Unlike the automobile industry or the household appliance industry, our business is close to our customers, and it may be possible to match the component that customers are looking for with our suppliers in China. However, the quantity of components that Cleanup desires to purchase is limited, while we have to ask a big, almost impossible favor to meet the required price, quality and delivery date on such small lot orders— We have been repeating this process daily with our suppliers who have no capital ties with us, yet they always do their best to satisfy our difficult requests. Thus, we strongly recommend our customers to utilize our unique supplier factories to reduce costs.
Many components made of various materials such as resin, metal, woods, etc. and made in different manufacturing methods are even used in a built-in kitchen that looks like just a wooden box at a glance, or in a bathroom that we use in daily life without thinking.
Some Japanese companies have established their own or a joint contact point on procurement in China, thinking a local base is necessary to procure goods in China. However it involves enormous costs for renting office space and managing accounting slips etc., even without doing any serious business activities. Furthermore, if there are not enough suitable human resources available, they have no choice but to leave all the procurement responsibility to local staff, resulting in some peculiar problems in the end.
Our aims are: Firstly, by introducing our customers to our suppliers, we would like to return thanks to those Chinese manufactures who have supported us even though we have imposed many difficult requirements for quantity, quality, price and delivery date on them. Secondly, for a more egocentric reason, if our suppliers can be happy and appreciative of our efforts to make connections between our customers and them, we expect it may facilitate favorable price negotiations of components for ourselves.
When we receive requests from customers, we will forward the manufacturer’s quotation based on your drawings and requirements on your behalf. If you are interested, we can further discuss each case, such as arranging samples or local factory tours. As we have mentioned earlier, we will not impose exorbitant fees, like general trading companies do. We will do our best to respond to our customers with reasonableness and transparency to everyone’s satisfaction.