By Jacob Yount Don’t drop a good supplier over trivial reasons. Buyers, from the novice to the experienced, tend to view suppliers as a dime-a-dozen. … [Read more...]
The US-China trade war: What you need to do NOW
By Dan Harris There is an old saying about how lawyers do well when an economy is either rising or falling, just not when it is stagnating. When the US and Russia imposed sanctions on business from the other our international lawyers saw a massive bump in Russia related business for the following 3-6 months. Borrowing from the securities … [Read more...]
Even temperature during offshore sourcing projects
By Jacob Yount The summertime is heating up. Factories are getting busier than they were say even 2 to 3 weeks ago. Not-too distant Autumn orders should be in production and then there are those eventual jolly Holidays. Here’s some advice as we start a sizzling summer. Avoid going HOT and COLD during your projects. What’s hot and … [Read more...]
5 reasons you may (or may not) want to visit your overseas supplier
By Crystal Ge When is the right time to visit your overseas supplier? Do you need to plan a supplier visit just for supervising product inspections? … [Read more...]
Why good Chinese suppliers don’t reply to your emails / RFQs and how to fix that
By Liam Pratt – Easy Imex When sourcing from China, it’s important that your emails and RFQs to suppliers are formatted correctly. What tends to happen when emails/RFQs are formatted incorrectly is that you’ll get a low response rate from quality factories, i.e. the suppliers you want to be working with, and an outweighed response rate … [Read more...]