Same factory price.We carry the risk.
The China → CIS and UAE route as a single contract: factory inspection, FAT acceptance, export package, customs, cross-border settlement and a warranty with a parts store in the region. You pay the same as buying direct — but you sign the act on a working machine at your own site.
- FAT — 14 points, always
- Contract lead time — to your site
- Defects — turned back at the factory
- Contract — in your jurisdiction
Same factory price.A different price of error.
Buying direct is real: a marketplace, correspondence, a prepayment to the factory's account. The difference isn't the price — that's the same. The difference is who carries the seven risks between a workshop in China and your site.
◌ On your own · direct from the factory
● Through Nexum
01 · Vetting the manufacturer
A marketplace rating and chat with a sales manager. You never see the factory itself.
An engineer on the floor, direct OEM contracts, a shipment history for every factory.
02 · Acceptance before shipment
A “we checked everything” photo from the supplier. Defects surface at unboxing — two months later.
A 14-point FAT before the seal: video of every serial, the right to stop the batch.
03 · Battery paperwork
UN 38.3 and MSDS “sent later”. Without them the carrier pulls lithium off the flight.
The full Class 9 set is assembled and matched to the cells at the FAT — before shipment.
04 · Customs and certificates
Your own broker; EAC and declarations are on you. An HS-code error means demurrage at the bonded warehouse.
Declaration, EAC and local certificates sit inside the supply perimeter; lead time counts to your site.
05 · Cross-border payment
A transfer to China from your company's account: bank compliance, the exchange rate, recovering a prepayment — all your risk.
Contract and settlement in a jurisdiction that suits you; currency and the rate rule are fixed in the contract.
06 · Defects and warranty
A dispute on the marketplace, in Chinese. A spare part takes 6–8 weeks, and no one is there to fix the machine.
Turned back at the factory before shipment; afterwards — RMA in your language and a regional parts buffer.
07 · Final cost estimate
The factory invoice plus hidden costs along the way: forwarder, insurance, demurrage, rework.
One line-by-line estimate to your site. The contract lead time runs to the SAT, not to a port.
The savings of buying direct show up in the invoice. The costs don't: they live in customs demurrage, in cargo pulled off the flight and in a machine no one can fix. That's why our standard is DAP: one price, one party accountable, an act signed on a working machine.
From the shop floor to your site —on a single line.
Six nodes after the specification is signed. The pulse on the bus is your batch: at every node it has an owner, a deadline and an artefact you see with your own eyes.
Factory
Production to the contract spec. Weekly photo updates from the shop floor.
FAT acceptance
14 points, video of every SN. The right to stop the batch is yours.
Export package
Invoice, packing list, UN 38.3, MSDS, certificates — assembled before the seal.
On board / freight
Sea or rail, cargo insurance inside the loop. A tracking update every week.
Import customs
Declaration, EAC and local certificates — our broker or yours, per the Incoterms.
Site / SAT
The machine drives your floor. The act is signed on a working system.
The DAP contract lead time counts to node ST·06 — to your site, not to a port.
ST·03 · export crating · moisture protection · sealSwitch the Incoterms —the boundary moves.
Nine stages of a batch's journey. Lime is our zone, amber is yours. The pattern is plain: the “cheaper” the delivery terms, the more stages and risk move over to your side.
- Typical time to site
- 8–12 wks
- Stages in your zone
- 0 of 9
- Risk profile
- Low
DAP is our default standard: the contract lead time counts to your site, not to a port. The SAT on your premises is joint: you sign the act while looking at a working machine.
14 points before shipment.No exceptions.
Our engineer accepts every batch against this protocol — before it leaves the manufacturer's shop floor. This is the only moment when defects are fixed free and fast: the machine has not left the factory yet.
NXM-FAT · engineer accepting the batch
Factory test course · F·05 navigation · F·07 load- F·01Serials vs the contractNameplate numbers = the contract annex. Batch substitution is ruled out right here.
- F·02Completeness vs packing listDocks, remotes, cables, fasteners — before the box is closed.
- F·03Firmware versionsPinned and identical across the whole batch.
- F·04Power-on and self-testCold start, error-free diagnostics, a clean log.
- F·05Navigation on the test courseA full course run: aisles, turns, stopping before an obstacle.
- F·06Sensors and e-stopsEvery sensor is occluded, every emergency stop is physically pressed.
- F·07Load testRated weight, driving under load, incline per the spec sheet.
- F·08Battery cycleCharge–discharge with capacity and time measured against the datasheet.
- F·09Dock alignmentAutomatic docking three times in a row — no “helping hand” allowed.
- F·10Noise and vibrationMeasured on the move: a rattle is heard long before it is seen.
- F·11Cosmetics and panel gapsPanels, seams, scratches — this machine ships to a client.
- F·12Labelling and battery papersUN labels, Class 9 marks, the UN 38.3 / MSDS set matching the actual cells.
- F·13Packaging and bracingExport crate, moisture protection, bracing — checked before the seal.
- F·14Photo and video of every SNEach machine, serial in frame, passes the key tests on camera. That footage is the protocol.
What the FAT does not cover
Factory acceptance is a snapshot of the machine at the moment of shipment. Four things it does not prove — and we say so plainly, because each is covered by a different instrument.
Behaviour on your premises
The factory course is not your site: different floors, lighting, glass walls.
✓ covered by the SAT at launch
Service life and wear
A FAT cannot predict what the machine looks like after three years of duty.
✓ covered by warranty and the service contract
Integration with your infrastructure
Wi-Fi, lifts, access control, WMS/POS — verifiable only on site.
✓ covered by commissioning
Real flows of people and goods
Live traffic cannot be replayed in a workshop — parameters are tuned in the field.
✓ covered by tuning during ramp-up
The protocol reaches you before shipment — with the right to stop the batch. The NXM-FAT sample and report format live in the document library.
Eight documentsyou actually receive.
Every batch arrives with the full set — for accounting, customs, security and the service history. Nothing is “sent later”.
Export package · assembled and verified before the sealCommercial invoice
Line items, serials, value — matching the contract to the line.
Customs · accounting
PDF · in the batch package
Certificate of origin
For customs regimes and preferences of the importing country.
Customs
PDF · in the batch package
UN 38.3 Test Summary
Lithium cell test summary — tied to the exact model and revision.
Batteries · carrier
PDF · in the batch package
MSDS / SDS
Safety data sheet: sections 9 and 14 filled in, not “N/A”.
Batteries · customs
PDF · in the batch package
Declarations of conformity
EAC / local certificates of the country of operation — per model.
Country of import
PDF · in the batch package
Warranty passport + SLA
Warranty terms, maintenance schedule and service line contacts.
Operations
PDF · in the batch package
Batteries: cargo that does not forgive
- Without UN 38.3 and MSDS the carrier pulls the cargo off the flight — so the set is verified at the FAT, not at the port.
- UN 3481 / 3171 markings and the Class 9 label go on every package. Otherwise even a complete document set will not help.
- “Ship it as regular electronics” is not a saving — it is cargo seizure. We do not ship that way and advise you against it.
Contract — in your jurisdiction.Currency — your choice.
A direct transfer to an unknown factory in China is the main stopper for a CFO. We remove it through the deal structure: you sign a supply contract in a convenient jurisdiction, and our perimeter closes the cross-border leg.
One contract — one party accountable
The supply contract sits in a jurisdiction your accounting is comfortable with: EAEU or the UAE. No prepayments to a factory account you have never seen.
Currency and rate — in the contract
RUB, BYN, AED, USD or CNY — the settlement currency and the rate rule are fixed before shipment, not “at the rate on the day of payment”.
A settlement perimeter across several jurisdictions
The payment moves between companies that have worked together for years — and does not get stuck in correspondent-bank compliance.
Closing documents tailored to your country
Invoices, acts and currency control — to your regulator's requirements. For your accounting it is a local deal with a clear counterparty.
CN · HK · AE · EAEU — settlement perimeter · no direct transfers to the factory
The warranty lives wherethe machine does.
A factory warranty in China is useless when the factory is eight thousand kilometres away. So the warranty obligations to you are ours — with a first line in your language and a parts store in the region.
Regional buffer · consumables · common assembliesDefects: before shipment and after
- At the FAT: the machine turns back inside the workshop — repair or replacement at the factory's cost while the batch waits.
- In transit: cargo insurance inside the loop; damage is documented at receiving against the photo protocol.
- In operation: RMA through us — first line in your language, parts from the regional buffer, 80% of cases resolved remotely.
- A regional parts buffer: consumables and common assemblies sit in a regional warehouse — a replacement doesn't wait 6–8 weeks for shipping from China.
- Warranty passport + SLA: in every batch package (DOC·08) — response times, the maintenance schedule and service-line contacts are fixed in writing.