Included in Essential and Managed
AI Sourcing Planner for your niche
Describe your niche and target market. Get a 90-day sourcing plan with supplier regions, certifications, MOQ guidance, and a prioritised action list.
Describe your niche and target market. Get a 90-day sourcing plan with supplier regions, certifications, MOQ guidance, and a prioritised action list.
The AI Sourcing Planner is included in both Essential and Managed. Your current workspace (Free) does not include paid client tools.
See plansTakes ~15 seconds. Included in Essential and Managed. AI output should be verified before use.
Want this turned into a human-reviewed, evidence-scored supplier shortlist?
See paid plansApproaching suppliers without a defined specification is how importers end up comparing quotations that are not comparable. A plan fixes the variables first so that price differences mean something.
Manufacturing clusters by region, and the right cluster gives you a deeper supplier pool, better component supply and shorter lead times than a factory working outside its natural base.
Knowing the applicable EU regime before you request quotations tells you which suppliers are genuinely eligible, and stops you negotiating with factories that were never going to qualify.
Minimum order quantities are driven by tooling, material batching and how standard your specification is. Understanding the driver tells you whether a quoted MOQ is negotiable or fixed.
Sampling, tooling, production, testing and shipping each take time, and Chinese New Year removes weeks of capacity every year. Plans built forwards from today tend to discover this too late.
Yes. The planner is included with every paid SinoSource plan. The duty risk assistant, the supplier vetting checklist and the cost scenario builder are all free and need no account.
More specific gives more useful output. "Kitchenware" produces general guidance, while "stainless steel insulated drinkware" produces regions, certifications and MOQ expectations that apply to the product you are actually buying.
No. It sets out the sourcing picture for a category: regions, certification requirements, MOQ guidance and timing. Named, evidence-scored supplier shortlists are part of the SinoSource decision report.
Work backwards from the date you need stock available and add contingency for sampling rounds and factory shutdowns. For a new product with tooling, several months is normal rather than cautious.