International Search of Suppliers, Products, and Materials
Finding reliable suppliers that meet your specifications is critical to your success. Direct 27 helps you navigate international markets to source the best products and materials for your business, ensuring they align with your exact needs. This service addresses common pain points, such as difficulties in finding quality suppliers and the risk of unreliable partners, by providing verified and trustworthy connections.

Unbiased Supplier Selection and Evaluation
Selecting the right supplier is a key decision that can impact your entire supply chain. Direct 27 organizes independent and unbiased supplier evaluations, including tenders and RFQs, to ensure you are making informed choices. We eliminate the guesswork and emotional decisions, reducing the risk of supplier misrepresentation or poor performance, and ensuring you choose the best partner.

Targeted Networking with Decision Makers
Building personal relationships with key decision-makers in your target sourcing market can be challenging, especially when entering a new country. Direct 27’s targeted networking service establishes valuable connections on your behalf, helping you gain access to the right people, streamline negotiations, and foster long-term partnerships, ensuring the best sourcing costs, terms, and savings for your business.

Supplier, Competitor, and Market Information Gathering
Accurate and verified information is essential to making sound business decisions. Direct 27 conducts thorough research and open-source intelligence on suppliers, competitors, and target markets, accumulating and verifying critical data. We also create targeted databases of potential suppliers in desired industry in specific markets, helping you to access new opportunities faster and avoid unreliable information that could lead to costly mistakes.

Negotiation Support for Better Deals
Negotiating favorable terms, prices, and payment conditions can be a daunting task, especially in foreign markets. Specially trained officers of Direct 27 participate in negotiations on your behalf, ensuring you secure the best possible deals – prices, contractual terms and conditions, payment terms, etc. Our expertise addresses the common pain of settling for unfavorable terms due to a lack of local knowledge or bargaining power.

Contract Review and Risk Mitigation
Contracts can hide risks that may not be immediately apparent. Direct 27 reviews and renegotiates your contracts, identifying potential risks and ensuring they are mitigated before they become costly issues. This service protects your interests, giving you peace of mind in your international dealings.

Supplier Reputation Evaluation
Trust is critical when working with international suppliers. Direct 27 conducts thorough evaluations of supplier reputations, verifying the accuracy of their claims and ensuring their compliance with legal and quality standards. This service prevents you from being misled by false promises, safeguarding your operations from potential pitfalls.

Risk Detection, Assessment, and Mitigation
International business involves a variety of risks, from legal compliance to supply chain disruptions. Direct 27’s risk assessment service helps you identify and address these risks before they affect your business. We provide practical strategies to mitigate risks, ensuring smooth international sourcing operations.

Supplier Facility Inspection
Unfortunately, trusting supplier claims can be risky without firsthand verification. Direct 27 inspects supplier premises, facilities, and operations to ensure they meet your requirements. This service gives you confidence in your partners, reducing the risk of subpar quality, fraud, or non-compliance with contractual terms.

Shipment Oversight and Quality Verification
Ensuring that shipments meet agreed-upon quality and timing standards is crucial to your business success. Direct 27 oversees and verifies shipments, conducting quality checks and assessments to ensure compliance with your contract’s terms. This service eliminates the stress of receiving inferior or delayed products.

Preparation of Export and Import Documentation
Navigating the complexities of export and import documentation can be a major challenge for international businesses. Direct 27 prepares all necessary paperwork, ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory standards, and preventing costly delays or fines associated with improper documentation.

Trade Show Representation and Participation
Trade shows are a great place to find new suppliers, products for resale, materials and equipment for your production, and opportunities for your business. But managing international participation can be overwhelming and expensive. Direct 27 organizes your participation in trade shows, ensuring you make a strong impression in your target markets, or participates in industrial trade shows on your behalf saving you time and money and providing you with valuable insights, contacts, and information.

Second Opinion for Purchasing Departments
Even established in-house sourcing teams can benefit from an outside perspective. Direct 27 offers second opinions to ensure your sourcing processes align with your standards and help prevent mistakes or fraud. This service provides an additional layer of security, ensuring your sourcing is fully optimized and your purchasing department brings maximal value to your business.

Conflict Resolution and International Mediation
Conflicts with suppliers or partners can jeopardize your business. Direct 27 may act as an impartial third party in conflict resolution, mediating negotiations to find the best possible outcome for all parties involved. Our conflict resolution services help you avoid prolonged disputes, protecting your business relationships and financial interests.

Legal Support and Claims Management
Dealing with legal issues related to sourcing can be a daunting and complex process. Direct 27 organizes and oversees professional legal support legal support and manages claims and proceedings on your behalf, giving you peace of mind that your legal interests are protected. In cases, where your case requires a participation of licensed legal professional, we find and hire on your behalf the best applicable lawyers considering the nature of your case and your budget expectations.

Financial Flow Management for Procurement
Flawless financial management is essential to international procurement. Direct 27 organizes and controls your purchasing-related financial flows, setting up payment structures, guarantees, letters of credit, and insurance, when needed. This service prevents financial mismanagement and decreases purchasing risks, ensuring smooth and secure transactions, and mutual satisfaction of your suppliers and you.

Employee Training for Purchasing Departments
Your sourcing team’s skills are key to your company’s success. Direct 27 offers training programs for purchasing departments, helping employees improve sourcing effectiveness, negotiation skills, and process management. This service empowers your team to make better decisions and improve their interaction with suppliers, leading to cost savings, enhanced performance of your team, and greater profits for you.

Building and Improving Procurement Processes and Departments
Efficient procurement processes are vital to maintaining competitive advantage. You need quality products and materials to make money. And cost savings are crucial because, you know, “saved money is earned money”. Direct 27 helps you build and improve your in-house sourcing functions, whether you are starting from scratch or refining existing operations. This service ensures that your sourcing department is efficient, cost-effective, and aligned with your business goals.

Intercultural Consulting for International Success
Cultural differences can often lead to misunderstandings, conflicts, and missed opportunities.
Direct 27 provides cultural consulting to help your team navigate international negotiations effectively.
We ensure you avoid costly cultural missteps, enhancing your ability to build strong, lasting business relationships in foreign markets.