Lakeside Craft Cabinets — B2B Supply
Milwaukee, WI · 2025
Vietnam
China
TurkeyCase study
Lakeside is a 40-person custom cabinet shop serving the upper Midwest. They build everything in-house but were tired of dealer markup on plywood, hardware, and slides.
Streamlined runs their materials program: weekly LCL consolidations of European birch plywood from Turkey, Blum-equivalent hardware from China, and white oak dimensional lumber from Vietnam — landed in their Milwaukee shop with standing PO terms.
Net savings to Lakeside: 34% on hardware, 22% on plywood, 28% on lumber. They've reinvested in two new CNC machines.
Multi-country sourcing
How we mixed countries to hit the spec at the right cost.
Turkey
1 item- Cabinet plywood — European birch plywood — 18mm and 12mm
China
1 item- Hardware — hinges + slides — Soft-close hinges + undermount drawer slides
Vietnam
1 item- Lumber — Dimensioned white oak + maple
Cabinet plywood · Turkey
European birch plywood — 18mm and 12mm
- Material
- 11-ply / 7-ply Baltic birch core
- Size
- 5'×5' and 4'×8' sheets
- Thickness
- 18mm + 12mm
- Grade
- B/BB grade face
Hardware — hinges + slides · China
Soft-close hinges + undermount drawer slides
- Material
- Steel with nickel plating
- Size
- Standard 35mm cup hinges, 100 lb undermount slides
- Notes
- Blum-equivalent quality at ~40% of brand cost
Lumber · Vietnam
Dimensioned white oak + maple
- Material
- Kiln-dried hardwood
- Size
- 4/4 and 6/4 stock, S2S
- Grade
- FAS (First and Seconds) for face wood
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