The procurement team you don't have to hire
Verified factories, coordinated samples, and an order process that repeats exactly the same way every time.
You send what you need. Everything between that and your loading dock is handled: finding the manufacturer, running samples, checking the packaging and chasing production.
Most growing businesses have two options when a customer asks for a product they don't carry. Neither of them is good.
Do it yourself
- Weeks of your time spent on sourcing sites instead of running the business
- No reliable way to tell a manufacturer from a reseller with a good listing
- Quality problems surface after the money has been sent
- Packaging, labelling and artwork all land back on you
Buy from a distributor
- No relationship with the factory that actually makes the product
- You take the spec that's on the shelf, not one written for you
- No private labelling, so your customer can buy it anywhere
- Changes to the product are someone else's decision
- Quality can change when the distributor changes suppliers
Work with me
- Vendors verified before anything is quoted, with direct factories preferred
- Samples and trial orders run properly, so problems surface early and cheaply
- Private labelling and packaging specified, checked and corrected
- The product keeps improving, because adjustments carry into every future order
- Reorder with a text message
- 10% fee on the first order with a new vendor, 5% on reorders and line extensions. No shipping markups or factory kickbacks
Six steps, every time, in the same order
Nothing gets skipped, least of all the trial order, which is where most sourcing goes wrong.
- 01You send the brief
- 02Market research
- 03Sample coordination
- 04Trial order
- 05First full order
- 06Reorder by text
Where I source from
Around 90% comes direct from Asia, from vendors verified before anything is quoted.
See where I source →Questions before your first order
Fees, payments, quality and shipping.
Read the FAQ →Who you'd be working with
Cory Shelton, after more than 15 years in manufacturing, procurement and small business operations.
About Cory →Tell me what you're trying to source
A photo or a link is enough to start. I'll come back with whether it's something I can help with, and what the first step would look like.
- What the product is, or a photo of something close to it
- Where you're located and where you'll sell it
- How you want it packaged and labelled
- Rough quantities at sample, trial and normal order