Tkni the 21st ld inn eiga verksmija og verlisti sningarsalur fyrir nstum neitun peningar!

Ponoko 21st ld Framleisla

sund af okkar lesendahpur ert kaupandi hver setja inn str flagi til eirra eiga smsala ea heildsala viskipti. Margir nota Postuln og annar land kring the verld til undirstaa eirra framleisla, ef ekki uppspretta gangur. Margir einnig outsource the allur framleisla af eirra persnulegur merki vara til a gestgjafi af flagi Postuln essi hlaupa the tnstigi af hnnun, ra, framleisla, pakki og jafnvelfalla allt klrt the a sem kemur sas vara til the endir viskiptavinur.

hvernig sem, vera til sumir gra, eiga the vrur sumir mynd ea borga fyrir ess run fyrri til velta. Undanfari, me the koma af the og framfarir tkni, a heild nr markaur hefur been skapa hvar raunverulega geta eiga inn eiga verksmija og verlisti sningarsalur fyrir nstum neitun peningar OG f falla vrusending. This er kvei ekki fyrir the str flagi n essir owning eirra eiga ltill viskipti til essir essi skipulag b Ebay tilTaoBao og vilja til skapa einstur vara og nota the tkni af the 21st ld, this fyrirtki og ess viskipti lkan mega vera rttltur rttur fyrir !

Koma inn Ponoko – tkni the 21st ld.

Ponoko er the verld’ fyrstur persnulegur framleisla pallur. ess’ the online rm fyrir a samflag af skapari og neytandi til nota a alheims- net af stafrnn framleisla vlbnaur til co- skapa, gera og viskipti individualized vara hugmynd krafa.

The ponoko.com markaur tengja skapari, neytandi, stafrnn framleisla vlbnaur og jnusta framfrandi til efla, gera og viskipti vara Ponoko og flagslegur net websites.

Hr er fleiri upplsingar fr Trendwatching.com fr eirra8 mikilvgur neytandi stefna fyrir 2008.

Nr kafi- undirstaa Ponoko ( hver verksmija eins og a CafePress fyrir 3D mtmla) er tilbo neytandi a nr vegur til sna eirra skapandi hugmynd inn raunverulegur- verld mtmla. Eftir senda skr fr sinni tlvu til annarrar eirra eiga hnnun til the website ( EPS skrarsni), ea velja a frjls hnnun, notandi geta velja fr a fjlbreytni af efni. Ponoko runs the hnnun gegnum a leysir skeri. A auki tilbo agangur til faglegur verkfraskr til framleisla vara, Ponoko einnig hjlpa notandi koma me eirra vara til markaur. Einu sinni eir’ tilbinn til selja, flagsaiid geta bta vi ljsmynd af eirra vara til eirra vangasvipur blasa, saman me a lsing og verlagning upplsingar. Vara geta annar hvor vera frelsari til the hnnuur fyrir samkoma ur tilvera flutningamilari til viskiptavinur, ea sjlf- samkoma vara geta vera mlsgrein beint til the endir- viskiptavinur. Ponoko eins og er eini tilbo tveir- mlivdd lak afklippa, hver takmrk hnnun til b mtmla ea rr- mlivdd mtmla essi geta vera koma saman fr b stykki, en tlun fyrir 3D prentun ert the verksmija.

Eins og heilbrigur eins og tilvera a framleisla pallur, Ponoko einnig bera fram eins og a samflag hvar vivaningur einn- burt ba til og hnnuur geta skipti hugmynd og hjlpa leysa hvor annar’ vandaml. The str takmark, according to til Ponoko, er til vera a efnahvati essi hjlpa koma me persnulegur framleisla af individualized vara til the fjldinn.

Svo hvenr f til the benda hvar ert ager heilbrigur me this viskipti lkan, koma aftur og hluti inn sgufrgur og vi mega ljka me the mguleiki essi vi essi tmi, Postuln mega vera einu sinni aftur the staur hvar mlikvari inn viskipti. Svo, j, Postuln er enn the mynd og svo er gur gamall framleisla!

Aprl 13, 2008 | Skr UndirUppspretta Stefna | Leyfi a Athugasemd 

Burt- Skorur Knverji Stll The Nstur Veifa

Postuln Outsourcing

The Sameinaur Stjrnvitringur og Evrpa hafa been outsourcing og burt- skorur framleisla og jnusta fyrir r… og srstaklega the framleisla rm, a mestu leyti til Postuln! Hvernig sem, a stefna er ra hvar Knverji framleiandi ert n burt- skorur eirra eiga vinna til annar gera dran land, a mestu leyti suaustur Asa.

Dan yfir Stjrna The Dreki hefur kveinn greinir ensku hugaverur hluturVtla Dnn Knverji Burt- skorur tskra hvernig this stefna er samtningur upp, srstaklega the vefnaur inaur. svaxandi mli kostnaur Postuln og tollskyldur vefnaur srstakur ert orsakabundinn Knverji framleiandi til setja upp b land eins og Indnesa, Cambodia, Tland og Bangladesh.

kveinn greinir ensku hugaverur sna er essi lkt the Sameinaur Stjrnvitringur, hvar outsourcing og burt- skorur er greinilega seen eins og a neikvur, sumir Knverji flagi tra this stefna er gur fyrir Postuln, frjls upp til brennidepill yfirmaur gildi added framleisla og vaxa eirra hagkerfi sterkur. Vilja Lewis yfir Reynsla Ekki Rkfri, the athugasemd hluti, spurning hvort this er rttltur kveinn greinir ensku afskun fyrir Knverji framleiandi til skera kostnaur og fura ef the framleisla vilja koma aftur einu sinni tollskyldur ert lyfting, vntanlegur 2008.

Febrar 25, 2008 | Skr UndirUppspretta Stefna | Leyfi a Athugasemd 

Postuln Got Dr! Munu Vi Htta Vetnam?

Uppspretta fr Vetnam

SourceJuice tgefandi kveinn greinir ensku hlutur the byrjun af the r tskra sumir aal sta hvers vegnaPostuln er vieigandi fleiri dr. the aldrei endir leita a lgmark kostnaur ( en hr gi!) labor, Vetnam minjagripur pabbi upp eins og the nr ‘ htta’ staur fyrir framleisla. Svo hvaa’ the eiga viskipti vi Vetnam?

Postuln Samantekt Frttir hefur kveinn greinir ensku framrskarandi hlutur vi Helg ola Devonshire- Sporbaugur titill Sameiginlegur Amerka’ Postuln auk einn tkni. The aalatrii af the hlutur er essi Postuln hefur hvaa vi might kalla a fullkominn stormur af verblguvaldandi tlubla og essi OKKUR flagi ert byrjun til hafa a “ postuln auk einn” tkni fleiri svo en rttltur a Postuln tkni.

The kenning bak vi “ postuln auk einn” verksmija eins og this: eins og Postuln er getting auur, og ess bar gamall, a er getting fleiri dr til framleisla there. Laun ert uppreisn og svo ert the ver af verslunarvara Postuln er reynsla sumir hafa hyggjur verblguvaldandi stefna rttur n essi ert tinn upp the ver af allt fr a skl af hrsgrjn til b leiga. Added til essi, Postuln sem unnt er a sameina ess sameiginlegur tekjuskattur kerfi fyrra, uppeldi the fyrri lgmark hlutfall essi erlendur viskipti njta upp sumir tilfelli fr 15 prsent til 25 prsent. Viss skattur hvatning einnig hafa hverfa, ger annar Asubi kvrunarstaur n fleiri alaandi en the PRC fyrir the kvittun af erlendur fjrfesting. Til blanda this, the Sameinaur Stjrnvitringur hefur kvti kerfi staur fyrir Knverji vefnaur, landbnaar- vara og a heild gestgjafi af annar atrii, merking einu sinni essir kvti ert notaur og the rbk kvti hafa tilhneiging til hafa been n til eftir rttltur 9 mnuur there ert neitun fleiri leyfilegur U.S. innflutningur.

mean Vetnam mega aldrei vera the innri markaur essi Postuln er, margir fjlja- hlutaflag ( vitsmunir, Dalverpi, etc) ert uppgtvun Vetnam alveg gestrisinn eins og fjrfesting opporunities og sund af Taiwanbi og Kreumaur ltill og milungs- -str viskipti hafa been framleisla Vetnambi fyrir r.

Reikningur Dodson, skkva af Silki Vegur Rgefandi, sums upp the tlubla bestur hans skringPostuln Auk- Einn Vetnam, of?. mean Herra. Dodson hjartarskinn ekki tsni Vetnam eins og the vera allur og endir allur, hans yfirlit er alveg rttur:

Hvers vegna, eftir allt saman, vildi vilja til stagreina a nr tflutningur framleisla facility inland in China and away from the increasingly expensive coastal cities of Shanghai and Guangzhou, when you can have exactly the same plant slap bang on the coast in Vietnam or India, with an English speaking workforce and better tax investment incentives? You wouldn’t, and the savvy American boardrooms and entrepreneurs know this.

It would be interesting to hear from our readers whether they are currently sourcing from Vietnam, investigating doing so, not interested right now, and in general your experiences!

February 8, 2008 | Filed Under Sourcing Trends | 3 Comments 

Is “Guanxi” still needed in China?

Guanxi in China

Guanxi in Chinese means “relationships” and most foreigners and Chinese alike will assure you of the need to have good Guanxi to get business done in China. While I doubt anyone who has done business or lived in China will argue that relationships aren’t necessary here, Shawn He Yuxun, from MeetChinaBiz offers some excellent insight in his blog post into the history of this infamous word Guanxi, its place within China historically and what place Guanxi may have in the future.

In his post, Shawn He Yuxun discusses the history of Guanxi as it relates to requiring personal favors to achieve economic means during a time when China’s economy was completely planned.

Prior to the 1980s, every aspect of China’s economic life was planned, controlled, directed and operated by the government. No private ownership of any property or asset, much less profiteering for an individual or group, was allowed. The government would allocate everyone a pre-defined slice of the “big pie“ (incidentally the equivalent terminology in China — where rice rules the dining table — was “Da Guo Fan“ (da-gore-fun), which means “rice in a big wok“). If one wanted any more than what was allocated to him/her, he/she would have to circumvent the system and rely on another individual in charge of a particular function in that “allocation chain” to do him/her a special favor.

As China began opening up in the 70’s, there was no effective system in place to foster individual economic relationships outside of the planned economy and this Guanxi system.

So by and large throughout the 80’s and most of the 90’s, having Guanxi this “ultra-relationship” or “super-connection“ ALONE had proven to be a sufficient, and in many cases also necessary, condition to get something done, regardless of the fundamentals. With Guanxi, a completely unqualified and incompetent person could land a very important job and/or position. Also with Guanxi, a company with no track record whatsoever could be awarded massive contracts. You get the point…

However, Shawn He Yuxun argues that as certain industries become more privatized, and with a history of economic relationships built outside of the Guanxi system, that Guanxi itself is less important. “Business is business” just like in the west.

As the economy becomes more and more marketized privatized and competitive, the value and effectiveness of the Guanxi system has also greatly deterioriated. In industries that have been substantially deregulated privatized or where there is much competition, business is business, and Guanxi has been neutralized marginalized to resemble just what relationships and connections are like in the Western world.

So what do you think? Is Guanxi still required in China? Is the Guanxi of today different from the Guanxi of yesterday? Let’s hear from our readers about your experiences!

January 6, 2008 | Filed Under Negotiating & Strategy, Sourcing Trends | 11 Comments 

Trends affecting China sourcing in 2008

The China Sourcing Blog has an interesting post, Reflections on trends affecting China sourcing in 2008.

As Beijing celebrated the start of its ‘Olympic Year’ with a large outdoor music performance on Monday night, we might well look at some of the trends that could impact China sourcing in 2008.

Some feel that a combination of increasing raw material costs, tighter labor laws, and product safety concerns will finally slow the growth of China. Others feel that China will continue to grow quickly in 2008 and beyond.

What do you think?

January 1, 2008 | Filed Under Sourcing Trends | Leave a Comment