by Insight Team | Jun 5, 2020 | Sourcing
Do you have a new product design that you want to manufacture and get onto store shelves ASAP? It is important to be realistic about timelines. At Insight, we do a lot of sourcing in Asia and sometimes would-be importers will come to us with a design and expect that...
by Insight Team | May 28, 2020 | Sourcing
If you’ve been going through the process of searching for new suppliers, you may have noticed at some point that not all of the companies you find online are factories. While browsing the Alibaba platform, for example, you may eventually find that there are also a lot...
by Insight Team | May 21, 2020 | Sourcing, Supply Chain Management
An abandoned warehouse located in Loveland, Colorado. (Photo: Tara Evans) “This pandemic has underscored the vital importance of reshoring our supply chains and bringing them back into the United States, where they belong, where they should have never left.” –...
by Insight Team | May 14, 2020 | Lab Testing, Regulatory Compliance
No one wants to import a product into the US and then find out that it has been deemed unsafe by the authorities—or worse—has actually injured someone. Imagine that you purchase an order of adult sweatshirts from a manufacturer in Cambodia and have them shipped to...
by Insight Team | May 7, 2020 | Quality Control
The United States has been social distancing for weeks and much of the economy has been shut down, but now things are slowly starting to open up again. At the beginning of May, about half of the states have partially reopened and are allowing certain businesses like...
