SOURCING & LOGISTICS

Product Sourcing
Beyond its financing services, Sterling’s contacts with suppliers and sourcing agents in the Far East and the rest of the world, can assist clients with comprehensive product sourcing services.

We maintain strong relationships with some of the largest trading companies in Hong Kong, present in over 40 countries and offering 7000 manufacturing outlets throughout the world. We can assist in sourcing product and we can locate factories, negotiate prices, monitor the entire manufacturing process, conduct quality control checks and arrange shipment of goods. We can often serve as a useful competitive reference point to a client’s established suppliers.

Freight Forwarding
The effective organisation of the transportation of goods and distribution channels is essential to the smooth delivery of a client’s goods to the final customer.

Sterling can take over the entire process for a client. Utilising our world wide contacts in the industry we can arrange for the movement of goods, ensuring that we all know exactly where goods are at any time in the supply chain and that delivery dates are met.

Through our bulk buying we can obtain excellent rates with first-rate freight companies. The transportation of certain goods requires expertise which not every client or freight forwarding company will have.

We are also able to finance the cost of freight, duty and VAT, where profits margins permit this leaving a client’s existing credit facilities intact thereby further helping cash flow.

Marine Insurance
Sterling’s expertise in international shipping, combined with its understanding of the global insurance market can help clients to analyse and to meet their insurance requirements. We can insure your ledger and ensure a minimisation of bad debt almost anywhere in the world.