In this post, I will talk about 5 important advantages China direct sourcing can give you. Before I start let me just say that working with trading companies or importers in your home country has its advantages and for some companies, this is the way to go. China direct sourcing has 5 advantages that will …
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Read Time: 3 Minutes In this post, I will give you a simple way you can follow step by step to improve your business efficiency starting today using affordable quality control services in China Did you ever find yourself either traveling to a factory for inspection or waiting for a quality control inspection results hoping …
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Read time: 3.5 minutes. In this post, I will talk about what your organization must be able to do before you start importing from China. Importing from China allows companies to take advantage of the (still) relatively lower price points, high capacity and the robust infrastructure China offers. When comparing to other countries in the …
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Read time: 3.5 minutes. Some people I talk to think it is a must buying quality control services in China. Some think there is really no need to buy quality control services in China. So what’s the answer? As always…It depends… It depends on your product, your suppliers, your own infrastructure in China, your market …
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I don’t know if you ever had this experience. From time to time I find myself trying to get some manufacturers to agree to something they already agreed to. It doesn’t happen every day, it doesn’t happen with every manufacturer, but it happens. Last week I wrote about a very important role a China buying …
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Read time: 3 minutes. In this post I am going to talk about one of the most important parts of your China buying agent responsibilities, is the one thing they never talk about. Different companies use different ways working with their China buying agent. If you are new to working with buying agents or not …
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Read time: 2.5 minutes. Today’s competition is too fierce and most companies have no other choice but making the China direct sourcing strategy a part of their overall strategy. As I said not every company needs this strategy. If you are not sure, here are two posts that will help you: 1) 5 Issues you …
In the last post, I was talking about some of the differences between Chinese team building as the team manager and Chinese team building when you are not. Many China business services professionals find themselves in situations where they work with teams who work for suppliers of their customers. As an outside project manager, these …
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Read time: 3 minutes Chinese team building, just like any other team building, is a lot easier when you have the sole discretion making decisions about rewarding, penalizing and terminating the team members. When you are the head of a company or a division, employees are clear about your ability to determine their future in …
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In part one of this mini-series about quality control services in China provided by small QC teams, I talked about a meeting I had with a large and reputable engineering company based in the US about their search for a provider of quality control services in China. I talked about how they shared with me …
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