Effective
Outsourced Supplier Management Company
(Look at www.amrepchina.com for more
information)
Many companies have moved into
strategic outsourcing with its primary focus on manufacturing
suppliers in China. Strategic outsourcing as is understood in
the US includes:
- Identifying potential
suppliers
- Requesting
Quotations
- Analyzing
preliminary expenses
- Negotiating contracts
- Monitoring
and Improving Suppliers
These are written up in articles in
the ASQ Quality Progress magazine by members. However, there
are missing links in some understanding of
how to make Asian suppliers operate well in the US
conceptualization and perception of "supplier partnerships"
and "successful supply chains".
For Chinese suppliers you must have
smart supplier identification, qualification and
quality systems audit. AMREP has been called
in many times by customers who found the wrong suppliers or
are working with suppliers who are based on "what you see is not what you
get".
You need to know and plan how to
handle the following:
- Supplier
Risks Avoidance
- Supplier
Risks Control
- Supplier
Replacement
AMREP does plenty of customer work on
"monitoring and improving" Asian suppliers. It gets more
complicated in the newly emerging factories and industries of
New China. "Monitoring and Improving" suppliers for customers
using outsourced suppliers is coping with unexpected and
surprising supplier quality and manufacturing problems.
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