by Insight Team | Jun 25, 2020 | Sourcing
If you’re getting started as an eCommerce seller and looking for manufacturers, you may have come across the term MOQ and been confused by it. What is MOQ? MOQ stands for “Minimum Order Quantity” and it’s the minimum number of pieces of a product that a supplier will...
by Insight Team | Jun 18, 2020 | Sourcing
Image Source: Collision Conf As an importer, you may rely on trade shows and trade fairs to help you identify new product sources, keep up with industry trends, network with peers, or inspire fresh new ideas. If so, the global pandemic has probably hurt your ability...
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.” –...
