- 889 takes title/ownership of products to remove risk from our clients.
- Our multi-lingual team provides on-the-ground inspection and quality control in China.
- We provide logistics management, including import/export documentation, customs brokerage and transportation from Asia to clients’ locations.
- Clients are assigned a multi-lingual project manager, based in the U.S., who ensures goods are manufactured to their exact specifications and are delivered on time.
- 889’s extensive contacts throughout China provide our clients with the unique ability to manage risk by working with trusted, quality manufacturers.
Why Source Internationally
1. Profit margins are eroding - Because of increased domestic material and labor costs and the challenge to meet competitors ever improving prices, profit margins are rapidly eroding to an unacceptable level.
2. Competition is already sourcing overseas - Your competition has already improved their costs by sourcing key components overseas giving them a decided cost advantage.
3. Customers are demanding cost reductions that cannot be met. Because domestic labor and part costs cannot be reduced any further, customer cost reduction requests are unable to be met without an erosion of profits.
4. The capacity you need is not available - If your business is growing, the capacity of the domestic supply base or your internal capacity my not be sufficient to meet your demands. Without additional supply capacity current or future orders will not be met.
5. You have a new product that requires technology or capabilities that your current supplier can’t offer.
6. The quality you’re getting from your current supplier isn’t up to par.
7. Survival! Your organization may have done everything possible to compete. Material cost reductions, labor efficiency improvements, labor cost reductions, more aggressive marketing plans, new products and nothing has had the impact required. Without substantial cost decreases in the very near future the very survival of your company is in question.