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If you need to find a high-quality and reliable supplier of building materials in China, you may need a purchasing agent.
Purchasing agents are third-party services that you can hire to help you find competent and reliable suppliers in China. A purchasing agent can be an individual or company that can help foreign buyers deal with Chinese manufacturers and suppliers.
If you are working with a purchasing agent, you no longer need to find your vendor. Your purchasing agent in China will find your best supplier and will contact them. He will also visit the factory and do on-site verification for you.
The person or company acting as a purchasing agent will be your purchasing agent, representative, or right hand in China.
China’s purchasing agent can do these tasks for you
- Audit existing suppliers
- Find the most suitable supplier for your list of building materials
- Visit the factory and carry out quality control
- Guide the design and market trends of the products you purchase
- Get a secure quote from a potential supplier
- Draft and negotiate contracts
- Supervise quality testing prior to product shipment
- Manage logistics and shipping processes
- Paper engineering and any after-sales service
In short, purchasing agents can reduce the risk of importing products from China because you are represented on the ground.
Given the many benefits of hiring a purchasing agent in China, you need to make an informed decision when finding a purchasing company. Anyone can call themselves a purchasing agent, and making the wrong choice can cost you a lot of money and opportunities. Hiring a purchasing company is better than hiring an individual, especially if you sometimes need to ask your agent to arrange payments to all suppliers.
In addition, the purchasing company of your choice should be local with the supplier and have a very professional understanding of building materials. The more professional they are, the better suppliers you can find and save more money. For example, when you plan to buy construction products from Foshan, but hire a purchasing agent who is located in Yiwu, his main source of the jewelry. This is not a wise choice. If you have any questions about importing from China, please feel free to contact us.
Building materials procurement agent pros and cons
Building materials purchasing agents in China, they know how to better deal with Chinese suppliers.
merit
- Purchasing agents know how to speak Chinese and understand the cultural ways to communicate. This will provide the plant with the building materials you need and a clear description of the specifications for each product. Clear communication between the factory and you (through the purchasing agent) establishes a good business relationship and will lead to the production of high-quality products.
- Purchasing agents know how to work and handle factories in China. They know the way of thinking and working in Chinese factories. Most of the time, only the purchasing agent can answer questions such as how the supplier handles your order or when it is the right time to check your product during production.
- The purchasing agent knows the effective procurement of building materials in China. China is unique in that it needs different technologies to source from this country, compared with other countries. Your purchasing agent will know exactly what points to discuss with the plant and what points you should give the plant to decide or which points should be formally identified. Your purchasing agent is well aware of these details and will work accordingly.
- Purchasing agents have an in-depth understanding of China’s business environment. They will be able to identify key factors when purchasing from China, such as possible procurement costs, product quality and delivery schedules.
- Purchasing agents in China know what it takes to implement a good wholesale purchasing program for building materials in China, they know which suppliers have a good reputation and which suppliers are not good choices.
- The purchasing agent is a legal/legal entity in China. Having a purchasing agent in China will make you a local in China. This means that the factory will take your contract seriously when it is signed by the purchasing agent in China. The plant also takes business transactions from Chinese purchasing agents more seriously, making them comply with all the details of the production contract.
shortcoming
When importing building materials, there are some disadvantages of working with Chinese purchasing agents.
There are many purchasing companies in China, but all the purchasing agents are building materials professionals. As mentioned above, China has many industrial clusters, one city in China can be used as a manufacturing center for cosmetics, and another city can be used as a manufacturing center for electronic products. If you need to purchase products that are not their primary purchase, then the purchasing agent can’t help. In addition, if they are too far away from building materials suppliers, how can they control quality at any time? How can they get a good supply if they are not familiar with the local market? If your purchasing agent is not near the vendor, order integration, loading, and shipping will also be difficult.
Prefabricated Building Materials Supply Source agents can help you source products from China from start to finish. His knowledge of how to do business with Chinese suppliers reduces the risks possible when you source products from China yourself.
