Sourcing Services

SF International Trade Co., Ltd, has been dedicated to offering comprehensive China sourcing services for international clients, helping businesses streamline their procurement processes, reduce costs, and access high-quality products from reliable suppliers. With extensive experience in the industry, we specialize in connecting overseas customers with trusted manufacturers, handling negotiations, quality control, and logistics to ensure smooth and efficient transactions. Our commitment to excellence, transparency, and customer satisfaction has made us a trusted partner for businesses looking to source products from China with confidence and ease.

Our complete line of sourcing services

We have a wide selection of logistics solutions for you: ocean shipping, air shipping, road shipping, post shipping and express shipping. Tell us your needs, we can design for you the most secure and cost effective solution.

1. Design the Best Solution

We have maintained good relationships with a dozen established shipping companies and enjoy very favorable rates from them. Just tell us your requirements in terms of time and cost, we will design for you the best solution.

  • Ocean shipping: LESS THAN CONTAINER LOAD(LCL), FULL CONTAINER LOAD(FCL)
  • Air shipping
  • Road shipping
  • Railway shipping
  • Post shipping: China Post, Hongkong Post, Singapore Post
  • Express shipping: FedEx, UPS, DHL, TNT, EMS

2. Documents Processing

We are professional in document processing. All documents will be carefully and completely checked before sent to shipping companies. For some of you might needs other documents like certificate of origin(C/O) or other preferential treatment certificates, we can apply for you.

Basically, you don’t have to worry about everything. Then, your goods can be delivered to you in good condition in good time at the best shipping rate.

Supplier management includes searching, qualifying, monitoring and auditing suppliers. We can help you source new suppliers and manage your current suppliers.

1. Searching and Qualifying Suppliers

We have a well-maintained database of suppliers. Once you give us your demand, we can easily select for you ideal candidates from both our internal database and external resources. Then, you decide which suppliers to go further or have us make factory inspection to qualify.

Factory inspection(also called factory audit) is a must when you consider begining a serious business relationship with a new supplier, besides your given checklist, our factory inspection report includes below information(core of ISO9001):

  • basic information(contact person, tel, email, address, history, legal status, business scale)
  • target market basic information(main products, main markets, major clients)
  • certificates(quality management systems – QMS, products certifications)
  • factory tour(equipment, production lines, production capabilities, warehouses, labouring coditions)

2. Monitoring and Auditing Suppliers

We can regularly check activities of suppliers to make sure they are still in good standing for your business.
Besides the above-mentioned factory audit, we can also do social accountability audit(SA) for you.

In fact, social accountability has been playing a more and more important role in today’s business world. Nowadays, people buy from you not only because you have higher quality and better price but because you are perceived more socially accountable.

To shape a good corporate image(CI) showing to the world that you seriously care about the society and more specifically your conduct of sourcing is ethical, social accountability audit is a must to go.

The social accountability audit we offer can give you a clear picture of how below basic SA 8000 standards are met:

  • Child labour
  • forced labour
  • health and safety
  • freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining
  • discrimination
  • disciplinary practices
  • working hours
  • compensation

We can be your trusted party to offer quality check inspection service. No matter it is a check of sample or mass production goods, we can do tests according to your requirement / widely acknowledged international standard like MIL-STD-105E, ANSI/ASQC Z1.4, ABC-STD-105, BS6001, ISO 2859 and DIN 40080.

1. Sample Quality Check

To save development/mass production time for both you and suppliers, we can be your reliable watchdog to qualify the samples. All samples will be checked visually and tested functionally according to your checklist. A complete report will follow for you to decide if the samples are acceptable or not.

2. Mass Production Quality Check

At most times, you need to offer your quality check(QC) checklist. Or if you don’t, we can use mutually-agreed international quality standard from one of the above mentioned.

The first step for quality check is to randomly draw a certain number of product samples from the shipment lot according to the Acceptable Quality Level (AQL) *. Then, the samples will be checked against the items in your checklist or in the agreed specific international quality standard. Last, we judge the shipment by PASS or FAIL and present you with a detailed report.

* Acceptable Quality Level (AQL) refers to the maximum number of acceptable defectives during the random sampling of an inspection. Generally, the defects that are classified into 3 levels: Critical, Major and Minor.

  • Critical: the defective level that is likely to result in producing an unsafe condition or contravene mandatory regulation.
  • Major: the defective level that would reduce the usability of the product, or that shows an obvious appearance defect that would affect
  • the sales of the product.
  • Minor: the defective level that does not reduce the usability of the product, but it is still beyond the defined quality standard.

Defects could be counted as critical, major or minor according to your specifications and inspection criteria.

We are the information hub between you and your supplier. Our systematic order management ensures information flows between you and supplier are accurately and timely translated and conveyed. Work with us, we can save you a lot of pains, making your whole China sourcing process efficient and cost effective.

1. Purchase Order Approval (POA)

We will double check your draft order to make sure every detail is correct. Then, pass your official purchase order to supplier, and solicit signed proforma invoice and committed production plan from supplier. We will help both you and supplier to check your payment documents. For example, L/C (Letter of Credit).

2. Initial Production Inspection (IMI)

Inspection will be carried out at the beginning of production. It aims to prevent defective components so as to ensure quality input for production. The inspection also makes sure the production will have a good start and supplier’s given estimated time of delivery(ETD) can be met.

Firstly, we hold supplier’s BOM(Bill of Materials) and check all their materials are in good quality in place for production. If a third-party testing is requested(like the FOOD CONTACT test compulsory to all food related wares exporting to France), we work with world famous testing laboratories like TUV, SGS and CMA. Then, we monitor the assembly process and check the first production run. In case of defectives are detected, we report to you and take immediate corrective measures.

3. Online Production Inspection (OPI)

Inspection will be carried out when at least 20% of the order are finished. It aims to make sure production is going on smoothly so that the quality is maintained throughout the entire production phase.

We check supplier’s production line and randomly check finished products in terms of specification, function, packaging, etc. If any defectives are detected, we report to you immediately and take corrective measures in

4. Preshipment Inspection (PSI)

Inspection will be carried out ONLY when at least 80% of the order are finished and well packed. We randomly draw samples from the lot according to AQL(Acceptable Quality Level) or your requested standards. Generally, the major items to test are cosmetics, functions and packaging. For example the drop test in terms of packaging.

5. Loading Supervision (LS)

We check quantities of the goods and conditions of the carrier container. Monitor the whole loading process(from warehouse to container). We seal the lock after loading to finish the inspection.

6. Documents Processing

We check validity and completeness of product related documents (like RoHS, CE and EMC certificates/reports). Other documents include shipping documents(like bill of loading, certificate of origin), and the other files you may request.

From supplier selection and negotiation to quality control and logistics, we handle everything until your products are delivered. By partnering with us, you save both time and money while ensuring a seamless and efficient sourcing experience.

Steps for Our Sourcing Service

  1. Send us details of products you need.
  2. You will get product quote in 48 hours.
  3. Confirm price. We send you sample for checking quality.
  4. Place order. We help manage massive producing.
  5. We inspect quality, and help you manage shipping.
  6. Pay us service fee in the last payment of orders.
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