End-to-end sourcing · Montréal · Tianjin
Renorobot delivers integrated sourcing, manufacturing oversight, quality assurance, and logistics from our Tianjin operations centre to retailers and brands across North America. One accountable team, from product brief to landed delivery.
Headquarters
45.50°N · 73.57°W
Montréal
Client-facing program leadership · Customs & clearance · Landed-cost reconciliation
11,000 km
Operations centre
39.08°N · 117.20°E
Tianjin 天津
Supplier qualification · On-site production oversight · Pre-shipment inspection
Selected by leading Canadian and U.S. retailers to manage private-label, branded, and program-volume sourcing initiatives with the consistency and compliance their categories demand.
Logos shown represent active or recent program relationships. Full client roster available under NDA.
What we do
Clients may engage Renorobot for an individual workstream or for the full program. Most begin with sourcing and expand into quality assurance and logistics as the relationship matures.
We identify and qualify manufacturers against your product specification, target landed cost, capacity, and compliance profile, not on price alone. Our China team conducts on-site audits, negotiates commercial terms in Mandarin, and manages the supplier relationship within a workflow aligned to North American business hours.
Vetted shortlist · On-site audits · PO management through ex-works release
Trained inspectors deploy to the factory at each critical production stage: initial production check, during-production inspection, and pre-shipment inspection, applying category-specific AQL standards and your buyer's acceptance criteria. Issues are surfaced and resolved at source, before goods leave the floor.
IPC · DPI · PSI · Same-day photographic reports
We manage the full international logistics chain (ocean and air freight, customs brokerage, and final delivery) through a coordinated network of carriers, forwarders, and licensed brokers. One program invoice, one landed-cost reconciliation, one accountable point of contact.
Ocean & air · Customs brokerage · DC delivery · Landed-cost reconciliation
The program
Most program failures originate in the handoffs between sourcing agents, manufacturers, third-party inspectors, and freight forwarders. Renorobot consolidates these functions under one operational team, with unified reporting and a single line of commercial accountability across all seven phases.
01
Brief
Clients submit a product specification, target landed cost, volume forecast, and program timeline. Within five business days, we return a structured sourcing plan, a preliminary supplier shortlist, an indicative pricing range, and a recommended schedule.
02
Source
Our China team shortlists three to five qualified manufacturers, conducts in-person facility audits covering capacity, quality systems, and compliance, and negotiates commercial terms. The client retains final approval over supplier selection.
03
Sample
We manage successive sampling cycles until the product meets specification, including primary and secondary packaging, retail labelling, multilingual artwork, and regulatory marks for the Canadian and U.S. markets.
04
Produce
Production commences against the approved purchase order. Our quality team is present on-site at defined milestones, allowing issues to be intercepted while remediation is still inexpensive.
05
Inspect
A pre-shipment inspection is conducted prior to carton sealing, applying ANSI/ASQ Z1.4 sampling at agreed AQL thresholds. Same-day reports include photographic evidence, defect classification, and a formal ship-or-hold recommendation.
06
Ship
We book ocean or air freight on the lane and service level appropriate to your timeline and budget, file all export and import documentation, coordinate with licensed customs brokers in Canada and the U.S., and provide container-level tracking.
07
Land
On delivery, clients receive a consolidated program invoice, a single bill of lading, and a full landed-cost reconciliation against the original quotation, including FOB pricing, freight, duty, brokerage, and any program-specific fees.
Industries we serve
Distinct product categories, distinct operating protocols. Technical apparel and construction materials require fundamentally different inspection regimes, compliance pathways, and production cadence.
01
Building-material programs delivered on schedule, in spec, and in compliance with North American standards.
Doors, windows, hardware, architectural finishes, glazing, millwork, lighting, and plumbing and electrical fixtures. Renorobot sources building materials for renovation programs and multi-tower residential developments, with documented adherence to CSA and ULC standards, packaging integrity engineered for jobsite handling, and the staggered delivery cadence construction schedules require.
02
Technical outerwear and performance apparel, engineered for retail and program use.
Waterproof shells, insulated outerwear, performance midlayers, athletic apparel, and corporate uniforms. Renorobot manages tech-pack-driven sampling, fit and performance approval cycles, and dedicated quality oversight through production, including in-line seam-seal testing, waterproof-membrane inspection, and trim verification.
03
Work gloves and personal protective equipment, manufactured against the certifications North American retailers and industrial buyers require.
Cut-resistant, impact-protective, mechanic, winter-rated, and chemical-handling work gloves, alongside hi-vis vests, FR workwear, safety jackets, and industrial uniforms. Our partner factories hold CE, UKCA, OEKO-TEX STANDARD 100, ISO 9001, and BSCI certification, with product compliance independently tested by SGS, Intertek, and TÜV SÜD against EN 388, ANSI/ISEA 105, and the additional testing categories your buyer specifies.
04
Club-channel-scale programs with synchronised arrival across DCs.
Kitchenware, housewares, seasonal merchandise, consumer electronics accessories, and private-label consumer goods. Renorobot delivers club-channel-scale programs: single purchase orders requiring identical specification, identical packaging, and synchronised arrival across multiple distribution centres, with the documentation discipline and pre-shipment governance these contracts require.
05
Proprietary product, from factory qualification to multi-year partnership.
For clients developing proprietary or original-design product, Renorobot manages the full custom and OEM workflow, including factory identification and qualification, mutual non-disclosure execution, tooling procurement and amortisation, intellectual property protection, and ongoing program management.
Warehousing & inland logistics
Renorobot operates owned warehouse capacity, not a brokered third-party network. When a vessel arrives ahead of forecast, when a buyer's DC appointment shifts, when a freight lane disrupts, your inventory has a controlled landing point, not a demurrage problem.
Hold replenishment inventory against forecast variance, promotional surges, and unplanned supply disruption. Your retail program continues even when a vessel arrives late or a factory misses a cadence.
Goods arriving with isolated defects do not need to be refused or destroyed. We stage, inspect, sort, and rework on the floor, and forward only conforming units to the buyer's DC.
Receive multiple inbound containers, deconsolidate, sort by destination DC, and dispatch on the buyer's scheduled inbound appointment. One inbound, multiple synchronised outbounds.
LTL, FTL, and dedicated-equipment dispatch to North American distribution centres. Appointment booking, ASN transmission, and proof-of-delivery reconciliation handled within the program.
Why owned capacity matters
Brokered third-party warehouses optimise for their own utilisation. Owned capacity, integrated with our sourcing and quality teams, optimises for your program timeline, from inbound clearance through outbound appointment.
Demurrage exposure
Eliminated
Inspection & rework
On-site
DC delivery
Appointment-booked
By the numbers
A precise figure conveys substantively greater credibility than a qualitative descriptor. Operational metrics are updated quarterly; financial and compliance figures are independently audited annually.
Continuous trade flow management
Audited & performance-tracked
Across hardlines, softlines, OEM
Trailing-12-month rolling average
Case studies
Three engagements, three documented outcomes. Full case dossiers available under NDA.
Case 01 · Technical apparel & uniforms
Major Canadian outdoor apparel brand
98%+
first-pass inspection acceptance
0
post-shipment chargebacks
Challenge
A leading Canadian outdoor and performance apparel brand needed to scale a technical seasonal collection (waterproof outerwear, insulated mid-layers, and accessories) across multiple colourways and size runs, with a fixed on-shelf date tied to a national marketing campaign. The incumbent supply chain was unable to hold sampling timelines.
Renorobot's response
Our Tianjin team qualified three technical-apparel factories within four weeks, ran parallel sampling cycles to compress fit and performance approval, and deployed dedicated quality oversight through production, including in-line seam-seal testing, waterproof-membrane inspection, and trim verification. Freight was booked on an accelerated ocean lane with pre-cleared customs entries.
Outcome
The full collection landed at the brand's North American distribution centres several business days ahead of the campaign launch, with first-pass inspection acceptance above 98% and zero post-shipment chargebacks.
Case 02 · Construction · Real estate
© David Boyer Photographe Inc.
National real-estate developer
200
units delivered on schedule
0
delay claims on imported materials
Challenge
A real-estate developer required a coordinated import program for a multi-tower residential project of 200 units, with combined construction costs in excess of $100M. The scope spanned interior and exterior finishes, structural glazing, doors and hardware, and millwork, required to land on a phased construction schedule with no tolerance for delay penalties.
Renorobot's response
Renorobot acted as the single accountable sourcing and logistics partner across more than a dozen specialised factories, qualifying suppliers for curtain-wall glazing, architectural finishes, hardware, and joinery, then coordinating staggered production and consolidated container loads to align with the construction site's pour and envelope schedules.
Outcome
All 200 units were delivered on the contracted construction schedule with zero delay claims attributable to imported materials, and the program closed under budget on freight and brokerage against the original cost plan.
Case 03 · Agriculture · Turnkey fit-out
North American large-scale agricultural operator
10M
sq ft farm fully equipped and operational
1
accountable partner across every supplier category
Challenge
A North American operator was bringing a new 10-million-square-foot farming operation online and needed the entire site equipped from the ground up: tractors, implements and farming equipment, pre-fabricated warehouse buildings, a full irrigation system, and commercial greenhouse structures. The program spanned a dozen distinct supplier categories with hard dependencies on each other and a single planting-season deadline. The client had no appetite for managing dozens of overseas vendors, freight contracts, and inspection regimes in parallel.
Renorobot's response
Renorobot acted as the single accountable partner for the entire site fit-out. We qualified specialised manufacturers across each category (farming equipment, pre-fabricated steel warehouse structures, drip and pivot irrigation components, and greenhouse framing and glazing), ran factory audits and first-article inspections, and sequenced production so structures, equipment, and irrigation arrived in the right order against the construction schedule. Freight was consolidated across multiple ocean lanes, customs entries were pre-cleared, and on-site delivery was staged to match crews and pad readiness.
Outcome
The full 10-million-square-foot operation was equipped and brought to operational readiness on a single coordinated program: warehouses erected, irrigation commissioned, greenhouses standing, and farming equipment delivered and accepted, all sourced, inspected, shipped, and landed under one accountable contract.
The team
Our Montréal office operates in French, English, and Mandarin. Our Tianjin operations centre is staffed by Mandarin-, English-, and French-speaking professionals with deep experience on Chinese factory floors.
Clients communicate with us in the language of their choice; we communicate with manufacturers in theirs. Translation latency, misinterpretation risk, and the cultural distance that typically degrades supplier relationships are removed by design.
Michael Zhang
Head of Sourcing · Tianjin
Leads supplier qualification, audit, and commercial negotiation from our operations in China. Twelve years of sourcing experience across all four core categories.
Kai Xiong Zhang
Head of Operations · Montréal
Owns end-to-end program delivery from the Montréal HQ. Liaises directly with North American retail buyers and our team in China.
And the broader team
Montréal · Tianjin
Sourcing analysts, on-floor QC inspectors, logistics and customs coordinators, and program managers, supporting client programs across both offices.
Headquarters
Montréal, Canada
Client-facing leadership · Customs & clearance
Operations centre
Tianjin, China 天津
Supplier qualification · On-site QA
Compliance
Renorobot's quality and compliance posture is structured around the certifications and frameworks most frequently required by North American retail buyers. Full certification documentation, supplier audit reports, and program-specific compliance attestations are available to qualified clients under mutual NDA.
ISO 9001
Quality management systems
BSCI
Ethical sourcing audits
CSA
Canadian electrical, gas & plumbing safety
UL / ETL
United States product safety listings
CCMC
Canadian Construction Materials Centre listing
ASTM
Material & performance testing standards
CARB P2 / TSCA Title VI
Composite-wood formaldehyde emissions
FSC
Wood & paper chain-of-custody
ICTI CARE
Toy & child-product compliance
CPSIA & Prop 65
United States consumer-product testing
Health Canada
Regulated category compliance
C-TPAT
Customs-Trade Partnership (via partners)
Start a sourcing brief
Submit your product specification, target landed cost, and program timeline. Within five business days, Renorobot will return a structured sourcing plan, an indicative landed-cost range, a recommended supplier shortlist, and a named program lead accountable from brief through delivery.