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S2U delivers low-cost, high-impact services to strengthen your whole buying/importing process for Vietnam, while reducing your workload and enabling you to commit with confidence
Which stage is your weakest link?
Does the brief reflect the commercial reality of the project?
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Any buying/importing process is only as strong as its weakest link.
S2U services are designed to replace weakness with strength. Here is one example:
Every S2U service is built around your commercial reality.
– with discipline –
1. Project Brief
Whichever defined service you engage S2U for, we start with your commercial reality and product definition. That stress-tests the brief and uncovers any critical missing information ensuring that the service delivers the strongest possible result.
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Price from $600
Factory Funnelling Starts with your aspirations for the product. That puts your brief under scruteny and sharpens it.
Price from $500
Sharpens the brief as your detailed aspirations are revealed through the process.
2. Product Definition
S2U strengthens the product definition through 3D visualisation, technical sheets or a complete design package. This creates more reliable quotations, clearer factory requirements and less dependence on any single factory. You retain perpetual rights to the IP and full control, while a complete product definition speeds up both quotation and product development.
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Price from $500
Replaces competitor images with your own visualisations, and reflect the intentions accurately to enable more accurate quotations.
Full Design Package
Price from $1000
Transforms your brief into controlled and detailed 3D and 2D production drawings, so multiple factories manufacture the same product – and QC has a clear standard.
3. Compliance
The S2U approach is to turn the administrative burden and risk of compliance requirements into a USP.
We bring clarity to what is required, make sure the factory understands it, and drive the implementation.
In short, here is an opportunity to ease the compliance burden and secure full factory support and action.
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Price from $200
Use Factory Patrol when one specific compliance issue needs tightening at the factory.
We establish what is true, what is missing, and what can realistically be done about it.
Price from $400
For one product, one factory and one market.
We define what is required, close the gaps, and work with the factory to secure the right documents and action.
Price from $300 per month
We work directly and ongoing with each factory to keep documents and requirements tight, fully defined and understood at the time of every Purchase Order, so product and purchasing teams can focus on development, products, transactions and the commercial work.
4. Factory Selection
With your commercial reality and product clearly defined, Factory Funnelling targets the factories most likely to create competitive advantage – and eliminate those merely capable of producing the product.
That ensures a faster, sharper search and a shortlist built around the right criteria.
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Use Factory Patrol when one promising supplier needs validating before you commit.
We establish the facts on the ground, confirm whether the factory lives up to expectations, and give you the confidence to make the right decision.
Factory Funnelling
Price from $600
Use Factory Funnelling when the factory most likely to create competitive
advantage has yet to be identified.
We define the right factory criteria, eliminate those merely capable of
making the product, and build a shortlist worth pursuing.
5. RFQ & Quotation
Related S2U services enable RFQs which are complete, clear and immediately actionable for Vietnamese factories. This translates to quoted prices being reliable, quicker and quotations produced by multiple factories being genuinely comparable.
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Price from $600
Through this process, it becomes evident, not only which factory will deliver competitive advantage for your product, but also what the RFQ should include.
It also ensures that RFQs are only sent to realistic contender factories.
Price from $200
If a quotation doesn’t make sense, Factory Patrol is a great way to produce a more accurate quotation.
Inside the factory, we test the numbers against real capability with senior management, then correct the quotation or confirm that it is justified.
Price from $500
Owned 3D visuals show factories precisely what you intend to buy. With less room for interpretation, quotations become more accurate and genuinely comparable.
Price from $1000
A Full Design Package removes the factory’s need to interpret your product. The design, dimensions, construction and technical details are defined before the RFQ, giving every factory the same basis for an accurate quotation.
6. Sampling
The S2U approach is that the critical sample stage should end up with a perfect, decision-ready sample at first attempt. Because less than perfect samples require revisions and will inevitably delay POs and launch. Every S2U service inserted before this stage is designed to ensure perfect samples.
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7. Purchase Order
Strengthen the weakest link before the Purchase Order, and commit with greater confidence and less anxiety.
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If one unresolved factory question is holding back the Purchase Order, Factory Patrol establishes the facts inside the factory – giving you a clear basis to proceed, renegotiate or stop. We are in the factory, make sure all is clear, understood and implemented with the senior management.
8. Production
Production becomes stronger when agreed requirements are understood on the factory floor, progress is judged against reality and emerging risks are dealt with before they affect the outcome. The S2U services you pick and insert strengthen production by improving the foundation on which it is based.
The Answer is inside the factory
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When you wish you could be inside the factory tomorrow, Factory Patrol establishes what is actually happening, how it affects production in reality, how the issue can be fixed, and returns with clarity you can act on.
For a few hundred dollars, you can have Henrik inside the factory within 48 hours and put your mind at ease.
9. Quality Control
From $500
At the QC stage, every important decision has already been made. QC is the final opportunity to discover whether the preceding stages were strong enough.
S2U Services are designed to make QC a confirmation, not an intervention.
S2U inspections are not just individual inspections. They are based on Checklists that we generate with your input. We use data from quality feedback such as claim and return rates to make each QC checklist better than the previous one. In the end, the goal is to eradicate all returns.
In addition, continually improved QC checklists based on real data improves your brief for new but similar products – and in turn the focus of every stage, in turn leading to even better QC conclusions over time.