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What Are the Challenges and Triumphs of Sourcing Raw Materials for Home Decor?
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Apr 8, 2025
Quality is paramount in home decor, especially for medium-to high-end products where customers expect beauty, craftsmanship, and durability. At Mondoro, we are committed to excellence, starting with sourcing the finest raw materials. But this process comes with challenges—from navigating international borders to handling complex logistics and meeting strict quality standards. 🎧 Watch in as we discuss these challenges and triumphs, and read more here: https://mondoro.com/challenges-and-triumphs-in-sourcing-raw-materials-for-high-quality-home-decor/ #MondoroCompanyLimited #HomeDecor #InteriorDesign #SustainableLiving #Handcrafted #LuxuryDesign #RawMaterials #Craftsmanship To find out more great content about creating, developing and manufacturing home decor and home furniture products in Asia, check out our website at https://mondoro.com/
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hi this is Anita from the global trade
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gal You know sourcing is one of those
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sort of funny words where people that
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are in the global trade understand it
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Other people may not quite understand
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exactly all the implications of the word
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but sourcing is very essential and
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important and anyone who's in the global
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supply chain That's why they're are
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experts and that's all that they do is
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they just source all day long Sourcing
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means to be able to find products
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materials or other things that can
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either be used in manufacturing or could
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be used to be purchased so that you can
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be able to buy them There are really
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three main things when people are
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looking for for sourcing and it's it's
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the quality Make sure it's of the
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quality the quantity and the price And
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those are the three essential things
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that need to be looked at that whenever
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you're looking to source products you
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need to make sure that you know you're
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able to buy the quantity that's required
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It's at the price that's needed and it's
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at the quality that you need and that
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you know the basically the person that
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you're buying it from can be able to
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deliver Those are all very
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important things whenever you're looking
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to source a product At Maduro we create
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develop and manufacture for the home
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decor and home furniture industry And
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some of the things that we really have
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to do a lot is we need to be able to
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source or be able to find raw materials
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in order to produce the things that we
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need to produce For example it can be
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everything from a piece of hardware uh
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for a cabinet to it could be something
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like a piece of you know cabinet for a
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hardware or it could be something um
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like you know some material that we need
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in order to finish the
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product You know there's many reasons
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why many times we end up doing
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international sourcing In other words
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we're you know in Vietnam maybe we're
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manufacturing something and we might buy
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something from say China And there's
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many reasons why A lot of times it's the
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quality that you know a lot of times
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it's just the best quality product we
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can find is in a specific region or
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place Um it's also the other reason
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could be specialization There's some
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countries that just specialize in
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specific things and really do a great
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job with that or they have unique
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materials unique finishes which are not
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available anywhere else Cost efficiency
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Well you know quality is important Also
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you got to make sure that it's at the
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right cost and that you know people can
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be able to buy it For in other words you
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know we a lot of times will buy some
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metal fittings from China and even
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though the primary product is being
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produced in Vietnam you know that this
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will be some sort of crossborder sort of
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transaction taking place of sourcing
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that make sure all the components meet
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the high standards of what's
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required you know international sourcing
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can actually be complex across borders
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And that that actually is one of the
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problems and that's one of the things
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where we're seeing you know especially
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in the present political climate in a
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place like the United States today where
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they're saying well we want to have
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everything made in America Well I can
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tell you now it's not going to happen
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There's a lot of things which are just
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going to be made internationally and
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need to come across borders Why because
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you know one country may have the
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resources the technology they may have
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the raw materials and the other things
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to be able to make the product better
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than someone else can make it And even
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if you make it in your home place it may
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cost you a lot more than if you imported
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it or brought across the border But of
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course whenever you're starting to bring
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things across borders especially raw
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materials there's a lot of challenges
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that go with it One of course is
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logistical challenges and time
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management You know you need to make
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sure that whatever it is that you can
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get it across the border get it in the
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time that you need to and that it can
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arrive at the facility in the time
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that's required This is really you know
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important For example we you know Muro
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sometimes we'll we will source some
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highquality veneer from China
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manufacturers and in order to avoid
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production delays we need to make sure
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we get that veneer material in at the
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required time so we can get the
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production out on time
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You know this requires a lot of advanced
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planning It means that you must have you
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know reliable logistic partners It means
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that you must sometimes even you know
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buffer inventory a bit in case something
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happens A lot of things about crossber
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trade which can get very complicated One
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of them of course is regulations and
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compliance And you know as as I was
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saying to somebody recently the problem
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with all the tariffs going on in the
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United States is that whenever tariffs
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happen in the United States and other
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countries start making things more
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difficult too So it sort of becomes this
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sort of chain reaction where everybody's
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making it difficult and it can make
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global trade extremely difficult So
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things like you know customs duties and
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tariffs of course is a barrier to trade
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you know quality and and safety
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standards is is another one You make
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sure it complies with the quality and
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safety standards you need and
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documentation and certification Making
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sure you have accurate documentation You
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know you need to really be able to
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understand these things People think
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that sometimes you think it's very easy
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You just bring it across the border and
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that's it It's really not that easy
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There's a lot of different variables
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involved with even bringing simple parts
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from one country to the next you know
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and you have to really ensure that
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there's consistent quality because I can
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tell you now that if you bring something
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from let's say we bring something from
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China to Vietnam and you bring it across
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the border and then you find out there's
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a problem there is no way to be able to
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correct that You know you don't the cost
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to bring it back to China to correct it
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is huge In other words it would cost you
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more than if you just bought it new
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again So that's why it's really
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important that whenever you're dealing
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with this type of thing that you really
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make sure that whatever you're shipping
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that it's of the quality that you need
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that it's consistent quality And that's
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why we have people on on both sides
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checking it out counting it looking at
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it verifying it because this is very
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very important You have to make sure you
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have stringent quality checks involved
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that you maybe the the audits
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relationships and other things like that
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There's many ways that um why this is
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important and essential especially in
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the type of industry which we're in
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which was you know medium to high home
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furnishings You know we need to be able
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to buy the parts the pieces the material
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and other things and many times we just
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have to simply import them and this
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becomes this you know strategically we
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need to source these materials We have
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to really be able to buy the best
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quality at best price that we can in
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order to to remain competitive but not
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only that is to make sure we have a
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quality
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product So that is why it's important
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that you know we do all of these things
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within our supply chain itself But it's
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also the reason why sourcing and
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understanding sourcing and how to bring
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things in and how to find the things
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that you need to is is essential and
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very important And it's also making sure
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that you have the product and you're
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shipping the product of the quality that
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you need so you don't end up with
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problems once it's been produced You
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know it may sound very simple and it may
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sound really easy but the truth of the
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matter is that all these things are
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actually quite complicated and it's
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quite a complicated process It requires
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that a lot of things fall in line in
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order to make this happen If you'd like
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to be able to read more about this I've
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written a a blog post on this called
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challenges and triumphs in sourcing raw
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materials for highquality home decor And
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even though this is for highquality home
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decor it's actually for any type of um
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manufacturing at all there might be some
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ideas here to help you to understand how
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to navigate this better In the world we
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live in today this is an important and
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essential part of most people's supply
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chain most people's global supply chain
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essentially that you need to be able to
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find ways to bring things across borders
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because it's just the way the world is
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working these days Even if we want to
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try to stop it we want to change it it's
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actually the way the world continues to
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work We'd like to thank you so much for
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