- Description
Pre Shipment Inspection
Portugal Quality Control performs Pre Shipment Inspection on behalf of its clients in order to ensure that finished products are in accordance with client's specifications and expectations.
Pre Shipment Inspection is performed when at least 80% of the goods are completed, packed and ready for shipment. Our inspectors, pull a random of finished goods, based on the internationally recognized statistical random sampling technique, commonly known as ANSI / ASQC Z1.4, BS 6001-1; ISO 2859-1 and performed different checking on site to control that your products match with your specifications and your requirement.
A golden sample provided by our client to our inspectors are highly recommended to perform such operation in order to compare efficiently and highlight quickly defects that may appear.- Procedure
Procedure
Below are listed the different steps followed by our inspector when inspecting your production for a Pre Shipment Inspection:
1/ Quantity:
- Quantity available
- Quantity of finished products
- Quantity of packed products
- Quantity of stocked products
2/ Appearance
- Style
- Material
- Color
- Dimension
- Weight
3/ Workmanship
- Defects listing
- Rate of defects pointed
- Criticity of defects
4/ Functions & Safety
- Functions present or not
- Test of your products
- Special test required by our clients
5/ Packing & Packaging
- Appearance
- Material
- Dimension
- Weight
- Sealing materials
6/ Marking and Labelling
- Stickers
- Logo
- Bar code
- Shipping mark
- Fees
Fees
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- Timing
Time & Schedule
Portugal Quality Control's timing can be composed as the following:
- Booking 48H before your inspection
- Report in your e-mail box and in your private space within 24H
- Inspector on site from 9AM to 7PM (lunch time one hour)
- Checking of your goods on the morning
- Sealing at the end of the operations
- Benefits
Benefits & Advantages
Portugal Quality Control's Pre Shipment Inspection services allows you to:
- Make sure your goods are conformed to your specifications and expectations
- Check the quality of your product and the reliability of your supplier
- Get the possibility to reject your shipment in case of high defect rate highlighted by our inspector
- To save money by outsourcing the control of the quality of your product by an expert inspector directly on the field
- Avoid to get bad surprise when opening your container at destination port
- Options