Does this seem like your Chinese procurement process?

Does this seem like your Chinese procurement process?

chinese suppliers and manufacturers

• Step 1: You spend never ending hours on the phone and writing emails to seek out Chinese manufacturers. (3-4 weeks)
• Step 2: You send a communication with prints attached inviting manufacturers to buy a part or service. (7 days)
• Step 3: The emails revisit with the expected questions engineering, payment, and delivery issues. (3 -4 weeks, otherwise longer)
• Step 4: You narrow the industry of bidders - usually by price. (one week)
• Step 5: You request samples. (one to two weeks)
• Step 6: You receive the samples from the usual yellow cardboard box secured with excessive tape. After  battling the right path through the adhesive barrier, you at long last get a review your supplier's samples. On first inspection the various look like the blueprint.
• Step 7: You know that you need to deliver the samples for the dreaded QC department in which the grim reaper (inspector) will deliver the detailed analysis. (a week - they've got their priorities)
• Step 8: You receive a bleeding inspection report that reveals another supplier sending you junk parts.
• Step 9: Repeat steps 1 - 8!

This process occupies to 10 - 13 weeks one which just determine the supplier's quality and efficiency. What if you could potentially escape this cycle of rejection and produce a robust procurement process for Chinese manufacturers that can let you know within several weeks when you have a reliable manufacturer of your respective product?
Processes are not more than qualifying combining inputs and expecting an output. Step 1 in almost any process is considered the most critical. Looking at the first step in our example reveals an essential missing element - Guanxi.

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