Comments on: Boston Consulting Group on China Sourcing

By: Ray Jia

Ray Jia — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:03:07 +0000

I am a sourcing consultant from Sourcing Spectrum. I also like this article and the following few strategies are the key take-aways:

* Define a clear sourcing strategy with specific targets and plans
* Align the China Sourcing Organization with Global Procurement
* Gain 100% transparency into Sourcing volumes and savings

By: Ray

Ray — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:01:17 +0000

I am a sourcing consultant from Sourcing Spectrum. I also like this article and the following few strategies are the key take-aways:

* Define a clear sourcing strategy with specific targets and plans
* Align the China Sourcing Organization with Global Procurement
* Gain 100% transparency into Sourcing volumes and savings

By: mark

mark — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 05:28:29 +0000

This company addresses a lot of the issues identified in BCG’s paper.

http://www.monterosourcing.com/
MonteroSourcing uses a proprietary global sourcing platform to cut customers’ production costs by 20-50% without dealing with the hurdles of sourcing in China.

By: Iris Cheung

Iris Cheung — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:25:40 +0000

Having a platform summarizing all the tricks and problems that overseas trading platforms have come across that would be good. Also regular ranking trust worthy partners would be good. Doing biz at China requires much more experience which if there is a platform summarizing the handon experience would be good

By: Roger

Roger — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:25:23 +0000

Not bad... I think its a good resource for anyone looking to start sourcing from China. This is a complex place with lots of considerations to be made before-hand. Wonder what the 5th stage would be...? Roger @

By: David Bush - Iasta

David Bush - Iasta — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:00:34 +0000

Ralph, thanks for commenting. That is a good question that deserves a good answer, give me some time to draft a real response and look for it soon. Also, apologies for taking a day to publish your comment, it was lost in a flood of spam bot comments and we are currently working on a new captcha technology since our active one has been cracked!

By: Ralph

Ralph — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:58:36 +0000

Hi David , thanks a lot for your sharing of the BCG article.
The four stages mentioned of sourcing in China really makes great
sense,actually now our company(an European buying alliance started China sourcing 3 years before) is still on stage 2 ..
If possible,could you give some opinions about E-sourcing application on different satge of the 4 ?
Thanks and have a nice day!