Research Services
Focused China Sourcing Research
For sourcing questions that do not fit the standard services but can still be clearly defined and researched through public sources or information the client is entitled to provide.
Example questions
- Which Chinese companies are connected to a website or brand?
- How do several candidate suppliers differ in publicly displayed products and company roles?
- What supplier types and sourcing regions are relevant to a product?
- What public information should be clarified before an RFQ is issued?
Project requirements
Broad requests such as “find the best suppliers in China” must be narrowed before work begins.
- A clear product, company or sourcing question
- A defined market or use case
- A manageable number of companies or sources
- A clear intended decision
Possible outputs
- Company and brand relationship brief
- Candidate supplier information table
- Product-category overview
- Public-source comparison
- Information-gap list
- Questions for direct supplier confirmation
- Suggested next research steps
Not suitable for this service
- Large supplier databases
- Supplier verification
- Factory audit
- Product inspection
- Legal or financial due diligence
- Negotiation
- RFQ sending
- Order follow-up
- Real-time monitoring
- Unbounded market-entry consulting
- Sourcing-agent work