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How to know if your China factory is good?

Posted: September 26, 2016

By Renaud Anjoran

I
hear buyers talk about their “good suppliers” and their “bad suppliers”, yet
they are often unable to pinpoint what makes them “good” or “bad”.

• Maybe one factory
has better “systems”. But few buyers actually take the time to look into those
“systems”.

• Maybe they have more
progressive management. They tried approaches that are unusual in their
industry.

• Maybe they simply
have more recent equipment, which is easier to control and maintain.

That’s
a lot of “maybes”.

At
CMC we have developed a self-assessment tool that will help you pinpoint in what
areas their performance is good, average, and below average.

Rate a factory by clicking
here

You
will get a score by email, along with links to explanatory articles.

If
you purchase from a factory and you have visited it 2 or 3 times, you should be
able to make educated guesses about the questions.

Why
not simply conduct a factory audit? Because an audit typically looks at only one
area of performance. However, this assessment tool looks at the three main
performance areas of any business:

• Quality

• Cost

• On-time
delivery

It
doesn’t matter if the factory collects no data. If they have no preventive
maintenance system, for example, you know right there that there is a problem.
Their equipment will run until it is down. By that time, there might be an
impact on product quality. And it probably delays the shipment.

I
hope it’s helpful!

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toward online and Amazon sellers.

Renaud
Anjoran has been managing his quality assurance agency (Sofeast Ltd) since 2006.
In addition, a passion for improving the way people work has pushed him to
launch a consultancy to improve factories and a web application to manage the
purchasing process. He writes advice for importers on qualityinspection.org.

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