Aprenda lições de algumas das companhias principais em China

Por Russel Beron

A inovação é uma palavra que nós nos estamos ouvindo muito mais em China estes dias. O consenso é que como o manufacturing os custos em China continuam a se levantar e complexidade da corrente de fonte aumenta, assim que as companhias têm que innovate para conservar o dinheiro e para aumentar a eficiência.

Nesta história nós fazemos exame de um olhar mais profundo em o que alguns companhias e indivíduos em China, extrangeira e em chinês estejam fazendo para conduzir à maneira no serviço, gerência do fornecedor, ELE execução, assim como a eficiência custada e process. Estes companhias e indivíduos eram todos os vencedores das concessões no Summit de novembro 2007 CHaINA.

Os avanços através da corrente de fonte em China estão fazendo exame o formulário de novo d execuções, uns níveis mais grandes do serviço com 3PL's, gerência melhor do fornecedor, posição estratégica das operações e de um foco aumentado no R&D doméstico e desenvolvimento de recursos humanos e outros locais. Leia o descanso de “de aumentos da corrente de fonte China a barra - peça I” ou afixe um comentário

Por Richard Kaye

O erro muitos povos faz quando acoplar fabricantes ou produtos de compra em China é pensar barato. O preço custo-o mais baixo o mais baixo, disconto do disconto do disconto. There is a much better alternative and one that traders are not currently exploiting.

For example lets take a pair of shoes. Almost 50% of all the shoes sold in the UK originate in China. Now the costs involved in manufacturing a pair of shoes include the cost of materials, ie. leather, the cost of packaging, the cost of the overhead…rent rates electric etc, the cost of labour & management and of course the cost of shipping. However, think of this… the labour aspect of the combined costs is probably less than 10%. Read the rest of “Cheap or value added” or post a comment

Hello,
I know of a Chinese cement manufacturer that’s looking for funding to
replace their old standing kilns with new “dry” rotary kilns that will
increase efficiency and reduce pollution and is as a matter of fact,
mandated by the government.

Would you Read the rest of “Chinese cement manufacturers” or post a comment

Much thought and effort goes into the selection of vendors, but how much effort do you put into selecting an audit provider? Many potential clients begin their conversations with “We have tried third party auditors in the past…”

Does that sound familiar? I can’t tell you how to pick one company over another. Your particular industry and needs will determine who is right for you. What I can do, is give you some advice about audits in general.

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By Dan Harris

My friend Chris Carr, dean of the CalPoly MBA program and the brains behind the International Business Tour blog has a very thoughtful post, entitled, “Will Paying More Change Behavior And Make Someone More Ethical?” Thoughtful, but wrong.

The post centers on whether paying more gets you better performance and/or better ethics, and Chris pretty much says it does not:

“Some suggested that we could solve the problem of too many defective products coming from China by paying more to the Chinese suppliers that make this stuff. I questioned that assumption, and still do.

One example I gave in that discussion thread was that if paying people more solved the problem, then why does paying most good employees more still result in good performance, but not superior performance? (See Comment No. 29.) And why does paying most bad employees more money still get you bad performance, and not good performance? (If you feel that more money correlates to higher performance, come see me after you have hired, managed and fired more than a few people, and let’s compare notes.)”

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