Origin operations in Somaliland

When it fits

• You want a material that is not on our list, bought to a specification of your own.
• Your quality team needs samples drawn, labelled and sent by its own protocol.
• You want a load counted and photographed before it leaves, or documents prepared to your instructions.
• You want written reports from origin for a supplier file.

What an engagement can cover

These are the jobs we do for our own lots, done to your brief instead. An engagement uses one of them or several, and the scope names which.

Supplier coordination

Finding, meeting and following up harvesters, graders and traders for the material you name.

Buying

Purchasing to your specification, with a record of every purchase: who, where, when and what was paid.

Aggregation

Bringing small parcels together into lots, each bag numbered and listed.

Sorting and quality checks

Cleaning, sorting and grading to your written protocol, with samples drawn and sent the way you ask.

Local transport

Moving goods within Somaliland and to the port of Berbera.

Documents

Certificate of origin, phytosanitary certificate, invoice, packing list and lot list, made out to your instructions.

Reporting

Written reports and photographs at the points you choose: after buying, after sorting, at loading.

Shipment preparation

Packing, marking and delivery to your forwarder or to the vessel.

Where the work is done

How it is scoped

1. You send a brief

   What you need done, to what standard, by when, and what you want reported.

2. We reply with a scope

   What we will do, what we will not, what you will receive, and the fee. The fee depends on the work, so it is quoted with the scope.

3. The work is done

   Abdirahman Hussein in Hargeisa answers for the work itself, and Hamza Abdi in Canada for everything else.

4. You get the report

   In writing, with photographs and the records behind it.

What a report contains

Scope

The engagement and the task the report belongs to

Date and place

When and where the work was done

Who did the work

The person, by name

What was done or checked

Against your brief, line by line

Findings

What was seen, counted or weighed, and what was not checked

Attached

Photographs and records

Confidentiality and conflicts

Confidentiality

Tell us what confidentiality terms you need before you send supplier names or prices. They are agreed in writing first.

Conflicts

We buy and sell the same materials ourselves. Where a brief conflicts with our own buying, we say so and decline that part.

What it is not

• An accredited inspection. We are a trading company that works at origin, and not an inspection body. If you appoint an inspection agency, we work alongside it.
• A certification. A report from us says what was seen and done. It does not certify a supplier.
• Importing. Customs clearance in your country stays with you and your broker.

Questions

Can you work with suppliers we already use?

Tell us who they are and what you need checked or coordinated. Where that conflicts with our own buying, we say so and decline that part.

Can you work to a third-party standard?

We can follow a written protocol you give us. That is different from being certified to a standard, and we hold no such certificate.

How is this paid for?

By a fee agreed with the scope before work starts. Goods bought on your account are invoiced separately.