Choose Chinese supplier:
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when price is crucial, and ...
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when delivery time is long. An acrylic parts delivery from China usually take months to arrive. Expect a minimum of 3 months.
Many stores have dateline for ordering Christmas exhibitions produced in China in mid-March.
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when the design is determined and tested. It is laborious to end up with an useless part, if it takes half a years to have a new one produced.
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Choose local supplier:
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for development /
prototypes / 0-batches. Unless you have an very good working relationship with a Chinese partner or your own employee in
China, it is risky not to do that at home.
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for secure delivery. The customer has the opportunity to be present when the production
starts and can catch any errors early. Should something go wrong anyway, the short
delivery time usually prevent a major disaster.
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if communication is a priority. Mentality is very different in China. If combined with language problems,
changes to the constrction and claims can be a pain. Moreover, in China you are often only one
of many. Willingness to tackle a "difficult" customer is not always that great.
This sort of things is somewhat easier with a local supplier.
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a short delivery time. Depending on the complexity of the acrylic part and batch size the delivery time for local supplier is a few days to 3 weeks. Delivery of materials and subcontractors may of course change this.
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