What is a fractional supply chain management team?
A fractional supply chain team gives you the capability of an internal APAC procurement department — vendor negotiation, factory management, quality control, and freight execution — on a flexible retainer, without the salary, pension, HR overhead, and travel costs of a full-time hire. Jadebridge Partners sits on your side of the table: we never broker goods or take hidden margins on your production.
How is Jadebridge different from a sourcing agent or trading company?
A trading company sits between you and the factory and earns a hidden markup on every unit — the “broker tax.” With Jadebridge, the contract and the money flow directly between you and the verified factory. Zero hidden margins, zero kickbacks. Our compensation is a transparent professional fee, so our incentive is to drive your unit costs down, not up.
What is the 5-Day Diagnostic Audit and what do I receive?
The Diagnostic Audit is a rapid margin-leak and sourcing audit of your most critical SKUs. Within five days we identify your actual Tier-1 manufacturers, expose hidden broker markups inflating your unit costs, and audit your current shipping lanes and LCL/FCL routes. You receive a comprehensive Sourcing Dossier and a strategy call — enough to stop margin leakage before your next major purchase order.
How is my intellectual property protected when manufacturing in Asia?
We execute stringent NDA and NNN (Non-Disclosure, Non-Use, Non-Circumvention) agreements drafted to be enforceable within the local Asian manufacturing jurisdiction — not just under UK law. Combined with on-ground factory deployment and localised compliance auditing, this eliminates unauthorised subcontracting and protects your proprietary designs and tooling.
What is the Infrastructure Handover?
The Infrastructure Handover is the end state of an engagement: a contractual buyout mechanism that legally transfers all vetted factory relationships directly into your in-house infrastructure. Unlike a broker, whose business depends on staying between you and the factory forever, our model is designed so the supply chain we build ultimately becomes yours.
I am a manufacturer outside the UK. How does Jadebridge help me enter the UK and EU market?
For commercial and industrial manufacturers entering Europe, we provide an immediate, legally compliant UK beachhead through Master Distributor frameworks — managing your localised P&L, B2B sales strategy, domestic warehousing, and rapid reverse-logistics (RMA) turnaround. You enter the market with local infrastructure from day one, without surrendering your margin to a gatekeeper.