Wag! needed to develop a sustainable supply chain that enabled them to source a variety of high-quality products at lower costs, reduce product lead times and more efficiently deliver those goods to their customers. The necessary flexibility of a tech startup has to be transferred to the procurement of physical products.

After assessing Om the Go’s predicament and considering different options, Intrepid Sourcing adopted a garments product development strategy to advance the concept from scratch into a sellable final product that appeals to the brand’s target niche. The garments production solution was adapted and tailored towards the needs of Om the Go.

After assessing Sun-Staches’ situation and considering different options, Intrepid Sourcing came up with a electronics production development strategy that helped them to achieve their goals.

Intrepid Sourcing developed a importing starter solution to identify products and subsequent supply chain management solution for white-label products to help Basis Covered Media procure an assortment of on-demand, high-quality products from various reliable suppliers in China.

EveMotion needed to address supplier issues and IPR legal issues. One item that they frequently imported from China was some type of electric scooter. However, the IPR situation was complicated and their supplier was not the only one holding a patent for this specific product design. Without knowing it, EveMotion sold the product online, resulting in their local competitor suing them for intellectual property rights (IPR) infringement since their supplier also owned a patent.

As an international brand, much of Boy London’s product value is generated by innovative designs. Intrepid Sourcing solved their manufacturing challenge with an individual original equipment manufacturer (OEM) plastics production package solution.

Impressed Bags faced several challenges when it selected China as its sourcing destination. It had no definite sourcing strategy for its cross-border transactions – it lacked the time and resources to travel all the way to China to conduct multiple supplier verifications and assessment of their production capacity. The set up of the production line across border had to be quick and seamless, otherwise, its limited product supply would soon run out.

KLM needed the night lights to be mass produced based on basic design files. The challenge was that they wanted them quickly, at a reasonable price and in good quality. The novelty of the product and the necessary PCB (microchip) development required dedicated effort. Furthermore, the custom plastic parts had to be produced from scratch.

Party Works was meticulous with its important order, but lacked understandably the means to meet with potential suppliers in China, or verify their compliance with quality and product safety standards regularly during production. They had no prior experience sourcing products from China directly by themselves and the order wasn’t big enough or occurring regular, so that sending their own staff wasn’t worthwhile.