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Tag Archives: product quality
Quality Disputes: Legal Protections for Buyers in China’s Legal System [Podcast]
What are the legal protections available for buyers who receive bad or fake products from Chinese suppliers? In this episode, we go into the intricacies of the Chinese legal system and explore the legal protections available for buyers who receive … Continue reading
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Tagged quality standard, legal protection, chinese law, product quality
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QA Strategy in China: 10 Elements You Should Include
A good QA strategy in China will contain the following 10 elements: We’ve split these into 4 different sections: Qualification of new suppliers Purchasing method Quality Control Buyer-supplier relationship Let’s go through them in order so you understand the makeup … Continue reading
13 Strategies To Ensure Consistent Product Quality
Adrian and Renaud return for the last podcast of 2023, a bumper episode where they go through 13 quality strategies you can adopt to achieve consistent product quality. They’re roughly split into pre-production and post-production strategies, so settle down and … Continue reading
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Tagged quality improvement, quality management, product quality
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Exploring 9 Quality Management Challenges in China [Podcast]
Our CEO Renaud Anjoran and senior compliance officer and friend of the show Clive Greenwood are back on the podcast together to discuss some of the main challenges of quality management in China that importers face when they outsource their … Continue reading
What to do if you have recurring quality problems from your factory? [Podcast]
Renaud and Adrian discuss the unwelcome scenario of recurring quality problems from your outsourced supplier who’s handling your manufacturing in China. They cover your quality standard, 6 tips on how to handle common recurring quality problems, and several reasons WHY … Continue reading
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Tagged reducing defects, product quality, improving quality, aql
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7 Tests You SHOULD Be Doing On Your Hard Goods! [Podcast]
One of Sofeast’s senior engineers, Paul Adams, guides you through 7 key tests that he’s done time after time over the years on the materials or components of new hard goods (typically metal and/or plastic products) in order to check … Continue reading
How To Reduce Product Inspection Costs?
Our customers sometimes ask what affects the cost of product inspections. If you’re getting products manufactured in Asia (or anywhere, in fact), you’ll almost certainly be doing some kind of inspection before they’re shipped (we hope) and there’s a cost … Continue reading
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My Supplier uses Covid as an Excuse to Prevent Inspections of my Products! | Disputes With Chinese Suppliers Q&A (Volume 19)
Now that Zero Covid has been scrapped in China we’re seeing an accelerating number of cases around the country. Covid restrictions have been mainly dropped and freedom of movement is allowed around the country, so these days on-site inspections can … Continue reading
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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