Tag Archives: supply chain

China RoHS and beyond – interview with Underwriters Laboratories executive David C. Haataja

Mr. Haataja is vice president and general manager for UL's restricted substances compliance solutions. Read insights Mr. Haataja shares on RoHS in China and other countries; locating suppliers that are RoHS compliant, RoHS compliance documentation, RoHS legislative developments, and more.
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Allied Telesis operations executive Scott Clark interview on quality and supply chain management

Read what Scott Clark, vice president, global procurement and operations with standards-based networking product company Allied Telesis, has to say about contract manufacturing, and more…
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IBM’s Tim Carroll talks integrated supply chains, inventory, cost reductions

"We have brilliant IBM researchers working on algorithms for supply chain optimization, we have access to the leading open standards-based software in WebSphere and DB2 and our experience with thousands of clients as a …"
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China v. India for your product manufacturing

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In the Philippines, where the Chinese population is 3 percent, it also manages to control 70 percent of all business. Thailand’s population is 3 percent Chinese, and yet the Chinese control 60 percent of the trade. India does have limitations. It does no executive any good to have printed circuit boards or finished goods inventory in an Indian factory and be unable to reliably move inventory to, and beyond, air or seaport in a timely and efficient manner.
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