How Nearshoring in Mexico Is Revolutionizing Quick Turn Headwear

Ordering quality, custom headwear doesn’t have to be complicated or costly, thanks to a new quick turn program from Caps Direct. Find out how nearshoring makes it all possible, utilizing speed and premium decoration in ways that are sure to impress.

Who Is Caps Direct?

If you haven’t worked with Caps Direct before, it’s time to get acquainted. For more than 20 years, Caps Direct has been the quiet force designing and importing extraordinary custom headwear for many Top 40 distributors and multiple well-known retail brands. Working closely with the world’s best manufacturers, Caps Direct is the trusted source for best-in-class design and quality manufacturing of custom headwear. You and your clients will be in excellent company partnering with them for your clients’ next headwear projects.

Caps Direct is now bringing that same lens of innovation and quality to their new nearshore quick turn program. If you’ve relied solely on domestic decorated headwear, here is your opportunity to enjoy a familiar buying process, but with far superior creativity, quality and value. In other words, all of the creative and quality benefits of overseas headwear with the speed and ease of domestic.

Nearshoring:

What It Is & Why It Matters

Nearshoring is a strategic business practice involving relocating business processes or services typically done overseas to a nearby country — often one sharing a border — to gain benefits such as shorter lead times without the limitations of decorating domestically. This allows distributors like you to enjoy quick turnaround times and premium quality without exorbitant costs. It truly is the best of both worlds when it comes to product manufacturing.

“Distributors are seeking headwear that compares to the quality, shape and fit of all the high-end retail hat brands we’ve seen in the last few years. So, we’ve positioned the highest-quality fabrics and trims with the very latest technology in cutting, sewing and decorating in North America. Distributors are already loving what we can do in the speed of domestic decoration while exceeding the quality of what they normally wait months to produce overseas.”

- Jason Krakow, President of Caps Direct

Caps Direct Meets Nearshoring:

On the Fly, Not Off the Shelf

To illustrate a nearshore fulfillment process in action, let’s take a look at the innovative new quick turn program from Caps Direct. Providing distributors with a quick and simple headwear option with premium custom decoration, this program offers all the advantages of domestic decorated headwear, such as same time zones, being catalog based, receiving quick sewouts for approval and domestic shipping with common carriers.  

 

The big difference is that Caps Direct makes each hat to order instead of stocking pre-produced hats like the typical headwear companies who make their caps overseas and complete the decoration domestically. Caps Direct flipped this supply chain upside down, bringing the fabrics to a factory just across the border so that both the manufacturing and the decoration are done within standard domestic lead times. This means that decoration is done before the hat is completed, yielding superior results and far expanding the creative options of decoration type and placement.

“During the pandemic, everyone suffered from long transit times, limited container availability, logjams at the ports and rail yards throughout the U.S., as well as global political unrest. We saw an opportunity and the need to flip the supply chain upside down, positioning the long lead time raw materials close to home and shortening the distance of the finished products. We’ve worked with the best headwear manufacturers in the world, taking advantage of the latest technology to help build a factory with the scale to support everyone from small, immediate opportunities to programs for global brands. Our caps can be in the domestic UPS or FedEx transportation system within hours of being produced. It’s truly unprecedented.”

- Jason Krakow, President of Caps Direct

Nearshore Quick Turn Headwear:

Benefits for Your Business

Now that you understand what nearshoring is and how Caps Direct is leveraging it for their quick turn headwear program, let’s review the biggest benefits this can provide your business.

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Fast Product Development & Turnaround Times

Enjoy a typical timeline of just 21 days from the time of approval.

Products Made in North America

Take advantage of fulfillment in the same time zones as well as domestic shipping.

Premium Decoration Methods & Additional Locations

Decoration is done before the cap is assembled for better results and more creativity.

Variety of Fashionable Headwear Styles

Browse until you find the perfect style thanks to Caps Direct’s catalog approach.

Ready To Get Started?

Check out all the exciting products you can provide your clients with the quick turn program from Caps Direct.