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In this episode… Renaud is joined by manufacturing industry experts Clive Greenwood and Max Phythian to discuss what it takes to drive your key suppliers to cut out defects. You'll hear their opinions on the Cost Of Quality, the value of building a solid partnership with a supplier rather than having a purely transactional relationship, what buyers need to do in order to support this initiative with their suppliers, a number of really interesting real-world examples from their decades of … [Read more...]
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 organizations: A retailer (Kingfisher, with more than 1,000 stores, mostly in Europe); An industrial organization (Altra Industrial Motion); A high-tech company in the security field (Oberthur). After looking at my notes, I noticed that a supplier … [Read more...]