For buyers

Give producers a requirement they can answer.

A useful inquiry fixes the product, volume, destination, timing and purchasing entity. GMC qualifies the file before any named producer introduction.

Minimum buyer file

What we need before producer outreach

  1. Purchasing entity and authority.Legal name, jurisdiction, signatory role and the operation that will consume or receive the product.
  2. Commercial requirement.Product, specification, trial and term quantity, packing, destination, delivery window and allowed origin.
  3. Transaction structure.Incoterm, inspection expectation, payment instrument, LC applicant and issuing-bank standard.
  4. Decision route.Tender or framework timetable, supplier onboarding and the person authorized to reconcile the commercial file.

What happens next

Qualification before disclosure

1

Coherence check

We reconcile the buyer entity, operation, ports, specification, volume and timing.

2

Route test

We test whether the requirement fits a documented producer or authorized seller route.

3

Controlled introduction

Names and sensitive files move only when both sides pass the stage-appropriate gate.

Email a buyer requirement

Textile procurement

Buying raw silk or qualifying a downstream silk programme?

Use the silk desk to state the product form, denier or construction, grade or acceptance standard, quantity, destination, inspection scope and timing before a sourcing route is tested. The current raw-material route is 20/22D raw silk yarn in 5A and 6A, with the supplier-stated basis and classification set out in full.

Open the silk sourcing desk →