From a modest beginning, WOCOTS has had a wonderful journey, starting after having long experience working in the Furniture, Handicrafts, Rugs, and Decor manufacturing industries in India and several other countries as well.
We have a highly professional technical team and dedicated personnel who are making efforts to not only ensure quality assurance but also keep in mind modern trends
WOCOTS was founded with a clear vision of taking the sourcing business in India to the next level. The visionaries are Ms. S.S. Barahate and Mr. Anil Kumar (AK). AK who is an alumni of the Forest Research Institute-India, has extensive experience of 2 decades of helping overseas furniture buyers and sourcing quality furniture and home décor products from India.
We started WOCOTS with a small team of experts and artisans, which developed gradually, now we are catering in Asia, the US, and European markets to highly reputed clients/customers.
Core Value– Best Quality on Timely Delivery.
Our Vision: Be the world-class furniture outsourcer, offering the best quality on-time delivery that creates value for our customers.
Our Mission: To see the world loving our Indian heritage in furniture, handicrafts, rugs, and decor.
Slogan: Excellency in Design, Excellency in Quality.
WOCOTS TEAM
Ms. S.S. Barahate
She is highly passionate about the design and concept and loves to give her attention to all the minute details. Having done her Masters in Business Administration, she changed the way WOCOTS worked. Her approach to leadership and Total Quality Management follows these five pillars: Product, Process, Organization, Leadership, and Commitment. She has brought together a team of exceptionally worthy people to be part of the WOCOTS family who have been serving our customers the WOCOTS way. She has done Vipassana several times in her life and follows the Buddha’s teachings as well.
Mr. Anil Kumar
A self-motivated person with a passion for the woodworking and furniture industries is an alumni of the Forest Research Institute-India and has a background in Masters in Wood Science and Technology from the Forest Research Institute-India, as well as being well trained at the University of British Columbia-Canada. He has worked for more than 22 years in numerous furniture and handicraft industries and sourcing agencies in India and overseas. When Anil came to know the real pain of the overseas customers related to the quality and on-time deliveries, he decided to start his own sourcing agency in India so that he could help the overseas clients from India with the best and most reliable sourcing services.
- Working directly with suppliers based in Asia, often at a great distance, can be quite a time consuming, expensive, and often highly frustrating, WOCOTS becomes your local office in the country of manufacturing, and fights for your interest to get the correct sample, obtain the best price, negotiate the shortest lead time, oversee production, ensure quality and monitors your shipment till the end.
- WOCOTS is the eyes and ears of its customer, representing them and assisting them in all their sourcing and buying activities.
- WOCOTS is safeguarded to its buyer’s interests above all and before all.
- Working with us will give you access to dependable and professional manufacturers who will contribute to building your business through sustained savings, and delivering you a worthy product, hassle-free at your doorstep.
- Our suppliers are our strategic partners. We choose our suppliers by rigorous assessments & strict audits. Our quality inspectors are stationed at factories of all our major manufacturing partners to ensure that the highest level of quality & compliances is maintained.
- With a constant presence in factories & collaboration with production teams, we have been able to improve their production planning & execution process. We follow a smart sample development approach which has helped us to bring down the product development time drastically by bringing down the sample lead times from weeks to days.
- Forming a win-win relationship with our clients, vendors, and associates.
- Meeting our customer needs on time and every time with appropriate infrastructure and reactivity.
- Assisting the suppliers to upgrade their sourcing, production capacity, infrastructure, and collections.
- Instituting Quality Management System for an effective and complaint-free business environment.
- Effective utilization of our multi-locational presence by adopting the latest technology and to render a flexible and proactive service.