Social Compliance Violations by suppliers in the U.S. may not be a concern since they are non-existent. However, this aspect can be completely overlooked when your supplier is half way across the world. If your supplier is found to be violating local and international social compliance laws, it can cause irreversible damage to your business. So, use SA8000.
Bath towels are among the most commonly used items in a household. But have you ever really paid attention to them. The item that comes into direct contact with your body on an everyday basis? Not many people might know that bath towels that used so frequently are not only suspectable. To losing their absorbency over time. But also are a host for bacterial growth that is dangerous for you and your family.
When you hire someone for a job, you tell them their hours, designated desk, your office location, their job description. Without this information they will not be able to function. In in a similar fashion, there is some key information that you must provide you in house or outsourced product inspection team. Otherwise the inspectors would have no idea what your requirements are.
Amazon is becoming more and more competitive as businesses from all around the world use this platform to start, market, and grow their business.
Most importers are aware of the importance of a pre-shipment inspection. They want to avoid additional costs associated with repairing or reworking damaged goods, avoiding any transportation costs that they might have to incur in order to transport the goods back to the supplier, as well as preventing loss of sales and integrity when damaged goods are sold to consumers.
The COVID-19 pandemic is impacting importers and manufacturers all around the world. Factories have had to face multiple shutdowns and reopens across Asia.
The Alibaba inspection service helps you ensure you will be receiving the same products you are paying for. The inspection for higher value orders is performed by two other inspection companies, mainly Bureau Veritas and the China Certification & Inspection Group not Alibaba’s team themselves. Alibaba’s team only performs their production monitoring service.
A factory can make or break your supply chain. In order to run your business smoothly you need to make sure that your supply chain has optimal suppliers. Therefore, vetting suppliers before placing an order should be a must for a business to run smoothly. A manufacturing audit provides a detailed profile of potential and current suppliers in your supply chain. A manufacturing audit can also be called a factory audit.
We realized that the term man-day which product inspections or factory audit companies often use to quote prices, can be slightly confusing to new importers and even veteran importers.
FBA is Amazon’s program where sellers on Amazon send their inventory directly to Amazon’s warehouse instead of shipping products themselves. However, in order for Amazon to accept and process your inventory there are certain rules that have been laid out by Amazon. It is important to understand these packaging requirements since Amazon can refuse to accept your products. Amazon may even ask for fees and return the products if the rules have not been followed.