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Tag Archives: developing suppliers
How To Drive Your Chinese Suppliers To Improve Reliability
Choosing Chinese suppliers to manufacture your goods is often a cost-driven choice that makes a lot of sense, and one importers make even after taking into account the worrying tales about China scams waiting to trip up the unwary. While … Continue reading
How To Reduce Quality Defects From Chinese Suppliers (4 Principles)
Discovering how to reduce quality defects to almost zero from Chinese suppliers is a common request from our clients who are tired of hearing suppliers say “this is made by hand, so avoiding defects is impossible”. Are you tired of … Continue reading
How To Improve Price Negotiation With Chinese Suppliers? [7 Tips]
We are often asked how to improve price negotiation with Chinese suppliers in order to lower purchase costs. Indeed, negotiating a better price from suppliers helps cut costs and, therefore, increases your profits, so it’s a worthwhile activity.
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Tagged negotiation, pricing, chinese suppliers, supply chain management, developing suppliers
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Manufacturing Issues Communication Problems With Chinese Suppliers Cause And Their Solutions
What are some of the most common communication problems with Chinese suppliers that cause problems for our clients when they come to us for help?
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Tagged managing suppliers, chinese suppliers, communication, supply chain management, supplier improvement, chinese factories, developing suppliers
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How to Arrange Supplier Self Inspections for QC
Supplier self inspections, rather than sending in external quality inspectors, are becoming increasingly important for today’s buyers. In certain cases, it makes a lot of sense to stop sending employees to check if a supplier has done a good job. … Continue reading
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Tagged developing suppliers, qaqc, supplier self inspection, qc, QA, quality control, quality inspections, product inspections
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