Factory Visit

Visiting the Factories and Speaking their language have a big influence on your import process. Your account manager will be able to assess the factory professionalism between other factors. Keep in mind that emailing the factory or using trade manager on Alibaba won’t give you this impression.

Just because a supplier has a great website and the staff speak English perfectly – doesn’t mean they are competent manufacturers. It’s a mistake to choose factories in this manner.

Ultimately the factory needs to be questioned, shortlisted, audited on the ground and managed throughout production. CompuFocus Sourcing Solutions will ensure that everything is put in writing and you deal with people who can enforce decisions within the factory– not a powerless sales staff.

There is no substitute for having someone, on the ground, in China looking after your needs and interests. Factories do make mistakes. They will try to cover them up or get away with sending sub-standard products. While we looking after your business needs you’ll not only save time but we will save thousands of dollars by ensuring members are getting exactly what they ordered!

Planning a factory tour is a very time consuming. You’ll need a careful preparation weeks in advance. We can do this task for you this will save your valuable time, energy and costs.

We need to ensure that your supplier is legitimate. This involves checking their business license and contacting previous customers of the factory. The next step is to start assessing the pricing, lead times and the suppliers past track records.

 Quality Control

Any experienced importer will tell you that the most common problem when buying from China is the quality of the products. When buying from Chinese factories, products quality control is one of the most essential requirements in the process of China import.

Using Approved Samples as the Quality Benchmark

One of the best ways to set your quality standard is to have a production sample sent from the factory to you. This means production quality must equal the approved samples you have received from the factory.

Once you approve the quality of this sample, this is written into your contract and CompuFocus will make it clear to the factory they are accountable to this standard.

The quality control team can compare and test the actual production batch with your approved sample.

Usually we have samples sent to our Shenzhen office first. We check the sample and then forward them to you. One of the big problems in China is getting a product sample which is actually from a genuine production run - not a one time, hand crafted sample. Or even a worse scenario when a product is simply bought from another factory!

 We can avoid this problem by acquiring the samples while we are doing the factory visit. By doing this, we ensure that the sample is genuine and satisfying all our requirements