A large retail buyer faced high per-shipment LCL surcharges, dozens of fragmented suppliers and inconsistent product quality across a broad SKU range. Setting up many new direct suppliers would be slow, administratively heavy and risked further quality failures.

Our team scoped and validated 100+ factories, ran supplier onboarding and flow-down agreements, and organised a pilot consolidation. We collected supplier commercial invoices and packing lists, implemented clear pallet labelling and per-supplier segmentation at the consolidation point, and enforced pre-shipment QC inspections. We produced supplier scorecards and a consolidated FCL booking to replace multiple LCL shipments.

The pilot converted multiple small LCL shipments into a single FCL, eliminating repeated LCL surcharges and reducing landed cost per SKU. Supplier transparency improved (factory identities, test reports and packing lists attached to each line), arrival defects fell thanks to pre-shipment QC, and top-performing factories were quickly migrated toward direct-supplier status.