Download or read book Local Raw Material Sourcing in China written by Jonny Phung and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master's Thesis from the year 2014 in the subject Business economics - Industrial Management, grade: A, Tongji University, language: English, abstract: In today's highly competitive and dynamic environment, a company's success is based on the performance of its supply chains. Single companies become part of a supply chain by concentrating on its core activities and source capabilities not belonging to its core competence. The importance of the company's supply base has increased immensely. China is becoming the economic engine of the world's economy. In the early 1980s international companies entered the Chinese market to take part of the countries elusively growth and tried to gain edge. Focusing on the automotive industry, original equipment manufacturer, started to assemble cars from complete knocked down (CKD) and semi knocked down (SKD) kits in manufacturing sites in China. Driven by high import duties and legal requirement set by the Chinese government OEMs started to produce locally for the domestic market encouraging their existing supply chain to build up transfer plants in geographic proximity of their manufacturing site. Supply chains in automotive industry are divided in tiers, depending on their degree of value creation of the complete products; 1st Tier suppliers themselves encouraging their supplier to set up transfer plants in China. The decision to take the existing supply chain result of long term process to enable a supplier for the automotive supply chain. In 2008 China became the largest single country automotive market overwhelming the US market. Increasing price pressure and matured domestic market led to a localization trend within the automotive supply chain to exploit cost advantage by sourcing locally. Therefore supply bases have to be established by assessing companies to be potential supplier. Suppliers create more than 70% of the total value of the final product, resulting in high importance of having excellent supplier. Raw materials a

Download or read book Sourcing in China written by G. Nassimbeni and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-06-06 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights the inducements, advantages and obstacles faced by enterprises in the development of a sourcing channel in China. A taxonomy of the sourcing typologies is proposed and a normative model is described choice. The book examines the paths leading to an effective sourcing channel and International Purchasing Office in China.

Download or read book Supply Chain Based Category Strategies for Global Supply Networks written by Nikos Moraitakis and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2017-07-26 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a supply chain perspective, often big differences exist between global raw material suppliers’ approaches to supply their respective local markets. The progressing complexity of large centrally managed global supply networks and their often-unknown upstream ramifications increase the likelihood of undetected bottlenecks and inefficiencies. It is therefore necessary, to develop an approach to strategically master the upstream complexity of such networks from a holistic perspective, in order to align regional competitive priorities and supply chain structures. The research is set in the context of polyamide engineering thermoplastics in the automotive industry. Based on an initial industry analysis and a literature review, a conceptual framework is developed. The framework is matched with existing empirical and theoretical literature, as well as multiple case study analyses in the relevant supply market and a centrally managed global supply network. As a result, strategic group theory is transferred into the supply network management context, to allow for the consideration of upstream supply chain structures in the category strategy development process. The proposed approach introduces strategic groups of supply chains as a segmentation criterion for complex global supply networks, which enables the network-wide alignment of competitive priorities, flexibility requirements, and partnerships with suppliers. Supply chain-based category strategies can effectively reduce the complexity firms are facing in this context. The results of this research are applicable for certain types of global supply networks, and can be used for network alignment and strategy development. The approach can furthermore generate valuable insights useable for negotiation support with suppliers.

Download or read book Management in China written by Roger Strange and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at management attitudes in China since the recent economic reforms, and what China can learn from Japan.

Download or read book Supply Chain Secrets written by Rob O'Byrne and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to save your business millions!!! The international expert and author Rob O’Byrne gives his powerful and essential tips and insights based on over 1,200 client assignments across 22 countries. This book shows you how to find the greatest potential for massive savings and increased bottom line. You’ll Learn:* How to access the big ticket items to reduce costs* 5 critical tips on measuring for superior performance* Balancing cost and service for more effective distribution* How to stop inventory investment blow outs* 3 key steps to developing a game winning supply chain strategy* The 5 key steps to improving warehousing effectiveness* Avoiding the stuff that screws your supply chain performance

Download or read book Doing Business in China written by Geoffrey Murray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers a wide range of economic topics and explains China's economic reforms, the political thinking behind them and their impact on Chinese and foreigners alike.

Download or read book Vernacular Industrialism in China written by Eugenia Lean and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early twentieth-century China, Chen Diexian (1879–1940) was a maverick entrepreneur—at once a prolific man of letters and captain of industry, a magazine editor and cosmetics magnate. He tinkered with chemistry in his private studio, used local cuttlefish to source magnesium carbonate, and published manufacturing tips in how-to columns. In a rapidly changing society, Chen copied foreign technologies and translated manufacturing processes from abroad to produce adaptations of global commodities that bested foreign brands. Engaging in the worlds of journalism, industry, and commerce, he drew on literati practices associated with late-imperial elites but deployed them in novel ways within a culture of educated tinkering that generated industrial innovation. Through the lens of Chen’s career, Eugenia Lean explores how unlikely individuals devised unconventional, homegrown approaches to industry and science in early twentieth-century China. She contends that Chen’s activities exemplify “vernacular industrialism,” the pursuit of industry and science outside of conventional venues, often involving ad hoc forms of knowledge and material work. Lean shows how vernacular industrialists accessed worldwide circuits of law and science and experimented with local and global processes of manufacturing to navigate, innovate, and compete in global capitalism. In doing so, they presaged the approach that has helped fuel China’s economic ascent in the twenty-first century. Rather than conventional narratives that depict China as belatedly borrowing from Western technology, Vernacular Industrialism in China offers a new understanding of industrialization, going beyond material factors to show the central role of culture and knowledge production in technological and industrial change.

Download or read book Multinationals and East Asian Integration written by International Development Research Centre (Canada) and published by IDRC. This book was released on 1997 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multinationals and East Asian Integration

Download or read book Survey on Activities of Swiss Manufacturing Companies in China with special focus on M A written by Juergen Simon and published by diplom.de. This book was released on 2003-06-27 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inhaltsangabe:Summary: Throughout the past three years, China has become the number one country for investment, attracting more foreign direct investment than the USA. New laws allow foreign companies to acquire Chinese enterprises. Through telephone interviews the authors collected information on the current activities and future plans of 37 Swiss manufacturing companies in China. How do traditionally export-oriented manufacturing companies see this situation? What are their strategies? Do they consider Mergers & Acquistion (M&A) as a strategic option? The paper shows the results of a survey on the China activities of Swiss manufacturing companies up to 4000 employees, conducted by two students of the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland in 2003. Inhaltsverzeichnis:Table of Contents: LIST OF GRAPHSI ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONSII ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSIII EXECUTIVE SUMMARYIV INTRODUCTION1 1.Goal of the survey1 2.Structure of the paper1 I.GENERAL PART3 1.Foreign Investment Forms in China3 2.FDI - New way to introduce Foreign fund in China5 3.Definition of Mergers & Acquisition (M&A)6 4.Competitiveness of Manufacturing Industry7 4.1Home base - Switzerland7 4.2Manufacturing Industry in China8 4.3Trade of the Swiss manufacturing industry with China9 II.SURVEY PART12 1.Methodology12 2.Sample Profile of Swiss Manufacturing Companies14 2.1How we defined our sample14 2.2Definition our sample companies15 2.3Profile of the interviewed companies15 SURVEY A - INDUSTRY OVERVIEW23 1.Legal forms23 2.Importance of the business in China25 3.Business activities in China25 4.Years active in China26 5.Profitability of investment in China28 6.Expansion plan in China for the coming 5 years28 7.Summary of Survey A - Industry overview31 SURVEY B - CHINA STRATEGY32 1.Consulting32 2.Market entrance34 3.China Strategy34 4.Overall corporate strategy: IR-Grids47 5.Business experiences in China53 6.Summary of Survey B - China Strategy56 M&A AS A STRATEGIC TOOL IN CHINA58 1.Attractive manufacturing industries for M&A58 2.Worldwide M&A experience59 3.Reasons against M&A in China60 4.Reasons for M&A in China62 5.Requirements for M&A in China64 6.China strategy of M&A experienced companies66 7.Recommendations for M&A in China70 8.Summary of the M&A focus part72 III.COMPARISON TO SOUTHERN GERMANY74 IV.CONCLUSION77 BIBLIOGRAPHY80 ABOUT THE AUTHORS81 APPENDIXV 1.Questionnaire sample: Survey AV 2.Questionnaire [...]

Download or read book European Union Direct Investment in China written by Maria Do Céu Esteves and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-01-23 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China's immersion in the world economy and trading system is a continued source of great interest throughout the globe.The book is divided into three parts, the first being an overview of the Chinese investment environment and the development of foreign direct investment (FDI) over the last twenty years. The second part then goes on to focus specif

Download or read book Iran Auto written by Darius Mehri and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the revolution of 1979, scholars have portrayed the Islamic State's industrial development capacity in a negative light. Global isolation, incoherent economic planning, and predatory Islamic institutions are often cited as the reasons for lackluster development. In Iran Auto: Building a Global Industry in an Islamic State, Darius Mehri shows how this characterization is misguided. Today, Iran has one of the world's largest automobile industries with national technical capacity. Previous studies ignore the consequences of three decades of Iran's capacity for successful industrialization and changes in global technology transfer that allow countries, even ones isolated from formal global institutions, to build an automobile industry. Mehri shows how industrial nationalists in Iran constructed a network of politically effective relationships to open up space for successful local industrial development, and then tapped into a set of important global linkages to create an industry with high local manufacturing content. This book will open up a new line of inquiry into how countries in the global south can develop a successful national automobile industry without the need to conform to global economic institutions.

Download or read book Textiles and Apparel Assessment of the Competitiveness of Certain Foreign Suppliers to the U S Market Inv 332 448 written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Chinese Diaspora and Mainland China written by C. Lever-Tracy and published by Springer. This book was released on 1996-09-06 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book describes the alliance, since the mid-1980s, of the entrepreneurs of the Chinese diaspora with the new locally based industrialisation that reform in China has allowed to flourish in its townships and villages. The synergy between these two derives from the ability of small non-bureaucratic actors on both sides to establish networks based on personal trust and reciprocity, producing a new kind of transformative development-from-below in which established Western and Japanese multinationals have little role.

Download or read book The Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industry in China written by G. Festel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-12-05 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed examination of China’s increasingly important chemical and pharmaceutical industry. Numerous case studies describe how western companies, such as BASF, Bayer, Bicoll, Ciba, Degussa, DSM and Novartis are managing their market entry in China.

Download or read book Economic Governance and the Challenge of Flexibility in East Asia written by Frederic C. Deyo and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2002-05-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the institutional underpinnings of East Asia's dynamic growth by exploring the interplay between governance and flexibility. As the challenges of promoting and sustaining economic growth become ever more complex, firms in both advanced and industrializing countries face constant pressures for change from markets and technology. Globalization, heightened competition, and shorter product cycles mean that markets are increasingly volatile and fragmented. To contend with demands for higher quality, quicker delivery, and cost efficiencies, firms must enhance their capability to innovate and diversify. Achieving this flexibility, in turn, often requires new forms of governance—arrangements that facilitate the exchange of resources among diverse yet interdependent economic actors. Moving beyond the literature's emphasis on developed economies, this volume emphasizes the relevance of the links between governance and flexibility for understanding East Asia's explosive economic growth over the past quarter century. In case studies that encompass a variety of key industrial sectors and countries, the contributors emphasize the importance of network patterns of governance for facilitating flexibility in firms throughout the region. Their analyses illuminate both the strengths and limitations of recent growth strategies and offer insights into prospects for continued expansion in the wake of the East Asian economic crisis of the late 1990s. Contributions by: Richard P. Appelbaum, Lu-lin Cheng, Stephen W. K. Chiu, Frederic C. Deyo, Richard F. Doner, Dieter Ernst, Eric Hershberg, Tai Lok Lui, Rajah Rasiah, David A. Smith, and Poh-Kam Wong.

Download or read book International Construction Management written by Igor Martek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-02-07 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells you everything you need to know about international construction: the companies, their markets, the types of projects they build, how they compete and operate and how it affects us all. It paints a comprehensive portrait of an overlooked global business that generates a major portion of the GDP in every developed nation. As with any mature sector, countries make efforts to export their expertise, but the competition in construction is fierce, and the risks are many. Only the leanest and meanest survive. What, then, does it take to win? Most writing on construction focuses at the project-management level or even more narrowly at the level of technical performance. This book presents the big picture; it tells you what successful international construction companies do to stay in the game and thrive. The book examines international construction through three lenses. The first is theory. The body of existing knowledge on construction is here brought together, condensed and explained. The second are the actors. The companies that lead the way in global construction are showcased, and the features that make countries desirable hosts are appraised. Finally, what is it that firms actually do? This last part delves into the various strategic approaches taken by 60 construction firms in carving out and defending an overseas market niche. The insights provide guidance on how global construction companies develop competitive advantage and stay resilient in the face of a mercurial global economy. These lessons will be of interest to the student and manager alike.

Download or read book Manufacturing in the New Urban Economy written by Willem van Winden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-10-04 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In large cities in developed countries, the share of manufacotruing has declined drastically in the last decades and the share of service has grown as many manufacturing firms have closed or moved to lower-cost locations. The process of deindustrialization is often seen as part of the inevitable shift towards a knowledge based economy and urban economies come to rely on research and development, financial services, tourism and the creative industries. This book looks at the changing link between manufacturing and knowledge-based activities in urban regions. The authors develop a new framework drawing on insights from organization studies and regional economic literature looking at various international case studies in Western and Eastern Europe, South America and Asia.