Monday, June 15, 2009

Overview of the Qualitative Aspect of Chinese Wholesale Goods

By Jasen Huang

Many folks believe thinks that it is just the price factor that has made the China wholesale trade flourish to an overwhelming extent during the last five years. To a large extent this assumption is right, but it is not precise in terms of its insight into the reason why Chinese wholesalers are increasingly becoming the trading choice for businesses and individual customers around the world. The fact is that the China wholesale trade had begun merely as a back-up sourcing destination for some companies from Europe and the US.

However, this experience was slowly turned around by the Chinese wholesalers to design and develop goods that are acceptable globally that have with the strictest of quality parameters. Chinese manufacturers have been able to adhere to the aesthetic and qualitative benchmarks that have been put-up by their European and American counterparts. When the sourcing of goods from Chinese wholesalers began, meeting quality standards such those defined by the UK EN71 were a big hurdle. However, Chinese manufacturers have been able to set-up their own quality testing methods to ensure that goods that were initially locally produced for the domestic markets are now able to meet the quality expectation on an international basis.

Being a densely populated nation, there is no dearth of cheap labor in China and when combined with the latest production methods, the manufacturing process is able to create goods that are at par with the best in global standards but are much cheaper.

However, there has been a growing notion among many business circles that China should be looked upon as a vendor for buying cheaper goods and stock products only. This belief is highly misplaced since Chinese manufacturers have the proficiency to alter their production methods to produce goods as per the instructions of the client. So, if you are faced with spurious-looking Chinese goods, it is not translate into the quality of an average wholesale merchandise sourced from China being defective in quality. Instead, it is the vendor or the provider of goods who is responsible for buying surplus or second-rate goods that are invariably produced in any production method. Hence, the notion of all Chinese goods being cheap re-incarnations of high-end brands is absolutely wrong. A mushrooming problem is of second-hand or manufactured defective stock products being bought by international wholesalers from South American and South-east Asian and being falsely branded as Chinese wholesale goods.

This is where a clear distinction has to be made between the goods being cheap or economical. Ultimately, it is the vendor of goods who is responsible for the quality of the goods being supplied and labeling all Chinese wholesale goods as a cheaper alternative might not be the best approach towards understanding the Chinese wholesale and dropship trade. It is up to the wholesaler who procures goods from the local Chinese markets to stress the level of quality of merchandise he wants. Wholesale dealers of global repute like B2CStock have their own regional offices in the business districts of China to ensure that they are able to procure the best of goods from the regional manufacturers. This has a huge advantage for the customers.

For starters, the goods are procured from the regionally-distributed manufacturers after a thorough market research and qualitative analysis, since the wholesaler itself has a presence in the manufacturing region. Therefore, customers looking to buy wholesale products from Chinese wholesaler at cheap prices should first enquire about the procurement/sourcing process of the goods.

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