Whether you are ordering from China just 1 day, 1 year, 10 years, 20 years or even longer, are you sure the way you do is 100% correct and perfect?
Mostly business man start to order from China from 2 ways. Offline VS Online
Offline – Visiting exhibitions like Canton fair, pet fair etc to select products and supplier and deal with supplier from beginning.
What is the Pros – Offline?
- Meeting supplier face-to-face and talk with supplier on Pricing
- Touching the product quality in Person and save the courier fee and can decide the product quicker
- Knowing the partner is the right and legal company, not a cheater.
What is the Cons – Offline?
- Exhibiton/Fair suppliers numbers are limited and not all factories are there.
- Don’t have much time to compare with other factories
- Price may not the best.
Online – Customer nowadays are sourcing and finding the products from
- Alibaba.com
- Made-in-china.com
- Global Reosurces
- Facebook / YouTube / TikTok
- 1688.com etc…
What is the Pros – Online
- You have plenty of choices to select and compare
- Cost-save way to sit in office or home to talk with Chinese suppliers
- No rush to decide
What is the Cons- Online
- Hard to decide and confirm which supplier is the real and best to work with
- High courier fee for sample delivery
- Hard to find all supplier options either. not all suppliers are online available
- Longer time expected from price discussion- sampling- sample modify- order- shipping etc.
- Trust issue
Whether Offline or Online all facing a big problem also in current situation is language. even now many factory or trading company still need to use translator to communicate with oversea buyers.this already be improved in recent years.
So even Offline and Online have its Pros and Cons. so when selecting suppliers you have ask these 5 questions which matters a lot for your business development and Growth.
- Questions 1 : Where is your Factory and how many workers you have and how many production lines you have?
- Questions 2: What test report you have for the products you produced?
- Questions 3: Can you tell me your biggest customer at amazon.com?
- Questions 4: What is the MOQ if I order from you?
- Questions 5: Do you have your QC process and Can we have a meeting online?
Do you understand why these 5 questions are very important? Leave your comments below
So based on above informations and I am going to share JackHoo Sourcing – How to correctly source the Products & Suppliers from China.
Firstly,For any project come to us and first we will target which location in China have strength and price advantage to manufacture this product.
Example if we taking wood products as example, below location will come to our mind, ZHEJIANG / SHANDONG/ GUANGDONG. So we will mainly source supplier from these 3 location but not sourcing randomly by product name, Coz you will see everywhere in China they can make but not professional and price not competitive. so this process will save lots of time.
Secondly, we will call supplier quick if they did not response in 2 hours, so we first select supplier who can response based on we checked them are professional and they are making the same or similar items we are looking for. and obtain the quotes from different suppliers, making sure you see all pages pops up when you input the keywords.sometimes 150 pages, our team still check them all and then change a new keyword keep checking.
Thirdly, gather samples into office and test and everything good then Sampling process.
as a ground team in China, our biggest advantage is the work efficiency and also knowledge on the products Supply chain.
Product quality testing and evaluating is the best best best important part during whole process.
also important is day by day, year by year, we have good relations with different suppliers and if the whole market price is not workable and we need to speak with the good relation supplier to accept the order even veer low profit.
from over 10 years on Optimize the price margin, finally we can deliver better quality + better profit products for customers.
The last but not the least, if you want to be professional and also have a good growth on your brand, you must visit different exhibition hold everywhere related to your business filed. and collect suppliers infos and prepare your own supplier data base. after year by year you will be super flexible on price and quantity and also your brand growth. coz JackHoo Sourcing is visiting each exhibition hold in China to see products, collecting supplier infos etc.
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