I know this has been written about before but we cannot under estimate China’s effect on world economic growth over the last 15 years. The low wage Chinese economy has been a major influence on prices and in some instances deflation in most developed countries.
However, is the party all going to come to an end? […]
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7. What about language issues? Americans generally only speak English.
For India, suppliers tend to have good written English skills. Spoken English can be difficult because of different accents and because of poor telecom connections. A US buyer unfamiliar with speaking with people from India will need perhaps 5 or 10 hours of experience speaking on […]
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7. What about language issues? Americans generally only speak English.
For India, suppliers tend to have good written English skills. Spoken English can be difficult because of different accents and because of poor telecom connections. A US buyer unfamiliar with speaking with people from India will need perhaps 5 or 10 hours of experience speaking on […]
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Today, we welcome Carl Greppin from Transpac Access. We took some time to ask Carl questions about Low Cost Country Sourcing to get details on some of the finer points of this process. Part II of this interview will be up tomorrow.
1. There is still lots of buzz about low-cost country sourcing (LCCS). […]
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Today, we welcome Carl Greppin from Transpac Access. We took some time to ask Carl questions about Low Cost Country Sourcing to get details on some of the finer points of this process. Part II of this interview will be up tomorrow. There are widely varying opinions about LCCS and best practices, […]
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I read an interesting article in European Leaders which was focused on the growing emergence of niche/boutique BPO companies. According to Morgan Chambers, smaller players are starting to gain momentum in outsourcing and beginning to pose a threat to large providers, who were described in some cases as having levels of innovation that were […]
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32% of organisations worldwide have sustainable travel policy and 20% said their transport policy gave priority to vendors with lower carbon emissions.
These figures seem quite high but I can’t help but feel that with companies like Tesco and Wal-Mart giving a greater priority to this issue these percentages are likely to change dramatically over […]
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I was recently speaking with a large food processing company VP-Purchasing and found the conversation nothing short of fascinating. Unfortunately, what is a very interesting topic to me has him in white knuckle mode, just trying to weather the storm. What is causing this pain and suffering in the food industry?
Corn
Corn […]
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Back in October, Rob Parrish had a great post over on Riskape that outlined the top 10 factors to consider when sourcing globally. This post was very enlightening as it opens your eyes to not only how risky global sourcing can be but why you should be using e-Sourcing tools to help you manage […]
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So, Wal-Mart is not typical on any level or relative to any comparable, but I did find a recent article in Apparel Magazine interesting, nonetheless. Check this data from the retail giant:
Wal-Mart reports that it will save nearly $26 million, will conserve 10 million gallons of diesel fuel and will prevent 100,000 tons of […]
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