Inspection of suppliers – Part 4
When you sign a contract with a Chinese supplier, the inspection of the supplier’s production capacity is a very important part. The best way to check is, of course, to send someone to inspect the factory on the spot. Verify all kinds of information that the supplier has provided to you, including factory location, type of enterprise, number of personnel, production equipment, production capacity, technical level, and inventory quantity.
At the same time of inspection, you can also have an intuitive feeling about the supplier, whether there is a sound R&D department, production workshop and quality supervision department, how the equipment is running, how is the state of the employees, how is the overall management of the factory, Quantity of finished goods and raw materials in stock, etc., and whether the person you are contacting is a real employee of this factory.
If you don’t have the conditions to send personnel to inspect the factory, then you should also ask the other party to provide you with pictures and video materials of the above information, and they are the latest up to date, not the official promotional video from a few years ago.