sales prices. This determine competitiveness in the market. Poor quality materials are expensive to process and result in a high percentage of low grade products including rejects. This can lead to serious losses.

We have been supplying all types of wet blue hides across the world and our reputation really grows among our costumer as we supply high and standart quality products; thanks to our team and 3rd party testing companies.

Despite all the challenges, we are happy to serve wet blue hides to our clients with happiness and success.

By the numbers, the effort:

• Reduced lead time by 43%
• Decreased variability by 50%
• Lowered the risk of back-order by 95%
• Increased stock for finished goods by 10%