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Tag Archives: supplier management
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
5 Tips for Protecting Your Product IP and Business when Manufacturing in Asia
Renaud shares five helpful tips for importers who are developing and manufacturing products in Asia on how to protect your precious product idea and supply chain information (intellectual property) and guard your business against being taken advantage of, especially in … Continue reading
How to Claim Compensation from a Supplier? | Disputes With Chinese Suppliers Q&A (Volume 18)
Let’s say that for some reason your order from an overseas supplier, specifically one in China as we’ll focus on here, is completely unsatisfactory. You may wish to claim some form of compensation from them…but how is this done? Here’s … Continue reading
Our supplier is selling our product as their own! | Disputes with Chinese suppliers Q&A (Volume 20)
Question: We received a marketing email from our Chinese supplier showing one of our products and claiming it is theirs. What can we do? This used to be more common about 15 years ago when suppliers would show their customer’s … Continue reading
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Tagged copycats, product ip, IP protection, supplier management
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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
Will Our Current Supplier Block The Transfer Of Our Molds To A New One? | Disputes With Chinese Suppliers Q&A (Volume 22)
A foreign buyer has decided to stop working with their OEM supplier located in China because of horrible performance and poor service. But that supplier still has the buyer’s plastic injection molds in their factory. The buyer is wondering how … Continue reading
My Chinese Supplier is making Switching to a New One Difficult! | Disputes With Chinese Suppliers Q&A (Volume 23)
A European buyer was dealing with a European trading company for over eight years that purchased sports equipment from a manufacturer in China on the buyer’s behalf. However, the relationship with the trading company went sour and the buyer has … Continue reading
Our Supplier Refuses To Ship The Goods We Paid For! | Disputes With Chinese Suppliers Q&A (Volume 21)
This dispute is a really serious situation that importers outsourcing manufacturing to Chinese suppliers pray that they never get into. This company (who became our client when asking us for help), unfortunately, paid a large downpayment on goods which, over … Continue reading
When a Textile Order from Bangladesh goes AWOL…
What happens when a textile order that you’ve placed and paid for with a Bangladeshi cut-and-sew supplier is seemingly forever delayed and the supplier is giving you nothing? This is, unfortunately, a rather common issue with Bangladeshi suppliers…here’s an example … Continue reading
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Tagged Bangladesh, apparel, textiles, manufacturing contract, supplier management
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Good and Bad Methods of Communication with your Chinese Supplier [Podcast]
As Renaud explains here, not every method of communicating with Chinese suppliers is equal. While suppliers may be responsive to WeChat messages and projects seem to be progressing well by chatting there, for example, you could be getting yourself into … Continue reading
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Tagged manufacturing agreement, supplier management, communication
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