![]() “Arc has announced that they are ONLY making stock of their Top 50 SKUs to try to keep up with demand. Glassware stock is a big issue right now. “It looks like there’s some bad news from the glass world, as many industries are facing currently. So on June 1, in an email, Sarah at Design A Shirt said: I’m not sure where it makes the Koblenz Beer Stein. under various brands, is headquartered in France with manufacturing plants and sales operations in the US – among its entities is “ARC Glass and Mirror Company” in Houston – Europe, and China. Arc has its own supply chain for materials and equipment.Īrc, which manufactures glassware, mirrors, doors, etc. That supplier orders the blank mugs from the manufacturer Arc Group. PyroGraphics orders the blank mugs from its undisclosed supplier in Ohio. The mug’s supply chain: Design A Shirt orders the mugs from the mug printer, PyroGraphics, in West Des Moines, Iowa. And I’d surely have those mugs by the end of August, hahahahahha. So I figured that it might be slower this time, given all the supply chain issues, and I doubled my estimate to 12 weeks. Last time, it took six weeks to get the mugs. So on May 31, I contacted my distributor, Design-a-Shirt, a company in Arizona, to reorder the mugs. There is obviously a funny looking wolf on the other side that is howling out the speech bubble:īack in late May, I did my inventory analysis and determined that I would run out of mugs in mid-November, based on historical mug flow data. The mug is imprinted with the WOLF STREET dictum, “Nothing Goes to Heck in a Straight Line.” This dictum, however, has now been proven wrong by supply chains. We had to find a specialty mug printer, and they’ve done awesome work. We contacted a few of them, and they refused to touch this job. Most mug purveyors can only put simple designs, such as logos, on mugs. The mug has to be precision printed with wrap-around three-color art that was created by Kitten Lopez, a San Francisco artist and author. “Koblenz Beer Stein.” I could shift production to a different model of glass mug, but this mug has become iconic and cannot be changed, ever. It’s not any old glass mug but the 16 oz. They may or may not have been produced in the US. The blank glass mug and the packaging materials account for about 10% of the total costs. The costs of printing the three-color art on the blank mug accounts for about 25% of the total costs. Services account for roughly 65% of the total costs of the mugs, mainly transportation costs all around. So there is no retail price but only my costs, which includes shipping the mug to the recipient.ĩ0% of the final costs of the mug are provided in the US by US companies and US labor. ![]() I send it out as thank-you gift to people who donated $100 or more to WOLF STREET and who specifically say that they want this mug (quite a few don’t). The shortages that have hit the WOLF STREET beer and iced-tea mug are great examples of how screwed up supply chains are, how widespread the shortages are, how they hit some things, but not similar things, until they too suddenly disappear, how the uncertainty about pricing when stuff finally does become available can leave you high and dry, and how surging freight costs are eating everyone’s lunch.įirst things first: The mug is not for sale. “Nothing Goes to Heck in a Straight Line,” except supply chains. ![]()
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