Guide
Multifamily cabinet procurement & lead times
The sequence that keeps cabinetry off the critical path — and the five places it usually goes wrong.
Guide
The sequence that keeps cabinetry off the critical path — and the five places it usually goes wrong.
Cabinetry is usually the last package specified and the first trade that holds up the finish schedule. This is the sequence that keeps a multifamily cabinet programme off the critical path — and the places where it normally goes wrong.
Four things have to be fixed before a quotation means anything: cabinet construction (framed or frameless, assembled or RTA), door style, finish, and hardware level. If any one of them is still open, you are comparing prices for different products, and the cheapest number will be the one that quietly dropped a detail.
This is also the cheapest moment to make a change. After shop drawings, every change costs time on the programme.
Shop drawings convert your unit layouts into a cabinet schedule: every box, its model code, its size, its door or drawer front, and where it goes. Approval against drawings is what prevents the single most expensive failure in the package — 400 boxes built to a layout that was revised three weeks earlier and never reissued.
Before volume production, a complete unit is assembled from production components and photographed model by model. It is a few days of calendar time that catches systemic errors once instead of hundreds of times. See what that record looks like.
| Standard production lead time | 5–7 weeks from approved drawings and deposit |
| Capacity | 200+ 40′HC containers per month; 130+ shipped per month |
| Then add | Ocean transit and port clearance to your delivery point |
| Procurement should start | Far enough before the first cabinet install to absorb one revision |
The schedule risk in cabinetry is rarely production. It is approval lag: drawings sit with the architect or the owner for three weeks, and the delay lands on the install date.
Buildings are rarely delivered in one go. Cabinets should be produced and released against your construction sequence, not shipped as one lump. That needs two things fixed at order placement: a phase schedule, and confirmation that the door style, finish and hardware are locked as a programme record so phase three matches phase one.
Every box should be labelled to its unit and its location. This is the step that decides whether your installers spend the first day hanging cabinets or the first day sorting a container. Deliveries are then coordinated against your site sequence rather than against our warehouse convenience.
Send those to info@thailandcabinetry.com and you will get a quotation and a production schedule, not a brochure.
Send unit counts, door style and delivery location. We reply with a quotation and a production schedule.