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Supply Base Assessment For Supply Chain Improvement Initiatives

In the following write up we are intending on giving you a sense of the challenges that organisations face with either new or existing suppliers and approaches which have proved successful in the western world are not applicable to the Far East.  read more...

Five steps for a more reliable low cost supply chain

Excessive inventory and stock-outs, poor visibility, a lack of trust, unreliable supply, price hikes, discrepancies between samples and final products, and broken supply chains are some typical symptoms associated with low cost supply chains.

Companies who have successful low cost supply chains are doing following things  read more...

Case Study:  Supply Chain Disaster Recovery

SupplyWeaver helped this UK consumer product distributor to recover from a low cost supply chain melt down. We developed emergency action plans, re-assigned excessive work, refined operational procedures and brought in competent suppliers. The saving on air freight alone was over $1M. read more...

Case Study: Supplier On-Boarding for a Global Organisation

The client wanted SupplyWeaver to work with new suppliers on several alignment issues which caused serious supply disruptions. We assisted the client to decide what volume, and variety of products suppliers can take at each stage. Suppliers were hand-held by our professionals to improve quality control, production planning, and capacity improvement. read more...

Case Study: Procurement & Supply Base Diagnose

SupplyWeaver worked with this UN Relief Organisation to review existing organisation procurement processes and policies, and carried out assessment on a group of low cost suppliers. This engagement enabled significant organizational changes of procurement practices for low cost supply chains and developed performance improvement initiatives. read more...

Case Study: Supply Chain Cost Reduction and Price Stabilization

The rising cost of low cost supply chain has become a top issue for this client. SupplyWeaver’s commercial expertise, in-depth knowledge of tax and local policies enabled a tax efficient low cost supply chain and negotiated back with suppliers with winning results. read more...

Case Study: Supplier Assessment From Supply Chain Angels

The overarching need was for suppliers China that could support their growth initiative. However our client had previous costly and unsuccessful experiences in China primarily due to a disproportionate and single focus on finding cheap suppliers who had the ability to make products which met the client’s specifications  read more...

Sourcing From China, It Is Not About The Deal

But getting the contract signed is the least of a company’s concerns: a company may hammer out a deal that looks great on paper but then lose much more in its fulfilment. To managers reading this article we pose these questions: What are your stockouts, and how much money do you spend on airfreight from China? If both are negligible, read no further. If, however, you have back orders and airfreight is a significant proportion of your transport bill, then this article may help.  read more...

Guanxi Your Chinese Supply Chain to success

Supply chain syndromes, like: late delivery, quality does not match specs/samples, supply failure, excessive air freight, rigid lead times, price hiking are not uncommon in Western supply chains. But you will get burned badly when the suppliers are thousands miles away with language and culture barriers.  It costs you more, and is hard to recover. The diagram below describes a typical life cycle for an extended supply chain to China.  read more...