We Are Suitable: Building a Vietnam Production Team
How a Singapore bespoke tailoring brand built a real in-house production team in Vietnam — not outsourcing blindly, but building deliberately.
Case Study 03 — We Are Suitable
Singapore to Vietnam Production Team
Building the Tailoring Brand
We Are Suitable established itself in Singapore as a bespoke tailoring business, serving clients who wanted well-crafted, made-to-measure garments with a personal touch.
As the brand grew and order volumes increased, it became clear that relying on fragmented, ad hoc production arrangements was not sustainable. A more structured approach to production was needed.
Setting Up the Vietnam Production Team
Rather than outsourcing blindly to third-party factories, We Are Suitable made a deliberate decision: build an in-house production team in Vietnam. This meant taking direct ownership of every part of the production and coordination process.
Six core requirements had to be solved from the ground up:
A Real Cross-Border Operation, Carefully Built
What We Are Suitable built was not a quick outsourcing arrangement. It was a genuine cross-border production operation, with deliberate systems, trained people, and structured workflows connecting Singapore and Vietnam.
The team structure was assembled carefully: each role, each process, and each quality checkpoint was designed with intention. This is what separates a functioning cross-border business from one that collapses under its own complexity.
This was cross-border operations in the truest sense.
Not outsourcing blindly. Building deliberately.
Why This Matters for Tour Participants
We Are Suitable's story demonstrates exactly what it takes to structure a cross-border production team from the ground up: supplier relationships, internal workflows, quality systems, and people management across two countries. Tour participants see how operational decisions at the Singapore end directly shape what is possible on the Vietnam side. From fabric sourcing to final quality checks, every step in this model is a transferable lesson in building a production operation that holds together across borders.
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