Indexed across five industrial clusters
Yiwu, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Suzhou. Every factory carries a Shugou ID, license hash, and lineage graph back to its parent entities.
1.4M+
verified factories indexed
SHUGOU · PLATFORM
One workspace. Four pillars. Every PO ships on spec and on margin.
Shugou collapses Chinese supplier vetting, 11 years of FOB pricing memory, and shipment reliability scoring into one queryable platform — so your sourcing team stops juggling Alibaba tabs, WhatsApp threads, and a spreadsheet of "who's reliable."
2,400+ DTC and cross-border sourcing teams run their Monday-morning sourcing on Shugou.
- 01 Supplier Graph
- 02 Price Benchmarks
- 03 Shipment Reliability
- 04 API & Integrations
02 — PAGE INDEX
The four questions a sourcing lead asks on Monday morning.
Every section below is built around one operational question. Jump straight to the pain you're solving this week.
03 — SUPPLIER GRAPH
One indexed graph of 1.4M+ verified Chinese factories. Not a Google + Alibaba + WhatsApp mess.
Shugou re-crawls 47 Chinese registries daily, so ownership changes, business-license revocations, and risk flags surface inside 6 hours — not after your deposit clears.
Vetting cycle: 11 days → 38 minutes
Independently benchmarked across 320 client teams. License verification, beneficial-owner lookup, export-history pull, and litigation sweep happen in one query.
38m
avg. vetting time per factory
Ownership and risk-flag changes in 6 hours
Daily re-crawl of 47 Chinese registries (AIC, customs, court records, environmental bulletins). When a beneficial owner flips or a license is revoked, your watchlist alerts first.
<6h
detection lag, registry to inbox
MOQ history and quote drift per factory
Every Shugou-verified factory carries a rolling 24-month MOQ and quote history. See who quietly raised their minimums after Q4 — and who still honors your 2024 terms.
24mo
MOQ + quote memory per supplier
04 — PRICE BENCHMARKS
Stop accepting the factory's first quote. You can see the curve.
Shugou's price-memory dataset is the deepest in the industry — 11 years of FOB pricing across 380K+ SKUs. Every negotiation starts with a real baseline.
DATASET
11 years of historical FOB pricing across 380K+ SKUs
Daily-fresh FOB pulls from customs manifests, supplier POs, and 2,400+ client teams feeding anonymized transactional data back into the index. You see the curve, the seasonality, and the post-tariff inflection points — not a single quote sheet from a sales rep.
- 2014–2025 · 11-year lookback per SKU
- 380K+ SKUs · cross-cluster coverage
- Daily refresh · no quarterly lag
NEGOTIATION
Walk into every quote with the median, the floor, and the spread
Pull a SKU, set a quantity, and Shugou returns the historical median FOB, the 90th-percentile ceiling, and the supplier-by-supplier spread. Customers in the 2024 cohort reported average landed-cost savings of 14.2% — not because we changed their suppliers, but because they stopped negotiating blind.
14.2%
avg. landed-cost savings, 2024 customer cohort
| Quarter | Median | P10 | P90 | Δ vs Q-1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q2 '24 | $1.84 | $1.66 | $2.02 | +1.7% |
| Q3 '24 | $1.81 | $1.63 | $1.99 | −1.6% |
| Q4 '24 | $1.78 | $1.60 | $1.96 | −1.7% |
| Q1 '25 | $1.74 | $1.57 | $1.92 | −2.2% |
| Q2 '25 | $1.71 | $1.54 | $1.89 | −1.7% |
BENCHMARK
Cluster-level price memory: Shenzhen vs. Suzhou vs. Yiwu
The same SKU doesn't cost the same across clusters. Shugou breaks down FOB by industrial zone, lead time, and Incoterm so your sourcing strategy isn't accidentally anchored to one geography.
- 5 clusters · Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Yiwu, Hangzhou, Suzhou
- Lead-time overlay · cost × transit × MOQ
- Incoterm matrix · EXW, FOB, CIF, DDP normalized
| Cluster | Median FOB | Lead time | MOQ floor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shenzhen | $1.74 | 22d | 500 |
| Guangzhou | $1.69 | 25d | 800 |
| Suzhou | $1.81 | 28d | 1,000 |
| Hangzhou | $1.77 | 26d | 600 |
| Yiwu | $1.62 | 31d | 1,500 |
05 — SHIPMENT RELIABILITY
"Reliable" stops being a vendor promise. It becomes a scored, trackable metric.
The Shugou Trust Index grades every verified factory on a public methodology. Procurement leads stop trusting supplier self-reports — they trust the score.
SHZ-ACME-2241
A+
- On-time shipment
- 98.6%
- Quality reject rate
- 0.4%
- Doc accuracy
- 99.1%
- Response SLA
- < 4h
- Ownership change
- none (24mo)
- License status
- active
METHODOLOGY
Read the full Trust Index methodology →
How the Shugou Trust Index is computed
Every verified factory gets a 0–100 score, recomputed weekly from six public signal categories: on-time shipment rate, quality reject rate, documentation accuracy, response SLA, ownership stability, and license status. The methodology is public so procurement teams can defend the rating to finance and legal.
98.6%
on-time shipment rate, A+ tier (2024)
6
public signal categories in the score
06 — API & INTEGRATIONS
Plugs into the stack your sourcing team already runs on. No process rewrite.
Native connectors for the systems sourcing leads already use, plus a documented REST and webhook surface for the BI and data-warehouse teams that want to build their own.
Native integrations with the sourcing stack
Push Shugou's verified-supplier and price-benchmark data directly into the systems your team already pays for. Two-way sync where it matters, one-way push where it doesn't.
- NetSuiteVendor master sync, PO enrichment
- SlackWatchlist alerts, approval pings
- ShopifySKU margin overlays, COGS refresh
- AirtableSourcing workflows, supplier CRM
REST + Webhooks
Documented REST endpoints for supplier lookup, price benchmark pulls, and Trust Index reads. Webhooks fire on ownership changes, license revocations, and tier upgrades.
POST /v1/suppliers/lookup
GET /v1/skus/{id}/benchmark
POST /v1/webhooks/register
Snowflake & BigQuery
Reverse-ETL into your warehouse with a daily refresh. Land Shugou's supplier graph and pricing tables next to your Shopify orders and ad spend — no manual exports.
~3min
avg. connector setup time
SOC 2 Type II, SSO, audit log
Okta and Azure AD single sign-on out of the box. Every supplier query, watchlist change, and PO enrichment is logged for internal audit. Procurement and legal stop blocking the rollout.
SOC 2 Type II
SSO / SAML
Audit log
Role-based access