Placing Orders and Managing Production in China
Between the accepted quotation and the delivered container sits a production cycle that runs on schedules, deposits and milestone checks. These guides walk that cycle in order.
Most delivery disputes trace back to a step skipped early: a vague purchase order, no production slot, or a pilot run nobody inspected. The guides here follow the sequence we run for clients, from first purchase order to ramped bulk production.
Start with these three
- Step by Step: Importing from China, Inquiry to Delivery
- How to Place an Order with Chinese Factories, Step by Step
- Bulk Sourcing from China: A Working Process for 1,000-Unit Orders
If you read only three: the step by step guide maps the whole journey, the order placement guide hardens the contract, and the bulk sourcing guide shows how thousand unit runs actually scale.
All guides in this topic
- How to Place an Order with Chinese Factories, Step by Step: From proforma invoice to deposit: the order sequence and the clauses that protect you.
- Production Scheduling in China: How to Stay On Time: How production windows are really scheduled, and what keeps deliveries on time.
- Step by Step: Importing from China, Inquiry to Delivery: The full import journey from first enquiry to delivered goods, mapped step by step.
- Bulk Sourcing from China: A Working Process for 1,000-Unit Orders: A working process for thousand unit orders: sampling, tooling, pilots and ramps.
Deposits deserve as much discipline as schedules. We stage payments against milestones: a deposit to start, a balance after inspection passes, never before. Tooling orders get their own paper trail, because a mould paid for without a written ownership clause is a mould you do not own. When a factory slips a week, the fix is usually a schedule review at the factory, not a sharper email.
How we can help
We run this sequence for every client order, with the schedule visible to you. If you have a target launch date, send it over and we will plan the production window backwards from it. Payment timing is agreed up front as part of the same plan, including credit terms for repeat orders.
