1. Research and confirm your needs
Firstly, you need to research and confirm the style and function of gloves you need. If you have a designer, they can turn all your needs into drawings with specifications, that will be easier for you to purchase gloves or discuss details with your OEM factory or suppliers.
If it is hard for you to find designer or make drawings, a factory with design capability will be a good choice, a good designer with product development capability can change your ideas into finish products, whether you supply reference glove pictures, rough drawing with requirements or rough ideas, they will help you out and make your dream gloves come true
2. Find your factories
When you start to look for OEM suppliers, you may get recommendations from business contacts or cooperative partners, or get the information from trade association, some small business network may also work.
Trade fairs are a regular and important way to find and meet manufacturers of your aimed products, but after the outbreak of corona virus, it is hard for people to attend trade fairs, the online directories of overseas manufacturers becoming the major way, such as using Google to find company website or B2b platforms.
Nowadays, buyers are tired of low-quality products, especially for the motorcycle riders, or young skiing or snowboarding players, more people are seeking for personalized, multifunctional and professional products, even the price is higher than normal B2B platform products, they prefer different and functional products to regular low-cost gloves, so you need to choose factories which has products R&D capability.
3. Key factors of an OEM factory
a) Production capabilities
Production capability shows factory’s capacity of production, as well as the organization of their workflow. First of all, you should know the OEM factories’ basic conditions, such as worker numbers, equipment, OEM experience, production process etc.
b) Quality management
Nobody wants unstable quality suppliers, the quality management is a necessary process for perfect motorcycle gloves, the whole procedure should have a set of standards, and the inspection should be the last line of defense before delivery. Especially for heated gloves, whether it is for motorcycle or ski tour, the heated gloves’ waterproof ability, wire strength (some better gloves are using graphene heating materials), heating speed, battery volume etc. are all need to be tested.
On the other hand, a third-party inspection team would be double insurance. Find the factory who can supply above services, that will save so much of your energy or problems for future sales.
c) Design and R&D capability
The design and product R&D capability of a factory will show their comprehensive ability about your products or your ideas, or better product developer will give you advice to upgrade your products, this will also determine your products finish level and if the materials are suit for your needs.
d) An experienced team
The experience not only for OEM experience, but also for skilled export experience. You can find OEM experience by checking factories’ OEM products and what brand they served before, if the brand quality can meet your product requirements. The export experience will make the export process easy and save your time.
e) Communication
Actually, communication would be the most important thing for all business, skilled salesperson who speak good English from factory will make the whole purchasing easy and smooth.
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