Our procurement services help you streamline the entire product development cycle to help get your products to market. We offer a broad portfolio of services that help you obtain the information you require to make sound business decisions, optimize your supply chain, maintain end to end quality oversight and gain a competitive advantage.
No matter where in the world you operate, our team of experts will develop an evaluation program to meet your needs... see more
1. Sourcing
Review the inquiry package and to follow up with customers, make sure all details are clarified prior to proceeding. Details may include:
Product Specifications
Quality Standards and Requirements
Certification Compliance
Packaging Standards
Materials Usage and Availability, Materials Specifications
Target Cost, if available
Samples Availability
Conduct research with reference to particular industry standard, factory leadership, geographical nature, supplier distribution or pattern, market trend/movement, competitive positioning and others that related to the project.
Vendor Sourcing (web research, industrial seminar, trade magazine, trade show, referral, market research and others)
Sourcing for at least 5 potential vendors
Continue updating supplier information data sheet
Sampling – make samples in accordance with the requirements or to benchmark against customer's samples
Vendor Evaluation - focus on pricing, engineering, product quality, follow up service
Derive a complete Quality Plan and effectively implement it
Coordinate efforts and conduct in-coming, in-process & out-going quality management and inspection.
Set up and implement inspection system with effective inspection plan putting in place
Internationally recognized sampling inspection plan i.e.., MIL Std. 105D – AQL, PPM and others
Driving for continueous improvement in Quality Operating System (QOS) and Cost of Quality Systems (CQS)
Help investigate defect findings with vendor after inspection
Bring up strategic suggestions to drive continuous improvement on product quality, design upgrade and others
5. QA and Preshipment Inspection
NGL liaise with vendor to request for notification of our inspection in 10 days prior to delivery.
NGL’s inspector and QA team should be well familiar with product requirements before inspection. Need to clarify with customer pertaining to all requirements.
NGL issue Inspection Report in 48 hours after passing inspection.
When product rejection or product under pending stage happens, NGL needs to inform customer concerning cause, resolutions or to suggest for remedial or corrective action.
NGL to update vendor rating, scorecards with respect to pricing, on-time delivery, quality, service.
6. Booking of Shipment
NGL to book shipment from forwarder in 5 days prior to delivery.
NGL to cancel booking in any case when product cannot be delivered on time. It happens like delay delivery, rejection during inspection or others events that retain product from delivering.
Vendor to send cargo loading plan to NGL 3 days before delivery for NGL to submit to forwarder when cargos are delivered to container depot.
NGL obtain shipping order release from forwarder.
After vessel departure, forwarder submit 3/3 original Bill of Lading to NGL in 48 hours.
Request forwarder for weekly/bi-weekly/monthly shipment reports
7. Continuoued Project Management
Manage day-to-day operation for project planning, scheduling, engineering, order fulfillment, etc.
Work under continuous basis:
Vendor negotiation
Payment term
Improvement :
Product design , quality upgrade
Material substitution and upgrade
Product consolidation, logistics efficiency.
Keep appraised of :
current economics
business situation
material shortage and cost fluctuation,
Currency fluctuation
Country labor law update
Change of taxation system
Sourcing infrastructure, geographical benefit
Make recommendations to customer for improvement in product utility, cost, quality, delivery, etc.
Achieve on-time delivery within specified shipping window