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Tag Archives: factory audits
Using Real Data to Prove the Link between Factory Audits and Better Quality Products [Podcast]
Sofeast’s CEO Renaud has an interesting guest on this episode: Prof. Neale O’Connor who is a China business and accounting expert and international keynote speaker! Neale examined lots of Sofeast factory audit, product inspection, and manufacturing project data to determine … Continue reading
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We’re Buying Medical Devices From China And Are Worried Our Supplier Isn’t Legit | Disputes With Chinese Suppliers Q&A (Volume 8)
Unfortunately, the Covid-19 pandemic is still with us here in summer 2021 and so there’s still a great interest in purchasing medical devices such as medical-grade nitrile gloves, gowns, and surgical masks from China for use in hospitals and other … Continue reading
How To Choose Which Factory Audit You Need?
A common piece of advice we give to customers is to undertake a factory audit when vetting new suppliers. There are a number of different types of factory audits that you may consider, though, so which is right for you?
10 Key Factors That Affect Supplier Production Capacity
Before you start working with a new supplier to manufacture your products in China, Vietnam, or elsewhere, you need to assess their production capacity… Chinese suppliers are prone to over-promising on their ability to handle orders. This is all very … Continue reading
How To Validate Your Supplier’s Factory’s Production Capacity (From Abroad) [Podcast]
You can’t visit suppliers in China due to coronavirus. How can you validate their production capacity without going on-site? As we head into 2021 travelling to see suppliers in Asia, in particular China, remains difficult for most buyers due to … Continue reading
How To Validate a Factory’s Production Capacity without Going On Site?
Some clients have asked us, ‘how to confirm that a factory has the capacity needed to make our orders, without us being able to fly to their factory?’ The inability to go and meet suppliers on site has been a … Continue reading
“What Quality Inspections & Factory Audits Do Sofeast Offer?”
For anyone who needs to organise inspections soon and is interested in learning more about our range of product quality inspections, I wrote this description along with some key points:
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How Do Sofeast Help Source New Chinese Suppliers? [Process Breakdown + Costs]
If you’re in a position where you need to find a new Chinese supplier or are moving from an existing one and choose us to source and provide you with them in the new factory identification solution, here’s roughly what … Continue reading
Quality Audits VS Process Audits [Comparison and Pros & Cons]
We’ve been speaking quite a lot about factory audits recently in our podcast mini-series about vetting Chinese suppliers. In particular, let’s compare quality audits vs process audits. Many buyers will send in a quality auditor. There are advantages to this … Continue reading
Coping With Coronavirus 3: How Importers Can Check If A China Factory Is Ready & Has Capacity
Importers are being severely hit by the Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia epidemic in China: Many factory workers (operators, inspectors, engineers…) are locked down in Hubei province Perhaps a higher number of factory workers are remaining in their home towns, hesitant to … Continue reading
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Tagged covid-19, remote supplier auditing, nCoV 2019, coronavirus, factory audits
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