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When something goes wrong with a product and it's your company logo at stake, their needs to be a clear structure set up to tell who is liable for damages and blame. When setting up partnerships with suppliers in China, professionals know that this action should be one of their number one priorities. It is also one of the most difficult contracts to ensure, as was clear by the multitudes of questions at a recent "Product Liabilities breakfast held by the Global Supply Chain Council at ...

A comprehensive analysis of the total cost of sourcing for a business or IT process involves an analysis of two components: standard costs and incremental globalization costs...

Walking the streets in China today, you may notice many young teenagers wearing sports clothing with unfamiliar logos emblazoned on their chests. Looking at the curvy L that is Li Ning's signature or the sideways V that stands for Anta, you may wonder to yourself, is that a knock-off Nike shirt? No, in fact, these two Chinese brands are well established and are quickly becoming Nike's biggest competition in China. China's sportswear market is poised to expand at an annual ...

Everyday it seems we hear something about cloud computing. As a topic, it pops up everywhere. Industry experts describe its paradigm shifting potential for customers, while major suppliers are buying up companies with cloud related capabilities while proclaiming astronomical business potential. Everyone seems to be offering some variation of service. It has been around for years, but suddenly it is being identified as the top strategic technology for 2010. Something is going on.  ...

Suicides. Spreading strikes. Militaristically zealous management and aggressive security guards. Pay raises and suicide contracts. These recent dramatic headlines have shoved Foxconn, the trade name of Taiwan-based Hon Hai, from relative anonymity straight into the unwelcome limelight, dragging its big-name customers like Apple, Dell and Sony along behind it. But while the glare of publicity may be bright, it has blinded many to the real story, which is about much more than suicides at a ...

Increasingly, international manufacturers are motivated to be in China due to the growing domestic demand of the Chinese marketplace. It is easy to see why when you consider that last year, Chinese consumers bought more automobiles than Americans for the first time in history. Tim Lee, General Motors Shanghai-based president of international operations recently said that he thinks it won't be long before GM will sell more cars in China than in its home market. However, ...

Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD), a leading global pharmaceutical manufacturers, began work on a new manufacturing factory in east China' s Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province on Monday as part of its expansion plan in China. According to the local government, the first phase of the project covers 75,000 sq m of land and involves RMB700 million of investment. Total investment will surpass RMB1 billion (about US$147.6 million), making it one of its largest pharmaceutical packaging ...

Chrysler recently signed an agreement with Shanghai Tongsheng Logistics to jointly establish a logistics center in Yangshan Port.

The country's existing network of roads, rail and waterways will be insufficient as freight movement will increase about three-fold in the coming decade and the shortfall in logistics will put India's growth at risk. To overcome this major problem, based on the current trends, India requires to spend $500 billion over the next 10 years, said McKinsey in its report on 'Transforming the nation's logistics infrastructure,' which was released in Chennai recently during the ...

General Motors India, the local arm of the Detroit-based car manufacturer, is strengthening its India plans as it intends to locally source more than 90% of its requirements for making commercial and passenger vehicles. The strategy, which would be executed within the next two years, would benefit a host of existing and potential Indian suppliers, auto component makers and other allied companies. GM India currently sources only 60% of auto parts and ancillary for its ...

Auto major Honda Motors is on a localisation drive in the country to reduce costs and beat the currency blues. The company is looking forward to utilising its existing manufacturing facilities to the optimum in wake of its proposed new small car of which around 80 per cent will be sourced locally. After the jazz debacle which was termed as a premium hatchback, Honda has realised that pricing is the primary deal maker in India and thus the need for localisation has become even ...

Samsung, the South Korean electrical appliance manufacturer, has decided to set up its new air-conditioner production line in Thailand instead of Vietnam, the better to meet higher-than-expected local demand. The new line will raise capacity to 3 million units a year, from 800,000 now, said Somporn Jangreenapawong, business leader for air-conditioners at Thai Samsung Electronic. Construction will start in the second half of the year, with the new production to start ...

Following a construction phase of just eight months, Demag Cranes inaugurated its new production plant in Chakan, India, together with customers and partners. This marks an expansion of the company's production capacities on the sub-continent of some 8,000 square metres to cover a total of more than 10,400 square metres with a possible extension of 6,000 square metres. Besides Standard Cranes and crane components, the product range in future will also include the technically ...

Analysts foresee a slowdown in global trade on the horizon as the mainland's two biggest ports, Shanghai and Shenzhen, report lower volumes last month compared with May. The volume of containers through Shanghai, the world's busiest container port, fell 4.7 per cent to 2.44 million 20-foot equivalent units (teu) from 2.56 million teu in May, according to Shanghai International Port Group, the Shanghai-listed operator of the city's ports. Shanghai's cargo ...

China Post, the official postal service of China, is planning to list the shares of China Postal Express & Logistics Corporation, its express and logistics unit, in Shanghai or Shenzhen next year, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday. The float will make China Postal Express & Logistics Corporation the first listed express company in China, said Shao Zhonglin, deputy secretary-general of the China Express Association. The integrated unit was set up with a ...

Loscam was sold by private equity group Affinity Equity Partners for an estimated sum of US$ 550 million.

Rock Hsu, chairman of Taiwan's Kinpo Group, has announced that the group's Compal Electronics will set up a new notebook computer manufacturing base in Chongqing by 2011. According to reports in Taiwanese local media, with the entry of Compal, Chongqing has already attracted four Taiwanese leading notebook foundries, including Hon Hai, Quanta, Inventec, and Compal, making the city the second-largest notebook manufacturing base on the Chinese mainland, second to the East China ...

Ford is investing $450 million in a new passenger car plant in Thailand, cementing the country's status as an Asian manufacturing base for the automaker despite prolonged political unrest. The plant with an annual production capacity of 150,000 vehicles will begin assembling the next-generation Ford Focus from 2012, the company said Thursday. Some 85 percent of cars produced at the facility will be sold overseas and the rest in Thailand. Ford said up to 2,200 people will be ...

DHL and the National University of Singapore (NUS) have set up a S$3 million Sustainable Supply Chain Centre that will help companies in the sector make more efficient use of resources.

More attractive tax rates could enhance Thailand's ability to compete with Singapore and Hong Kong to become a leading regional distribution centre, says economist and former finance minister Virabongsa Ramangkura. Dr Virabongsa, now chairman of Finansa Plc, said Thailand had a geographical advantage to expand its role from being just a manufacturing and export centre. Thai refineries can service demand for refinery products in neighbouring countries. Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos ...