Por Shawn Ele Yuxun

O Sourcing de China evoluiu de uma aproximação straight-forward, custo-dirigida umas variedades mais elaboradas e mais estratégicas. Quando as recordações recentes do produto não pareceram ter impactado as exportações chinesas baseadas em figuras totais, porém nós viemos através de sugerir anecdotal da evidência de outra maneira.

O interesse inicial do sourcing foi provocado indubitàvelmente por custos baixos notorious de China, dirige (como aqueles para o trabalho e a terra ou o aluguel) e indireto (rendido sob uma miríade de incentives da exportação do governo, tais como custos de combustível subsidized, exporte reembolsos do VAT, non-taxation e/ou redução de imposto).

Sobre os anos o exercício evoluiu de um operandi preço-dirigido de estática, cada um do modus aos mais sofisticados. Por exemplo, muitos compradores dos E.U. empregam agora a aproximação verticalmente ou lateralmente integrada, ou ambos. Leia o descanso “das tendências as mais atrasadas do Sourcing de China” 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. Há uma alternativa e muito melhores que os comerciantes não estejam explorando atualmente.

Por exemplo deixa a tomada um o par das sapatas. Quase 50% de todas as sapatas vendeu no Reino Unido originam em China. Agora os custos envolveram em manufaturar um par das sapatas incluem o custo dos materiais, IE. o couro, o custo de empacotar, o custo… do aluguel aéreo avalia etc. elétrico, o custo de trabalho & de gerência e naturalmente o custo do transporte. 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

By Blake Keller

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.

An audit in general terms is an objective evaluation of product, processes, and/or systems. Most importantly, an audit is a comparison of actual performance to predetermined standards. Note, please the emphasis on predetermined standards, and the means to evaluate your auditor is clear. You must first specify to what standards you desire your supplier to be audited. Feel free to ask your potential auditor to what standard they will perform an audit. Read the rest of “Evaluating your Audit Provider” or post a comment

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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In the aftermath of the recent recalls of tainted and toxic China-made products, more than a few have speculated that manufacturers who have outsourced production operations there are no doubt rethinking their sourcing strategies and quality control processes, and, if some of the, shall we say, ‘more aggressive’ pundits are to be believed, even rethinking their continued presence there altogether. However, according to the results of a proprietary survey just completed by the smart cube, the pundits appear to be very much mistaken.

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