Helping with Adventurer Party Management

Episode 17: Combining Commerce

It turns out that special adventurer shoes are useful.

However, manufacturing costs are high. I can't give money to a runaway adventurer (Bimbo).

That's the problem Sarah points out.

However, there are measures to reduce manufacturing costs.

"Really?

"Oh."

In this world, shoes are completely bespoke.

Order from the shoemaker, scrape wood moulds and make adjustments if your feet hurt.

But those shoes have no distinction between left and right, and without an arch, no heel.

Without a shoelace hole, there is no concept of insole.

Compared to my shoes, which reproduce modern shoes, they are overwhelmingly short of parts.

If you want to train a professional shoemaker, 10 years is not enough.

So wake up the shoe mould and order standard size parts in pieces from some tannery.

Specialist shoemakers shall also be assigned for assembly.

This shoemaker needs to be surrounded.

Ordering and assembly in parts.

In the original world, it's manufacturing.

Increase productivity while keeping manufacturing secrets.

And if you make a number, you can make it cheaper.

It's the great thing about manufacturing.

I now have assets and means (once) that I can arrange.

I did a quick costing exercise and if I sell 100 pairs a year, I have a goal to keep the unit price of my shoes down to one big copper coin.

Negotiating with the Shoemaker Guild is troublesome, but if it is to be the exclusive shoe of the adventurer, the number of people leaving is known.

You just have to make a deal before they realize how unusual your shoes are.

Hearing the plans and explanations to this area, Sarah was circling her eyes.

"You really what? Were you a shoemaker? Were you a merchant? But you're a swordsman, aren't you? He's an adventurer."

Even when you were consulting in the original world, what business are you in? That was something I was often told, but for the first time in a long time I remembered it and laughed slightly (kasu).

Experience tells me that's when business gets hammered well.

This business looks like it could go.