The $500 Average Order Dilemma

Managing product safety and social compliance into large, long-lead-time projects is something that many suppliers and distributors who purchase factory direct have become fairly adept at doing. Most of these efforts have been driven by their end buyer customers' expectations as part of Fortune 1000's focus on protecting their brands. If there are both the time and a large enough order size, it is possible to schedule a third-party factory audit and have pre-production and perhaps even final production samples sent out for testing-and still hit the delivery dates.