Besides AplusB, what other resources are needed?
Your active support is essential
As with any important project impacting your business, support from top Management is essential!
Circle of Experts
In starting an export business, access to expert advice is crucial.
Your Export Team will consist of yourself, AplusB (50,000 hours of international business development experience) and what we whimsically call our “Circle of Experts”. It complements the services provided by AplusB; it may include at any point in time:
- U.S. Department of Commerce (www.doc.gov)
- International Trade Administration (www.ita.doc.gov/tic)
- American Chambers of Commerce overseas (London, Paris, Brussels, Berlin, etc)
- Small Business Administration (www.sba.gov/services) – export financing
- State Export Initiative Organizations – you may be eligigle for financial assistance
- Freight Forwarders – they deliver your goods overseas
- 3PL warehousing and distribution companies— they store your goods overseas and deliver to your customers
- EXIM Bank – credit insurance
- Overseas VAT fiscal representatives
- Overseas “Notified Bodies” – they provide CE marking compliance
- Technical Translators – sometimes needed
- Web designers – adapt to export activities
- Printing companies
- - – - and more
AplusB’s Project Management expertise is essential
Marshalling and managing all these resources is where AplusB excels—In fact, prior to working for AplusB, our careers included International Project Management such as:
- Building an international dstributorship network for a U.S. Manufacturer industrial goods in 30 countries (Cleveland, Ohio)
- Building an international distributorship network for an access control systems manufacturer (Brussels Belgium)
- Design and Construction of refinery loading racks for MOBIL International Amsterdam refinery (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
- Software development pre-launch control system for Ariane, French unmanned space vehicle—CNES aerospace industry (Paris, France)
- Project management distributed controls systems and automated manufacturing cells (U.S., Europe, Philipines)
- Sales of Virtual reality systems— site integration and system shipment from U.S. to Sweden and Japan (Detroit, USA)
- Construction of an aircraft refueling facility for MOBIL International (Brussels, Belgium)
- and more