The obligations that move to you
Specification interpretation, drawing approval, production monitoring, inspection, packing standards, documentation and shipping all become the buyer's responsibility the moment a factory is contracted directly.
- Resolving specification ambiguity
- Approving shop drawings
- Monitoring production progress
- Inspecting before shipment
- Preparing export documentation
- Managing freight and clearance
Recourse when something is wrong
Enforcing a defect claim across a border, in another legal system, against a factory holding your deposit is slow and often uneconomic. Most buyers who have tried it once change approach.
Category risk multiplies
One factory is manageable. Six factories with different readiness dates, packing standards and documentation quality is a full time coordination role that most project teams do not have spare.
If you buy direct anyway
Insist on a signed control sample, a written inspection plan, staged payments tied to production milestones and pre-shipment inspection by someone independent of the factory.