The major part of the world’s production is made in China, there are companies specialized in a very large field of activities. The major difficulty is to find the right company to work with, the one with a good value for money and reasonable delivery times. In China, there is a strong geographical specialization of factories per region or per city. The first step of finding good providers in China is to determine the geographical place of production for your type of product. The second step is to localize them and verify their prices. The third step is to sort among all the companies. The fourth step is to verify if those factories actually exist and to do an audit of those factories before ordering their products.
Where can we find interesting products in China ?
Each Chinese region has its own specializations, Shenzhen is specialized in electronics and new technologies, Wenzhou is specialized in shoes, Zhangjiagang is specialized in glass production, Shaoxing is specialized in textile production, Xiamen is specialized in porcelain, etc …
How do we find them ?
Online platforms such as Alibaba and Made-in-China are used to find those products. However you won’t find all the companies. There is an even bigger offer on websites written in Chinese, the only difficulty is the language barrier to contact the factories. Once we have the contact informations of all those companies, we have to contact a large number of them to verify if they can make the products we want and what their prices are.
How to choose the best companies ?
First of all, we have to take into account different criterias such as their prices, delivery times, size of their factory and its localization. The prices and delivery times have to be realistic. Prices being too low could be problematic as it could mean that the company does not use the right production materials. Are we sure that they guarantee our order ?
Once the selecting process is done, we will have to verify the existence of those companies.
How to verify the existence of a Chinese company ?
You can use specialized websites which will send you a report under 24 hours. They will check if the company has a valid business licence, they will check their field of activity and if they are an actual factory or if they are traders.
Some companies may send you fake certificates, because of that, it is really important to verify from the beginning. Once you have verified that, you have to order samples to verify the quality of their products. Finally, you will to do and audit on the factory.
Why doing a factory audit ?
Doing a factory audit will give you the perfect photograph of the company. Doing a simple factory audit will make sure that the factory has the financial capabilities of treating your order. You will have a confirmation of the size of their workplace, the number of employees they have, the quality of their machines and the clients they work with. The factory audit will let you know if the factory has orders going on their production line, what products they have in stock and which raw materials they have in their factory.
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