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PageRank for shipping
- Anon84 17y agoInstead of looking at a supplier to decide how they should rank, Panjiva looks at the people buying from those suppliers. The network amongst suppliers and buyers gives a much more truthful representation of what a supplier is really good at building than purely analyzing the suppliers themselves. Data is better than Marketing-speak.
- tom_pinckney 17y agoThe idea is that you'd probably trust the guy who actually sold 1,000 dresses to Macys more than the guy who just says they're a great dress manufacturer.
- hop 17y agoBrilliant idea, but how are they going to harvest the shipping data - I don't believe b2b trading is publicly available. Like Apple for instance, I'm sure they have NDA's for all their suppliers. Companies probably treat this as trade secrets so competitors can't source from the same factory they are buying from.
- arihelgason 17y agoThey get it from publicly available US customs data, so it's limited to suppliers who ship into the US.
- atarashi 17y agoIt looks like they're using the following data sources: U.S. Customs Import Data Hong Kong Trade Development Council Data DP Information Group Reports EDDI Red Flag Database China Export & Credit Insurance Corporation (SINOSURE) Reports Social Accountability International Compliance Data TriVista Sourcing Data Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production (WRAP) Compliance Data CUSTOMS Info Reports