However, within the Wal-Mart system, there are several special partners
Intertek
This company is a China branch of ITS Company of the United States, mainly engaged in consumer goods inspection business. There are a large number of Wal-Mart brands, such as Huiyi Mingting, in the Wal-Mart supermarket. The products of these brands are all processed and produced by domestic processing enterprises entrusted by Wal-Mart's own brand department.
China Wal-Mart will inspect these goods 2-4 times a year. The inspection method is that the quality supervision department of Wal-Mart informs Tianxiang Company that Tianxiang Company will go to any store of Wal-Mart to purchase the designated goods for inspection according to the relevant national standards, and at the same time, it will inform the supplier to pay the inspection fee and the purchase fee (it should be noted that the inspection work will be carried out regardless of whether the supplier pays the fee in time, but if the supplier does not pay, Tianxiang Company will ask Wal-Mart to pay, and Wal-Mart will pay from the supplier after paying. After the test is completed, Tianxiang Company will notify the quality supervision department of Wal-Mart and the supplier of the test results in duplicate. In this process, there is absolutely no possibility for the supplier to modify the test results by public relations.
The inspection fee of Tianxiang Company is not very high, but slightly higher than the price of domestic general quality inspection institutions.
Haig Logistics
Haig Logistics Company is a logistics enterprise in Shenzhen, which is engaged in the return business instead of Wal-Mart and the distribution business of Tianjin and Jiaxing DC. Haige Logistics charges are very expensive, especially the return charges are extremely expensive, but the distribution charges of Tianjin and Jiaxing DC are paid by Wal-Mart.
A sign manufacturing company
This company is an American trademark manufacturing company. Theoretically, all the trademarks of Wal-Mart brand goods must be manufactured by this company. However, due to the high price and poor service level of this company, most suppliers manufacture their first trademarks in this company, and others find someone to do them themselves.
As for how to become a supplier of Wal-Mart in China, this issue is relatively complicated.
Wal-Mart's procurement system is divided into central procurement system and regional procurement system. Most of the goods with no shelf life or long shelf life are purchased by the whole country, that is, at Wal-Mart headquarters.
However, it is difficult to enter the central procurement system of Wal-Mart, because Wal-Mart's China headquarters has thousands of suppliers who have cooperated with Wal-Mart for many years. Unless the products of new suppliers have special advantages, most buyers are reluctant to cooperate with new suppliers easily-the price advantage within 1% is not a special advantage.
the regional procurement system is relatively easy to enter.
Finally, we must be careful when cooperating with Wal-Mart (we must be careful when cooperating with any supermarket in China). The suggested way is to find a salesman of an existing supplier, try to reach an agreement with him, and hire him as a part-time salesman of your company, so that your company will not pay tuition fees in the first year.
At the p>27 Wal-Mart Supplier Conference, a company in Fujian won the Best Creative Supplier Award of that year. When the young boss came to the stage to receive the award, he said a big truth: We cooperated with Wal-Mart, which suffered a huge loss in the first year and a small loss in the second year. It seems that we can make a little money this year. .