Requirement and volume brief
Specification, target quantity, destination and delivery window — plus any certification, labelling or packaging obligation.
Wholesale
Wholesale procurement from U.S. marketplaces to your business.
Bulk sourcing, supplier qualification and quality assurance for distributors, retail chains and manufacturers, structured so scale improves your cost without costing you control.
- Volume-tiered
- Pricing structure
- Multi-supplier
- Order consolidation
- Pre-dispatch
- Quality verification
- Scheduled
- Replenishment programmes
Wholesale capability
Four things a wholesale partner has to get right.
Get one wrong and the volume discount disappears into demurrage, rework or a stock-out.
Bulk order management
Volume consolidated into efficient shipping units, with order splitting, staged releases and scheduled replenishment to suit your cash cycle.
Qualified supplier network
A working base of assessed manufacturers and wholesalers, extended market by market as buyer requirements demand.
Quality assurance
Specification agreed in writing, samples where the category warrants them, and pre-dispatch verification of quantity, labelling and packing at origin.
Reliable fulfilment
Committed lead times, milestone reporting and a named contact who answers when a shipment gets difficult.
Wholesale procurement
Buying at volume should reduce your cost, not your control.
The usual trade-off in bulk buying is that price improves while visibility collapses. You commit to a container, then spend eight weeks unable to answer basic questions about what is in it and when it will arrive.
We run wholesale procurement as a managed process rather than a single transaction: written specification, a shortlisted and qualified supplier, agreed commercial terms, verified pre-dispatch, and reported at each milestone. The volume discount stays. The blind spot does not.
What this includes
- Requirement definition and written specification
- Volume-tiered commercial negotiation
- Purchase order management and confirmation
- Milestone reporting through to delivery
Bulk orders
Order structure is where landed cost is actually won.
Two buyers can pay the same unit price and land goods at materially different costs. The difference is almost never negotiation — it is how the order was structured: consolidation, container utilisation, release scheduling and the working-capital cost of holding it all at once.
We structure orders around the economics of the whole movement: consolidating suppliers into shared shipments, sizing to container capacity rather than to a round number, and staging releases where that suits your cash cycle better than a single delivery.
What this includes
- Multi-supplier consolidation into single shipments
- Container utilisation and volume optimisation
- Staged and scheduled release against a calendar
- Repeat-order and replenishment programmes
Supplier network
A qualified supplier base, extended deliberately.
Sourcing directories will return a hundred candidates in a minute. What they cannot tell you is which of them has the capacity for your volume, a compliance record that survives inspection, and a documentation habit that will not hold your container at the border.
Our working network is built market by market, and each addition clears a written qualification framework before we will put a client requirement in front of them. We would rather present three suppliers we can stand behind than thirty we cannot.
What this includes
- Production and supply capacity assessment
- Compliance and certification history review
- Documentation quality and past-delivery consistency
- Ongoing performance monitoring and re-qualification
Quality assurance
Catching a problem at the factory costs a fraction of catching it at the port.
Every quality dispute we have seen traces back to the same root cause: a specification that was discussed but never written down, so both parties were confident and neither was wrong.
We agree the specification in writing before a purchase order is raised, arrange samples where the category or destination market warrants them, and verify quantity, labelling and packing at origin ahead of dispatch. Discrepancies are reported to you before the goods move — including when that is unwelcome news.
What this includes
- Written specification agreed before order placement
- Sample approval where category or market requires it
- Pre-dispatch verification of quantity, labelling and packing
- Documented, evidenced discrepancy reporting
Reliable fulfilment
A wholesale programme is judged on the difficult shipment.
Anyone looks capable when the vessel sails on time. The test is what happens when a supplier slips or a port congests.
Committed lead times
Lead times are quoted after supplier confirmation, not before it — so the date you receive is one we have already validated at origin.
Proactive milestone reporting
You are told when the order is confirmed, verified, dispatched and cleared. You should never have to ask where your consignment is.
A named contact who answers
One person owns your programme. Escalation does not mean starting the explanation again with somebody new.
Continuity planning built in
Alternate suppliers are identified before they are needed, so a disruption at origin does not become a stock-out at your destination.
Competitive pricing
Competitive means comparable, not just low.
A price you cannot compare against your current landed cost tells you very little. Every quotation we issue is built to be compared.
Volume tiers, stated plainly
Price breaks are set out against quantity bands so you can see exactly what the next tier is worth before committing to it.
Quoted against an Incoterm
Every price names its Incoterm and what it includes, so you can compare it against your current landed cost rather than a unit price.
Committed-volume terms
For scheduled programmes we negotiate forward commitments with the supplier, which typically improves both pricing and lead-time priority.
On minimum order quantities: we do not set a company-wide minimum. Practical minimums are set by the supplier and the product category — many manufacturers price against a full container or a defined production run. We will tell you the realistic entry volume for your requirement early in the conversation, before either side invests time in it.
Procurement process
From brief to delivery in six defined stages.
01 02 Supplier shortlist
Candidates identified in the origin markets that fit your cost and quality targets, then qualified before shortlisting.
03 Quotation and samples
Volume-tiered pricing against a stated Incoterm, with samples arranged where the category or destination market requires them.
04 Order placement
Written specification and commercial terms confirmed, purchase order raised, production or allocation slot secured.
05 Verification and dispatch
Quantity, labelling and packing verified at origin; complete export documentation prepared and checked before the goods move.
06 Delivery and review
Freight coordinated to destination, then a post-delivery review to correct anything that should run differently next time.
Resources
Everything you need before placing your first order.
Access our procurement policies, wholesale onboarding, and sourcing request tools from one place.
Purchase Terms & Conditions
Review the commercial purchasing terms, supplier obligations, warranties, delivery standards and compliance requirements before placing an order.
Wholesale Account
Create a wholesale account, understand eligibility requirements, and prepare the business documents needed for approval.
Marketplace Bulk Order Request
Tell us what products you need from U.S. marketplaces and we'll prepare a sourcing proposal for your business.
Still have questions?
Our sourcing specialists can help you choose the right onboarding path for your business.
Wholesale FAQ
Wholesale questions, answered before you ask them.
Minimum volumes, consolidation, pricing structure, quality assurance and what happens when something is wrong.
Cannot find what you need?
Ask our trade team directlyWholesale enquiry
Send us your volume and specification. We will come back with a real number.
Tell us what you need, how much of it, and where it has to land. You will get volume-tiered pricing against a stated Incoterm — the kind you can put next to your current cost and actually compare.
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