Sourcing 101

You have found a strong profitable nice product and some top suppliers of your Chinese product.  Now you need to send a Request for Quotation, the RFQ, to that supplier.

Great!  How do you send an RFQ to that top Chinese manufacturer?
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Sourcing Nova is now into its second decade as a purchasing agent.  We started with products from the wholesale marketplace, then direct factories and now from carefully vetted manufacturers of top world-class OEM and ODM brands. Read our story.

 

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You are a small business owner.  This means you need to account for every cent that comes into and goes out of your business.

 

This makes you question if you really need to hire a sourcing agent to find your high-quality, Chinese products.  You also question if the cost of a sourcing agent is worth the expense.

 

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From product manufacturing to packaging and shipping, sourcing products from China incurs significant costs that vary widely depending on the size of the business, needs, and industry. Below is a breakdown of the fees you can expect to pay.

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The decisions facing today’s buyer when sourcing products from China are numerous.  Factories, trading companies, wholesalers, distributors, purchasing agents and the like.  This can be an overwhelming situation because of the sheer number of choices.  Is there any difference between each of these?  What is the most cost efficient option for you and your Chinese products?

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Sourcing Nova has always had an idea to write about the best Chinese products to sell on Amazon.  Several tools, like Jungle Scout, can help new sellers with product analysis, but this particular article is different.  Our sources are much more reliable.

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Your business is not a single direction going from you to the customer.  If anything, you are in the center of a line between your supplier and your customer.  This means your relationship with the supplier needs to be as good as the relationship you have with your customer.  After all, the supplier has its own perception of you as their customer.

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Today’s global market is considerably different than it was even as early as a decade ago.  We are now in a new, unheralded period – the VUCA era.  The Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity period.  This means a global market looking for products that have changed direction from previous product design.  Now, the ideas of variety, smaller batches and deep customization are de rigeur.  This means a business owner has a much more detailed job ahead of them from meeting the needs of its customer base, maintaining competitive enterprise, market adaptation on the fly and the ever changing flexible supply chain of products coming in with regularity.  This is not a choice.  It is absolutely necessary if the business is going to survive and thrive.

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The Chinese New Year, or Chinese Spring Festival, in the United States is often nothing more than a blip on the radar. For some Americans, the holiday comes and goes without them even noticing.  For the Asian people, it is a very important time of the year.  For the non-Asian getting their products from China, it is important to understand why this is so important.  The Chinese New Year affects your supply chain at the very source.

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After an exhaustive search, you have found the golden product you want to sell: Easy to ship, small, durable and has a decent profit margin.  You would think the hard work is done, but in fact, it is just beginning.  You do not know how to find manufacturers.

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