Factory Tours That Deliver Verified, High-Performing Suppliers
The Three Pillars of a Successful Factory Tour
Most factory tours fail because brands walk in blind—meeting trading companies, relying on staged presentations, or comparing suppliers without real data. Kanary fixes this. Our team pre-vets every factory, guides you on-site using a proprietary assessment framework, and delivers a post-visit analysis that tells you exactly which supplier is the best strategic fit for scaling your brand.
Supplier Vetting & Itinerary Strategy
We verify business licenses, analyze production capabilities, confirm ownership structures, and ensure you’re meeting true manufacturers—not middlemen. Your itinerary is engineered around your goals, with vetted suppliers matched to your volume, category, compliance, and margin targets.
On-Site Evaluation Framework
Our China-based team leads you through a structured assessment of capacity, quality systems, certifications, and scalability. We document everything—photos, videos, equipment checks, QC processes—using our proprietary Factory Assessment Framework so you get an objective evaluation, not a polished tour.
Supplier Comparison & Deal Optimization
You receive a detailed Supplier Comparison Report with actionable recommendations, clear red flags, and best-fit options. We support contract negotiations, payment terms, sample orders, and production setup—ensuring you move from visit to manufacturing with confidence.
Our End-to-End China Factory Visit Process
We start by understanding your sourcing objectives—whether you're diversifying supply chains, improving margins, scaling production, or launching new SKUs. Our team conducts pre-visit supplier vetting to identify factories that match your volume requirements, quality standards, and compliance needs. We verify business licenses, production capabilities, and ownership structures to ensure you're meeting with legitimate manufacturers, not trading companies. Your itinerary is built around your priorities—cost optimization, capacity expansion, or risk mitigation—so every meeting drives measurable business outcomes.
End-to-End Visit Coordination
Our China-based team handles all logistics so you can focus on evaluating suppliers. We coordinate flights, hotels, local transportation, and factory schedules to maximize your time on the ground. Before each visit, you'll receive supplier briefing packets with factory backgrounds, production data, audit history, and key questions to ask. We ensure the right stakeholders—production managers, quality engineers, and decision-makers—are present during your visit, not just sales reps giving facility tours.
On-Site Factory Assessment
We guide you through a structured evaluation using our proprietary Factory Assessment Framework. Our team examines:
- Production capacity and scalability – equipment condition, throughput rates, and ability to handle your order volumes.
- Quality control systems – testing protocols, defect tracking, and inspection processes.
- Compliance and certifications – ISO, GMP, FDA, or category-specific standards relevant to your products
Everything is documented with photos, videos, and detailed notes, giving you an objective record to compare suppliers and share with your team back home.
Post-Visit Supplier Comparison & Recommendations
After your trip, we deliver a comprehensive Supplier Comparison Report analyzing each factory across cost, quality, capacity, compliance, and risk. You'll see clear breakdowns of:
- Lead times, MOQs, and pricing structures
- Strengths, weaknesses, and red flags
- Communication quality and responsiveness
We provide actionable recommendations on which suppliers are best suited for long-term partnerships, pilot runs, or scaling production—so you can make confident sourcing decisions backed by verified data.
Negotiation Support & Production Setup
Once you've selected your suppliers, our sourcing specialists support you through contract negotiations, payment terms, and sample order placement. We help draft manufacturing agreements, coordinate quality control checklists, and set up sample shipments for lab testing. When you're ready to scale, we assist with production ramp-up to ensure a smooth transition from samples to full production runs.
This end-to-end process turns your China factory visit into a strategic advantage—giving you vetted suppliers, stronger negotiating leverage, and a clear path to optimized margins and scalable production.
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As a loose guide, the typical “sweet spot” Kanary client who will benefit the most from our process and scaleable expertise will have annual gross revenue starting at approximately 5 million USD. If your business meets—or is approaching—this threshold, we can help you!