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- Factory visits and quality audit
- Sourcing risk evaluation
- Reviewing Chinese supplier production capability
- Reviewing buyer plans and specifications
- Negotiating and writing contracts and purchase orders
- Continuous quality monitoring
- On-site support
- Pre-shipment inspection
- Managing the transportation and export of goods from China
- Providing translation and interpretation services as needed
- Product and specification evaluations
- Vendor searches and pre-qualification
- Test sample oversight
- Cost engineering
- Price negotiations
- Vendor evaluations & due diligence
- Competitive assessment
- Production management
- QC inspections
- Export logistics support
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| Design |
- Pre-production design Analysis – analysis of current design goals
- Research – investigating similar design solutions in the field or related topics
- Specification – specifying requirements of a design solution for a product or service.
- Problem solving – conceptualizing and documenting design solutions
- Presentation – presenting design solutions
- Design during production
- Development – continuation and improvement of a designed solution
- Testing – exploring and testing a designed solution Post-production design feedback for future designs
- Implementation – introducing the designed solution into the environment
- Evaluation and conclusion – summary of process and results, including constructive criticism and suggestions for future improvements
- Redesign
- Any or all stages in the design process repeated (with corrections made) at any time before, during, or after production
- Marketing / Identity
- Product photography - samples and final product for use in marketing materials
- Photo retouching - digital manipulation to enhance the product’s appearance in marketing materials
Marketing brochure - building presentation quality brochure for pitch sessions and introduction into market |
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