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How To Manage Chinese Suppliers based on Facts & Data

November 28, 2019 by Renaud Anjoran

How To Manage Chinese Suppliers based on Facts & Data

If you buy products from a few Chinese suppliers, do you have a system for managing them? And do you use data for that? In this post, I'll show you how to manage Chinese suppliers using facts and data. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Supplier Management Tagged With: buyers, chinese suppliers, hands on buyers, managing Chinese suppliers, purchasers, supplier improvement, supplier KPIs, supplier management

Quality Planning for Importers: Classify Orders by Risk Level

November 7, 2019 by Renaud Anjoran

Quality Planning for Importers: Classify Orders by Risk Level

Every purchaser knows that some orders are riskier than others and the risk impacts many of the decisions they make. This is why quality planning and classifying orders by risk level is important for importers. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Quality Control Tips Tagged With: buyers, importers, order classification, quality issues, quality planning, risk level of orders, Sourcing, sourcing from china

How a China-Based Buying Office Can Add Value

October 29, 2019 by Renaud Anjoran

How a China-Based Buying Office Can Add Value

If you source and buy consumer goods from several suppliers in China, your experience probably looks like this: Some suppliers are good, some are not so good and not improving When there is a quality issue, it is much better to detect it while the goods are still at the factory... and yet, sometimes, that factory plays the "do nothing and wait" game -- it means they do a very light sorting job and tell you "all is good now", simply because they don't want to do rework and discard some … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Supplier Management Tagged With: buyers, buying office, importers, optimized sourcing, Sourcing, sourcing from china, sourcing tips

Hands-on buyers: qualifying factories and nurturing them

May 24, 2011 by Renaud Anjoran

Hands-on buyers: qualifying factories and nurturing them

Last week, I described what I call "hands-off buyers": those importers who don't follow all the precautions necessary when buying in developing Asia, sometimes by choice. Now I am going to write about "hands-on buyers", the opposite stereotype. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Supplier Management Tagged With: buyers, hands on buyers, precautions buyers take, sourcing from china, sourcing suppliers, supplier management, supply chain management


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