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Our Mission: Building bridges between the East and the West

We enable small and medium-sized companies to profit from leveraging global sourcing markets.

We support Asian companies to grow their business with Western customers. 

We create a global network of trustful buyers and capable suppliers generating sustainable and profitable long-term business together. 

What makes us unique

SPECIALIZED TRUSTED NETWORK INSIGHTS END-TO-END

To provide top value for our partners, we are focused on selected industries allowing us to be exceptional specialized.

Every industry has its very own specifics and requirements that must be known and considered. Understanding these prerequisites means understanding the customer. It is about gaining a deep understanding of a customer‘s entire business environment and its particular challenges.

This is the reason why we are focusing on selected industries and supply categories. It allows us being able to support our customers throughout the entire value creation process with key elements such as strategy development, global market intelligence, deep category knowledge, risk management and resilience.

Understanding our partners and their industry is key for us.

We believe that transparency, high-capability and trust is the basis of successful relationships that creates a powerful network of buyers and suppliers.

Our network of buyers and suppliers is deeply evaluated on credibility, capability, and trustfulness. We are having a clear understanding on the needs of our partners and bring companies together with the goal to write success stories. 

Many of the procurement executives are interested to leverage global supply markets to remain competitive. However, risk management and resilient supply chains are important prerequisite before making any decision. For that reason, we are highly focused on risk analysis which includes a deep evaluation of the entire organization of suppliers including their value chain, but also macro-economic and political conditions, or the environmental and social conditions.  

The success of our business is the choice of our business partners.

Best in class advisory for our network partners.

Our founder Thomas is a global procurement executive for decades. He always wished that sourcing projects must be more efficient, effective, and strategic. The main problem is that most of the projects are starting from scratch due to ever changing markets which require continuous benchmarking of suppliers and business partners.

A precondition improve this situation is (a) being focused on pre-selected industries and categories, and (b) continuous monitor and evaluate the suppliers on the global supply market to ensure connecting only the best of them to procurement executives. This work requires tremendous resources from procurement organizations and their executives who are increasingly challenged by daily works, organizational transformations, and emergencies. We are relieving them from the stressful search and management of suppliers and business partners worldwide by taking-over entire projects or performing modular parts thereof. 

We create opportunities throughout our insights not accessible for many others.

Excellence from strategy to execution in procurement, partnership management, and business development.

Relate Networks is deeply rooted in global strategic procurement. Our founder Thomas is a procurement executive with more than 15 years of professional experience developed during his work as executive in global acting companies leading in their respective industry. This background allows us provide best-in-class procurement strategy to our partners beyond excellence in global sourcing. This combination represents significant benefits for our partners and a competitive advantage for us. 

We relentlessy pursuit the success of projects. Our partners value excellence in strategy development and strong project execution. 

For our partners in Asia, we can offer a global network to company leaders and procurement executives with a long experience of business development and partnership management. This allows us to create business opportunities and prepare our partners to compete on the European market. 

We consider our strategy as successful when strong execution turned into reality. 

We are creating mutual beneficial relationships between buyer and supplier

GOALS OF
PROCUREMENT EXECUTIVES

  • Leverage global sourcing markets
  • Cost reductions
  • Access to capable suppliers
  • Risk mitigation
  • Increase supply chain resilience
  • Dual sourcing strategy
  • Access to technology and innovation
  • Outsourcing projects
  • Partnerships (e..g. white labelling)
  • Increase local content (projects/production)


GOALS OF
ASIAN SUPPLIERS

  • Increasing business and growth with target customers 
  • Develop stable customer relationships for long-term profitable business 
  • Having direct access to decision makers at customers 
  • Understand and comply with (hidden) customer requirements 
  • Deep insights concerning (local) competitors
  • Market intelligence and future trends and developments


Thomas Stein is the founder of Relate Global Networks. He is a procurement executive, business strategist and leader of multi-cultural teams with more than 15 years of professional experience developed during his work as executive in global acting companies leading in their respective industry. 

In recent years, Thomas and his teams executed a purchase spend of more than 1 Billion Euro per year.

Thomas gained his broad experience and reputation in the area of partnership and alliance management, procurement, and corporate strategy. 

During his professional career, Thomas developed a global network with companies across various industries. His connections to executives and leaders allows him to create new business opportunities for his partners. 

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