Global Sourcing and Procurement Services
Our 200 colleagues based on the ground in major and emerging sourcing markets (China, India, Vietnam and Turkey), giving us access to over 2,000 validated supplier contacts. Delivering end to end sourcing solutions tailored to your strategy. For 25 years we have been trusted by our clients to deliver:
- Sourcing strategy and execution
- Buying Office Model
- Risk management (supply)
- Quality & Compliance control
- Logistics – source to shelf
Your Asian Sourcing Partner
ET2C International is a British owned global sourcing company founded in 2001, with on the ground teams in China,Vietnam, India and Turkey. We manage the complete sourcing lifecycle from Source to Shelf.
From supplier identification and validation to production oversight and quality and compliance through to shipping and logistics. With over 25 years experience and clients ranging from SME’s to global enterprises ET2C acts as a trusted extension of your procurement team.
How We Work
In order to align ourselves with the needs of our partners, we adhere to eight clear steps each helping to identify the goals and requirements of your work, as well as providing us with the information needed to evaluate the most suitable suppliers from our wide network.
1. Assess your needs
We begin by understanding your sourcing strategy. Your business, wider industry, and supplier requirements to begin setting up the most suitable and efficient pathway. Ensuring that we build a focused and efficient sourcing critical path from day one.
2. Understand the Product
Using ISO 9001 guidelines, we develop an understanding of your product specification to make sure we have a detailed knowledge of your product to assess potential suppliers.
3. Source
Contacting our wide-ranging supplier base and beyond, we seek to compile the breakdown of most suitable partners to manufacture your products, covering all relevant factors such as product expertise, market knowledge, capacity, price points, and quality. Building a short list of validated candidate supply partners for you to review.
4. Quotation
We provide you with relevant quotations from several suppliers, allowing you to evaluate the most suitable supplier for your needs.
5. Sampling & Development
An important stage of the sourcing process, we manage the development critical path leading to PR sample sign offs prior to production starting. Ensuring that you and your supplier have approved reference sample before production begins.
6. Production
Liasing with the selected supply partner, we ensure that all processes are moving forward according to plan and provide updates to you regarding production schedules. Giving you clear sight of your order progress
7. Quality & Compliance control
Our quality control inspections cover essential visibility of your products through production and prior to shipping, ensuring any potential quality issues are resolved rapidly.
8. Shipping and Logistics
As we have teams on the ground we can ensure that product timings and shipping deadlines are both aligned. Our logistics team can support you with shipping under a range of terms from FOB to DDP. Just ask for more details.
How We Work
In order to align ourselves with the needs of our partners, we adhere to eight clear steps each helping to identify the goals and requirements of your work, as well as providing us with the information needed to evaluate the most suitable suppliers from our wide network.
1. Assess your needs
We begin by understanding your sourcing strategy. Your business, wider industry, and supplier requirements to begin setting up the most suitable and efficient pathway. Ensuring that we build a focused and efficient sourcing critical path from day one.
2. Understand the Product
Using ISO 9001 guidelines, we develop an understanding of your product specification to make sure we have a detailed knowledge of your product to assess potential suppliers.
3. Source
Contacting our wide-ranging supplier base and beyond, we seek to compile the breakdown of most suitable partners to manufacture your products, covering all relevant factors such as product expertise, market knowledge, capacity, price points, and quality. Building a short list of validated candidate supply partners for you to review.
4. Quotation
We provide you with relevant quotations from several suppliers, allowing you to evaluate the most suitable supplier for your needs.
5. Sampling & Development
An important stage of the sourcing process, we manage the development critical path leading to PR sample sign offs prior to production starting. Ensuring that you and your supplier have approved reference sample before production begins.
6. Production
Liasing with the selected supply partner, we ensure that all processes are moving forward according to plan and provide updates to you regarding production schedules. Giving you clear sight of your order progress
7. Quality Control
Our quality control inspections cover essential visibility of your products through production and prior to shipping, ensuring any potential quality issues are resolved rapidly.
8. Shipment
As we have teams on the ground we can ensure that product timings and shipping deadlines are both aligned. Our logistics team can support you with shipping under a range of terms from FOB to DDP. Just ask for more details.
Some useful tips for our Clients
Over our history, we’ve partaken in a number of successful partnerships with a wide-range of businesses and industries. Despite their organisational differences, key factors are shared across these businesses:
Industries We Support
Consumer Goods
With almost twenty years’ experience of designing, developing and manufacturing consumer goods within Asia, we are well placed to help our clients with their sourcing needs.
Industrial Components
As sourcing and supply chain professionals with backgrounds in engineering and manufacturing, we have a wealth of experience in producing industrial products in Asia. We supply technically challenging, high quality components, and sub-assemblies to clients across Europe, USA and Australasia.
Read more about Inside Asia Sourcing
With More Than 200 Supplier Contacts
Across China, Vietnam and India, we are always looking to identify the best partner for your sourcing needs, and hand hold you through the entire Supply Chain Management process – plus, we also have a shipping and logistics team who are able to assist with shipping, rates and other solutions.
Find The Right Solution for You
We pride ourselves in how we can find the right solution for you. We are constantly addressing issues throughout the product life cycle, from development through to delivery. Our understanding of the landscape and context, places us suitably to address any problems or prevent them in time by identifying potential issues.
Interested in Sourcing & Procurement Services?
Want to know how ET2C can help your business with sourcing & procurement solutions? Speak to us today to request your free quotation.
Find the right solution for you
We pride ourselves in how we can find the right solution for you. We are constantly addressing issues throughout the product life cycle, from development through to delivery. These include a range of factors such as quality assurance, factory certifications, product innovation, financial terms, minimum order quantities, supplier capacity, working capital management, product quality inspection protocols, sustainability initiatives, cost analysis and stock holding requirements. We therefore understand the landscape, the context, and are well placed to address any problems or to prevent them in time by identifying potential issues.
Your Asian Sourcing Expert
Our teams are adept at dealing with companies of all sizes, and understand the different touch points of companies throughout their growth cycle, dedicating resource accordingly. ET2C are always willing to commit resources and guide companies that we see scalability in, aiding them through our process and provide the reassurance that a business of that size requires.
Interested in Sourcing & Procurement Services?
Want to know how ET2C can help your business with sourcing & procurement solutions? Speak to us today to request your free quotation.
FAQ-Global Sourcing and Procurement Services
Frequently Asked Questions
Global sourcing services help businesses find, develop, and manufacture products overseas by managing supplier selection, quotations, sampling, production follow-up, quality control, and shipment coordination. Delivering execution onthe ground, managing quality and compliance and wider supply partner risk
ET2C typically ships FOB, and can also support other terms such as CIF, DDU, and DDP depending on the case. Our logistics team can support to ensure you can ship to your market as quickly and effectively as required
ET2C works with clients to source and manufacture products from Asian suppliers with full visibility and trusted partnerships, managing supplier selection, development, production coordination, quality control, and shipment support.
An Asian sourcing partner supports sourcing across multiple Asian markets (not just one country), helping businesses align suppliers and locations to an overall sourcing strategy as needs change.
Choice depends on product type, capability, lead times, quality expectations, supplier capacity, and risk profile. Many businesses compare options across countries to build a stronger overall sourcing strategy.
Full visibility reduces surprises by keeping product specs, timelines, quality checkpoints, and production progress clear—so buyers can make decisions before shipment. Removing risk and cost with quality and compaince checking at factory
Common stages include raw material checks, in-line inspections during production, final inspection before shipment, and loading inspection to confirm goods match what’s being shipped.
ET2C states it provides quotations from at least three suppliers so clients can compare options and choose the best fit.
FOB (Free On Board) means the supplier delivers goods to the port and loads them for export; responsibility typically transfers once the goods are on board the vessel.
It’s assessing requirements: supplier expectations, product needs, and what support is required. This enables a clear critical path and smoother execution.
A critical path is the step-by-step plan and timeline from requirement definition through sampling, approvals, production, inspection, and shipment.
Multiple quotes help compare pricing, capacity, lead times, and quality confidence—so the decision is based on best overall fit, not just the lowest price.
PP (pre-production) sample sign-off is approval of a final sample before bulk production. It reduces risk by confirming specifications and expectations before large quantities are made.
ET2C has teams on the ground in China, Vietnam, Turkey and India, while also looking for opportunities in other Asian markets to align with a client’s overall sourcing strategy.
