CRITERON
SOURCING ANALYTICS
ABOUT THE ADVISORY
Buyer-Side Perspective for High-Consequence Supplier Decisions.
Criteron Supplier Decisions provides independent buyer-side decision support for U.S. -facing product brands and importers sourcing from Mainland China. The work is designed for moments when the cost of an uncertain supplier decision can extend beyond price: tooling, quality, production consistency, capacity, documentation, packaging, delivery, retail requirements, returns, warranty exposure, and customer consequences.
INDEPENDENT ADVISOR
Bor Fung
Bor brings 25 years of procurement operation experience developed in industry-leading multinational technology, hardware and consumer-product environments, supporting buyer-side supplier and production decisions across a broad range of manufacturers, product categories, and operating conditions in Hong Kong, Mainland China, Taiwan and North American business contexts.
THE OPERATING FOUNDATION
25
YEARS OF OPERATIONAL JUDGEMENT
BREADTH OF OPERATING CONTEXT
SUPPLIER EVIDENCE IN CONTEXT
FROM FACTORY TO CUSTOMER CONSEQUENCES
Varied supplier, product, manufacturing, quality, and delivery conditions.
Quotations, samples, supplier claims, and inspection findings are evidence—not final decisions.
Supplier and production choices affect consistency, delivery, retail requirements, returns, and warranty exposure.
HONG KONG • MAINLAND CHINA • NORTH AMERICAN BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS
Experience That Connects the Factory to the Customer.
The perspective behind the advisory has been shaped by work across product development, supplier coordination, quality and production issues, retail and marketplace requirements, and the downstream consequences of product defects, delays, returns, and warranty claims.
This is not a promise that every risk can be identified or every supplier outcome predicted. It is a structured, practical approach to asking better questions, interpreting the evidence available, identifying what remains unresolved, and making a more informed commercial decision before capital is committed.
Independent by Design.
The advisory is intended to support the buyer’s decision. It is not a sourcing-agent arrangement, and recommendations are not based on supplier commissions.
The purpose is to provide an independent perspective on whether the available evidence supports proceeding, proceeding subject to conditions, piloting first, seeking further evidence, or not proceeding.
Clear Boundaries.
Work begins with a defined commercial decision and the evidence available at the time. The advisory does not guarantee supplier performance, production outcomes, product compliance, delivery, product safety, marketplace acceptance, or commercial results.
Specialist legal, engineering, testing, certification, regulatory, inspection, and other professional support may be appropriate depending on the matter.