Sourcing Spectrum helps small and middle sized companies identify, select, develop and manage sources from China. Talented and experienced sourcing professionals are now helping designer brands, retailers, marketing firms, product destributors and entrepreneurs around the globe, by applying effective, straight forward, flexible and transparent processes, engineering expertice, world class customer service philosophy and state of the art collaboration technologies.

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Typically, Sourcing Spectrum assigns an account manager and one or more sourcing professionals with engineering backgrounds to work on your sourcing needs in specific categories.

With this structure, Sourcing Spectrum ensures that your requirements are clearly understood, your projects well managed and technical specifications communicated with the highest fidelity.

Our people have education backgrounds in both Chinese and Western insitutions and have years of working experiences with multinationals, Chinese state-owned and entrepreneurial companies. Not only we are trained with modern business processes but also we are experienced with working with many types for companies in the complex Chinese business environment.

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• Sourcing Projects in China

Sourcing from China involves a lot of uncertainty and risks if not managed properly.

Experienced Sourcing Project Managers from Sourcing Spectrum manage sourcing projects for your product or service needs. Our project managers are not only experienced with Chinese business practices but also they are well trained with effective project management and sourcing processes.

- Identify options using experience and expertice with product categories
- Assist with the selection of suppliers by collecting robust information and providing sound advices
- Develop supplier relationship with proven and effective tactics
- Design an effective communication method that works for all parties, depending on factors such as the local business practices, supplier's language capability and how much percentage the client's orders will account for the supplier's revenue
- Provide supplier mix recommendation based on the nature of industry in question

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• Product Development Projects

For designer brands who are looking to source manufacturing services from China and introduce new products into their markets, Sourcing Spectrum manages product development projects with manufacturing partners selected through the sourcing efforts.

Excellent project management, engineering expertice and effective communication are keys to successful product devleopment with Chinese manufacturing partners.

Our project engineers have managed product development projects for many clients accross different industries. We have worked on plastic injection moulds, metal work moulds and other manufacturing processes. We are experienced with plastics, metals and textiles. We are also fast in acquiring knowledge of new material technologies.

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• Supplier Management

You may have more than one suppliers in China for your business needs. You may develop business partnerships in China over time. These relationships will be your assests and competitive advantages in your market place. However it is very challenging for you to manage them from far away and with limited communication.

Sourcing Spectrum offers services to help you continuously maintain meaningful business partnerships in China.
- Maintain an optimized supplier mix
- Conduct regular supplier meetings
- Initiate periodic communication to stay up to date with the development of both sides' capabilities, catelogues and business opportunities
- Collect data to track your business partners' performance
- Identify opportunities of joint improvement
- Manage ad hoc issues

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• Transaction Processes

Rigorous monitoring and control is required for transactions with even preapproved Chinese suppliers. With our experiences and tools, we keep the process on track as well as provide you with the visibility into progress of each transaction. You are enabled to stay in control with your orders placed with your Chinese suppliers.

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• Quality Inspection Scheme

We believe in reducing quality issues by selecting best available suppliers. However, an effective quality inspection scheme in place for your out-sourced production is still necessary for further reducing your risks.

Sourcing Spectrum works with you to design and implement such quality inspection schemes for your outsourced production.

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• Proactive Replenishment

This service is for clients in the retailing industry. We are connected with your POS and inventory data stream and proactively manage the replenishment for your retail categories.

Talented team members of Sourcing Spectrum bring proven expertice, experiences and processes from world class retailers into your supply management operations

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• Sourcing Services Partnership Program for Entrepreneurs

For entrepreneur in end user markets who would like to start a small business that source from China, we have developed a partnership package to help you build up your China sourcing capability.
We offer the following:
-Successful case studies with similar partnership in other regions
-Assistance with website design and set up
-Sourcing services
-Fair long term benefit sharing agreement
-Dedicated or shared, well trained sourcing resources

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