The company is eliminating order minimums, which means retailers can order a piece at a time from the company's distribution center in Tianjin, China. This facility consolidates product from 10 factories operated by Schnadig parent Markor International Furniture.

The goods are shipped from Tianjin to a cross-docking facility in the United States, then sent by truck to the dealer. Before, these dealers would have to order single items out of a U.S. warehouse and pay an upcharge largely associated with transportation costs.

"A dealer can buy just one piece if that is what they need, at a cost that is significantly less than buying out of our domestic warehouses," said Triche Leander, Schnadig vice president of operations. "The order is never warehoused and never goes into our inventory, enabling us to pass these savings onto the dealer."

Leander added that because product is unloaded from the container and placed directly onto the truck, it also significantly reduces delivery time to the customer.

"We have taken the complexity of buying imported goods out of the equation," Schnadig President Howard Pan said in a statement. "For dealers, it really is no different than ordering out of our domestic warehouses. Our customers no longer need to have their own logistics staff or be familiar with the details of global sourcing because we coordinate and negotiate deliveries from multiple factories for them."

Schnadig is promising deliveries in less than six weeks to the West Coast and less than eight weeks to East Coast dealers. The pricing of the product will include import freight, duties and customs clearance charges.

Products from five Schnadig lines are available on mixed containers - Caracole, Lauren Ralph Lauren, Compositions, Schnadig and Schnadig Home.