Sheet metal
Bracket, 5052 aluminium
A formed sheet bracket. Press brake tooling is cheap and the break quantity arrives well below the supplier MOQ, so the quoted rate is nearly the real one.
The quotation
Tooling class
Press brake tooling
Tooling charge
$1,850
Supplier MOQ
750 units
Base rate
$4.40
Tier 2 from
500 units
Tier 2 rate
$3.80
Tier 3 from
2,500 units
Tier 3 rate
$3.35
Freight per shipment
$620
Duty rate
3.1%
Scrap rate
1.5%
What it actually costs
Quoted at MOQ
$3.80
Landed at MOQ
$7.35
Landed against quoted
1.93x
Break quantity
415 units
At the supplier MOQ, tooling has already stopped being the largest thing each unit is paying for.
Material
Notes
The break quantity of 415 units sits below the supplier MOQ of 750. That is the shape a buyer wants: by the time you are allowed to order, the tooling has already stopped being the reason the price is what it is.
Five times the break quantity lands at $5.20 against a $3.80 quoted rate. The remaining gap is freight at $0.83 and duty at $0.20 a unit, neither of which a larger order removes.