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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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“Packaging” is spelled M-U-D-A

Thursday, October 11, 2007

In Mike Wroblewski’s blog “Got Boondoggle?” he
comments on just how much packaging and dunnage is not visible in Toyota’s Industrial Equipment plant. Of course that is remarkable because of just how common it is to find the opposite condition. Factories (and offices) have lots of packaging around, and spend lots of time dealing with [...]

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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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