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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008Fred Burton is a counterterrorism expert at www.stratfor.com. A link to one of his articles has already appeared on Artful Sourcing. He has a terrific new book hitting the bookstores entitled Ghost: Confessions of a Counterterroism Agent. The first two chapters of the book have been published on the Stratfor website, and they are a [...]
Manufacturing Cost Tug-of-War – Part 2
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008In our previous article we explored the factors that go into the cost expectations of OEMs. Those factors involve most of the functional departments within a company. When the design phase reaches a certain point, the procurement group will send out Request for Quote (RFQ) packages to potential suppliers. There are various methods used to [...]
Manufacturing Cost Tug-of-War – Part 1
Thursday, February 14th, 2008The tug-of-war between original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and their contract manufacturers (CMs) with regard to price always intrigues me. It reminds me of the dance most of us have gone through when buying a new car. As consumers we understand that the car dealer needs to make a profit, we just want to make sure [...]
Guanxi and Doing Business in China
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008I am a regular reader of Stratfor’s free newsletters and always find them to be well written, interesting, and relevant to my world. Fred Burton and Scott Stewart wrote an outstanding article on January 16, 2008 entitled “China: Guanxi and Corporate Security.” Sourcing manufacturing from China has become both a necessity and an enigma for [...]
Which Sourcing Directory Do You Prefer?
Thursday, December 6th, 2007We have already done a brief review of ThomasNet. In future articles we will review some of the other available sourcing directories such as: Wand Globalspec Goliath Please use the comment function at the end of this article to help us build a more complete listing of the directory services. We will then review each [...]
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