BY RENAUD ANJORAN A few days ago, I wrote about the basics of ISO 9001 — both the standard and the certification/registration process. I got some comments on Linkedin about how useless ISO 9001 is. It is useless indeed in many manufacturing…
BY RENAUD ANJORAN How many of your suppliers claim to be ISO 9001 certified? Is it true? And, to start with, what does it mean? I want to shed some light on this topic. The purpose of the ISO 9001 standard is…
Posted on November 10, 2017 by Fredrik Gronkvist Suggestion: Watch the 10 minutes video tutorial before reading this article Once your products are paid for in full and shipped, you’re beyond the point of no return. If you were to…
SHIJIAZHUANG, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- Great Wall Motor Co. Ltd., China's largest sport utility vehicles (SUV) and pickup maker, sold more than 1.05 million vehicles in 2018, down 1.6 percent year on year. The automaker saw its annual SUV sales…
BY RENAUD ANJORAN I see some good advice, published in Linkedin or elsewhere, aimed at importers sourcing products from China, Vietnam, or other low-cost Asian countries. A lot of this advice is sound. However, I noticed that a good chunk…
BY RENAUD ANJORAN We have followed the needs of some clients and set up our own assembly center in South China. I took some notes about the 6 phases we have followed, to get from idea to operation. But first,…
US exports of soyabeans to China, the world’s biggest market, have all but disappeared, leaving farmers dependent on a $12bn bailout Gregory Meyer in Reserve, Louisiana 55 MINUTES AGO The final 230 miles of the Mississippi river have long reinforced…
A tectonic shift in the country’s economy has largely gone unnoticed by investors From a slowdown in China to waning iPhone demand, WSJ’s Dan Gallagher explains the main factors contributing to Apple’s fourth-quarter revisions. Photo: AP By Nathaniel Taplin Jan.…
BY RENAUD ANJORAN 1. What is a sampling plan? A sampling plan allows an auditor or a researcher to study a group (e.g. a batch of products, a segment of the population) by observing only a part of that group,…
