Is sourcing from China a never-ending battle with quality control and materials, plus things I would probably never think of?
Running a business that manufactures products anywhere in the world requires tedious work. In China, as with the West, there are always issues that arise, from raw material procurement to fabrication concerns. The problem is that most companies do not conduct the due diligence to truly understand the processes at work in the Mainland, and to maintain the type of oversight that they would demand in the West. Problems we wouldn’t naturally think of will often arise in Asia. This is inherent in dealing with such a foreign place, with a history and culture so very different from ours. One friend of mine owns a large cut and sew factory in China that makes clothing for fashion dolls. He did a lot of work for Mattel Barbie products to be specific. Mattel is about as sophisticated a manufacturer as there is in that market. They could not understand, however, why the daily output of a specific outfit was less in China than in their own facility in the States. They knew how long it took to cut
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