FOR PROCUREMENT / SOURCING
A quote is not a quote. It is a hint.
Unit price tells you one thing. Landed cost tells you whether you should sign. GingerControl layers the full tariff stack onto every quote, so you compare apples to apples.
The starting point
Procurement teams that still compare quotes on unit price alone are leaving money on the table. Once Section 301, Chapter 99, and the base MFN rate are layered in, the supplier with the lowest invoice is often not the supplier with the lowest landed cost. The problem has never been that teams do not know this. The problem is that layering those tariffs mid-negotiation used to take hours. GingerControl compresses that to minutes, so the negotiation stays fast.
Jobs to be done
A day in the life, rewritten.
- 01
The situation
You are evaluating three suppliers for a single SKU, sourced from China, Vietnam, and Mexico.
The job
Know the real landed cost on each before you pick up the phone to negotiate.
With Ginger
Paste the product, run side-by-side tariff calculations across all three origins, and see the landed-cost ranking including Section 301 and Chapter 99. The cheapest quote might not be the cheapest supplier.
- 02
The situation
A small spec change, a different fastener, a different fabric blend, might move a product into a different HTS code.
The job
Find out before engineering freezes the design, not after the first entry clears.
With Ginger
Run both spec variants through the classifier. Ginger returns the candidate HTS codes for each, with the duty rate attached, so the engineering decision and the landed-cost decision happen in the same conversation.
- 03
The situation
A supplier pushes back on your counter-offer.
The job
Show them, with numbers, why their unit price is not competitive once tariffs are in.
With Ginger
Ginger gives you a printable landed-cost breakdown with the full tariff stack spelled out. You bring data to the negotiation, not hunches.
The proof
What changes, in numbers.
Up to 90%
less time on landed-cost research per quote cycle
What used to take an afternoon of cross-referencing HTSUS chapters and tariff announcements now takes minutes, based on the positioning brief's 5 to 6 minute classification benchmark and sub-millisecond HTS lookups.
Full tariff stack
on every supplier quote, automatically
MFN + Section 232 + Section 301 + Chapter 99 + Section 122, layered in the correct order by entry date.
Ready to look down on the maze?
Start your first classification.
Open the HTS Classification Researcher and run a product through the GRI engine. You will see the reasoning chain come out the other side, attached to the answer, ready to defend.