Choosing the supplier was the hard decision. Keeping it running is the part nobody warns you about — the shipment held at the border, the quality that quietly slips, the plant that doesn’t pick up in your time zone. From a thousand miles away, in another language, in a market where costs and trade rules keep moving, the operation needs someone watching it every day. Ongoing Supplier Management is that someone — whether we sourced your supplier or you already have one. We run the operation in Mexico and hold your manufacturer to its terms, so it keeps performing without you managing it from a distance.
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When the operation runs on the other side of the border, problems surface only once they’ve reached your costs — the most expensive point to fix them. A quality issue caught at the plant is a conversation. The same issue caught at your warehouse is a rejected shipment, a missed delivery to your own customer, and the margin gone. The distance doesn’t just slow you down; it hides what’s building until it’s already on your numbers.
Ongoing Supplier Management closes that gap. We act as your operation inside the market — coordinating the supplier, the customs broker, and the carrier, holding the manufacturer to its terms, and tracking the trade conditions between Mexico, the U.S., and Canada — so your product keeps arriving, at the cost you set, on the schedule you depend on. This works best put in place before the next order, not after a problem has already reached your numbers.
We take five things off your plate and handle them in Mexico. When something needs action, we act: staying on the supplier, working with your broker and carrier, resolving it, and keeping you informed, rather than handing a problem back for you to solve from a distance. It applies across the industries we work in: automotive, electronics, food and beverage, metals, pharmaceutical, and industrial equipment.
We watch the cost of your product delivered to your warehouse as its pieces move — currency, freight, duties, regulatory changes — and act on what moves against you the moment we see it, not after it reaches your numbers. You hear about a cost shift from us, with a plan, before it lands on your P&L.
Quality, lead times, and specification, checked in Mexico. When something starts to slip, we raise it with the plant and follow up until it’s fixed before it reaches your warehouse.
We coordinate your customs broker and carrier and stay ahead of tariff measures, USMCA developments, and cost movements that affect your shipments, so the trade rules work in your favor and your cargo keeps clearing and moving.
We keep the market in view, so a single supplier is never your only path. If a relationship ever needs to change, you start from our knowledge of who’s capable in your category — not from zero. A full switch is scoped as its own project, but you’re never starting cold.
When a matter needs a direct conversation with the plant, we have it — by phone or in person, in the supplier’s language, staying on it until you get the outcome you need — in a way that cannot be done from across the border.
Much of what you pay for is the problem that never happens — the supplier that stays sharp because someone is watching, the cost shift caught before it lands. You’re not paying for activity; you’re paying for the operation to keep running without your attention.
We take no commission, finder’s fee, or margin from your supplier — not on quotes, not on volume, not anywhere. The engagement is paid by you, which is what allows it to represent your interest alone.
The relationship with your manufacturer is yours, and it stays yours. This stands behind that independence; it does not trade it away. The engagement runs month to month, with no fixed term and no lock-in.
A BLACKETT coordination team operating inside the Mexican market, with eight years of cross-border sourcing and logistics experience across Mexico, the U.S., and Canada — in automotive, electronics, food and beverage, metals, and industrial equipment. Real relationships with manufacturers, freight forwarders, and customs brokers, and the kind of experience that knows what a delay really costs, what a supplier is actually capable of, and where the trade rules give or take. The work is documented and shared across the team, so your operation never rests on a single person.
BLACKETT operates under Tiny Brands LLC, a Wyoming-registered entity. International contracts, USD invoicing, and clear legal accountability. Communication with you in professional English; with your supplier, in native Spanish.
We run the day-to-day of your supply chain in Mexico: we stay on your supplier to hold quality, pricing, and lead times; we coordinate with your customs broker and carrier so cargo clears and moves correctly; we track the cost and trade conditions behind your landed cost; and we resolve issues with the plant directly, in Spanish, as they come up. You have a single point of contact and a short update on where things stand. The point is that the work gets done here, not sent back to you to deal with.
Pricing starts at $2,500 USD per month and is scoped to your program. A single-supplier operation with steady volume sits near the lower end; a multi-supplier or higher-volume program, with more moving parts to coordinate, sits higher, toward $7,500. The scope and the monthly fee are fixed in writing before the engagement begins, with no variable charges.
The engagement runs month to month. There is no fixed term and no lock-in; you may end it with 30 days’ notice. The relationship with your supplier remains yours throughout.
Quiet months are part of the point. A supplier that knows someone in Mexico is checking its quality, holding its pricing, and ready to move volume elsewhere tends to stay sharp — much of the value is in the problems that never happen. The conditions behind your landed cost also keep moving whether or not your supplier does, and we stay ahead of them. You are not paying for activity in a given month; you are paying for the operation to keep running without your attention.
Your broker and forwarder move the cargo and are paid to do so. Neither is responsible for whether your landed cost has drifted, whether your supplier’s quality is holding, or whether a better term is available. Ongoing Supplier Management represents your interest across all of it, and answers to you alone.
No. BLACKETT takes no commission, finder’s fee, or margin from your manufacturer. The engagement is paid by you, which is what allows it to represent your interest and no one else’s.
Monitoring, coordination with your supplier, broker, and carrier, and routine representation in Mexico are included, along with a regular update on where things stand. Larger work — sourcing a new product, replacing a supplier, a full re-validation, or travel to Mexico — is scoped and quoted separately, with your approval before anything begins.
The engagement is run by BLACKETT’s coordination team on the ground in Mexico. Your supplier, your specifications, and the history of your operation are documented and shared across the team, so the knowledge sits in the record rather than in one person, and the work continues without disruption.
You can keep running it yourself — by phone, in a second language, learning about problems once they’re already on your numbers. Or you can hand Mexico to someone who’s already there, watching it every day. Book a time, share your situation, and within 48 hours you have a proposal you can act on.