You can tell within one quotation round whether a sourcing partner actually understands the product.
An inexperienced agent sends your tech pack to factories and returns the prices. An experienced sourcing team reads the tech pack first and comes back with questions.
Is the fabric width going to force poor marker efficiency at this width of garment? Does this construction need a machine most factories in this price band do not have? Will this trim hold after the specified wash? Is the delivery date achievable given the fabric lead time?
Asking those questions before quotation is what separates a price you can rely on from a price that moves once production starts.
Knit, woven, denim and performance fabric construction, behaviour, shrinkage and sourcing.
How the product is actually assembled, which operations drive cost and where quality typically fails.
Reading and challenging a cost sheet line by line, including consumption and wastage assumptions.
Which factory has the machinery, the technical team and the compliance standing for your specific product.
Audit frameworks, restricted substance requirements and the test standards buyers apply.
Shipping terms, documentation requirements and the customs expectations of each buyer market.
Across merchandising, sourcing, production and supply-chain management.
Denim, woven, knit, sweater, outerwear, activewear, workwear, kidswear and accessories.
USA, UK, Europe, Canada, Australia and Asia.
Development, sourcing, costing, production, quality, compliance, logistics and buyer support.
We would rather lose an order at quotation for telling you the date is not achievable than lose a customer at shipment for pretending it was.CrestTex Leadership
Send us one product and judge us on the questions we come back with.
