Challenge Ahead

Overcoming Barriers to Success:

As UK manufacturers face increasing pressure to reduce cost, they are being forced to move away from their trusted western European supply base to lower cost economies such as China. This offers extensive cost savings but also presents significant challenges and risks, including:

• Poor product quality
• Communication barriers (language and cultural)
• Different technical, material and industrial standards
• Logistics
• Intellectual property protection
• Terms and conditions of supply

Effective management of these issues can make the difference between successful introduction of a global sourcing campaign and project delays, missed cost reduction targets, quality problems, lost production and liabilities associated with an 8 week supply pipeline full of scrap parts!

Overcoming Causes of Failure:

Some companies have had poor experience of sourcing parts from low cost economies. Case studies frequently identify inadequate Technical and Programme Management as root causes of failure. ChinaTech Sourcing will provide a full Technical and Programme Management service throughout the project.

Overcoming Lack of Resource in China:

Many UK companies simply don’t have the resources to send their own personnel to China for extensive periods. This makes it very difficult to undertake the routine but necessary Quality Assurance tasks. In conjunction with our Chinese partners, ChinaTech Sourcing will appoint a Project Manager and Supplier Quality Engineer to support your project from the very beginning. On location in China, they will be responsible for identifying suitable suppliers, auditing, Supplier Development, trouble shooting and monitoring of key project milestones.