TLSourcing

Buying agent · China · Korea · Vietnam

Buying in Asia, for clients in German-speaking Europe.

We find manufacturers, verify them before the first order is placed, and stay with the order until the goods are in the warehouse. Our client makes the buying decision — our job is to make sure it rests on facts rather than on a catalogue photo.

Thomas Lee, owner of TL Sourcing, at his desk

Who we expect here

Two ways through this site.

We work on both sides of the table. On one side are buyers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland; on the other, factories in China, Korea and Vietnam. Take the path that belongs to you.

You want a product sourced

You have a product idea, a drawing or a sample — and you need a manufacturer who delivers it reliably and at consistent quality. We handle the search, the verification and the follow-through.

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You are a manufacturer we contacted

Then this page tells you who we are, who we buy for, and what we need in order to give you a serious answer. It saves you two rounds of email — and us as well.

Information for manufacturers

How we work

We verify before anyone orders.

The expensive mistake in importing is not made at shipping. It is made at selection — and you only notice it once the container arrives. That is why most of our effort sits at the front.

01

People on the ground

China, Korea and Vietnam are not handled by email from Germany. They are handled in the local time zone and the local language — Korea directly by us, backed by a degree and working years in Seoul. That decides whether a factory replies at all, and how honestly.

02

Factory or trading company

A large share of suppliers presenting themselves as manufacturers are trading companies. That is not automatically bad, but it changes price, control over production and response time. We establish which is which before you build a calculation on it.

03

Sample before production

No order without an approved sample in hand. Whatever the sample shows goes back to the factory in writing, and it is confirmed before mass production starts.

Services

From the search to inspection before shipment.

Take all of it or single parts. If you already have a manufacturer and only need quality control, that is exactly what you get.

Process

Six steps, in this order.

No step gets skipped because something is urgent. What goes wrong at the end was almost always cut short at the beginning.

Tell us what you need sourced.

A short call is enough to judge whether we are the right partner and what is realistic. If we are not, we will say so.

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