Outsourcing Lemmings

Another day, another story about Chinese quality problems.  This time it was Mattel's Fisher-Price division having to recall over 1.5 million toys…

As if being an outsourcing lemming wasn't hard enough!  All that time and money spent finding and developing a manufacturing "partner" i…

Some of you may have heard of Bunnie Huang.  He's the electronics genius that cracked the XBox among other hacks, and is now making a name for him…

I might pity those poor souls that convinced their companies to chase low labor cost to China.  Or maybe not.  From The New York Times comes an articl…

I've had several tidbits on outsourcing building up recently, so here's a quick post to clear them all out.  Maybe it will also satisfy my ong…

Last month we had a post titled China Bites Wal-Mart, describing how long supply chains coupled with fickle customers created serious inventory proble…

Regular readers know I reserve a special place in my heart for Rube Goldberg supply chain convolutions, such as Boeing's Dreamlifter and the Airb…

Wal-Mart is in a bit of a pickle.  Over the last decade they have focused incessantly on unit cost,  ostensibly to provide reduced price and therefore…