The Atelier Sessions · Outsourcing Production

Scaling Beyond Your Own Hands

Wax-setting machines place 6,000 stones an hour at US$0.068 a stone. A 100-piece silver run lands in Singapore for S$550. Chinese New Year closes the whole manufacturing coast for three weeks — and the playbook for that is a chapter. Get the full whitepaper, the complete session recoring on renting the hands and keeping the judgement.

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Everything from the live session together with the white paper yours to keep.

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The Whitepaper

The full 36-page Outsourcing Production reference: the nine buyable steps, the four contract models, the six-rung ladder from piecework to Shenzhen, MOQ and tooling maths, AQL inspection tables, Incoterms, the festival calendar and the IP filings — every number sourced and dated.

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The Complete Session Recording - All 46 slides from the live session and presenter recordings

Why Jewellers Grab This

The makers who scale keep the design, the standards and the customer — and rent everything in between.

Start in the room you already sit in — Classmates, CJS overflow and the Calibre Match preview (JDMIS's talent-matching portal, coming soon): piecework lanes at S$100–300 with no factory and no minimums, tonight.
Rent locally before you fly — The Singapore workshop table: resizing from ~S$60, plating from S$20, bespoke from S$300 — with the vetting trio that keeps the first job small and the quality yours.
Run a factory order like a pro — RFQ to landed stock in eight steps: 30/70 payments against photo gates, MOQ and tooling maths (moulds US$30–100, custom silver from 30 pieces), and the S$550 first-order worked in full.
Keep control with numbers — The golden sample, the defect taxonomy, and AQL worked on a 200-piece order: inspect 32, accept up to 2 major defects — the standard written into your PO before production starts.
Survive the nonsense — The delays playbook for cottage suppliers and factory coasts alike: Golden Week, Chinese New Year, Diwali, monsoon — with 15–20% buffers, dual sourcing and the yes-culture counters that keep dates real.
Protect the designs first — File-then-share: IPOS registration from S$200, the Hague system covering China since 2022, NNN agreements factories actually sign, and the split-order rule that keeps any one factory from holding your whole design.

Alex Zupancich

Session Host · Digital Design & Business Specialist

Alex has trained designers and business owners across the region in design, manufacturing and business operations since 2006, holding degrees from Duke University and INSEAD. He hosts the Outsourcing Production Atelier Session.

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The Outsourcing Production whitepaper (PDF), the complete 46-slide deck from the live session, and a 29-topic online mini-course at learn.jdmis.edu.sg with certificate of completion. Everything is yours to keep.

Yes — the course starts at rung one, in the room you already sit in: a piecework job passed to a classmate, a resize sent to Lucky Plaza, one step of one piece outsourced this month. No factory, no minimums, no capital needed for the first rungs.

No. The local lane stands on its own — Singapore workshops, Calibre Match piecework and CAD services. The abroad lane (fairs, the HKTDC delegation, the Shenzhen visit) is there when your volumes justify it, with the full checklist for the day you board.

The course treats protection as a system: register before you share (IPOS from S$200, Hague for China since 2022), use NNN agreements rather than Western NDAs, split orders so no factory holds the whole design, and own your CAD files and moulds by contract. Nothing eliminates risk; the chapters show you how to price and manage it.

You get an instant one-click learning link by email (plus your account details if you're new to JDMIS online learning). The whitepaper, deck and mini-course all live inside your course.

Same content with the whitepaper written as a 36-page reference and six appendices you can keep coming back to: the production PO, the tech-pack template, the vetting scorecard, the festival calendar, the factory question bank and the local directory.