Using a Taiwan hardware supplier to help your RFQ purchasing:

Taiwan Supplier Purchase Checklist

• Product Name, Description, Photo and/or Diagram
  • What do you need? Name and Description
  • What does it look like? Do you have any photos or technical diagrams?
• Product Specifications: Measurements, metal types, coating etc.
  • What are the sizes you need? Measurements? Offset? Angles? Metric or Imperial? ...
  • What type of treatments do you need? Material type, metal type, coatings, tool handle types?
• Price
  • Do you know your target price?
  • Does your target price include shipping?
• Quantity Needed
  • How many do you need?
  • How frequent do you need the quantity? Monthly? Quarterly? Yearly? One time?
• Samples
  • How many samples do you need?
• Lead Time
  • When do you need your samples?
  • When do you need the products delivered to your office or factory?
• Customer Delivery Due Date
  • When does your customer need the product?
  • Did you consider your extra lead time for repackaging, group shipments or separate shipments?
• Branded or Non-branded
  • Do you want your product branded or non-branded?
  • If branded is your design and artwork finished?
• Shipping Method
  • Shipping by plane or boat? Or combination: urgent shipment via plane, remainder via boat?
  • FOB?
  • Insurance?
• Packaging
  • Do you want your product bulk packed, or individual bagged or boxed?
  • Do you need your bags, boxes and cartons printed?
  • Do you need special inserts or printing to be bagged with each product?
• Quality Control/Inspection
  • Do you want your product hand inspected, machine inspected or both?
  • What is required inspection frequency? 5 per 500? 20 per 1000?
• Certification Verification and Validation
  • Do you need ISO certifications validated?
  • Do you need Made In Taiwan certifications?
• Manufacturing Visits and Updates
  • Do you need us to visit the factory during production to provide updates, including photos or videos?
  • Do you need to come to Taiwan to meet the factory?
• Purchasing
  • Are your funds ready for wire? For deposits and later for remainder?
• Special Requests
  • Do you have any special requests?

Here is how A1 Sourcing can help you

Company and product search

We will search for your product across multiple factories across Taiwan. We only supply from Taiwan as in 100% manufactured in Taiwan. We will not supply you with products that are manufactured in other countries but just assembled in Taiwan. Note this if you decide to work with other suppliers.

Samples

We can get you samples. There might be some incidental costs such as shipping. The important thing to remember is lead time. As everything is being manufactured or on-hand stock sent from Taiwan, it could take a couple weeks to find the product you need and then shipping could take a couple of weeks.

Branding: Your brand name, or no branding.

As many tools, sets and kits have branding on the tools or tool case, this can be problematic for some suppliers. We can get your product made with your branding or have all branding removed. Want to sell generic unbranded tools, we can arrange this.

Quality

We can visit the factories and management to make sure you will get the quality you need. Of course, no company should buy any products without testing them first in your facility or in the field, and therefore we strongly recommend that you get samples sent to you before your first purchase.

Certifications

We can verify ISO certifications as well as verify Made in Taiwan certifications.

Lead Time

Some hardware is pretty standard and will have hardware in stock. Other hardware (for the volume you might need), has to be produced to accommodate your request. It is vital you know your lead time as all manufacturing takes time. It's not unusual for a lead time to be 60 days after a contract is signed. Then it has to be shipped via boat or plane.

Continuous Shipments

How many parts do you need per month? Yes, Taiwanese factories can provide continuous shipments or one-offs.