China sourcing consulting
Brief introduction
When you think about how to purchase from China. China sourcing consulting company is a business model you should consider. Depends on your business, you can choose different sourcing company to support you. We would like to introduce what the sourcing company can do for you and how to choose the services. If you want to have some background knowledge, you can visit our page China sourcing.
What will China sourcing consulting company do?
Generally speaking, China sourcing consulting includes the services of whole procurement process ‘from source to pay”. Normally, the procurement includes several steps, finding vendors, evaluation, qualification, negotiating, contract and payment. The cost saving is still large, as China sourcing is still considered as low-cost country sourcing, (learn more from wiki). In the meantime, the challenge become bigger and bigger because of the complicated policy and economic situation. That is why you still need a sourcing consultant.
How to choose the sourcing company?
As a sourcing consulting company ourselves, we feel it should rely on your demand. You will have lots of choices, first-class consulting firms also offer China sourcing consulting services. Furthermore, lots of US, EU, Hongkong, Singapore, even China based consulting companies engaged in China sourcing too. In the meantime, you can still find sourcing talent from upwork. And also here are hundreds sourcing agents on Alibaba.
We suggest to consider of the business itself, then contact the potential partners. If your budget and purchase value is very large, you can get the service from first class consulting firms. Or if you just want to buy a wholesales volume, you can find your partner from upwork or Alibaba. Furthermore, if you have quite big business, and reasonable budget, you can try to ask from independent sourcing expert or sourcing company. Finding a China sourcing consulting partner is also a procurement work. Shanghai Lezon consulting have the category expertise as the link.
The services provided by China sourcing consulting company
- Supplier market investigation. It is crucial step for whole sourcing process. If you are not able to find proper suppliers in this stage, the following steps will be no sense. You could check a sample page (citric acid supplier market investigation) provided by Shanghai Lezon Consulting. From the sample page, you can see all the commericalized manufacturers are included. In the meantime, the report described capacity and advantage for each manufacturer. Because the cost of replacing a vendor is quite high, so it is necessary to make sure all potential vendors have been found in this stage. You can read more about how to find supplier from China.
- Supplier evaluation and qualification. This part can be very professional, because only an expert both with the knowledge of quality management and the manufacturing management can achieve it properly. Here are several options, third party inspection company, the sourcing company, and your in-house expert. Shanghai Lezon is able to support in different levels.
- Purchasing strategy and contracting. You could consider both the global supply chain situation and the China sourcing to make your purchase strategy. We believe you can read more from strategic sourcing. Contracting is a special service offered Shanghai Lezon. If you want the contract to be protected by Chinese law and settle the legal problems in China, we are pleasure to support.
- Delivery and after-shipment. Communication, arranging the shipment are the general services available from many sourcing companies.
How to choose the sourcing services?
It would be very flexible for what kind of services you can choose from Shanghai Lezon Consulting or some other sourcing companies. From us, we recommend to consider your own resource, requirement and long term plan.
Shanghai Lezon can provide short-term cooperation for each unit of procurement process. If you just want to know the manufacturers in China, you can contact us. Or you just want to know the background of your vendors, an on-site plant audit service. Even if you met some problem during your sourcing business, you can ask us.
China sourcing consulting versus other business models
Besides the sourcing consulting, here are another three business models to purchase from China. China sourcing office (through employees in China), trading company, directly purchase (through employees out of China). Each business model has its advantages and disadvantages. For example, through a trading company, the advantage is time saving, disadvantage is lose the control of supply chain. Generally speaking, the China sourcing consulting services can save about 50% expenses compared with China sourcing office and 10% lower in price compared with trading company.