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China Sourcing Uses Mergers or Acquisition Skills
- January 22, 2011
- Posted by: Gary Young
- Categories: China Sourcing, China Sourcing - Blog
No CommentsAt my Vistage meeting last week, we listened to a speaker about mergers and acquisitions. And as usual with me, I was trying to imagine how this great information would pertain China sourcing. He said that 65 percent of mergers and acquisitions fail because parties spent time putting out fires and not planning properly. That
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China Sourcing and Accountability.
- November 15, 2010
- Posted by: Gary Young
- Categories: China Sourcing, China Sourcing - Blog
I get asked quite often; “How can you guarantee that my order from China will be perfect?” I usually say that we have procedures and a process to work through quality issues. There is a whole list of things we do including the development of a check lists, photos and video confirmation and third party materials testing just to name a few. But what I don’t talk too much about is what else we are doing behind the scenes to increase accountability on the China side and both sides for that matter. It is something we do to make our job so much easier in China but it dawns on me that maybe I should be bragging (just a little) about our accountability effort and how it saves time, money and benefits all three parties. (Our client, the factory in China and us- Avela Corporation
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