Global Sourcing &
Non-Food Commerce.
Don't buy from another middleman.
Buy closer to the source.
Every unnecessary step between retailer and factory adds margin and removes information. We remove the steps.
A lower factory buying price should improve the merchant's margin — not increase the intermediary's spread.
Too many layers between factory and shelf.
The decisive problem in African non-food retail is often not the selling price. It is the buying price.
Margin compounds at every step.
The conventional chain can add an intermediary margin repeatedly before goods ever reach the retailer.
Buyers negotiate against the wrong number.
Retail teams can negotiate aggressively and still be starting from a price that already contains unnecessary layers.
Specifications drift.
Product quality can move away from the brief when nobody in the middle owns the technical requirement.
True landed cost becomes invisible.
Without visibility of actual cost, duty and finance, the merchant cannot accurately judge whether it bought well.
We build open-book global sourcing programmes.
Demand is defined first in precise category briefs. Suppliers then compete against the actual requirement.
The commercial model separates the factory buying price, actual landed costs, actual finance and one disclosed programme fee.
The merchandise margin stays with the merchant.
Know exactly what you are paying for.
Every major cost component is visible rather than hidden inside a trading margin.
From demand intelligence to final delivery.
One connected sourcing process controls specification, supplier quality, commercial terms and physical execution.
What sits inside the solution.
Demand Definition
Category strategy · Forecasting · Technical briefs · Quality standards · Private-label development
Supply Development
Supplier discovery · Factory verification · Compliance assessment · Sampling · Competitive tendering
Commercial
Open-book price construction · Factory-level negotiation · MOQ aggregation · Landed-cost modelling
Intelligence
Category price benchmarking · Duty and HS screening · Shelf-price monitoring · SKU margin analysis
Execution
Inspection · Consolidation · Freight · Customs clearance · Buyer finance · Delivery
A sourcing programme built around the requirement.
Write the requirement properly.
Define categories, specifications, quality, volumes, seasonality and target economics.
Find and verify factories.
Identify qualified factories and ask them to compete directly against the brief.
Start with the real buying price.
Show the source price first, then build duty, landed costs and finance visibly on top.
Approve against the written brief.
Samples are reviewed before commitment against the technical specification.
Reach factory economics efficiently.
Pool quantities to achieve factory minimums and consolidate for efficient shipping.
Control execution to the final mile.
Inspect before shipment, clear compliantly, finance transparently and deliver.
For buyers who want better control of the source.
Particularly relevant where merchandise economics depend on disciplined buying, specification control and efficient importation.
A better buying price should improve the retailer's economics, not the intermediary's spread.
