Tradesparq delivers exceptional buyer services to clients who wish to outsource their import and export management and activities.
Service providers are selected for their professionalism, affordability and relevance. The Service Center is managed on an exclusive basis for Tradesparq by the experts at the PassageMaker Group.
Mike Bellamy: based in Asia since 1993.
Certified Sourcing Advisors make themselves available up to 4 hours each month for conference calls and/or email communication at a set time each week, but they don’t get involved in actually managing the vendors for you.
Retaining a Certified Sourcing Advisor is the ideal option when you are willing to do the heavy lifting of project management but want a seasoned China advisor on your team.
At a minimum, Certified Sourcing Advisors are:
Chinese freelancers with English language skills and basic sourcing experience assigned to support your projects. This is an ideal option if you need a local representative on the ground to assist with supplier communication and wish to outsource low-level administrative tasks.
Freelancers are managed directly by the client and are not considered sourcing experts or advisors. As your ability to control and monitor freelancers is limited, it is not recommend they perform mission-critical tasks or have access to sensitive information. Freelancers are available in time blocks ranging from 10 hours to 160 hours per month.
You can literally "outsource the sourcing department" of your company to our team. Clients are welcome to outsource their entire import/export department or just a few functions.
Based on the clients’ needs and language preferences, each project will be assigned a single Account Manager (AM) who will coordinate as many Project Managers (PM’s) as required.
The AM’s are customer service specialists serving as a central point of contact in Asia responsible for communications with the client. The PM’s are well trained local staff with professional experience in one or more functional area such as strategic sourcing, purchasing, engineering, QC, law, HR, tax or logistics.
The client sets the agenda. The AM assigns and manages the PM’s who are responsible for advancing that agenda.
Monitor your suppliers to ensure your IP is being respected. At periodic times during the year we will look for infringement via visits to the factory and company trade show booths;
monitoring of the patent office for registration of competing patents; reviews of domestic and international web directories known as hot beds for counterfeits; and checking of the supplier’s website as well as additional techniques to be disclosed to the client in private.
Having China-based, English speaking legal counsel on retainer is a cost effective way to avoid pitfalls and ensure your business strategy is sound.
Counsel is there not only to get you out of the occasional crisis but also to help clients improve the day-to-day running of their business.
When a client need support our lawyers and support staff are ready to help immediately. No need for lengthy contract negotiations or wasted time getting lawyers up to speed. If you are importing, exporting, or based in China, General Counsel can assist in the following areas:
When a random inspection is not enough we can arrange for 100% inspection.
Semi-finished goods or components can be shipped to our warehouse in China where inspection, final assembly and/or custom packaging is performed under a secure US-managed system but at local labor rates.
All buyers have concerns about their Asian supplier’s ability to achieve targets for quality, lead time and social, safety or regulatory compliance.
Our clients have total visibility into the identity and pricing points of all entities in the supply chain.
Shipping costs are reduced through freight consolidation and quality control issues are dealt with on-the-spot long before the item is shipped out of China.
Warranty on workmanship provided and every project utilizes an industry-leading, bi-lingual, ISO compliant, “Product Quality Manual (PQM)” which defines in intimate detail the quality standards, inspection methods and the assembly process.
Keep your supplier at arm’s length from sensitive information.Due to Intellectual Property concerns buyers can be hesitant to give a Chinese supplier too much information about assembly specifications, packaging, and branding.
With the “Black Box” service, semi-finished goods or components can be shipped to an assembly and inspection center where inspection, final assembly and/or custom packaging are performed under a secure US-managed system but at local labor rates.
The client has total visibility into the identity and pricing points of all entities in the supply chain, but the “Black Box” keeps the supplier at arm’s length from sensitive information.
Shipping costs are reduced through freight consolidation and quality control issues are dealt with on-the-spot long before the item is shipped out of China.
A full warranty is provided and every assembly/inspection project utilizes an industry-leading, bi-lingual, ISO compliant, “Product Quality Manual (PQM)” which defines in intimate detail the quality standards, inspection methods, and the assembly process.
A transparent per unit fee is charged to perform inspection, assembly and/or packaging. This per-unit fee is based on a time study and calculated using a fully burdened, pre-agreed, fixed hourly rate.
Ensure proprietary tooling is not being used supply the competition. Most buyers of customized products manufactured in Asia are wise enough to contractually own their tools and dies.
But what happens if the supplier goes out of business and tooling is liquidated before you are aware of the situation?
Can you be sure tooling is maintained and stored professionally?
The Tool & Die Steward looks after your molds, tooling, jigs, etcetera, by storing them at a secure facility between production runs at your factory.
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