I recently read The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande, a surgeon with a strong interest in process improvement. It's a great book about the value of multi-disciplinary reviews at certain stages of a project and … [Read more...]
How did Apple build a winning supply chain in China?
Two recent FT articles look at how Apple set up a successful supply chain in China that helped them dominate rivals, how they handle their NPI process in a very hands-on way that provides great results, and how their close relationship with … [Read more...]
Renaud Answers YOUR Manufacturing Questions [Podcast]
In this episode… To celebrate our 100th episode over on Sofeast's podcast Renaud called on listeners for their manufacturing-related questions and answered as many as possible! They're questions that are relevant to so many importers, … [Read more...]
QualityInspection.org’s Top Blog Posts & Videos Of 2021
The rollercoaster has continued in 2021! After a difficult 2020 when the coronavirus pandemic first hit, it's perhaps understandable that many of us might have hoped that things would settle down in 2021, however, since last year's roundup … [Read more...]
QualityInspection.org’s Top Blog Posts & Videos Of 2020
What a year 2020 has been. Little did we know when we published the top posts and videos of 2019 that we'd soon be headed into almost completely unprecedented times in living memory with the global coronavirus pandemic raging and the … [Read more...]
Don’t Let a Chinese Supplier Circumvent You: 5 Tips
Some risks and frustrations never go away... One of them is Chinese suppliers circumventing their customers, or selling to their customer's competitors, all the while using the product knowledge they gained... from their customers. Over … [Read more...]
Winners! Our Top Manufacturing Articles & Videos Of 2019
As 2019 draws to a close it's a great time to sit down and look at some of our most popular blog articles and resources from the last year. We also hope that you'll stumble across some great topics that you'd otherwise have missed. … [Read more...]
Chinese Robot Manufacturing Industry: Don’t Expect Too Much
Here are some good articles that I found over the past few months. 'Made in China': the smart revolution blueprint set to bring Beijing into the digital age After Germany's "Industry 4.0" strategy, China unveiled an equivalent document … [Read more...]
Preventing Unnecessary Delays in your China Supply Chain
As usual, I kept a list of interesting articles to share with my readers. Here is the list for April and May. Urgent Delivery Time Checklist Jacob Yount wrote a list of questions that will guide an importer desiring to avoid … [Read more...]
How to Understand Quotations from Chinese Suppliers
Here are some interesting or useful articles that I found recently. NOTE: A FEW DAYS AGO I HIT THE "PUBLISH" BUTTON INSTEAD OF THE "SAVE" BUTTON SO THIS MESSAGE WAS POSTED TWICE. SORRY ABOUT THAT. Question your Quotes from … [Read more...]
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