Suppliers

We leverage our extensive network of vetted suppliers in China, selecting those who meet our stringent criteria for quality, reliability, and ethical practices. Our supplier selection process includes on-site visits, detailed audits, and continuous performance monitoring to ensure long-term success.

Our customers´ combined purchase volume makes us a large “player” among suppliers. Hence, we ensure that we get full attention from factories and they can usually accept all kinds of orders – special orders, small orders, large orders and urgent orders.

All our suppliers offer competitive prices, high level of service, quality control according to European standard and, which is very important, ability to communicate in a straightforward, clear and easy understandable way.

We continuously work with supplier development with the aim that all our suppliers should constantly improve in areas such as:

– Communication
– Environmental awareness
– Safety and working conditions for employees
– Quality
– Administration and management

Supplier Sourcing

If no supplier within our existing supplier network is suitable for a customer´s request, we start a sourcing project in order to find a new supplier to recommend.

We have strict rules and a well thought-out and structured way of working for each new sourcing mission to make sure we never miss the target. Each one of our recommended suppliers has been carefully checked and selected by us. We never start cooperation with a new supplier unless we have visited them and made what we call a LISE (Linc Sourcing Initial Supplier Evaluation). If they don´t pass our scrutiny, we continue to look for another potential supplier to recommend to our customer.

For each new request and for each new product from our customers, we…

1 …make a thorough supplier sourcing and supplier audit to ensure that the matchmaking is of highest level regarding price, capabilities and service,

2 …make sure that the supplier´s quality control works satisfactory,

3 …make sure that the logistics work properly and are handled in the most efficient way,

4 …assist with advice and communication regarding technical questions such as production of drawings, finding new an
intelligent production solutions, designing and production of moulds, tools and jigs, etc.,

5 …assist with advice regarding legal issues.

Geography

We pay a lot of attention to geography in our selection of suppliers. If possible, the supplier should be in an area which is easily accessible and not too far away from the customer´s other suppliers. The supplier must also be located in an area with cheap raw material, good infrastructure and well educated and price competitive labour force.

Matchmaking

In our sourcing job we pay high attention to the fact that customer and supplier must fit together regarding company size, quality, working way, etc.

Personal visits

In Linc Sourcing, we have a sourcing team which is responsible for all supplier sourcing. Before accepting orders with any new supplier, someone from our sourcing team has always paid a personal visit to the supplier in order to make a so called LISE (Linc Sourcing Initial Supplier Evaluation) but also to establish a personal relationship – something which is extremely important in business with companies in China.

Important criteria at supplier audits

In our selection of new suppliers, we pay high attention to:
-that the supplier communicates in a swift, straightforward and effective way,
-that the supplier has a well-functioning and thought-out quality system,
-that it is clean and tidy in and around the premises,
-that the supplier has a good administrative system,
-that there is an R&D department with ability to make construction drawings,
-that there is a high level of service,
-that the supplier can accept low quantity orders,
-that supply conditions have been established,
-that the supplier is willing to accept Linc Sourcing´s codes of conduct, and that there is an awareness for and interest in environmental questions.

Supplier development

Once we have entered into a relationship with a supplier we also start an active supplier development process. We have well thought-out and structured “Supplier Guidelines” which describe how the suppliers ought to work to make their work and our cooperation as effective as possible, to make our customers as satisfied as possible, and to make sure that we can grow together and develop a fruitful and prosperous relationship

Codes of conduct

Linc Sourcing have set goals and requirements for our suppliers that we want them to fulfill regarding working conditions and environment. We want each supplier to

-comply with national laws and regulations and with international conventions concerning protection of the environment, working conditions and child labour,

-respect fundamental human rights and treat the workforce fairly and with respect,

-strive towards, and have a plan for, how to continuously reduce waste and emissions to air, ground or water,

-handle, store and dispose of hazardous waste in an environmentally safe manner, and to contribute to the recycling of materials and used products and strive towards using as much recycled material as possible in production and packing.

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