In this episode...

Sofeast's podcasting duo, our CEO Renaud Anjoran and Adrian from the team are back to talk about strategies that importers who are placing large and valuable orders with their overseas manufacturers and performing a lot of product inspections can follow to optimize the inspection schedule to get better results and, perhaps, reduce costs without increasing risks, and upstream preventive measures that can be put in place to improve quality before and during production that reduce the need for as many inspections in the first place.

SMEs and larger companies that regularly do a lot of business with Asian manufacturers could benefit from cost and time savings and reduced risks with this advice.

 

Show Sections

00:00 - Greetings

01:05 - Changes to Hong Kong Covid quarantine and news of Covid lockdowns in Yiwu (although not too severe).

11:02 - Today's topic: How to optimize QC inspections and get better results. Why would a business seek to do this?

16:22 - Adjusting inspection type, severity, and regularity could be a helpful cost-saving exercise.

18:26 - What does a business need to prepare before starting an optimization initiative like this?

23:38 - What information should we gather from the supplier's side?

35:35 - Which kinds of importers this upstream product development and process optimization is more relevant to?

37:03 - Delegating inspections to the supplier over time (without raising risks, hopefully).

41:56 - Wrap-up.

 

Related content...

Get a quotation from Sofeast for help from our quality engineers and QA team who will assess your situation and find ways to make the optimizations discussed here: QA/QC Inspection Optimization Services

Read more about why Supplier Self-Inspections Are Getting More Popular in China

Learn about Switching from Acceptance Sampling to Process Control

HK is cutting hotel quarantine to 3 days, plus 4 days medical surveillance

How To Switch To A Newer, Better Chinese Manufacturer? [eBook]

Why you need a good quality standard

Explore boundary/limit samples

Read The New Product Introduction Process Guide for Hardware Startups

Listen to The NPI Process: Trouble Awaits If You Skip Its Steps!

 

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