Posts tagged "quality"

CHINA ECONOMY WATCH

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Oct 2015


Global Sourcing, Opportunities
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CHINA ECONOMY WATCH

Hello Wednesday! Yeay, we're in the middle of the week (again)! Today, I'm writing an article about China Economy watch based on one of my favorite economic figures: Christine Lagarde, the head of IMF.   Here is the review...   "I would say that it's a recovery that is decelerating a bit, and we are seeing massive transitions at the moment" she said and it was expected to gain momentum next year.   After such a massive growth over decades, China's economy slowed to 7.4...

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MY FIRST INSPECTION VISIT

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Aug 2015


Global Sourcing, Quality Control, Quality Management
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MY FIRST INSPECTION VISIT

Good day! I'm super excited to write an article about my first factory inspection visit. People say "There is a time for everything" ; and this is my first factory inspection visit! My visit was to a stroller factory in Ningbo and there was so much fun! Let's get started!     The Stroller Framework My colleagues and I arrived at the factory at lunch time, so we had lunch together with some of the factory's employees at their canteen. Our inspection process started after l...

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What and Why – Pre Production Inspection

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Sep 2014


Global Sourcing, Safety and Compliance
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What and Why – Pre Production Inspection

What is PPI - Pre Production Inspection?   The “PPI” or "IPI" (Initial Product Inspection) is completed right before the beginning of the actual mass production. It is done after the identification or evaluation of your vendor. The objective of the inspection is to ensure that your vendor and factory has truly understood your order’s requirements and specifications and that they are well prepared for production. The inspection is completed onsite at the factory or vendor offic...

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Making the water cleaner

12

Sep 2014


Quality Control
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Making the water cleaner

Chinese and US students join hands to setup new platform for quality awareness   University students from the United States and  Chinese business schools have established a crowd-sourcing platform to help people in China learn more about the quality of the water that they use every day.   The Web portal, called MyH2O (myh2o.org), is one of the first online crowdsourcing platforms in China. The portal aims to promote risk awareness, citizen activism and governmental respons...

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Quality derives from education

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Sep 2014


Opportunities, Quality Management
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Quality derives from education

Big initiative on vocational training is to upgrade China’s economy   Shenyang in China's industrial northeast, dominated by heavy industry and leviathan state-owned enterprises, may seem an unlikely model for the modernization of the country's economy. Still, the capital of Liaoning province is seen as a leader in vocational training. It has had a long tradition in turning out the skills that industry needs and in 2010 was designated as one of 10 vocational training pilot areas. Th...

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Why to check suppliers for a slave labor?

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Apr 2014


Global Sourcing, Quality Management, Safety and Compliance, Supplier Assessment
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Why to check suppliers for a slave labor?

Just half of UK manufacturing companies are auditing their first tier suppliers for child workers, slaves and conflict minerals, according to researches. It found fewer – 38 per cent – are auditing tier two vendors on the same criteria; and one in five said they are confident in suppliers’ ethical compliance purely because of personal relationships. The study revealed 80 per cent of UK manufacturers said they were “very confident” their tier one suppliers did not use slave labor,...

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Why Being in China Is Compulsory?

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Jun 2012


Global Sourcing, Quality Control, Quality Management, Supplier Assessment
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Why Being in China Is Compulsory?

If you have ever imported from China before, you know how important it is to have a presence on the ground, with your own staff or with external help. Not having one can create many headaches, frustration and can cost you thousands of dollars. Not having representatives in China can be the difference between managing a successful importing project from China or an unsuccessful one.   Setting up your own presence in China can be difficult, expensive and time consuming. Therefore, many ...

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Head, Tripe, Steer!

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Apr 2011


Quality Control, Quality Management
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Head, Tripe, Steer!

Through centuries, the economic web in the entire world has widened. Greatly supported by the globalization phenomenon, frontiers have been erased, markets saturated. Thus, originally simple confluences between supply (bid) and demand, supply has massively grown its presence (attendance) on markets, which has modified the demand function. From a global look and concentration on a price under constant pressure but also downwards, things changed and let place to a tremendous focus on a quality/ pr...

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