Seventeen years of moving containers out of Asia and South America — now done independently.
Founder
I spent seventeen years inside procurement and supply chain at two large European importers1 — finding factories in Asia and South America, checking they actually made what the spec said, and getting the containers home without customs surprises. Now I do the same thing, independently, for brands that would rather skip the trading-company middle layer.
The practice is deliberately small — one person, no agents, no supplier kickbacks. If you're importing physical goods2 at scale and you keep hitting the same problems — mold in the container, a supplier who "forgot" the spec, HS-code arguments, or landed cost that never lines up with the quote — that is roughly the job I was hired to do for seventeen years.
Most engagements fall into one of four buckets: finding and vetting factories, pre-shipment quality control, customs and regulatory paperwork, and landed-cost arithmetic that holds up when the invoice arrives. None of this is clever. It is the work an in-house procurement lead would do — if you had the headcount for one.
Engagements come in two shapes. A defined scope — one audit, one tender, one container inspection — priced as a flat fee. Or a monthly retainer when there is live production and someone needs to be on the floor regularly. First call is thirty to forty-five minutes, free, and if I don't think I can help I will usually say so and point you to someone who can.
The practice is run from Poznań with field presence in Asia and South America. Travel when a problem genuinely needs eyes on the ground — not as a billable line item.
What I will not do. No commission from factories. No "we found this supplier, pay us 3% of invoice." No setting up a trading entity in the middle of a transaction so that fees are hidden. The only person paying me is the client; the only incentive is that the client's container arrives on spec, on time, cleared.
Tell me what you are importing and where it keeps breaking.
Email is fastest. WhatsApp for anything urgent — especially if you are standing on a factory floor and something is not matching the spec.
Notes
- Two large European importers of physical consumer goods, 2008 – 2025. Names available on request and when relevant to a specific engagement.
- What I know best: pet, home, natural materials, consumer electronics and beauty (nail polish, false lashes, glitter — the full category). Open to a brief outside those; most supply-chain problems repeat regardless of category.