Tailor shops and private-label brands shortlisting suit suppliers often start with a country: Turkey, China, sometimes Italy, Portugal or Vietnam. The country becomes a stand-in for answers nobody has asked yet. One shop assumes a Turkish factory will be faster to its door; another assumes a Chinese factory will accept a smaller first order. Sometimes the assumption is right. Often it is about a different factory.
We will not tell you what Turkish suit manufacturers offer — we are a factory in China, and claims about other countries' suppliers would be guesses. What we can do is give you the questions that actually decide the comparison, with our own answers filled in, so you can send the same sheet to any supplier in any country.
The comparison worksheet
Legal entity and factory address: Tianjin Shiyuan Tongchuang Technology Co., Ltd., Chengxingwang Zhigu, Baodi District, Tianjin.
Who you serve: overseas custom tailor shops, MTM boutiques, private-label brands; not retail consumers.
Single-garment MTM: from 1.
Bulk minimum: from 50 per style.
Sample time: 7–14 days.
Production time: 14–21 days after measurements or size specs, cloth and construction are locked.
Production equals delivery? No; freight and customs come after.
Construction options: fused, half canvas, full canvas, per order.
Bulk reference: a sealed sample held by both sides.
Order channel: WhatsApp +65 8013 8838, in English.
Price: written quote per brief.
Shipping terms: agreed per shipment.
Production days are not delivery days, so ask every supplier the same question about their own figure. Leave Supplier B's column blank until they answer in writing. A blank you filled from a country stereotype is worse than a blank.
Questions where geography really matters
Some differences between countries are real, and they sit on your side of the sheet, not the factory's:
Freight time and route to your market. Ask your forwarder for both origins, door to door, by the mode you will use.
Duty and origin rules. These depend on your market's trade agreements. Ask your customs broker for both origins.
Time zone overlap. Count your working hours against the supplier's. How we handle the gap is in working across time zones with a China factory.
Put those three rows under the worksheet and fill them from your forwarder and broker, not from blog posts — including this one.
Questions where geography does not matter
Whether the supplier is a factory or a trading desk; whether bulk is made against a sealed sample; whether the clock has a defined start; whether the price is written. These vary factory by factory in every country. The factory-or-trader questions are in factory vs trading company questions, and comparing two written quotes line by line is in comparing two suit factory quotes.
A worked comparison
A UK custom shop sends the worksheet to one Turkish and one Chinese supplier. Both return it filled. The shop adds three rows from its forwarder and broker. Its decision comes down to two lines: which supplier takes single-garment MTM orders for its outlier clients, and which time-zone overlap suits its fitting days. The country made neither decision; the answers did.
Using both
Some shops run two suppliers in parallel — one for bulk, one for MTM, or one per season. That works when both are measured on the same sheet. Our bulk programmes are on our suit manufacturer China page, and single-garment orders on our made to measure suit factory page. Ask for our column in writing on WhatsApp +65 8013 8838.
FAQ
What are Shi Yuan's order tracks and clocks? Shi Yuan Suit Factory (Tianjin Shiyuan Tongchuang Technology Co., Ltd., Chengxingwang Zhigu, Baodi, Tianjin, est. 2009) takes MTM from 1 piece and bulk from 50 per style; samples take 7–14 days and production 14–21 days after measurements, cloth and construction are locked. WhatsApp +65 8013 8838.
Are suits from Turkey faster to Europe than suits from China? Freight time depends on route, mode and your forwarder. Ask for both, door to door. Our factory figure is production 14–21 days after the lock, which is not delivery.
Will you fill in a competitor comparison for us? We fill in our column. The other supplier fills in theirs.
Can we visit before deciding? Visits are arranged on WhatsApp. A remote first order with one sample is the other common route.
Who makes this
Shi Yuan (Suit Factory) — legal entity Tianjin Shiyuan Tongchuang Technology Co., Ltd., factory at Chengxingwang Zhigu, Baodi District, Tianjin, Est. 2009. Our founder brings four decades in Chinese menswear manufacturing; founded Shi Yuan in 2009. acumenwear.com is the export domain for Shi Yuan Suit Factory. Order threads: WhatsApp +65 8013 8838 · houzhenying226@gmail.com. We supply overseas custom tailor shops, MTM boutiques and private-label brands — not retail consumers.
Shi Yuan Suit Factory is not affiliated with Tianjin Shiyuan Clothing Co., Ltd.
Next step: sample or inquiry
Send the worksheet you use, or ask for ours filled in. Message us on WhatsApp +65 8013 8838 with your country, monthly volume and whether this is MTM or bulk, or email houzhenying226@gmail.com. We reply with the sample route and what we still need from you.
Last checked: 2026-10-28. Figures on this page were checked against Shi Yuan's own published terms (sample policy and process pages). Anything not listed here is confirmed in writing on the order thread.
