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Tag Archives: quality inspections
Sofeast’s Top 5 Podcast Episodes of 2025
As we close out 2025, join us as we review which China Manufacturing Decoded episodes delivered the most value to our audience, measured simply by listener numbers. The episodes below stood out and tackled some of the real decisions importers … Continue reading
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Tagged tariffs, npi process, sourcing tips, podcast, IP protection, quality inspections
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What’s A Good QA Auditing & Inspection Program For New Products?
Adrian and Renaud go through what makes a good QA auditing and inspection program for innovative new electro-mechanical products that will reduce risks of poor quality, reliability, and compliance issues, and detect them in time for them to be worked … Continue reading
My Supplier Pushes Back & Makes The Business Relationship More Difficult | Disputes With Chinese Suppliers Q&A (Volume 12)
Relationships with your Chinese suppliers aren’t always plain sailing. Oftentimes they push back against your requests and make the relationship more difficult. Let’s look at an real example we were sent of this (no identifying details given for confidentiality) and … Continue reading
DIY Sourcing From China Part 4: Final Inspections [Podcast]
Our CEO Renaud Anjoran continues this mini-series of episodes for importers who want to handle their own sourcing from China from start to finish with this episode about final inspections that is the fourth in the series. Back in part … Continue reading
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DIY Sourcing From China Part 3: Project Management & Checking Quality Early [Podcast]
This mini-series of podcast episodes was spawned following episode 65 where we discussed the different supplier options open to buyers who’re sourcing from China. One of which is to do it yourself! If you’re interested in doing your own souring from … Continue reading
My Manufacturer Is Forcing Me To Accept Poor Quality! | Disputes With Chinese Suppliers Q&A (Volume 11)
Sometimes your Chinese supplier will use various dirty tricks to push you into accepting products that don’t reach your quality standard. Why could this happen and what can you do about it? Find out here with a helpful example and … Continue reading
How Can Small Buyers Of Garments Get High Quality From China? – Disputes With Chinese Suppliers Q&A (Volume 6)
This blog post is about issues with quality from an apparel supplier and is based on a real Sofeast customer’s experiences (with no identifying information given). We’re going to explain how to assure you’ll get high-quality garments from your Chinese … 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 To Prepare Your QC Inspection Report
You may already have seen our infographic explaining how a random inspection works, if so, you’ll see that it is a good introduction to these inspections. Now, the next step is learning how to report the results in a QC … Continue reading
How To Bring In Quality Inspectors Without Upsetting Suppliers
Many buyers are fed up with quality issues that went unnoticed and ended up being shipped out, and they know something needs to change. One obvious way to contain issues is to bring in quality inspectors to check product quality … Continue reading
