Conducting business halfway around the world can be difficult and challenging in many aspects! Some of the challenges to conducting a successful business relationship include:
•  The risk of entering a new region where you have no experience and a physical presence
•  Cultural and language barriers,
•  Lack of market knowledge,
•  No local contacts with governmental and business authorities,
•  Absence of on-site personnel,
•  Difficulty in understanding government policies and laws, taxes, customs and regulatory issues.

Many companies may think that going direct to overseas manufacturer would result in a lower price than working with Discover Global. However, many companies that do not fully understand overseas markets fail in pursuing their strategy. They spend a considerable amount of time, money and energy traveling back and forth overseas and find themselves still lacking a strategy months or years later without positive results.

Discover Global offers customers with many benefits such as:

Continuous Cost Improvement Program

We know the importance of continuing to save money each year so we have developed a productivity engineering program that focuses on taking cost out of your products by improving the design and manufacturing environment. We have created a formal process to solicit ideas internally and externally to continue to take cost out of your products.  Our vendors are challenged each year to generate innovative ways to help keep you competitive in the marketplace.

Experience and Physical Presence

Our specialized staff has over 30 years of experience in offshore sourcing and successfully running manufacturing companies abroad.  We have experience with international new product development (NPD) and sourcing, on-site personnel, understanding of the local culture / language and knowledge of local government (laws, taxes, customs and regulatory issues).

Product Development

We manage prototypes, tooling, production, packaging, performance testing, first article approvals (FAs) and production approvals (PAs).

Vendor Management

Discover Global manages all the negotiations, non-disclosure, tooling and manufacturing agreements, vendor performance, factory audits, overseas inspections and continuous improvement programs with the vendors.

Contract Management

We manage purchase orders, monitor deliveries, documentation, letters of credit and wire transfers for our clients.

Logistics

Discover Global is responsible for tracking foreign inland freight, less than container consolidations, monitoring ocean / air freight shipments and domestic transportation to any location of your choice.

Importer of Record

We work with the US government to ensure customs compliance, customs clearance, duties, import / export regulations are being followed.

Quality Control

Our vendor base adheres to international recognized ISO 9000 or QS 9000 quality systems. Our team of engineers inspects our products independently from our vendor’s quality system and audits factories on a regular basis.

Engineering Capabilities

Our engineering staff creates drawings, offers manufacturing suggestions and helps clients design products.

U-Link Global

U-Link Global is a web-based interface which allows us to work around the clock on your projects and streamline communications between our engineering staff, clients and vendors.  We know the importance of speed to market and the benefits of capturing cost savings quickly.  Each customer and vendor has their own secure project folders on the web to allow for easy access anywhere in the world.