Whether you are an experienced exporter or a new buyer, you need to find a sourcing agent who can help you to handle business in China. Sourcing agents play an important role in managing international supply chains. However, many buyers are not very clear about Sourcing Agents. Let me explain to you in the following article.
China sourcing agent is an agency that stands for a foreign buyer to source and buys products all over China. The sourcing agent plays a more and more important role in the foreign trading business. Sourcing agents like eyes for buyers.
As a sourcing agent, we not only source products and factories for our clients but also provide the following service which includes booking hotel, finding direct factory, negotiating a competitive price, making PI, taking a photo, making sample or opening a new mold, following up mass production, doing quality control, booking container and making customs clearance document, etc.
Except above service, we can also provide the service that clients require. We do more than you think.
Importing from overseas is not an easy job and has many risks. There are many procedures, getting the right suppliers, following up on the order, product quality control, and contact with the shipping agents, load containers, and using the warehouse. Etc.
If you have no experience in foreign trading, it will be a big headache for you. However, you can solve this issue by finding a suitable sourcing agent.
Suppose you have more than 100 products in one container, you need to contact more than 100 suppliers or factories. Among these, some suppliers are not reliable, you need to follow up with them.
Or when they do not deliver the goods or give you the wrong goods, you have to spend many days to solve this issue. In this case, a sourcing agent can not only do the tedious job more efficiently but also consolidate all the goods you required.
People always think that large supermarket chain does not need a sourcing agent because they have big quantity and are easier to get factory. Of course not!!! Large supermarket chains need to manage their supply chains better.
Image when you go to Walmart, you will see hundreds of thousands of products. Buyers can not follow up on all the products and suppliers. And they can not go to every factory and check all the suppliers by themselves. Now they need a sourcing agent.
A sourcing agent can find lots of direct factories that have BSCI, FDA, or LFGB, they can select all the right factories and save time for buyers. And when we get the right factory, we can take the buyer go to the factory, which saves a lot of time and energy.
Besides, cash plays an important role in doing business. As a big sourcing agent of ours, we can provide OA payment service.
And supermarket chain always needs 24pcs/ctn or 48pcs/ctn to make goods easier to distribute. They need a sourcing agent to communicate with factories.
Do you want to sell products which is unique?
I think everybody wants to sell goods which have their own brand or own designs.
But this is not an easy thing to do.
With the help of a sourcing agent, we can make it true.
Sourcing agent services may be different in some ways. But 95% of sourcing agents will provide the following service:
1. Select the right supplier/factory
2. Negotiate price and offer the best price to the customer
3. When the order is confirmed, make PI
4. Make a sample and courier or take a photo to get confirmation
5. Place orders to the factory and follow up on the production
6. Quality control
7. Shipment and Make documents
In addition to the above basic service, some professional sourcing agents will also provide a full range of packaging and pack service. Like customer LOGO, BARCODE, PANTONE color, and care label. customer card, color box, smaller pack size, customer PDQ. We have done business with many supermarket chains, such as WALMART, TARGET， DOLLAR GENERAL…
Our designer teams are full of passion, and many years of working experience. You can send us your designs or your ideas, then we can make unique designs for you
There are no fixed charge standards, as there are thousands of sourcing agents in China. The charges are maybe different according to the working method, value, products and special requirements.
Normally the charges will vary from 1-5% according to goods value.
If you have more many items that combine in one container, and each item will be from 1-5ctns, this will charge higher, Because this needs more staff and time to do it.
If one container only has a few items, this can charge less commission.
Or if you have your own supplier, you need a sourcing agent to make payment, and do QC for you, this is negotiable.
No matter how much commission a sourcing agent charges, most important you find the best suitable way for you to do business with a sourcing agent.
All in all, choosing the right sourcing agent is very important when you doing oversea business. A reliable sourcing agent will save lots of time and energy for you. And also can insure you get goods on time, and get the best quality goods. We TOPTRADE SOURCING will be your best choice.
Based on 25 years of experience in doing sourcing agent business, we have rich resources of direct factories and a deep understanding of different markets. We can help you with sourcing and buying even if you are not in China. We can find the right factories and get a competitive price.
Choose us, choose the right sourcing agent!!
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