Senior counsel, built on the factory floor.
Asia supply chain strategy, product development, and fractional leadership for outdoor, hardgoods, and lifestyle brands. Founded in 1999 by Richard Amodio.
From the factory floor up.
CN · VN · TW · KR · TH · MXFive specialties.
What brands and manufacturers come to Richard for. Most engagements begin in one of these and end up touching two or three, because the questions are connected.
Product Line & Item Strategy.
Where each item sits in the line, what it replaces, and what it has to earn. The commercial case comes before the sketch.
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Supply Chain Structure.
Where to make it, and how to run it once you do. Structure first, factory by factory.
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Product Commercialisation.
Concept to commercialisation. The programme that turns an approved idea into boxes on a truck.
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Brand Ethos in the Product.
Whether the item belongs to the brand selling it. Ethos read into materials, construction and price.
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Mentoring & Cross-Cultural Leadership.
Preparing a team to work with factories across cultures and time zones, including when and how to say no.
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“Rich has been my most valued partner and counsellor. No other firm operating in Asia offers more experience, insight, and leadership for Western companies.”
“I have been a friend, customer and colleague of Rich Amodio and CenterEdge Consulting for most of ten years in my various sourcing and supply chain roles. Rich has been my most valued partner and counsellor and I know of no other firm operating in Asia supporting western companies that offers more experience, insight and leadership. My recommendation could not be more unequivocal.”
Brands Richard Amodio has worked with.
As developer, sourcing partner, advisor, or in-seat executive, across twenty-seven years of practice and the years that preceded it.
Established Brands$125M annual sales managed · over 100 retail stores overseen · 14 factories run
The full track recordSix countries. Since 1989.
Not a list of capabilities. A list of relationships, built one factory at a time, mostly in person.
Retainer, project, or a single call.
Most relationships start as one shape and become another. The first conversation is always free, and is usually the one that determines what the right shape is.
Retainer.
Best for: brands in flux. Six to eighteen month engagements.Project.
Best for: specific decisions on a known clock.Expert call.
Best for: one-hour answers to the right question.Notes from the factory floor.
Short pieces on sourcing, product programmes, and the decisions behind them. Written by Richard Amodio.
The factory side of the inventory equation
Everyone reads inventory from the brand or the retailer side. The decisions that set it are made months earlier, on the factory floor, against capacity that was booked and materials that were already committed.
Six countries, one thread: where each market fits
China, Vietnam, Taiwan, Korea, Thailand, Mexico. What each country is actually for in an outdoor and hardgoods supply chain, and why the footprint is a list of relationships rather than a list of capabilities.
Solution dye versus conventional dyeing, by the numbers
What solution-dyed fabric is, what the published comparison says about water, chemicals, energy, and CO2, and where the process fits in an outdoor product programme.