Your team sources from Alibaba RFQs and spreadsheets. Nobody has walked a real factory floor in Dongguan. Nobody can tell a legitimate CM from a showroom. Nobody knows what quoting at 10,000-unit volume actually sounds like in person.
One wrong sourcing decision costs more than this entire trip — and you won’t know you made it until the container arrives.
This is 8 days to send one person and get back a node in the supply chain — someone who can challenge quotes, spot theatre, and save you real money.
What your delegate walks away with
- A priced bill of materials — 15 real line items from Huaqiangbei stalls they haggled at themselves
- A sourcing and negotiation playbook — what quoting feels like face-to-face at volume
- Trade finance and structure contacts — HK lawyer, financier, people who sat across the table
- A post-trip brief template the delegate fills with what they learned
- The ability to say: “I’ve been on that floor. I’ve eaten with those workers. I know the owner on WeChat. Here’s how we cut COGS.”
What the week looks like
- Sourcing sprint — real line items, real stalls, real prices. A bill of materials built on the ground
- Live factory floor — injection molding, assembly lines, quality inspection. A production run happening while you stand next to it
- The owner at dinner — not a sales rep. The person who decides. Having a real conversation about defect rates, lead times, and where corners get cut
- Logistics and speed — port systems, the “one-hour supply circle,” how a PO at 9am becomes delivery at 3pm
- Hong Kong structure — trade finance, legal architecture, ChAFTA provisions. The bridge layer
A consulting firm sells you a PowerPoint and a database scraped from Alibaba. This puts your person on the floor in Dongguan — live production, real negotiation, the owner next to them.
Who runs it
A bilingual lead guide runs the week. Steven — 26 years owning factories in China, 70,000m² facility, 600 employees — appears at the high-signal moments. When he makes a call to a factory owner, it’s not a cold introduction.
The fee is small next to
One bad production run. One overpriced quote from a factory nobody visited. The cost of being the company that guesses while your competitors walk the floor.
Pricing
| Early Bird | Standard |
|---|---|
| $13,888 | $18,888 |