Cura Resource Group
Our sourcing services cover the whole chain, from finding a supplier to shipping the finished product to your customer. Finding a factory is the easy part. Most sourcing goes wrong later: a sample does not match the order, a shipment fails inspection, or goods sit stuck between a supplier abroad and a warehouse at home.
We find and vet suppliers, negotiate and check the goods at the factory. Then we bring them through customs, store them and ship them from our own US warehouses.
Think of us as a sourcing agent and sourcing company with our own US warehouses. With Cura Resource Group, the team that buys your products is the same team that receives and ships them.
We work through five stages, and you can hand us one of them or all five.
Our product sourcing starts with factories and suppliers that can meet your specification, volume and price. That includes custom sourcing for products made to your own design. Before you commit, we check them out, including an audit of the factory itself.
We get samples made and sent to you before any production order. You approve the product in your hands, not from a photo.
We request quotes, compare them and negotiate price, payment terms and lead times. Once you agree, we place the purchase orders and track each one to delivery.
Quality sourcing means we inspect the goods at the factory before they ship. A problem found there costs a rework. The same problem found in a US warehouse costs a return trip across an ocean.
Our sourcing support continues after the order. Late, short or damaged deliveries happen. We chase them, record them and use that record when it is time to reorder or switch suppliers.
Your goods travel from the supplier to our warehouse with us, including the customs entry. Our customs compliance services handle the classification, value and duty. If you have no US company to act as the importer, our importer of record service covers that too.
Once the goods arrive, they go into storage at one of our three warehouses and ship out to your customers or stores. Our warehousing services and ecommerce fulfillment pages cover that side. One partner holds the whole trail from purchase order to delivered order.
We source from factories in lower-cost countries abroad and from suppliers here in the US. The right choice depends on your margin, your order size and how fast you need to restock.
Overseas factories usually win on unit price. US suppliers usually win on lead time and smaller minimum orders. We price both when it makes sense, so you can compare the landed cost rather than the factory price alone.
We also source supplies and equipment for contractors and government buyers, who need the right items delivered to a site on a schedule. Our government logistics services cover the delivery side of that work.
Sourcing finds and chooses the supplier. Procurement covers the buying that follows: purchase orders, delivery, invoices and payment. Sourcing ends once you pick a supplier, while procurement continues for as long as you buy. If you want procurement outsourcing as well, we place the purchase orders and manage the deliveries, so one team handles both.
We handle both. You can start with sourcing for one product and hand us the ongoing purchasing later. That ongoing buying is what most people mean by procurement outsourcing.
We run quotes, purchase orders and supplier records through AI source-to-pay procurement software.
A sourcing agent finds suppliers for your products, checks that they can deliver, negotiates price and terms and follows the order through production. We do all of that, then bring the goods into our own warehouses and ship them to your customers.
Yes. We order from the supplier, bring the goods through customs and store them in our warehouses, ready to ship.
Yes. We check the goods at the factory before they ship, so you catch defects while the supplier can still fix them.
Yes. We source from factories abroad, including in lower-cost countries, as well as from US suppliers. We compare the landed cost of each option for you.
We quote once we know what you need to buy, how much and how often. A one-off supplier search costs far less than ongoing purchasing for a full product range.
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