WalkerWorldTrade knows that all of our clients want to know if we can make the products they want outsourced, at what cost and the product development / prototype timetable. Our first task is to understand the products and your goals and objectives, i.e. to establish a relationship with you, the client. After that we’ll send you a proposal that will outline everything.  It’s important that our clients understand the challenges of global sourcing and importing.

You have a great idea, an invention? Here’s a real life story: WalkerWorldTrade develops unique hardware items for inventor

Two years ago a self-employed building contractor contacted WalkerWorldTrade. He had invented two unique building-trade items. He needed a company that would manage the entire import process:  product development, packaging and freight. Money was a problem and he had a full-time job. After two years of patient product re-designs and development, WalkerWorldTrade is proud to announce the client recently signed contracts with large North American hardware companies.

What sets WalkerWorldTrade apart from other importers?

 WalkerWorldTrade is aligned with over 400 worldwide factories. Walker’s relationships with these global sources provide our clients with a network of qualified, price competitive and quality driven manufacturers. 75 worldwide offices coordinate freight for our clients. WalkerWorldTrade clients begin their relationship with a ‘one-stop-shop’ advantage over other importers. However, the most important component to a successful import transaction that maximizes your profit is a trustworthy relationship between your company, its international trade advisor and the offshore supplier. No other importer can make the claims that WalkerWorldTrade can claim regarding relationships. We’ve been doing it since 1936.

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“If possible: Get it right the first time.”

In other words, before contacting a global sourcing manufacturer or a sourcing agent such as Walker International regarding design, development, prototyping and packaging for an invention or a product that is currently produced by a China manufacturer or an offshore manufacturer in another country:

• Have a sample ‘in hand’ of the item(s) of interest or
• Have mechanical drawings, complete with material and measurement specifications or, if possible Auto Cads or similarly formatted engineering drawings
• Estimate the per order, per item order quantity
• Estimate the per item, annual order quantity
• Know your target cost. I.e. that cost upon which you want to base your selling price or your bill of materials cost

Sourcing agents such as Walker International or offshore factories will respond more favorably to inquiries that have addressed such issues as those cited above, than to those inquiries that have not prepared that information beforehand.

Other information that might be useful:

• Be patient.  Design, development, prototyping, packaging of new items takes time; usually more time than North American companies are accustomed to assigning for such project timetables.
• Sending samples to a sourcing agent or global manufacturer by means of courier could take one week to send a sample to the manufacturer, and perhaps another week if requesting a sample from the manufacturer. In other words, courier service alone could account for two to four weeks of time.
• Maintain communication with the global supplier. Managers at global sources may speak ‘English’, but that doesn’t mean they understand what you are saying.

Walker International serves as our clients’ ‘subcontracted international trade management division’. We serve as our clients’ translator, and insure that communication between the global source and the client is clear, accurate, timely and effective.

We allow our clients to focus on their core competencies, while Walker acts as their global sourcing agent, including management of design, development, prototyping, packaging, shipment, filing of all Customs documents, delivery to the clients’ destination in the United States, and calculation of landed cost.

  Call Us Today at (248) 644-7700
for Global Sourcing and Logistics