Spain · Section: buying-guides · Madrid-coordinated
How to buy merchandise without over-ordering
Five guides on the decisions that determine whether a merchandise budget lands well: how many units to commit to, when to spend more, and how to compare suppliers on equal terms.
Guides · 5 pages in this section
The decisions that go wrong most often
Merch buying fails in predictable ways. Teams order far more than their team needs because the supplier asked for a higher minimum. They split one order across several low-volume events because nobody aggregated it. They pay rush money because the brief arrived late. None of these are pricing mistakes; they are planning mistakes, and each of them has a guide here that shows the correction rather than restating the problem.
The minimum order guide explains how to test a design at sample quantity, what changes when you move to a production run, and how to spread a minimum across several events so you buy once instead of three times. The rollout guide covers running one programme across Spain, Portugal, Poland and Romania with a single artwork set and local packing lists. The supplier selection guide sets out the questions worth asking before a vendor reaches a shortlist, including which ones are worth asking in writing.
Every page in this section · 5 entries
The five guides in this section
Each guide ends with a short decision checklist you can take into a budget meeting. None of them asks you to send us a brief first; they are written to be useful before you contact anyone.
Before the brief · answered in full
Questions about the buying guides
Which guide should I read first?
Start with the minimum order quantity guide. It is the decision that changes the unit price most often, and it determines which of the other guides applies to your situation.
Do these guides apply to recurring programmes?
Yes. The aggregation advice is written for annual programmes that run every year, where the same decision is made once and then reused.
Can we use the guides internally without crediting you?
Yes. Send them to whoever else owns the budget. If you then want our prices for a specific volume, that is a separate conversation.
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Tell us what the programme has to do
Send the quantity, the product, the decoration, the delivery city and the date you need it. We reply with a written proposal and the lead time that applies to your order.