Earlier this year I posted about the availability of Melaleuca products suffering no noticeable degradation. That’s still mostly true—the hiccups are minimal and short lived when they do happen, but with supply chain issues being so widespread, no one is immune.
The term supply chain is more familiar to the public at large now but it seems previously it was mostly limited to the business or professional sector. Because of the magnitude a disrupted supply chain has on every area of life in our modern culture, awareness of the importance of our otherwise unnoticed supply chain has certainly risen significantly.
Empty store shelves and more limited choices in pretty much everything we buy shows how vital our supply chain is. None of us are exempted from noticing these effects.
How does this relate to Melaleuca and its products? I am limited to providing a layman’s point of view but I do have the advantage of understanding business and marketing. I don’t keep pace with the corporate or marketing side of Melaleuca and product flow but the general knowledge I do have puts me in a position to offer good perspective.
Let’s start with a bit of general common sense. Perhaps there isn’t much of that left but I think Melaleuca customers in general would be people who possess and value common sense…hence, it contributes to why they are customers. If I can be so bold, mindless minions would write off Melaleuca without a fair trial.
To those who are still with me, you plan ahead. When you open a new product or something is running low, you add a replacement to your next order. Given the concentration factor for Melaleuca products, you’ll have a new supply weeks or even a couple months+ before you actually need it. This approach has not failed me yet. There have been recent months where a product I wanted was interrupted by supply chain issues, but so far, never to the degree I didn’t get it before I really needed it.
I think Melaleuca has done exceptionally well at keeping product availability consistent and quickly rebounding when hiccups occur. As I noted in my previous post about the hoarding which is a real problem in the general marketplace, Melaleuca customers tend to be good neighbors, so supply chain challenges have remained short lived. Given the type of people who are attracted to the Melaleuca model, and Melaleuca’s business model itself, I expect the bumps in the road to remain minimal.