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How to Improve Product Quality from your Supplier? (6 tips) [Podcast]

May 27, 2022 by Adrian Leighton

How to Improve Product Quality from your Supplier? (6 tips) [Podcast]

In this episode… Renaud explores how to improve the product quality you're getting from suppliers who you sourced and are now actively working with.  This is a continuation of our series of podcast episodes on how to do your own … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Quality Control Tips Tagged With: developing suppliers, podcast, quality improvement

Actionable Tips To Improve Sourcing From China & Develop Suppliers

March 11, 2019 by Renaud Anjoran

Actionable Tips To Improve Sourcing From China & Develop Suppliers

Over the years, many importers have contacted me after making various mistakes, and, often, the best they can do is start things over with a new supplier, but that means a lot of wasted time, money, and energy! What if you could get … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sourcing New Suppliers Tagged With: chinese suppliers, developing suppliers, negotiation, new product development, product quality, sourcing from china

5 Ways To Have a Chinese Manufacturer Take Responsibility for Quality Issues

March 26, 2018 by Renaud Anjoran

5 Ways To Have a Chinese Manufacturer Take Responsibility for Quality Issues

Many importers lament that Chinese suppliers don't take any responsibility when quality issues are found after shipment. Ten years ago, I would have confirmed that it happens less than 0.1% of the time. These days, it seems to become more … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Supplier Management Tagged With: chinese suppliers, common problems with Chinese suppliers, developing suppliers, managing Chinese suppliers, supplier management

Supply Chain Management: Quality Inspections’ Role

January 4, 2018 by Renaud Anjoran

Do you sometimes feel that your company, your suppliers, and their own suppliers, are on different planets? Does information spread with difficulty through your supply chain? Nothing unique here. It is quite typical if you work with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Supply Chain Tagged With: controls in the supply chain, developing suppliers, supply chain improvement, supply chain management

8 Ways to Prevent Chinese Suppliers from Subcontracting

September 16, 2015 by Renaud Anjoran

How to Prevent your Chinese Suppliers from Subcontracting

I wrote before that the vast majority of Chinese manufacturers routinely subcontract some orders. The problem is, they usually do it without disclosing the reality to their customer. Why do they subcontract production to another factory? … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Supplier Management Tagged With: chinese suppliers, controls in the supply chain, developing suppliers, subcontracting

5 building blocks for developing good Chinese suppliers

May 13, 2013 by Renaud Anjoran

5 building blocks for developing good Chinese suppliers

Last week, I was happy to moderate a seminar organized in Shenzhen by the European Chamber. The three speakers, who were kind enough to come and expose the programs they use for developing good Chinese suppliers, represented very diverse … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Supplier Management Tagged With: chinese suppliers, developing suppliers, supplier development program


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