Notes for sourcing teams
Written for the person who has to defend a supplier choice internally.
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Supplier-side notes, written plainly
These are notes from the manufacturing side of the table: how to evaluate a factory, what a tech pack needs to contain so the quote does not move later, and what the lab-grown supply chain means for a retail assortment.
We write them because the alternative — a supplier who tells buyers only what makes the supplier look good — produces the sourcing mistakes we then get asked to fix. A buyer who knows to insist on a pre-production sample is a buyer we work well with.
Nothing here is gated, and none of it requires working with us to be useful.