腾讯手游御龙在天官网:What can a buying agent exactly do for you?

You must heard many times about buying agent, most buyers consider it as safe buying purpose, and another word "eyes in China" are becoming popular these days.  But what a buying agent exactly doing?

I put it as outer and inner works: 

Outer( normally understand by people)

Product & Factory Sourcing   

Product Development

Factory Screen

Sample Service

Factory Evaluation

Quality Control & Inspection

Container Loading Supervision

Shipment Arrangement

Documentation

Business Visiting Arrangement 

Inner(usuallay these do not see by people)

For new design solution or assembling solution:

If you are looking for the products that it is assembling by two factories, each factory manufacturing one part of the finished product, and finally need to put these two together.

The buying agent would play an important role in this case: he will tracing the production for both parts(factories) of the finished products, if any part of the product do not meet the requirement, then the full product would be useless, if it is a well designed products and don’t want to release to both factories, he can collect parts which produced from both factories, arranging a place, arranging skilled workers and assembling them to be the final finished products, this would be a very secret for new designed, as copy problem becoming more popular, this is a very good solution for new designs.

For production solution according to your sample:

This is very popular way that buyers do these years, as we all know that a new design is usually copied at once, so there are many buyer just buy a sample they find it sell well from the market, and send to the suppliers for a copy of it, in this case, a solution of the new design of this item can be well done by buying agent, he will be your support here in China, and after some time work for you, he may come to know the styles that welcomed by your market, so he can do some change from the original sample, he see more workmanship that available in factories, get the right workmanship for it, as you see that some designs are not workable once they are made out from office, as the designer do not know whether some workmanship are available within production. Maybe you can say that just forward the design to the factory and factory know it well and would let you know whether it is available for your design, but, most factories just considering their benefit. 

For example, I’ve ever sent a travel bag which there is a shoulder strap for two factory to produce it, I always ask them to find a better quality better than my sample, but they never, always find the less quality for you to get even a very small benefit. As I have seen many strap samples that are better than my samples from strap suppliers.   

As buyers don’t want to release info to other companies, so, these buying agent can be a personal one, and acting as a buying office.