A visit to the supplier puts the parts of an order that are hard to judge from a distance in front of someone who can look at them: the workshop, the process behind the product, the equipment it runs on, the checks the supplier keeps, the packing, and the people we deal with.
A visit is arranged where the order calls for one. What is examined, who attends and how far the check goes depend on the product, your market and the order, so no fixed scope is published on this page.
Seven areas, each with the point at which what we saw stops meaning anything more. The screening that comes before a visit sits on the supplier verification page, and the inspection of finished goods on the quality control page.
The workshop as it stands on the day, in the areas we are shown and ask to see.
The steps this product actually goes through, in the order it goes through them.
What is in front of us and running for this product, not a list taken from a catalogue.
Read only from what the supplier can show on site. No capacity figure is published, and none is promised.
The checks the supplier runs in its own workshop. Seeing them is not a certification of that system.
The packing as it is being done at the time of the visit.
Observed in the conversation and the follow-up, not scored against a published standard.
A visit is not applied to every supplier as a matter of course. Whether one is arranged, and what it is asked to look at, follows the case — and it is carried by the team that stays on the order.
Where the case calls for it, a factory audit report is issued on the Huntersourcing letterhead, alongside the inspection report of the goods themselves and the photographs and video taken on site.
The screening framework behind a supplier sits on the supplier verification page, and the inspection of goods on the quality control page. The end-to-end flow is on the process page.
A visit narrows what you have to take on trust. It is narrower than it sounds in a sales conversation, and the difference is worth stating plainly before an order starts.
Documents that come up during a visit, such as a business licence, ISO, environmental or SGS material, are recorded as the supplier provides them. No certificate is presented on this page as a Huntersourcing qualification, and the holder, validity and scope of any such document are not verified here.
A visit does not establish a company's legal standing or its financial position. Who signs, who is paid and who answers for what is settled on the order.
Whether a product may be sold in your market depends on that market's own rules. Compliance for the destination is confirmed on the order, not assumed from a supplier document.
Capacity indicators are noted only where they can be seen or evidenced. A visit describes what stood in front of us on the day; it does not promise output, delivery dates or product performance afterwards.
The note is the part of a visit that stays with you. The fragment below shows its shape — the lines that get filled in — rather than a finished document.
This fragment is shown to explain the layout of a visit note. It carries no client data, no factory name, no address and no figures.
Each figure below is a placeholder labelled with the size it should be replaced at, so real photography from supplier visits can drop straight in.
Send the product, the market and the supplier you are considering. We will confirm whether a visit is arranged, who attends and what the note will hold — before anything is agreed.