Are your sourcing industrial products overseas? There are many factors need to consider. The budget, the lead time, the product quality and the essential is to find a realiable manufacturer not the intermediates.
Examine the manufacturers history
For example, some industry like glass bottle manufacturing factory or steel metal raw materials need heavy investment and experienced workers. Most trustworthy suppliers has history over 20 years or 50 years.
Judge their ability like cusomisation
Not only examining the manufacturers capacity, business scope but also judge their ability developing, customisation and design. In today's niche market, differentiation can help clients to win more profits.
The whole supply chain control ability
In the past two or three years, due to Covid-19, the international shipping cost are in uncontrol status. Find a reliable manufacture to have good relationship with upstream raw material suppliers and also downstream with logistic companies will help clients to avoid some risks.
Easy communication
In order to get long-term relationship with the manufacturers supplying high quality featured products, you need to find people with good communication. That means you do not need to waste time re-sourcing another suppliers once in delayed reply or bad manners.
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