April 2016

Suppliers in China - Break Through The 5 Main Barriers

Western companies have five main barriers to engagement when it comes to suppliers in China. When being examined through Western-business-eyes, China certainly looks an endless sea of business opportunities, quite affordable labor and billions of potential customers. However, there is a significant set of challenges in working with suppliers in China. Barriers that can easily shatter these lovely, but a little bit too optimistic initial...

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Scrubbing Your Supplier Database

Your Supplier Database contains the data that is the foundation of most of your day-to-day purchasing decisions. Regular scrubbing is not only a best practice for you and your team, but it is a necessary process if you hope to optimize your core enterprise functions.   There’s plenty of room for improvements in this field. Without any exaggeration, we can freely claim that almost each and any...

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