Yiwu jewelry wholesale guide

In yiwu jewelry wholesale, we need to know some jewelry wholesale knowledge. General yiwu jewelry wholesale includes the following products: rust-steel jewelry pearl jewelry, plastic jewelry and accessories, leather accessories, gold and silver jewelry, children's jewelry, etc. Then we need to know about product safety, packaging, quality management and minimum order quantity.

1. Product safety and restriction of heavy metals and chemicals

Jewelry is protected by heavy metal and chemical regulations in the United States and the European Union. Broadly speaking, these regulations fall into two categories:

Applicable to all jewelry and accessories

Applicable to children's jewelry and accessories

These regulations, such as REACH and CPSIA, impose strict limits on nickel, lead, mercury and other substances.

Products exceeding the limit are illegal in the market. Therefore, it is important to ensure that the products you buy meet the requirements.

Many Chinese suppliers in the jewelry and accessories industry are unable to ensure compliance with overseas regulations. There are several reasons for this:

Suppliers are largely unconcerned about developed markets. As a result, they have limited experience in ensuring compliance and cannot even purchase the right materials from subcontractors.

The supplier is a small trader or agent with little experience - or no knowledge - of U.S. and European regulations.

It is the responsibility of suppliers who do not have the right experience and cannot obtain the right material supplier.

To remove them, you need to obtain documentation proving that the supplier has some kind of record in making jewelry and accessories that meet eu and us standards.

The best approach is to work with vendors who can only provide test reports. For example, you can request the following documents:

Heavy metal test report

REACH SVHC test report

ASTM/CPSIA test report

Test report of CA Prop 65

According to our experience, this simple document inspection does not include about 75% of the suppliers in the market. Therefore, this is the most critical factor when selecting a manufacturer.

However, the test report only shows that the supplier produced a batch of compliant jewelry at a certain point in time. However, it is not a guarantee of future product compliance. Old test reports cannot be used to validate future orders.

2. Jewelry gift boxes and packaging

Jewelry and accessories manufacturers purchase product packaging from professional subcontractors. Buyers often have two packaging options:

Standard product packaging

Most suppliers can provide a limited range of standard product packaging. Standard packaging (i.e. gift boxes) cannot be designed and customized.

However, it can be purchased at a lower quantity - usually 300 to 500 pieces. Standard jewelry packages can also carry the buyer's logo.

Custom designed packaging

Most suppliers can provide customized packaging to buyers through their subcontractors. However, the minimum order quantity of OEM packaging is usually set at 3,000 to 5,000 pieces. It's about ten times the minimum order quantity of the factory's standard packing.

Design capability and product customization

Jewelry and accessories manufacturers are usually assembly manufacturers. They don't make tools and components.

Jewelry parts are purchased by highly specialized manufacturers of materials and parts. Many jewellery factories work with more than 50 different subcontractors.

Most vendors have the ability to offer customised products to buyers. In the jewelry industry, there are two ways to customize products:

Customize with standard components. Necklaces, for example, can be completely unique even if they are made from standard parts.

Custom parts: you can also create new jewelry components, such as connectors and beads. All manufacturers provide this service through their tooling subcontractors.

Many jewelry brands use both strategies because they use standardized and custom-designed components. Using custom components alone is slow and expensive because new tools must be made for each new custom part.

Another common feature of jewelry and accessories factories is their limited support for their customers' designs. They want buyers to know one or two things about the product, and they don't like buyers who spend time at education without experience.

Don't expect to get free design services, or even feedback on your designs, unless you're an established customer.

3. Quality management

Implement the quality management system (ISO 9001:2008) to track, manage and prevent quality problems in the manufacturing process.

In the jewelry and accessories industry, the quality management procedures may be as follows:

Step 1: check incoming components (i.e. design, materials and dimensions) from subcontractors

Step 2: quality check points on the assembly line

Step 3: final prepackage quality inspection

For jewelry importers, the biggest risk is the defective parts provided by subcontractors. Therefore, the factory must have standardized control procedures for all incoming jewelry parts and materials.

Throughout the assembly line, the supplier must also have checkpoints to ensure that the assembled units contain the correct components and the right number.

Appropriate instructions (i.e., design drawings and component lists for each SKU) must be provided for workers to view.

In other words, the internal quality management procedures can never replace the pre-shipment quality inspection by a third party.

Please note that most jewelry and accessories suppliers do not pass ISO 9001 certification. This does not mean that they do not apply a basic quality management process - but it should not be taken for granted.

Whether or not the supplier has passed QMS certification, you should ask for records of previous internal quality inspections.

4. Minimum order quantity (MOQ)

Jewelry manufacturers often have more than one MOQ requirement. One is set "per order", reflecting the minimum amount of assembly that the supplier wants to assemble.

The second is based on "per design" or "per component" Settings. This MOQ requirement is not set by the supplier, but by the component subcontractor.

The latter is more difficult to negotiate, but can be managed by using as many standardized jewelry parts as possible.

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