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Guides for EU sourcing.

Short, practical reads on getting sourcing right: writing a brief that earns useful quotes, knowing where your data actually lives, and watching a search play out from one sentence to a signed draft.

Sourcing guide How to brief a manufacturer A useful quote and a useless one usually come down to the brief. The six things to put in yours, in the order a factory reads them, plus the one line that saves you a week. 4 min read Read Compliance Hosted in Europe, GDPR & the data wall Where your data physically sits, what GDPR actually demands, and the data wall that seals every lead to the supplier who earned it. The dull stuff that quietly decides deals. 4 min read Read Case study Inside an EU sourcing search A composite search, anonymised: one plain sentence to a qualified shortlist with reasons to a signed order draft, in an afternoon. The shape a search is meant to take. 4 min read Read Sourcing guide MOQ, lead time and unit price: the triangle every first order has to solve A factory's minimum, its calendar and its price are one cost seen from three sides. How each is built, which corner to fix, and a worked first order with the tooling in plain sight. 6 min read Read Sourcing guide How to compare three factory quotes without comparing apples to pears Three quotes, three different questions answered. How to put them on one basis, what a landed-cost line looks like, and a worked example where the cheapest headline is the most expensive quote. 5 min read Read Sourcing guide What a screening report tells you before the first call A first call with a factory costs an hour on both sides. A screening report is how you know the hour is worth it: who they are, whether they fit, and the two questions still open. 6 min read Read Compliance ISO 9001, ISO 22000, BRC, IFS: which certificate matters for your product A certificate covers a system, at a site, for a scope. What each of the big four actually says, who tends to ask for it, and how to check one in five minutes. 7 min read Read Sourcing guide Escrow for a first order: how staged payment protects both sides A first order asks two strangers to trust each other with money and material. Escrow breaks that into stages tied to things both sides can check. How it works, what to write into it, and a worked example with a failed inspection. 6 min read Read

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