Buying from China is very easy, but the difficulty is choosing reliable suppliers. Therefore, before placing an order, you need to comprehensively evaluate the supplier from many aspects. Choose Factory Manufacturer or Trading Company, we believe you will get the answer below.
What are Factory Manufacturer and Trading Company?
-A factory manufacturer is a company that makes a product from scratch and sells it to wholesalers or retailers.
-A trading company can also be called a middleman. They buy from the manufacturer or even the manufacturer’s customers at a lower price and then sell it to foreign customers at a higher price, earning the difference.
Why choose Factory Manufacturer not Trading Company?
1. Company Structure ✔ Factory Manufacturer
Factory Manufacturer provides one-stop service to support customer's projects. The factory manufacturer usually consists of business department, engineering department (design department), production department, quality inspection department, merchandising department, and purchasing department.
But Trading Company is like a business department of the factory.
2. Lower Price ✔ Factory Manufacturer
Factory Manufacturer Price is lower than that of the trader. The customer can get the first-hand price directly from the factory manufactuer , that is the best price for the customers. If they gets the price from the trader, the price is relatively higher, because the trader also gets the price from the factory manufacturer first, and then adjusts the price to the customer, they need to eran the middle price difference.
3. Quick Quote ✔ Factory Manufacturer
Customer can get the quick quote from factory manufacturer within 1 hour or less after sending the drawings. However, it usually takes 1 or 2 days for traders to send quotations, because they also need time to find different manufacturers to make quotations and comparison.
4. Lead time in short ✔ Factory Manufacturer
Factory Manufacturer scheduling is flexible. If the customer's delivery date is urgent, factory can give priority to meeting the customer's requirements. The delivery can be short to 7 days and less. But for trader, they are subject to the scheduling of the factory, and they can not decide the delivery date of the order. this often leads to delivery delay, 2 weeks or 3 weeks or 1 month.
5. Quality Control ✔ Factory Manufacturer
Factory manufacturer have own quality control department to make sure the products with good quality matched customers drawing. For the trader,they don't have a quality inspection department, so customers often have many quality issues after receiving the finished products.
6. After-Sales ✔ Factory Manufacturer
if any customer claim, the factory manufactruer will make the replacement or refund the money to the customers at the first time, and then immediately organize all departments having a meeting to find out the reasons and make improvement plans. But if Trader, It is difficult for customers to get compensation or substitutes, because they also need to spend time to recover from the factory. If the factory is not willing to redo, the trader may give up the customer for one-time business