So one thing you will hear industrialists talk about a lot is that you can increase your profits if you get hold of cheaper input materials. This makes perfect sense, provided you're not doing something silly like buying cheaper materials in order to make building something profitable. In that case you'd be better off selling the input materials.
Up to now I've been keeping half an eye on this, though I've struggled with the capital to really pull this off. One of the issues I have is that I don't always build the same thing. I mostly build rigs, so cheap salvage is good but what exact salvage I often don't know in advance, which makes sourcing it cheaper from buy orders difficult.
One thing I do regularly churn out though is Mobile Depots. These take 4 PI materials and 3 mineral inputs. The spread on materials is tiny and therefore not necessarily the best place to go first for cheaper inputs but the spreads on PI mats can be 10% plus. I've decided to put up buy orders on a couple of my input PI materials and see if they get filled. I'm only trying to buy enough to contribute to about a days worth of production, so I'm very much dipping my toe here. If it works though i should be able to start squeezing an extra 5% or so profit out of every depot I build, which is really nice especially considering how fast they sell. We shall see.
Also, seems Croda over at marketsforisk.blogspot.com/ is starting to take industry more seriously. I'm intrigued how he gets on with it as it appears he's taking a slightly different approach to me, and I also just like reading more about how people go about this stuff.
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