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Stephen Bucalo Vice President of GEP and a 30 years veteran in strategic sourcing will address China Sourcing as an integral component of a business strategy to achieve cost competitiveness. He will discuss the major opportunities, challenges and benefits of this strategy while focusing on a very practical and essential topic of filtering the best suppliers from a large quantity of diverse suppliers in this vast and complex marketplace.
You will learn details on critical front-end process including; product and global region matching, supplier identification and supplier evaluation covering risk assessments and quality audits. We will also discuss various strategies to enter the market including going –alone, agents/brokers and third party service providers.