What matters when buying customized products from Chinese suppliers
Patience and again patience no matter how tight your schedule is. A spinning head sees nothing.
We have learned this from one of our current projects: help our client buy manufacturing equipment from China. If you put the designing onto the supplier’s hand, keep in mind that you treat him as he knows nothing about your factory, your products or your requirements. It is sort of “start from scratch”, then you give him all the basics and only the key dim/aspects/factors/targets, particularly the limitations at the beginning. It takes more time for him to develop an understanding of your request than you expect. Often you will go back to these basics sometime at some point and you have lost time and at a risk of delay.
