Textiles Strategic Sourcing

Strategic Sourcing and cost reduction services for Textile and Textile Component spend

Our Textiles Strategic Sourcing experts can help you navigate the challenges of language barriers, complex product specifications, and quality considerations so you can partner with the right-fit textile supplier for your product needs. 

Companies in a variety of industries rely on their Procurement and Strategic Sourcing teams to locate highly-specialized textiles and apparel manufacturers. Textile sourcing presents more than it’s share of headaches when it comes to navigating the supply base, negotiating with vendors, optimizing shipping routes, managing inventory levels, and assessing product quality. An ineffective textile strategic sourcing approach can leave organizations facing a number of issues including:

• False capacity commitments
• Late or misplaced shipments
• Quality and service issues
• Stalled  production
• Lack of collaboration and flexibility in supplier relationships
• Lack of effective testing facilities
• Lack of delivery tracking

Even a minor oversight in textile strategic sourcing can be costly. Inefficient volume commitments or subpar product quality can mean long-term consequences for your entire organization. Procurement teams often make matters worse by assessing textile suppliers and their offerings based on price alone. Source One’s strategic sourcing specialists understand the complexities of textile sourcing and work to simplify the process for our clients. With decades of experience and market insights, our textile sourcing team is well-equipped to effectively assess textiles, textile components, and their suppliers to achieve optimal quality and pricing results.

With experience sourcing a variety of textiles and textile components, including specialty and apparel fabric, synthetic and natural knits, and more, our textile sourcing experts understand the complex specifications that differentiate one textile product from another. Our detailed textile strategic sourcing process ensures you receive top quality material and service from apparel manufacturers, including:

• We’ll leverage our years of Procurement best practices and textile market intelligence to assess the supply base.
• We’ll develop highly-customized RFP documents to serve your unique textile needs.
• We’ll organize Quality Assurance and testing to ensure textile and textile components meet you organization’s standards.
• We’ll scorecard textile suppliers to determine the best fit for your organization.
• We’ll negotiate with textile vendors to guarantee win-win contracts.
• We’ll optimize shipping and logistics agreements to create an effective, efficient textile supply chain.
• We’ll perform consistent audits of your textile supply chain to ensure continued compliance and efficiency.
• We’ll assist your Procurement team in managing relationships with textile suppliers.

Source One’s textile sourcing experts can do much more than help your team avoid critical errors, but also apply customized textile sourcing best practices to your overall textile product and supplier needs. Our direct materials category expertise, market intelligence,  tools, and technology will empower you to build optimal systems for sourcing textiles and textile components. Together, we’ll help you select a strategic textile supplier who can deliver a quality product, as well as exceptional service.

Contact the Textile Procurement Team at Source One