In the second week of January a gift retailer’s buying team reviews a Valentine’s range that is already on shelf, and starts specifying the Mother’s Day and Christmas programmes that will sit in the same fixtures later in the year. Somewhere in that meeting a line item reads “handmade quilling cards – 24 designs, 18,000 units.” The person who has to make that happen is looking at a supply chain where every single unit is assembled by hand, one paper coil at a time, in a country whose largest public holiday falls exactly in the window when Mother’s Day production should be running.
Quilling cards are one of the few product categories where a buyer can be simultaneously right about the market and wrong about the calendar. The design is good, the price works, the retailer is committed — and the order is placed eleven weeks before the shelf date, which for a hand-assembled product is not a lead time, it is a hope. This guide sets out how gift, stationery and department-store buyers should build a seasonal order calendar for Vietnamese handcrafted quilling cards, where the critical path actually runs, and which dates have to be locked before anything else can move.
Why Handcrafted Cards Break the Normal Sourcing Calendar
Most seasonal sourcing calendars are built on an assumption borrowed from machine-made goods: if you need twice the volume, you run the line twice as long, or you run a second line. Capacity is treated as something that can be bought at short notice, usually at a premium.
Paper quilling does not behave that way. A quilled card is built by rolling, shaping and gluing individual paper strips into coils, then arranging those coils into a composition on a card blank. There is no machine step that can be accelerated. The output of a workshop is the number of trained hands multiplied by the hours they work, and both of those variables move slowly. You cannot recruit a quilling artisan in a fortnight; the hand skill that produces consistent coil tension and clean edges takes months of practice to reach commercial standard.
The practical consequence is that capacity for a seasonal peak has to be reserved, not ordered. A buyer who books a slot in March for October delivery is buying artisan-hours that the workshop will then not sell to anyone else. A buyer who arrives in July asking for the same volume is asking a workshop to conjure hands that do not exist.
A second structural difference: design complexity changes throughput far more than it changes cost of materials. A simple three-flower composition and an elaborate layered bouquet may differ by only a few cents in paper, but by a factor of three in assembly time. On a machine-made product, complexity mostly hits tooling. On a handcrafted product, complexity hits the calendar directly.
The Retail Sell-In Date Is Not Your Delivery Date
The single most common planning error is anchoring the whole calendar to the consumer-facing date. Valentine’s Day is 14 February; that is not the date the cards are needed. Working forward from the consumer date produces a schedule that is structurally four to five months late.
For a typical gift or stationery programme, the real sequence of dates runs backwards from the consumer occasion like this:
| Milestone | Typical timing before the consumer occasion | Who controls it |
|---|---|---|
| Consumer purchase peak | 0 – 3 weeks before | Consumer |
| Range on shelf / online listing live | 4 – 8 weeks before | Retailer |
| Stock in retailer distribution centre | 8 – 12 weeks before | Retailer |
| Goods arrive at importer warehouse | 12 – 18 weeks before | Importer |
| Vessel departs Vietnam | 16 – 26 weeks before | Freight forwarder |
| Production complete and inspected | 18 – 28 weeks before | Supplier |
| Purchase order placed and deposit paid | 26 – 40 weeks before | Buyer |
| Design and sampling signed off | 32 – 46 weeks before | Buyer and supplier |
Read the last row carefully. For a Christmas programme, design sign-off sits roughly ten to eleven months ahead of the consumer occasion. That is why gift trade fairs in the northern hemisphere — Christmasworld and Ambiente in Frankfurt, Spring Fair in Birmingham and their regional equivalents — cluster in late January and February. They are not selling for that spring. They are selling for the following Christmas.
Working Backwards: The Full Critical Path for a Quilling Card Programme
Below is a working critical path for a new seasonal quilling card range of roughly fifteen to twenty-five designs at mid-volume. Repeat ranges with no new artwork compress the front end substantially; first-time programmes with a new supplier should add buffer at every gate.
| Stage | Indicative duration | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Brief, concept sketches and design selection | 3 – 5 weeks | Buyer-side approvals are usually the constraint, not the supplier |
| Counter samples (first physical interpretation) | 2 – 3 weeks | Includes courier transit each way |
| Revision round and colourway fixing | 2 – 4 weeks | Budget for two rounds; one is optimistic on a new range |
| Golden sample sealed and counter-signed | 1 – 2 weeks | No production should start before this exists |
| Paper, envelope, sleeve and packaging procurement | 3 – 5 weeks | Specialty and FSC-certified stocks run longer |
| Artisan capacity block confirmed | Concurrent | Must be reserved at PO, not at production start |
| Hand assembly | 5 – 10 weeks | Scales with unit count and coil complexity |
| Packing, barcoding, retail-ready presentation | 1 – 2 weeks | Longer if each card is individually sleeved and labelled |
| Pre-shipment inspection and rework allowance | 1 – 2 weeks | Handcraft AQL findings need real rework time |
| Booking, stuffing, port cut-off | 1 – 2 weeks | Peak-season space is the risk, not the paperwork |
| Ocean transit | 2 – 7 weeks | Highly lane-dependent — see below |
| Customs clearance and inbound to warehouse | 1 – 2 weeks | Add margin in markets with pre-shipment inspection regimes |
Totalled at the optimistic end, that is about twenty-two weeks from brief to warehouse. At the realistic end for a new range on a long lane, it is thirty-eight to forty-two weeks. Neither number is unusual for handcrafted goods; what is unusual is how often programmes are planned as though the optimistic number were the only one.
Artisan Capacity Is Linear, Not Elastic
It is worth putting arithmetic behind the capacity point, because it is the number that most often surprises first-time buyers of handcrafted cards.
A trained quilling artisan working on a moderately complex composition typically completes somewhere between eight and twenty finished cards per working day, depending on coil count, layering, and how much of the composition is repeated motif versus unique element. A simple single-motif design sits at the upper end; a dense multi-layer bouquet or a three-dimensional pop-up construction can fall below eight.
Take a mid-complexity design at twelve cards per artisan-day and a workshop group of forty artisans working twenty-four days in a month. That is 11,520 cards per month for that group — if they build nothing else. A programme of 30,000 units across mixed complexity is therefore not a three-week job. It is roughly three months of a dedicated group, plus the packing operation that follows it.
Two planning rules follow from this. First, ask for capacity in artisan-days, not in vague assurances that volume “is not a problem” — a supplier who can express your order in artisan-days has actually planned it. Second, understand that any additional order you place into the same window competes with your own programme. Buyers who split a range across two POs six weeks apart sometimes discover they have queued behind themselves.
For a fuller treatment of how capacity blocks and peak-season constraints behave across our product lines, see our guide to lead times and peak-season capacity planning.
Tet Is the Immovable Object in Every Vietnamese Card Calendar
Tet Nguyen Dan, the Vietnamese Lunar New Year, is the single most disruptive fixed event in a Vietnam sourcing calendar, and it hits handcrafted categories harder than factory categories. Tet 2027 falls on 6 February 2027; Tet 2028 falls on 26 January 2028.
The statutory holiday is short, but the practical shutdown is not. Craft-village workshops draw heavily on workers who travel home to other provinces, and it is normal for a workshop to run at reduced output for one to two weeks before the holiday and to take two to three weeks after it to return to full, consistent throughput. Plan on a four to six week dip in effective capacity around the date, not a one-week public holiday.
Three consequences that matter for card programmes specifically:
- Valentine’s production cannot straddle Tet. In years where Tet falls in late January or early February, Valentine’s stock must be finished, inspected and gone before the workshops close. There is no post-Tet recovery window for a 14 February occasion.
- Mother’s Day is the quiet casualty. May Mother’s Day programmes are typically built in February and March — exactly the ramp-back period. A programme that assumes full throughput in the fortnight after Tet is planning against the grain.
- Port and trucking capacity tightens around the holiday too. The pre-Tet rush to clear cargo compresses booking availability at precisely the moment everyone else is trying to ship.
The mitigation is unglamorous and effective: pull the cut-off forward. Set an internal rule that any goods needed for a first-quarter occasion must be inspection-complete at least three weeks before the Tet date, and treat that as a hard gate rather than a target.
Ocean Transit: The Variable Buyers Most Often Underestimate
Card cargo is light and high-value per cubic metre relative to, say, wooden houseware, so buyers sometimes assume it moves faster. It does not — it moves on the same vessels. Indicative port-to-port transit times from Ho Chi Minh City or Hai Phong, excluding inland legs and clearance:
| Destination region | Indicative port-to-port transit | Planning notes |
|---|---|---|
| Intra-Asia (Singapore, Port Klang, Hong Kong) | 4 – 10 days | Frequent sailings; short lane forgives small slips |
| North Asia (Busan, Shanghai, Japan) | 7 – 14 days | Watch Golden Week and Lunar New Year congestion |
| Middle East (Jebel Ali, Dammam, Hamad) | 16 – 24 days | Usually via transhipment; add days for the connection |
| India subcontinent (Nhava Sheva, Colombo) | 10 – 18 days | Transhipment dependent |
| North Europe (Rotterdam, Hamburg, Felixstowe) | 30 – 50 days | Range reflects Suez versus Cape of Good Hope routing |
| Mediterranean (Genoa, Piraeus, Valencia) | 26 – 45 days | Same routing sensitivity as North Europe |
The North Europe range in that table is the one that has broken more seasonal programmes than any other single factor in recent years. Where carriers route around the Cape of Good Hope rather than through the Suez Canal, ten to fourteen days are added to a lane that was already the longest in the network. A buyer planning to a thirty-day assumption on a lane that is running at forty-five days has silently spent their entire safety margin before the container is even stuffed.
Two practical habits: ask your forwarder for the current routing and transit on your specific service string rather than a historical average, and re-confirm it at booking rather than at planning. On a seasonal programme, transit is not a constant — it is a live variable that should be re-checked at each gate. Our guide to container loading and ocean freight from Vietnam covers the booking mechanics in more depth.
The Q3 Peak-Season Squeeze
There is a second, self-inflicted problem with Christmas card programmes: everyone ships them at the same time. From roughly July to early October, Asia–Europe and Asia–Middle East trades carry the annual peak of consumer-goods volume moving for the Western Q4. Space tightens, rates rise, and — the part that hurts a card programme most — rolled containers become common.
A rolled container is not a rate problem, it is a date problem. A booking that rolls twice on a weekly service has lost fourteen days from a schedule that may not have fourteen days to give. Cards that miss a retailer’s DC intake window do not get sold late; for a dated seasonal occasion they frequently do not get sold at all.
Buyers with real exposure here do three things. They book space earlier than they think they need to and accept the commitment. They avoid the last possible sailing that mathematically works, and build to the second-to-last. And they agree with the supplier in advance what happens if a booking rolls — who re-books, who pays storage, and at what point the shipment converts to a partial air movement.
The Four Seasonal Peaks and When Each One Has to Be Locked
Different occasions have genuinely different planning shapes. Treating them as one generic “seasonal” block is how a calendar goes wrong.
Valentine’s Day (14 February)
High unit concentration, narrow design range, short shelf window. Retail listings typically go live between late December and the first week of January, so DC intake lands in November or early December. Because the production window collides with the Tet run-up, Valentine’s is the peak with the least tolerance for slippage. Lock design by April–May of the preceding year; place the PO by June–July; ship no later than September–October depending on lane.
Mother’s Day (market-dependent)
This is the trap for buyers selling into more than one market. In the United Kingdom and Ireland, Mothering Sunday moves with the Lent calendar and falls in March. Across most of Europe, the Gulf, and much of Asia, the occasion falls in May, most commonly the second Sunday. A single “Mother’s Day” production plan serving both markets is really two programmes with delivery dates roughly eight weeks apart, and the March market has to be built before Tet.
Christmas and year-end gifting
The largest volume, the longest planning horizon, and the peak most exposed to Q3 freight congestion. Design work runs the January–March window of the same year, POs are placed spring, production runs late spring through mid-summer, and shipment must clear before the freight peak bites. A Christmas card programme that is still finalising artwork in May is already in trouble.
Ramadan, Eid and regional gifting occasions
For Middle East buyers this is often the most commercially important window of the year, and it moves — the Islamic calendar shifts roughly eleven days earlier each Gregorian year. Ramadan in 2027 is expected to begin around early February and in 2028 around late January, which means the Gulf gifting peak is migrating directly into the Tet collision zone over the next several seasons. Buyers in this trade should be pulling their production window forward year on year, not repeating last season’s dates.
Regional occasions elsewhere in Asia — Lunar New Year gifting itself, Diwali, Mid-Autumn Festival — each carry their own fixed dates and should be mapped onto the same backward calendar rather than treated as opportunistic add-ons.
Design Development Is Where Programmes Actually Slip
Ask a buyer where a late seasonal programme lost its time and the instinctive answer is production or freight. In practice, the majority of lost weeks accumulate at the front of the project, in approval loops, and they are almost entirely on the buyer’s side of the table.
The pattern is familiar: concept sketches go out, sit in an inbox for nine days, come back with a request to see three additional colourways, which triggers another physical sampling round with courier transit in both directions. Two of those loops costs six weeks. Six weeks at the front of a calendar is six weeks that later has to be found in production or in freight, and neither of those will give it back.
What works:
- Name one decision-maker with authority to approve, and one named deputy. Committee approval on artwork is the most reliable way to lose a month.
- Set approval SLAs in the range agreement — for example, five working days per round — and put the schedule consequence of a missed SLA in writing.
- Cap the number of revision rounds included in the development fee, and price additional rounds. This is not about revenue; it is about forcing the decision.
- Approve colour against a physical sample or a specified reference system, never against a screen. Paper colour on a monitor is not a specification.
- Settle artwork ownership and exclusivity at the same time as the design, not later — see our guide to custom artwork, IP ownership and design exclusivity for Vietnam quilling cards.
Sampling Gates: Concept, Counter Sample, Golden Sample, Pre-Production
On a handcrafted product the sample is not a formality — it is the specification. There is no CAD file that defines coil tension or how much glue shadow is acceptable at the edge of a petal. The physical reference is the only enforceable standard, and each gate exists for a reason.
| Gate | What it proves | What it does not prove |
|---|---|---|
| Concept sample | The design is physically buildable in quilling | Nothing about production consistency |
| Counter sample | The supplier’s interpretation matches the brief | Nothing about volume timing |
| Golden sample (sealed, counter-signed, retained both sides) | The agreed commercial standard for the run | That the workshop can hold it at volume |
| Pre-production sample from the actual run | The line is producing to the golden sample | — |
| First-article / in-line check at 10–20% completion | Drift is caught while rework is still cheap | — |
Skipping the pre-production gate to save a week is the single worst trade available on a seasonal card programme. A drift discovered at pre-shipment inspection on 18,000 hand-assembled cards is not a week of rework; it can be a month, and there is no month left by then. Our guide to MOQ, samples and the golden sample process sets out how each gate should be documented.
Cards Cube Out Long Before They Weigh Out
A shipping planning point that is specific to this category: quilling cards are extremely light and, because the quilled composition stands proud of the card face, they cannot be stacked flat like printed cards. Each card typically needs a rigid or semi-rigid protective format — a clear sleeve with a backing board, a window box, or a compartmented inner — and that packaging is what determines your container maths, not the cards themselves.
The result is that a card programme fills the volume of a container while using a small fraction of its payload. A 40′ high-cube offers roughly 76 cubic metres of usable stowage; a card programme will exhaust that space at a total weight far below the container’s limit. Two implications:
- Freight cost per unit is driven by carton design, not by product weight. An extra 8 mm of inner-box depth, multiplied across thousands of units, can cost a meaningful percentage of the container.
- Consolidation with a heavier category makes economic sense. Shipping cards alongside wooden houseware or compostable tableware from the same origin uses payload that the card programme was never going to use. This only works if both product lines are ready on the same date — which brings the planning back to the calendar.
Get the carton and retail presentation specification settled early rather than at packing. Our guide to export packaging, barcoding and retail-ready presentation covers the specification detail; on a seasonal programme the key point is simply that late packaging decisions create late shipments.
Phasing: Split Shipments Versus One Consolidated Container
Once a programme is large enough to fill more than a few pallets, buyers face a genuine trade-off between a single consolidated shipment and a phased release.
| Approach | Advantages | Costs and risks |
|---|---|---|
| Single consolidated shipment | Lowest freight per unit; one set of documents; one clearance event | All eggs in one vessel; a single roll or delay hits the entire range |
| Two phases (early core, later extension) | Core range lands with margin; extension can absorb a slip | Higher freight per unit; two clearance events; two inspection events |
| Rolling monthly release | Smooths warehouse intake; matches retailer DC scheduling | Highest administrative and freight cost; requires stable forecast |
For a first season with a new supplier, a two-phase structure is usually the right answer even at a freight premium. The first phase carries the highest-confidence, highest-volume designs and is scheduled with real slack; the second phase carries the long tail and the newer designs, where a slip is survivable. What a two-phase structure buys you is not cost — it is the ability to be late on something that does not matter.
Whichever structure you choose, tie the payment schedule to it explicitly. A deposit against a whole-programme PO with a single balance payment on the first shipment leaves the second phase commercially unbalanced. Our guide to payment terms and Incoterms covers how to structure this cleanly.
Air Freight Is a Rescue Plan, Not a Strategy — But Price It Anyway
Cards are one of the few categories where air freight is not automatically absurd. Value density is reasonable, weight is genuinely low, and a partial air movement of the highest-margin designs can save a season that would otherwise be written off.
The discipline is to price it before you need it. Ask your forwarder, at planning stage, what it would cost per unit to move twenty percent of the programme by air on your lane, and record the number. When a booking rolls in September, the decision is then a commercial calculation you have already done, made in an afternoon, rather than a panicked quote request during the busiest air freight week of the year.
Note the practical constraint: air freight is charged on chargeable weight, which for a bulky-but-light card carton will almost always be volumetric rather than actual. The same packaging depth that drives your ocean container maths drives your air quote, only harder. A programme designed with efficient inners has a viable air rescue option; one designed with generous void space does not.
Forecasting: The Reorder Window That Does Not Exist
With machine-made stationery, a strong sell-through in week one can often be met with a reorder that lands in week five. On hand-assembled seasonal cards, that reorder window is largely fictional. By the time sell-through data exists, the artisan capacity has moved to the next programme and the ocean lane cannot deliver inside the occasion.
This changes what forecast accuracy is worth. On a category with a live reorder option, over-forecasting is the expensive error. On seasonal handcrafted cards, under-forecasting is usually the more expensive error, because the lost margin on stock-outs during a dated occasion cannot be recovered in any later week.
Practical responses that do not simply mean “order more”:
- Build a modest over-plan into the highest-confidence designs only, where a carry-over into the following season is realistic, rather than across the whole range.
- Negotiate a pre-agreed top-up block — a reserved artisan capacity slot, priced and dated at PO stage, that you may or may not call off by an agreed decision date. This is far cheaper than trying to buy the same capacity at short notice.
- Design at least part of the range to be occasion-adjacent rather than occasion-specific. A floral quilled card without a dated greeting sells after 14 February; one printed with the date does not.
- Where the market allows, keep dated messaging on a removable belly band or insert rather than on the card itself, so unsold stock converts to evergreen inventory instead of markdown.
Evergreen Ranges Are What Protect the Seasonal Peaks
The most resilient card programmes are not the ones with the best seasonal forecast. They are the ones where seasonal designs sit on top of a continuous evergreen base — birthday, thank you, congratulations, new baby, wedding, blank-inside — that runs at a steady monthly volume all year.
This matters for three reasons that are all about the calendar rather than the catalogue. A steady evergreen order keeps a dedicated artisan group employed and skilled through the year, so the hands exist when the seasonal peak arrives. It gives the workshop a flexible buffer — evergreen production can be paused for a fortnight to protect a seasonal deadline, which is a lever that does not exist if the only work in the building is seasonal. And it means a buyer’s annual volume is not concentrated in two anxious windows, which changes the commercial conversation about capacity reservation entirely.
As a planning heuristic, a range where evergreen represents roughly forty to sixty percent of annual card volume is far easier to schedule, and usually cheaper per unit, than one that is ninety percent seasonal.
A Twelve-Month Planning Calendar
The table below is an indicative annual working rhythm for a buyer serving a northern-hemisphere retail calendar with a Vietnamese quilling card supplier. Gulf and Asia buyers should overlay their own occasion dates — particularly the moving Islamic calendar — onto the same structure.
| Month | Primary focus | Secondary |
|---|---|---|
| January | Christmas artwork brief and concept selection for the coming year; trade fair review | Valentine’s of the current year lands at retail |
| February | Christmas counter samples; pre-Tet shipment cut-off enforced | Reduced workshop capacity around Tet |
| March | Christmas revision round and colourway sign-off; workshops ramping back | UK Mothering Sunday range at retail |
| April | Christmas golden samples sealed; Valentine’s (next year) design brief opens | May Mother’s Day stock in market |
| May | Christmas PO placed and deposit paid; materials procurement begins | Valentine’s concept samples |
| June | Christmas production runs; Valentine’s samples approved | Evergreen replenishment |
| July | Christmas production and packing; book ocean space early for peak | Valentine’s PO placed |
| August | Christmas inspection and shipment; Valentine’s production starts | Mother’s Day (next year) brief opens |
| September | Final Christmas sailings; Valentine’s production continues | Air rescue decision point if any booking has rolled |
| October | Valentine’s inspection and shipment; Mother’s Day sampling | Christmas stock in destination DCs |
| November | Mother’s Day golden samples and PO; evergreen top-up | Christmas at retail |
| December | Season review and sell-through analysis; next-cycle capacity booking | Valentine’s stock at retail |
Two features of that calendar are worth noticing. First, at any given month a buyer is working on two or three different seasons simultaneously — which is exactly why a single spreadsheet with one delivery date per season is inadequate. Second, there is no month in which nothing is happening. Seasonal card sourcing is a continuous process punctuated by shipments, not a series of discrete projects.
Contract Clauses That Make a Calendar Enforceable
A schedule that lives only in an email thread is not a schedule. The following belong in the range agreement or PO annex, and each one exists to convert an assumption into an obligation:
- Milestone dates with named owners for every gate in the critical path, buyer-side obligations included — artwork approval, colour sign-off, packaging artwork release, label data.
- Approval SLAs and the consequence of a breach: if the buyer misses an approval window by five working days, the delivery date moves by an agreed formula rather than becoming a dispute.
- Reserved capacity expressed in artisan-days or units per week, with the reservation period and any reservation fee stated.
- Tet and holiday shutdown declared in writing at PO stage, including the supplier’s expected ramp-back profile, so it is a known input rather than a surprise.
- Latest acceptable shipment date and latest acceptable arrival date stated separately, because they fail in different ways and have different remedies.
- Rolled-booking protocol: who re-books, notification timeline, storage cost allocation, and the trigger point for converting to partial air freight.
- Partial-shipment permission, so a supplier can release completed designs rather than holding a full container for one late SKU.
- Season-specific remedy: for dated seasonal goods, a discount for late arrival is often more useful than a right to reject, because rejection after a missed occasion helps nobody.
- Retained golden samples and inspection standard agreed before production, with the pre-production gate named as a condition precedent to bulk assembly.
- Document release timing, so clearance is not the final avoidable delay — see our guide to export documentation and certificates of origin.
A Planning Checklist Before the First Purchase Order
Ten questions. If any of them has no answer, the calendar has a gap in it.
- What is the latest acceptable arrival date at our warehouse — not the consumer occasion, not the shelf date?
- What transit time is our forwarder quoting on this specific lane and service string today, and what routing does that assume?
- Where does Tet fall in this production window, and what is the supplier’s declared shutdown and ramp-back profile?
- How many artisan-days does this programme require, and has that capacity been reserved in writing?
- Which named individual approves artwork and colour, and what is their approval SLA?
- How many revision rounds are included, and what does an additional round cost in days as well as money?
- Is the packaging and inner specification frozen, and has the carton cube been calculated against the container?
- Is this shipping as one consolidation or in phases, and does the payment schedule match that structure?
- What does a twenty percent air movement cost per unit on this lane, and who decides to trigger it?
- What proportion of this range is dated seasonal versus occasion-adjacent, and what happens to unsold dated stock?
None of this requires a longer contract or a more complex system. It requires the dates to be written down, owned, and checked at gates — which is a discipline, not a document.
Further Reading
- International Chamber of Commerce — Incoterms rules
- ISO 2859-1 — Sampling procedures for inspection by attributes
- FSC — What the FSC labels mean (paper and board certification)
- GS1 — Barcode standards for retail-ready packaging
- UNCTAD — Review of Maritime Transport (container trade and transit trends)
- UNCITRAL — Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG)
Related Guides
- Vietnam handcrafted quilling cards OEM: what wholesalers need to know
- Custom artwork, IP ownership and design exclusivity for Vietnam quilling cards
- MOQ, samples and the golden sample before your first order
- Lead times and peak-season capacity planning from Vietnam
- Container loading and ocean freight from Vietnam
- Payment terms and Incoterms for Vietnam sourcing
Where Viet Farm Vision Fits
Viet Farm Vision is a Vietnam-based OEM manufacturer and exporter of handcrafted paper quilling cards, wooden kitchenware and houseware, compostable and disposable tableware, agricultural products and handicrafts, supplying wholesale and private-label buyers across the Middle East, Asia and wider international markets.
On seasonal card programmes we plan the way this guide describes: capacity is quoted and reserved in artisan-days rather than promised in general terms, the Tet shutdown and ramp-back profile is declared in writing at quotation stage, sampling gates are dated and owned on both sides, and the carton and inner specification is frozen early enough to be part of the container calculation rather than a discovery at packing. Where a buyer runs both a seasonal card range and a wooden houseware or compostable tableware line, we consolidate them out of the same origin so the light cargo travels on payload the container was going to carry anyway.
If you are planning a Valentine’s, Mother’s Day, Ramadan and Eid, or Christmas quilling card programme and want a dated critical path built backwards from your warehouse date rather than forwards from a hope, contact our export team at info@vietfarmvision.com or visit vietfarmvision.com to discuss your range, volumes and target season.