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Just a question to contemplate…

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

There is a Wal*Mart here in Beijing. I haven’t been in it.
I wonder what they sell in at a Wal*Mart in China…

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Supplier Selection: Beyond Quality, Delivery, Cost

Monday, October 22, 2007

Do you have a responsibility to make sourcing decisions on anything other than Quality, Delivery, Cost? This
news item about a mass-fatality industrial fire in China opens up some interesting thoughts about sourcing over here.
For future reference after the link dies, the lead of the story is:
A fire at an illegal shoe factory in eastern [...]

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Trust, Then Verify

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

This article
NPR : Mattel Recalls More China-Made Toys highlights one of the problems with doing business with an unproven supply chain.
In this case, the OEM in China had specified the correct paint to their supplier - who was a friend of the owner - but the paint supplier had given them less expensive lead [...]

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Back in China

Friday, August 3, 2007

At the end of the last post I promised to write more when I was over the jet-lag of returning from three weeks in China. Well.. I didn’t, and how I am back over here.
While I was in the USA I took some time off, or at least I did during my “day job.” Since [...]

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