5 Ways That 3-D Printing is Going to Shake Up Retail

4. Change in retailer supply chains. 3-D-printed products can potentially revolutionize retailers’ supply chains, with products created on-site only after ordered and paid for. This figures to have many indirect advantages, creating additional savings by reducing or eliminating shipping, warehousing, damage in transit, shoplifting, and goods not sold. In many ways, manufacturing is leading the 3-D printing revolution, discovering new efficiencies and even challenging the notion of factories as we know them going forward.