Notes on how to find a reliable supplierMy criteria of find

Man: As a sourcing agent and buyer I can tell you what a good quotation is for me: it includes all relevant information! My job is to find a reliable supplier at a reasonable price in the shortest time possible.
It is very possible that I will choose a supplier whose price is a few percent higher but the quotation is complete. That means, it includes, FOB price, with seaport marked! I often get FOB quotation without location. Obviously for me in Europe an FOB Shanghai price is higher than a FOB Xiamen price, since shipping rates are different.
The second one is delivery time, so far no Chinese supplier was able to keep the promised delivery time for my projects, that is 90% delay and 10% early.
Thirdly, pay attention to the package unit, some details about carton weight, size, volume, content and material. It is very important. Usually this point is simply left out by suppliers. But I and most full-time buyers have just simply no time to beg for any details separately. If a quotation misses this, I simply delete it. I have no time to ask for these points, but I can only calculate my shipping cost with this information.
I hope suppliers will consider these points in the future. If you include all relevant information, you can really help your partner in his decision. And for the supplier, it is a job done once, you needn’t work out each detail separately.