Hassle-free procurement built on trust & honesty.
Supply Chain Management Excellence
PREMIER3 Sourcing & Private Labeling delivers customized solutions in a timely fashion better than any other sourcing company in the marketplace. We focus on small businesses that often have a limited network of suppliers. Focusing on a limited network of suppliers might equate to more efficiency and allows for great relationships, but it also means that there is more at risk.
It’s critical to build and understand a strategy for protecting against supply chain interruptions and problems. Even if you’re happy with your current suppliers let us show you some of the intangible benefits to having a security plan in place. Effective supply chain management strategies often improve other aspects of business, such as customer service and operations.
Choice
Structured Choice for Intelligent Rationalization
• Extension of client’s procurement team and overall management team
• “Independent broker” to mitigate price over time
Start-ups and entrepreneurs might gain the most from forward-looking preparation.
”For small firms, if they have a large disruption, they could lose everything.” We deliver a full range of customized solutions to meet our client’s specific needs including all aspects of:
• Factory identification and selection
process
• Logistics and consolidation support
• New product development (NPD)
• Pricing and payment negotiations
• Product sourcing
• Purchasing
• Quality Assurance (done on-site)
• Risk analysis of suppliers and
product lines
• Shipping
Global supply chains pose challenges regarding both quantity and value.
Supply and Value Chain Trends
• Globalization
• Increased cross border sourcing
• Collaboration for parts of value chain
with low-cost providers
• Shared service centers for logistical
and administrative functions
• Increasingly global operations, which
require increasingly global coordination
and planning to achieve global
optimums
• Complex problems involve also
midsized companies to an increasing
degree
Key Services
• Factory identification and selection
process
• Risk analysis of suppliers and
product lines
• New product development
• Pricing and payment negotiations
• Logistics and consolidation support
• On-site QA service
These trends have many benefits for manufacturers because they make possible larger lot sizes, lower taxes, and better environments (culture, infrastructure, special tax zones, sophisticated OEM) for their products. Meanwhile, on top of the problems recognized in supply chain management, there will be many more challenges when the scope of supply chains is global. This is because with a supply chain of a larger scope, the lead time is much longer. Furthermore, there are more issues involved such as multi-currencies, different policies and different laws. The consequent problems include: different currencies and valuations in different countries and different tax laws (Tax Efficient Supply Chain Management); 3. different trading protocols; 4. lack of transparency of cost and profit.
Private Labeling
Our management team has private labeled hundreds of products for the largest distributors within each of the markets we serve. Will deliver on a consistent, timely basis.
Direct Container Program
• Ability to consolidate warehousing and ship consolidated containers directly to
our clients.
• We are one of the few companies offering shipment of multiple items to one location
Global Team
It is critical to have the knowledge and the ability to source products in multiple countries and our established network of over 100 reliable manufacturers throughout the US, Canada, Mexico, South America, China, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, and Indonesia that must maintain records of quality assurance, and must allow PREMIER3’s Quality Assurance partners to allow unannounced quality assurance visits.
• Provide professional Quality Assurance services.