Шон Он Yuxun

Sourcing от Китая эволюционировал от прямодушного, цен-управляемого подхода более разработанные и более стратегические разнообразия. Пока не показалось, что плотно сжали недавние отозвания продукта китайские экспорты основанные на общих рисунках, тем ме менее мы come across anecdotal предлагать доказательства в противном случае.

Несомненно первоначально интерес sourcing был вызван ценами Китая заведомыми низкими, и направляет (such as те для работы и земли или ренты) и косвенно (представлено под мириад экспортные льготы правительства, such as субсидированные топливные затраты, ехпортируйте возвраты VAT, non-обложение and/or уменьшение тягла).

Над летами тренировка эволюционировала от статического, per item цен-управляемого образа действия к более изощренным одним. Например, много покупателей США теперь используют вертикальн или боково интегрированный подход, или оба. Прочитайте остальнои «самых последних тенденций Sourcing Китая» или вывесьте комментарий

Ричард Kaye

Ошибка много людей делает когда включать изготовления или покупая продукты в Китае должна думать дешево. Самое низкое цен-самое низкое цена, рабат рабата рабата. Гораздо лучшее алтернатива и одно торговцы в настоящее время не эксплуатируют.

Например препятствует взятию пара ботинок. Почти 50% из всех ботинок продало в Великобритании возникает в Китае. Теперь цены включили в изготовлять пару ботинок вклюают материальные затраты, 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

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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