XYMOGEN

XYMOGEN get the labels approved and reviewed and then printed and then put on the bottles; typically, it can take from one to two weeks.” “So, we came up with this program, where we review the historical usage of each of our custom- ers - we have about 500 private label customers - and we pre-label, based on their history, three months worth of product and store it here. There are so many benefits to that: number 1–we’re able to do it on our high speed labeler, instead of putting them on by hand.We’re running these at a hundred bottles a minute. The big advantage for the customer is when they call, the order goes out the day they order, so they get it right away. Number 2 - some of them end up not ordering on time and this way, they don’t have to worry about back orders, because we always have inventory for them. Number 3 - we’re able to do fulfillment, so now, they can have their patients go onto our e-store and they can order their products and we can ship the private label direct to their patients. So, it’s rather an extraordinary service that we’re able to provide and it’s grown our private label 35 percent over our general business. That took a lot of room, because we have about 400 differ- ent products in our product line, and that’s about 8,000 different, individual SKUs if you add up all the customers’ private label products. So we had to come up with 8,000 bins to store all these products and that’s where the additional space next door, really helped out.” Another area for growth is XYMOGEN’s contract manufacturing (CMO) division which provides product for other companies. “That now rep-