International transactions present unique challenges to the importer today.  With manufacturing locations spread across all of Asia geographical distances can make the difficult job of maintaining the quality of your product nearly impossible to assure from within your own organization.

 

Receiving goods that lack the quality your customers demand can be costly and may even present you with legal liability.  Independent inspection is a commonly used method to ensure that your merchandise meets your specifications before it leaves its country of origin.

 

Through Liberty International’s independent inspection program, the importer can detail quantity, quality of product, type of product, marking, packaging and shipping specifications to assure that what was ordered is actually shipped.

 

Quality problems are often avoidable because they are rarely intentional.  Simply employing an independent party (from the local area who speaks the native language) who can visit your manufacturing facilities during the pre-production and production phases, can eliminate common problems such as: misunderstanding of specifications due to language barriers, wrong or inferior raw materials, inadequate facilities or personnel, inadequate monitoring of sub-contracted goods, inadequate control over rejected goods, lack of country of origin markings, inadequate packaging, exposing goods to the elements, wrong count, pilferage or lack of control over the production cycle.

 

The benefits of independent inspection are obvious.  It places financial control and product distribution control where it belongs: in your hands.  It increases your awareness of performance at each factory location and provides documented evidence that your company may need at later date for negotiations with vendors or customers.  It provides you with hard data to evaluate actual cost of product and cycle time by country or by individual vendor.  Finally it is a precaution to assure you comply with various regulatory issues at point of importation.

 

Contact us to implement your own quality assurance program.

 

 

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