As financial crisis, so many factories shut down in China.
What would be another situation?
Old buyers may affected and shut down too, and new buyers born. Old buyers who survived and how they will running their business? how their buying work would be? will they choose a trading company to be securing their busines, or will they choose a buying agent, or to deal with factories directly to save the cost?
I've come to know from one of my friend, their factory has a customer who from USA, and this customer created a buying office in China before and had staff, but due to the financial crisis, they shut down this office, and their head office deal with the factory directly, but know one knows English in the factory, although the USA office has a Chinese staff, but when they send any files to the factory, they are all English, and need me to translate for them, but I am the person that out of their project, maybe sometimes understanding not well for subject they are talking about. more over, even a invoice they factory can not make, and ask a people outside to make for it. these are the USA office prefer to. but who knows what would be happened, that's really a dangerous work for the USA buyer and the factory.
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Hi Dude,
Many factories close down because clearly there is over capacity, too many factories and not enough buyers. That is NORMAL is any economic slow down. The alternative would be for the factory workers to give the companies credit, ie they don't get paid until the company starts to turn a profit again. But alas, that will never happen.
As for the rest of your post, I had a hard time understanding it. You said something about English file and translation. That's what I got out of it anyway.
That is pretty normal in international trade. I am surprised the factory did not have a resident translator. Perhaps that is somehting factories owners should take note, if you want to export, then you have to have some translator.
Elecpack,
I know exactly what you mean. Seems strange to me as well that some factories i meet do not maintain a staff who knows how to communicate to foreign customers in english. Maybe they dont want to hire one and allocate a higher salary to an English speaking staff or they prefer to deal with trading companies.
Funny thing is, one of my suppliers communicates to me via email in perfect and clear english but when i visited their factory several years ago, I was surprised that this same person could barely understand english. I think that she must be using some form of translator software to be able to do her job
would any of the factories be intrasted in invasting in libya north afreca lQuoting from [have a lot of demandjadedev]:
Hi Dude,
Many factories close down because clearly there is over capacity, too many factories and not enough buyers. That is NORMAL is any economic slow down. The alternative would be for the factory workers to give the companies credit, ie they don't get paid until the company starts to turn a profit again. But alas, that will never happen.
As for the rest of your post, I had a hard time understanding it. You said something about English file and translation. That's what I got out of it anyway.
That is pretty normal in international trade. I am surprised the factory did not have a resident translator. Perhaps that is somehting factories owners should take note, if you want to export, then you have to have some translator.
Often the single biggest cost in factories in China is wages. So if business is tight the factory boss may close down the factory until the situation improves. With CNY coming soon many factories will likely close earlier and open later after the break so could be closed for a month or two.
I think I may have a solution to this problem. The language barrier should never keep companies from doing business the correct way.
Please also let me know if you know of any midsize companies that may want to sell or may need a partner for help.
Best regards,
Mark Miller
Quoting from [Elecpack]:As financial crisis, so many factories shut down in China.
What would be another situation?
Old buyers may affected and shut down too, and new buyers born. Old buyers who survived and how they will running their business? how their buying work would be? will they choose a trading company to be securing their busines, or will they choose a buying agent, or to deal with factories directly to save the cost?
I've come to know from one of my friend, their factory has a customer who from USA, and this customer created a buying office in China before and had staff, but due to the financial crisis, they shut down this office, and their head office deal with the factory directly, but know one knows English in the factory, although the USA office has a Chinese staff, but when they send any files to the factory, they are all English, and need me to translate for them, but I am the person that out of their project, maybe sometimes understanding not well for subject they are talking about. more over, even a invoice they factory can not make, and ask a people outside to make for it. these are the USA office prefer to. but who knows what would be happened, that's really a dangerous work for the USA buyer and the factory.
Quoting from [Markis]:I think I may have a solution to this problem. The language barrier should never keep companies from doing business the correct way.
Please also let me know if you know of any midsize companies that may want to sell or may need a partner for help.
Best regards,
Mark Miller
hello Mark,
In fact, language not the big problem the problem is the culture and habit that people used to.
As for midsize companies that you said, your words about it is that you have no plan on this, and this is not workable. if you send such kind of msg to suppliers, no one would reply you.suppliers only focused on your buying from them. Talking by other way is useless.