Three years in manufacturing quality in Guangdong, plus a new plant in Thailand. Incoming inspection, batch release, supplier audits, customer inspections. I know which questions factories answer honestly, which ones they deflect, and which ones they hope you never ask.
I used to be the person who rejected the batch. When a supplier shipped something out of spec, I was the one who stopped it — and when I was wrong, I was the one who had to justify it.
For three years I sat on the other side. I was the person a buyer's audit team flew 8,000 km to question. I handed over the records, walked them through the line, and answered for whatever the documents showed.
That is the useful part. I did not learn how factories behave from a sourcing course. I learned it standing on a production floor while someone from overseas read our records and asked why the test report did not name the material we were quoting.
What I sell now is that same reading — done before you pay, for you instead of against you.
I have supported six customer factory inspections from the factory side, and I have run on-site quality audits at four core suppliers. I have not previously sold this as an independent service to overseas buyers.
I would rather write that sentence than have you discover it later. What you are buying is three years of factory-side quality work, applied to your order — not a sourcing agency with a client list I do not have.
Background
Not a résumé. Three years on the factory side of Chinese manufacturing — inside a listed plastics group (SZSE: 000973), a food manufacturer, and a new plant built from zero in Thailand. Enough for you to check that the three years are real.
What I can do — I wrote the shop-floor documentation myself: 47 SOPs and 152 record forms, in Chinese, English and Thai.
What that means for you — I know what a real factory’s records look like when they are live, and what they look like when they were written the week before you arrived. When a supplier sends you a batch record, I can tell you which one you are holding.
What I can do — took a new plant through ISO 9001, ISO 13485 and FDA product certification on the first attempt, plus local food-and-drug and customs review. Four ISO systems, GRS and Bluesign elsewhere.
What that means for you — a valid certificate for the wrong process is still the wrong certificate. I know which documents a factory can legitimately claim for which operation, and which ones are being passed around between suppliers.
What I can do — ran operation and performance qualification, trained 132 people across QA and production, and lifted first-pass yield from 94.56% to 98.23%.
What that means for you — I have seen, in detail, every way a production run drifts away from the sample that was approved. And I can tell you where to tie your balance payment, so the last check happens before the last payment.
What I can do — ran on-site quality audits at four core suppliers, and handled six customer factory inspections from the factory side at a 100% pass rate. Closed 37 special audit findings at 100%, and tracked 384 in-process findings to a 95.3% closure rate using 8D and CAPA.
What that means for you — I have stood on both sides of the table. I know what a factory prepares the week before a buyer arrives, and what it hopes you will not look at. And when a supplier says they “fixed it”, I know the difference between a corrective action and a sentence in an email.
Food Quality and Safety, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering. Every figure above comes from my own work record — there are no client names here because I have no overseas clients to name, and I am not going to invent one.
Positioning
Most sourcing agents give you a list of links. The list is not the hard part. The hard part is whether the company behind the link is the factory, whether the certificates cover what they claim, whether the material in the test report is the material in your quotation, and what your order documents have to say so nothing is left to argue about.
Those are the questions I used to be on the receiving end of.
Test me
Send me one company name. I will tell you what I can see from here, free — then you can decide whether the paid part is worth it.