Chapter 2. When is best time to start design of Customized Christmas Sweater?

The best time to start design Ugly Christmas Sweater depends on a your business model. Christmas is December 25th every year, so we can use the backward method to calculate our design time. Let’s take USA buyers as an example,

If you are retailers - its easy to settle.

1. Let’s say get your Christmas Sweater in warehouse latest on early Oct, and keep about 3 months for marketing, advertisement will be enough;
   
2. Before that, we have to consider Ugly Christmas Sweater delivery time to your warehouse. If you order from China, delivery time to your door costs max 2 weeks by air (3 days for air flights, about 7 working days for import customs clearance process). Delivery time to your door costs max 4 weeks by sea (3 weeks for vessel, about 7 working days for import customs clearance process). So, to be safe, let’s say one month, time now back to end of Aug; I am going to list main airport, seaport below of USA, Canada, Mexico, UK, Germany below as examples for your easier reference, please feel free to reach us to check other destinations.

Airfreight offers the fastest shipping method when shipping goods to any global destination. However, the cost associated with it discourages big importers from using this when shipping bulky goods.Airfreight is a suitable method when shipping small amounts of cargo or urgent parcels.

Sea freight is the commonly used shipment method not only due to its costs but also flexibility.It is the ideal option when shipping heavy cargo across long distances.

Express Courier like FedEx, UPS, DHL, TNT is the most expensive shipping method, suitable for small quantity of samples.

3- Then, we have to consider when your Christmas Sweater can be shipped from manufacturer. Normally, Base on our experience, We usually start sampling of Christmas Sweater after CNY, that’s start of March, and we usually get new designs ready at end of March, or latest early of Apr. Base on order quantity, we need 1-2 months to produce the ordered Christmas Jumpers. This way, we can start shipping since May.

Conclusion: Best jump in time is early of Apr to collect new designs from suppliers. And place your order latest on end of May. This way, supplier can catch time to ship latest at end of July. And supplier can ship your order by cheapest vessel delivery to reach your warehouse at end of Aug. Just in time!

If you are wholesalers & brand collection purchaser:

We strong recommend you contact us immediately after CNY[Chinese New Year]. Wholesalers & brand buyers always got own designs, so don’t have to wait months to check trends, collect design reference ideas from different sources.

Most of Chinese suppliers are not busy after CNY, its good time to jump in for Ugly Christmas jumpers samplings, sales man samples production. And most important thing is keep enough time for design revisions, sample mistakes correction.

So, key point is contact supplier right after CNY holiday!


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