Monitoring Your Supplier

Lots in the news lately about bad product/suppliers coming from China, although things seem to have died down lately. Yesterday I sat in on some nice presentations in Dr. Anderson’s ethics class, one of which included a presentation on corporate social responsibility and doing your due diligence on quality control with your supplier.

For an excellent nickel tour on what the issue of supplier control means and how it comes up, see this CLB post, How To Monitor Your Chinese Factory, The China Price and QC By Motorcycle. After you read this you can see how darn hard it can be to do this well.

Having said this, are there a number of bad suppliers in China? Of course. They get all the press. Are there many good suppliers? Of course. They do not get the press.

11 comments May 22nd, 2008