Due to the ever-growing demand in manufacturing from Asia, TCO Sourcing wanted to expand its scope to offer individual services in quality control inspections, as well as freight forwarding.
In order to deliver these services, The China Office is pleased to announce its partnership with EC4U, a leading sourcing, quality control, and logistics company. This permits us to offer more services and through the acquisition, we have obtained a broader presence in China and across Asia.
The China Office acquires Guided Imports
The China Office is pleased to announce its acquisition of Guided Imports, a leading sourcing, quality control, and logistics company.
About TCO Sourcing
TCO Sourcing is the trusted sourcing, quality control and logistics department of European wholesalers in Asia. The TCO team manages the entire sourcing process from requests for proposal to production, and from quality control to final delivery.
By merging Asian staff with European management, we provide the best of both worlds: fairly priced products with European standards. We assure reliability and quality by making sure our clients get what they want, when they want it, and by adopting Corporate Social Responsibility as one of our core values. As a result, we are able to mitigate the risks our clients face when producing in China. TCO is fully automated, which facilitates the entire sourcing process. This means we can ensure services of higher quality, pay more attention to detail, and have a clearer overview or every order. It also allows us to improve communication with both our clients and our suppliers.
Our Solutions
Quality Control
Quality and Safety are core values for the TCO team. We regularly visit the factories in which we produce and constantly communicate with our suppliers to ensure the highest possible standards for a competitive price.
Logistics
TCO offers a customised, consistent and reliable on-time delivery of products to our customers’ doorstep.
The trusted sourcing, quality control and logistics department of European promotional gift companies in Asia.
Sourcing
TCO manages its clients’ entire sourcing process and mitigates the risks they face when producing in Asia.
CSR
Corporate social responsibility is a state of mind. TCO is aware that more and more of our customers want goods that are produced without asking too much of man nor planet.
Sourcing
TCO manages its clients’ entire sourcing process and mitigates the risks they face when producing in China. By combining Belgian management with an Asian team, TCO ensures both quality and competitive pricing.
As TCO’s headquarters are situated in Asia, close contact with suppliers is maintained at all times. This alleviates the communication, quality and delivery problems many companies face when they decide to source in Asia independently and from a distance. TCO’s professional and reliable team acts as an insurance policy, as it makes certain that problems are swiftly dealt with adequately and that communication remains clear at all times.
Logistics
TCO offers:
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A customised range of branded promotional items in an online catalogue following the latest trends.
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Access to a large network of quality suppliers to provide our clients with quality products at competitive prices
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A consistent and reliable service, keeping our clients up to date at every stage of the production and delivery process
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Constant communication with suppliers to make sure production runs as smoothly as possible and to avoid problems along the way. This permits us to take fast action and bring innovative solutions
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A reliable, on-time delivery of products to our customers’ doorstep. We can ship these products DDP or
All of these services make certain our customers no longer have to worry about on-time delivery and that they receive products that match all of their requirements.
Product Quality & Safety
Our quality control procedures take place during the production process and before shipment both by our qualified Quality Assurance and Control professionals and by reliable audit companies. This permits us to quickly fix issues that might arise at any of the production stages and therefore minimize costs for our clients.
On top of a comprehensive and thorough database, our team is specialized in safety issues and makes sure suppliers, production and shipping are all in accordance with the many regulations and European legal standards that exist for each specific product.
By providing these services, all of our clients gain great comfort and win both time and money.
Corporate Social Responasbility
Corporate social responsibility is a state of mind. TCO is aware that more and more of our customers want goods that are produced without asking too much of man nor planet.
Corporate Social Responsibility is a priority at TCO. We meet the requirments of the EPPA code of conduct (based on the UN code), the core values of sustainable business, and use this to guide us in our relationship with our suppliers and clients.
As our office is on the ground in Asia, it is in direct contact with our suppliers, guaranteeing the required standards at all times and ensuring better working and environmental conditions at our chosen production facilities. We monitor all of our suppliers’ CSR certificates in our database and therefore know if there are still outstanding Corrective Action Plans (CAP) to be taken, and if new certificates need to be made.
By using the services we provide, our clients therefore gain trust, comfort, guidance and reliability.
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