Quality control plays an important role when Buying from China.
It is to ensure that you receive what you are buying from China. And the quality is good enough for you to sell. Let’s discuss What is Quality Control?
QC is mainly quality inspection activities after the event, expect to find and select the error.
QC is the operational techniques and activities taken to make products meet quality requirements, including inspection, correction and feedback. For example, QC inspects and removes defective products after finding them, and then feedbacks on the defective information to relevant departments to take improvement measures.
Therefore, the control scope of QC is mainly in the factory, its purpose is to prevent unqualified products from being put into, reordering, and leaving the factory, to ensure that the products meet the quality requirements and only qualified products can be delivered to customers.
As we know, Quality Control is very important when Buying from China, so it is essential to find reliable people and agencies who can help you with quality inspection services in China. Many customers from abroad can not come to China and check the goods by themselves. They need to ask an agency or trading company to check goods for them.
We will suggest some reliable people who can do quality control inspection services in China. And to ensure that you get good quality products when Buying from China.
Manufacturers are the factory that produces the goods. In order to keep long-term business relationships with customers, they will not charge any cost. You can ask them to send you a QC report or QC pictures before delivering the goods.
However, manufacturers maybe not carry out all their responsibility when checking the goods. They may be not send you the problem of the goods in order to ship the goods.
Working with a trading company or sourcing agent will be the best choice for new buyers who do not have experience or do not have teams in China when Buying from China. The trading company works on commissions. The trading company has many good resources of the direct factory, and they can identify which factory is reliable, and which is not good. With many years of experience, they can get the best price, and know how to do quality control. The trading companies will stand together with customers and will be eyes for buyers.
We Toptrading sourcing company is a reliable sourcing company and will provide the best service to you. We are here to help you source goods and do quality control. You can contact us freely if you have any questions about importing, and we will guide you through the whole process of sourcing and buying.
Many buyers will hire a third-party inspection to check the goods for them. Like SGS, BV…
Normally buyers need to pay money to them. They will check the goods as buyer’s request.
Important is that you find a reliable third party to thoroughly inspect the goods and ensure that the products meet your standard requirements.
This is the best way to do quality control. Buyers know the standard of quality best than anybody. If you stay in China for a long time or you have time travel to China, you can choose this way to do QC. But this will cause a lot of money: traveling, hotel. Or you can hire a QC team to do this job. This will also cause some expenses.
When conducting a QC check, you should abide by each process. We suggest you make a quality control checklist, which will help you to check the goods according to the specifications. Let me introduce the process of quality control inspection.
Most buyers know that it is important to check random samples. When you plan to open one can, just take a random carton, and take one sample. Do not check the samples which the factory gives to you. And mention the No of units you reviewed while checking the goods.
When you hire a third party to inspect the goods, keep in mind that handover the checklist for better examination. They will use sticky notes to mark which part will be issued, and which part will be ok.
Now it is to check the goods according to standard specifications. Take the checklist, and take a note of everything in the list include size, weight, material, pcs/ctn, etc……
Many people will ignore the packaging requirements. Looking out the packing is not a complex job. Like, if the customer requires 5 layer master carton, the factory only makes 3 layers, which means the master carton is not strong enough. And some customers will require clear tape. For all these things, buyers should write clearly on the checklist.
A professional QC staff or agency will send buyers a QC report when they finish the QC. If they find anything which is not in accord with a checklist, they will make a sticky note and note down the defective part, minor, major and critical. And they will open more cartons to check, how many percentage. They will send the buyer the report and ask the buyer to check if these defective goods will be accepted or not.
The checklist is very important when executing an inspection. All the staff or agencies conduct QC according to this checklist. You can make your own checklist or ask the agency to provide a format for you. We have shortlisted some primary things in the checklist: Product requirement: material, size, weight, color, etc; Packing information: Dimensions, tape, strapping band, master carton layer; No of samples to be checked, normally will check 10% of the whole mass production; labeling: hang tag, or card, or your own color box; Defect severity: minor, major and critical; performance test; quality test.
Normally we will do an inspection in a few steps: When the factory get the raw material; when finishes 5%; when the factory prepares the packing material; take mass production sample; when finishes 50%; when the factory started to pack; when the goods are ready; when loading.
You can get a third-party QC team, like SGS, They are famous in China. Many customers use them. They will charge some money. Or you work with a foreign trading company like Toptrading sourcing company. We will check all the items according to the checklist and send you all QC pictures and QC reports before loading the container to ensure everything is OK for you.
Above all, QC is the last process when doing foreign trading business, but very critical. This ensures you eliminate the risk, and get what right goods when buying from China.
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