Indonesia is well-known as a manufacturer country for both hardline and softline products. From furniture to home décor, sporting goods to children’s toys, Indonesia has a lot of manufacturers with competitive prices and has good quality and modern design products.
One thing you should pay extra attention to as an importer is product quality. Product quality is playing an important role for every business no matter what products you sell. Great product quality will bring so many benefits to your brand. However, having some bad quality products is unavoidable when you are buying in bulk quantity.
Let’s take a look at four reasons why you should conduct quality control services when buying goods from Indonesia.
1. LOW-QUALITY MATERIALS
Raw materials quality is the most important thing to maintain the quality of the end products. Nowadays, buying cheap is not the best way to get profit, but it could cost you even more time and money if you invest in poor quality material. Because you will handle many complaints because your product is in a bad quality and you do not have much time in developing your business. For the long term, this also will affect your brand reputation, customers will notice this, which usually means less return business. Because of this reason, it is better to invest in a great quality raw material to create a great quality product.
2. IMPROPER PACKAGE HANDLING
Do you want your products to be broken due to the damage during shipment? Imagine you are ordering high-quality and flawless products with your supplier in Indonesia which meets all of your expectations and specifications. However, when you receive them in your warehouse, you discover that the shipping cartons have disintegrated and the goods inside are irreparably damaged. The products you expected to be profitable are no longer sellable.
As an importer, you should never rely on your supplier to take the extra step to protect your products with appropriate packaging unless you have clearly asked about it at first. Many suppliers believe that once a shipment leaves their factory, they are no longer responsible for any issues that arise during shipping and handling.
Even if you already make sure that everything is great during the production process, but it is not properly packed, it also could damage the product’s inside.
3. POOR STORAGE
The way you store your materials and finished products has a big impact on your product’s quality. For instance, in the textile and apparel industry, the fabrics used to make apparel must be properly put in a clean and dry area because dust, dirt, water, and other contaminants can leave stains or discoloration on your materials, which means that anything made with that material will have the same issues. The same is true for finished garments that aren’t being shipped, as improper storage causes dirt, wrinkling, and other quality issues.
4. BAD PRODUCTION TECHNIQUES
Last but not least, the production process determines the product’s quality, especially for a handmade product. Many production issues can occur during the production process, such as poor product quality, long lead times, supply chain interruptions, and so on. All of these issues will be impacting the products you are selling, which in the worst cases has an impact on the customers’ and potential customers’ perception of your brand.
The most common problems during production can be classified into four categories:
- Quality problems: High defect rate, high return rate, and poor quality.
- Output problem: Long lead time, unreasonable production schedule, high inventory rate, supply chain interruption.
- Cost problem: Low efficiency, idle people or machines.
- Management problem: Potential safety hazard, bad working conditions.
YOU CAN’T IGNORE QUALITY CONTROL
Dealing with low-quality products is time and energy-consuming. It needs a lot of extra work. Thus, investing in quality control inspection which controls the production processes, actually can save more of your time and money so you can focus on developing your business. Why? Because this quality control service will allow you to spot the issue right at your supplier’s warehouse so that the supplier can do a service or re-work the product before it is shipped to your warehouse.
Excellencial independent third-party inspection services in Indonesia will provide you with confidence that your products are having fewer quality issues with the Quality Control services. We will ensure that your supplier has qualified guidance to produce your product and achieve your quality standards and that you get professional feedback on a daily basis.
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