Wholesale
What a serious wholesale buyer should ask a water supplier
A short checklist for hotels, restaurants, distributors and institutions evaluating a bulk water partner, beyond price per case.
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Price per case is easy to compare and the least useful number on its own. These are the questions that separate a reliable supply partner from a cheap one.
Supply reliability
- What is your standing production capacity, and your lead time at MOQ versus at container volume?
- Can you hold safety stock for a contracted account, and how is a shortfall handled?
- What are your delivery terms: ex-works or delivered, palletised, and to which cities?
Quality evidence
- Do you issue a Certificate of Analysis per batch, and will you share a recent third-party lab report?
- Which certifications do you hold, and are they current?
- How is batch coding done, so a recall or a query can be traced to a production run?
Commercial fit
- What formats and pack configurations are available, and can they be mixed on a pallet?
- What does private label require: minimum volume, artwork process, lead time?
- What are payment terms for a contracted wholesale account?
Mountiva answers all of the above in a wholesale quote. Ask us the hard version of every question here.