Apparel Sourcing Solutions for you.
Sourcing Strategy Consultation
Asia and Africa are an important sourcing destination for many global retailers due to its strong design background, low production costs, and favorable trade treaties with the US and Europe.
Importantly, as China’s production costs escalate, India, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya, Vietnam and Cambodia will become increasingly vital for sourcing.
Ethical AfroAsia Apparel Sourcing’s understanding of the region’s sourcing capabilities.
Our experienced team’s working relationship with a large network of suppliers is ideal in presenting the know how required to draw out significant aspects amid the industry’s current landscape, as per the needs of global retailers, including such functions as:
- Identifying suitable sourcing destinations within Asia and Africa
- Analyzing key attractiveness in the given markets
- Evaluating key sourcing strategies of leading global retailers
- Identifying and evaluating categories to be sourced
- Estimating projected growth trends in the Asian and African market
Consequently, we would be glad to assist global retailers to identify suitable sourcing destinations, devise sourcing strategies and identify product categories.
Product – Supplier Identification
Sourcing involves understanding the best manufacturing locations from where to procure various product categories depending on their advantage in terms of such parameters as cost, proximity to market, favored trading status, etc.
How best the selected suppliers fulfill retailers’ requirements in terms of volume, quality, social compliance, and delivery.
We assist you in identifying the right suppliers and creating a matrix based on this requirement, which involves locating and assessing suppliers and finalizing key positions in various apparel categories.
We are able to do this best-fit exercise across a wide spectrum of products, ranging from shirts, bottoms, denim, lingerie, home linen, and outerwear, for the men’s, women’s and kids’ categories.
Sourcing Operations
We assist the retailers both in creating new supply chains and in strengthening existing ones by acting as a bridge connecting suppliers suited to specific business formats, i.e.
Retailers demanding a low cost-/high volume-based product, or a value-added, niche product, or a fast fashion-based product.
Once suppliers are selected, we assist in conducting vendor due diligence, identifying potential communication gaps, and facilitating the partners in reaching a common platform of expectation and performance.
Additionally, we have expertise in training vendors for meeting any performance, systems, or social compliance gaps.
Our team manages order execution until delivery to the warehouse, thus assisting the client in forging long-term business relations with sourcing partners.