Our people spent their careers in development, sourcing, quality and compliance — at global luggage brands and inside the factories that make them. You contract the factory directly, see its invoice in full, and pay us a disclosed commission — because a great sample is not the same thing as a great production run.
You do not need to know our service names to get started. Choose the situation closest to yours — each one leads to a concrete next step.
You have a concept, a reference sample or an early specification, and need development and production support. We help define the requirements, assess manufacturability, choose materials and components, match a supplier, and move the sample forward.
You have a sample or a candidate factory, and you are about to commit to tooling or a first production run. We run a Pre-production Readiness Review to find what is not yet resolved before you scale.
You already have a supplier, but quality, delivery or communication are inconsistent. We start from the specific problem — checking supplier capability, production planning, quality control and exception handling, then setting improvement priorities.
The product is on the market, with returns, repairs, spare parts or repeated defects. We consolidate after-sales records, investigate the product and production issues, and feed the findings back into the specification and the next run.
Most luggage brands don’t die from a bad design. They die from a supply chain that lets them down — a season missed to a fifth sampling round, a bulk run that doesn’t match the sample, a compliance hold at the border, a warranty promise nobody can honour. None of these show up in a supplier’s quote. All of them show up in your P&L.
Six months of Alibaba messages, samples that arrive wrong, and no way to tell a real factory from a trading company with a nice showroom.
You need 300 units to test a market. Every factory you find wants 1,000. So you either over-commit capital or abandon the product.
A beautiful sample proves somebody can make one good unit. It says nothing about a run of 500. Different operators, different material lots, and a defect rate you only discover once the goods have landed in your 3PL.
A retailer or marketplace asks for a social audit, a chemical test report, or traceability documentation — and nobody can produce it in time.
You are quoted a unit price with no breakdown. Somewhere inside it is a margin you are paying for the privilege of not knowing who actually makes your product.
Time zones, language gaps, and a factory rep who answers "yes" to everything — then delivers something you did not ask for.
Away and BÉIS didn’t win because of better marketing. They won because their supply chain didn’t fail them. Now that capability is available to you — without the billion-dollar overhead.
We are not a sourcing agent. We are the supply chain team behind the next generation of iconic luggage brands — the function you would build in-house if you could hire a senior luggage team on day one, without the payroll that comes with it.
Concept to tech pack: structure, hardware, materials, tolerances, and the drawings a factory can actually build from.
Shells, linings, zippers, wheels, handles and hardware — specified, costed and traceable to their source.
Factory selection, capacity planning, production scheduling and line allocation matched to your volume.
Incoming, in-process and pre-shipment inspection against AQL, with photo-documented reports you can act on.
Freight, consolidation, documentation and customs clearance — with the HS classification done correctly the first time.
Factory audits, chemical and physical testing, and the documentation retailers and marketplaces require.
Defect analysis, corrective action at the factory, and a post-season review that lowers cost on the next run.
Product development, supplier management, production scheduling, compliance, quality, logistics and after-sales — all handled, all documented. You design and sell.
Crowdfunding proves people want your bag. It does not build one. Most funded hardware and bag campaigns that ship late do not miss their date because the design was wrong — they miss it because tooling, sampling rounds and compliance testing were never scheduled with a realistic buffer.
We would rather quote you a longer date and hit it than a short one and spend a year answering comments. If your campaign promised a month, we tell you early — not in week eleven.
Development, tooling and first samples can start while the campaign is still running. That overlap is usually the difference between shipping on schedule and shipping an apology.
REACH, CPSIA and Prop 65 testing has a calendar of its own. Booking it during development means your first shipment clears customs instead of sitting in a bonded warehouse.
Every engagement opens a private workspace at mycarryorigin.com. Development progress, inspection reports, certificates, spare parts and your compliance calendar live in one place — current, instead of reconstructed from email threads the night before a customer asks.
Illustrative layout — your workspace is built around your own programmes, SKUs and factories.
Every file is delivered twice over: as a quality record for your team, and as evidence you can publish to your own customers. Sizer measurements, test reports and repair guides are the things a DTC brand is most often asked to prove and least often able to.
Most sourcing partners make their money in the gap between what the factory charges and what you are billed. We removed the gap and replaced it with a disclosed commission.
We are paid for the work, not for the spread. If the factory price drops, your cost drops — your commission does not quietly absorb the difference.
Each engagement is priced to its own scope — a project fee, a per-SKU or per-batch fee, or a disclosed commission. The right structure is explained before you commit, and shown on the relevant service page.
We spent our careers inside the brands you are trying to build. The value we bring is not a factory list — it is knowing which question to ask before the mistake gets manufactured.
Daniel Wang · Founding Partner, CarryOrigin · 30 years brand-side in luggage — supply chain, quality and compliance
CarryOrigin operates from Shenzhen, inside the manufacturing ecosystem that supplies most of the world’s travel goods. That proximity is not decoration: it is how we inspect a sample the same week you send it, walk a factory floor without a flight, and catch a specification gap before it becomes a production run.
Send the product idea, the target cost and the volume you have in mind. We will tell you honestly whether we are the right team to help — and what it would take.