Unlike factories doing foreign trade, foreign trade companies should not only look for foreign buyers who have demand, but also look for reliable suppliers in order to survive and make money. Otherwise, even if the salesman has a lot of foreign customers on hand, but the supply manufacturers fall off the chain at critical times, do not keep their word or cut corners; then, more customers will be lost.

Today to talk in depth about “how to find a reliable supplier manufacturers“, I hope it can help your trading company colleagues.

I, Bulk find suppliers manufacturers

1, Attend the exhibitions to find suppliers

Slightly larger manufacturers will participate in exhibitions, the use of exhibitions to find suppliers is the most direct way. But the exhibition manufacturers are more concerned about foreigners, after all, and foreign cooperation they earn more, less enthusiastic about the yellow-skinned foreign trade people. Be sure to put your mind at ease, more patience, kung fu does not pay off!

2, Using well-known B2B platform to find suppliers

PS: There will be some foreign trade companies on the platform, be sure to pay attention to the distinction.

3, Using customs data to find suppliers

With this method, you can not only find foreign buyers of **products, but also **products of global suppliers. No matter what kind of products your foreign customers want, you can find the right supplier to close the order and earn a good profit. But now the cost of customs data remains high, authenticity and efficiency is not guaranteed, so many companies are reluctant to buy customs data

4、Using domestic forums to find suppliers

In fact, many manufacturers are also in a hurry to find foreign trade enterprises cooperation, in some domestic forums often see manufacturers seeking cooperation with foreign trade enterprises, such as the Forum of Fubu. Low cost to find suppliers, a large number of real users, suitable for different sizes of foreign trade enterprises.

4 Main Methods Used by Foreigners to Find Suppliers

II, The initial selection of suppliers

After finding the supplier, it is necessary to screen it. Screening factors mainly include.

1, Price

You can understand the price of the product through the inquiry, the price is too high factory can be ignored, no money to earn.

2、Quality of the Sample

You can ask for a sample from the factory or buy a sample to compare the quality; at the same time, see how much time they need to prepare the sample, use it to examine their production speed and judge their delivery capacity.

3. Factory MOQ, MOV

Some factories have “minimum order quantity, minimum order amount” restrictions, which should also be used as a screening condition to understand clearly.

4、Product certification

Some countries’ buyers will pay attention to whether the products are certified or not, and this should also be understood as a screening condition.

Through this link, to ensure that each product supplier manufacturers have 5-7, so that you can grasp the initiative. Especially when you receive a large single, or when production is too late, you can disperse to several other factories.

III, Determine placing the orders to supplier

Eventually we have to select a single order from the above initial screening of “5-7 manufacturers”, which requires a comparison of the following three aspects.

1, Reply speed

If a price response are very slow, a Saturday and Sunday, or night phone calls can not be made, then the factory can not be the primary order factory.

2, Whether the factory has foreign trade salesman

There are foreign trade salesman factory, after the single, directly and foreign trade salesman communication on the line, he will track the production process, the required data will be passed to you in a timely manner. Can save a lot of time costs, reduce a lot of communication costs.

Of course, there are many foreign trade enterprises are very reluctant to cooperate with the Ministry of Foreign Trade factory, they are worried that the factory will steal their customers, so the pros and cons of which you need to consider ~

3、Whether you are willing to get samples

Foreign trade orders involve a lot of back and forth sampling, if the factory is not very happy with this piece, then such a factory can not be the primary order factory.

Advice: find a good supplier factory, but also learn to deal with them, remember: the market is large, customers are not done; and find willing to cooperate with you, wholeheartedly support your supply factory, for foreign trade companies, is the greatest wealth.

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