Dubai, UAE

Crossborder Sourcing Made Easy

Karavan Platform

Have you ever considered buying the products directly from the manufacturer in other country? Products are much cheaper, and the assortment is much wider. But the process of buying a merchandise from across the border was never easy. We are here to disrupt the cross-border trade and make it just as simple as buying the products locally.

Sourcing platform does not provide any services for products and/or entities sanctioned by EU or US government resolutions.

Source Worldwide

We currently work with suppliers and customers from China, India, Turkiye, UAE, and all countries of the European Union. More countries are added on a regular basis. Feel free to send us a request to info@karavan.ae if you don't see the country you need in our list.

Karavan Platform has a full set of tools and services to support cross-border sourcing:

Find suppliers, negotiate prices and payment terms

Based on your request with product description and required quantities we engage our local platform representatives to find a suitable suppliers, get thier product offering with initial pricing quotes. According to your instructions they will conduct the negotiations to get the best prices and volume discounts.

Сontracting and ordering

The platform allows you to sign a Sales and Purchase Agreement (SPA) with the local Sourcing agent on a standard terms who will buy the products from the supplier for you locally and then re-sell it to you internationally via platform. Back to back order placing process is fully automated to make the procurement process absolutely transparent for you.

Quality control and shipping

Quality and quantity control of the products delivered to the cross-docking facility is crucial to get refunds or replacements from the supplier in a timely manner and prior to shipping the order internationally to the destination country. We work with a pool of reliable and cost efficient transportation companies to deliver the products to you.

Customs clearance

Export clearance, VAT re-imbursement, import duties and tax payment and forms processing is done by the professionals who work in collaboration with the supplier and the transportation company to allow seamless and timely customs clearance procedures.

Payments

Having a payments flow in both direction to and from the country of supplier and the buyer allows us to save costs on currency conversion and execute payments rapidly. You always pay in your local currency and at the exchange rate set by the central bank at your home country on the date of payment.

Payment terms optimization

Advance payments may become an issue and significanlty impact a working capital and slow down your business while banks are reluctant to finance the cross-border purchases. We can buy the product from the supplier based on 100% advance payment and re-sell it to you based on 10% to 50% advance payment terms while you will pay the rest of the amount upon recieving the products in your home country

One-Stop-Shop Service

All of our six services can be used independently or combined into service bundles upon the needs of your business. You can use Karavan platform to automate the sourcing process end-to-end starting from submitting the product requirement until receiving the products in your home country and paying in local currency.

Finding suppliers and Contracting

What do you need to provide: product details

What you get: a signed contract and the order form

Cost of service: 1-1,5% of the order value and a fixed retainer per each item or product group

Find suppliers and products, negotiate prices and payment terms

Contracting and order processing (optional)

Payments and Payment terms

What do you need to provide: product and supplier details

What you get: a signed contract, order form and payment

Cost of service: 2-7% of the order value depending on the advance payment share

Contracting and order processing

Payments

Payment terms optimization

Quality control, shipping and customs clearance

What do you need to provide: a signed contract and order form

What you get: product delivered to your warehouse

Cost of service: 2-3% of order value and open book costs for shipping rates, customs duties and tax payments

Quality control and shipping

Customs clearance (optional)

End to end out-sourcing of procurement

What do you need to provide: product details

What you get: products delivered to your warehouse

Cost of service: 10-15% of order value and open book costs buying the products, shipping rates, customs duties and tax payments

Find suppliers and products, negotiate prices and payment terms

Contracting and order processing

Quality control and shipping

Customs clearance

Payments

Payment terms optimization

Get more Customers

We are constantly expanding our Agents and Suppliers network in the countries of our presence. If you are an experienced commercial agent or a trade broker with a good category and local market knowledge, please register on our platform and start doing business with thousands of buyers from various countries. Once registered and verified, you will get orders in your area of expertise and in your local market.

Market scouting

Finding the suppliers and products according to the specifications.

Buying the products locally

Buying the product locally, executing payments in local currency

Customs clearance

carry out customs clearance of the shipment on the export side of supplier's country

Quality and quantity control

Ensure of goods quality and its amount according to client's product details and order form

Need help?

If you have any questions about using the Karavan Platform or if you want to report incorrect behaviour of one of the trading participants on the Platform, please send us an email to support@karavan.ae

Company Details

Legal name
Karavan-FZE

Registration Number
DSO-FZE-20272

Tax Registration Number
104025281700003