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Article: In-country supply managers go to great lengths to ensure best-quality materials.
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- August 16, 2007
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By Tom Stundza
In-country supply managers go to great lengths to ensure best-quality materials
A regional director of sourcing for Jakel has been known to check the quality of key materials by traveling to suppliers' operations by plane, train, off-road vehicle and maybe even a yak. Yes, a yak.
That's what happens when the sourcing manager for the company's motor and motor coil manufacturing plant in Shanghai, China, is purchasing commodities and parts from local suppliers-some of which may be some distance away in rural China.
And that's OK with the vice president of global sourcing for the subfractional motor maker some 7,000 miles ...