Origin coverage that matches the platform.
China, Vietnam, India, Bangladesh, Türkiye, Hong Kong — and we treat each origin as different, because trade defence, preferential access and compliance overlay diverge sharply between them.
Stage 02 · Source it
OrcaTrade Sourcing.
Asia procurement, end-to-end.
Six Asia origins, eight commodity categories. Supplier briefs that ask the right questions, factory-risk feeds that surface what the brochure hides, and the rebranded sample-quote workflow we use internally.
Six origins · eight commodity classes · €50k–€500k order range
§ IWhat it does
Sourcing is the moment trust is built or burned. The platform makes the brief sharper, the screening tighter, and the supplier conversation faster.
Eight commodity briefs, codified.
Apparel, cosmetics, electronics, footwear, furniture, homeware, machinery, toys. Each carries its own non-negotiables — REACH SVHC, CPNP for cosmetics, RoHS/WEEE for chapter 85 — and the brief makes them explicit.
Sanctions screening, baked in.
Every supplier and beneficial owner screened against OFAC SDN, UK OFSI, the UN Security Council and the EU consolidated lists. Safe-by-design: "no match" never means "clear".
Quote Studio for the team.
Internal team tool that rebrands supplier PDFs onto OrcaTrade letterhead, folding margin silently. The supplier currency is preserved; the margin is enforced at the line level.
§ IIThe workflow
A simple six-step flow from first conversation to deposit-ready supplier.
- § I
Brief shaped against the lane.
Origin, commodity, target spec, target cost. The brief carries the regulatory overlay so the supplier sees the compliance constraints from day one.
- § II
Shortlist of supplier candidates.
From the network and from cold outreach. Screened against sanctions and against factory-risk signals before they make the shortlist.
- § III
Quote rebranded onto our letterhead.
Supplier currency preserved. Margin folded silently into the per-line rate. You see the OrcaTrade quote; the supplier never sees the markup.
- § IV
Sample-to-bulk approval in writing.
Tolerances agreed, in writing, before the deposit. The platform tracks the deviation between sample and bulk through to receipt.
- § V
Pre-shipment inspection.
Third-party where the lane warrants it. Findings recorded against the supplier file so the next order benefits from the history.
- § VI
Hand-off to logistics and customs.
The plan composed in Search hands the cleared brief to Logistics. The lane is priced end-to-end before the booking goes out.
Ready when you are
Source like the people who’ve imported.
The platform is built by founders who have walked the factory floor in Shanghai and the customs window in Gdańsk. The brief is what we wish we had.