Working relationship with a Factory – It’s just like a marriage

And with commitment and hard work, it will only get better as the years go on.

We would like to think the same about our working relationship with a factory.

Quality consultants or staff from big corporations tend to rely on their established checklist (which contains hundreds, sometimes thousands of checkpoints) to qualify a suitable factory to work with. That’s the proper way to do it, there is nothing wrong with it.

However, for a developing country like Vietnam, many factories aren’t equipped with enough exposure to the international supply chain requirement. If we rigidly rely on a pre-establish checklist to disqualify, the chance of match-making is extremely low.

I’d rather use the checklist as a gap analysis tool, as something we will work alongside the chosen factory.

It’s more of a goal rather than a dis-qualifying barrier.