How to control the progress of the project after placing an order with the Chinese factory? | The eighth story of buyers
After solving the design problem, Frank set about solving the manufacturing problem.Looking at several Chinese manufacturers in the past, he thinks that the processing equipment and processing capacity of Chinese manufacturers are needed to satisfy their company's products. However, the management of Chinese manufacturers is still volatile. In terms of schedule and quality, we need to strengthen project management and control. But how to implement project control efficiently, project management of Frank is a major challenge. Frank outlined the following key items:
 

 
Firstly,Select a manufacturer with more foreign project experience and relatively good management, which can reduce unnecessary trouble in the project
Secondly,Organize a multi-professional project team, including the company and external staff, and launch strong project management in the process
Thirdly,Set up a number of control points, such as start up meeting, pre-inspection meeting, material witness, water pressure test witness and final acceptance

In item 3 above, the short-term involvement of company engineers is possible, but frequent visits to Chinese factories are unlikely. On the one hand, the company is understaffed. On the other hand, the cost is too high. Is there a better solution?
 

 
Frank has engaged process equipment Network consultants to discuss this issue, and the consultants' recommendations are as follows:
There are some Chinese manufacturers who are suitable for foreign projects on the process equipment network. They can be found through the business search function. Of course, process equipment network can also provide some list of manufacturers often selected by foreign big companies.
The construction of the project team is necessary , but the members can be divided into two parts : Some of it comes from your company, some of which can be selected from Chinese engineers
, such as a quality engineer , can be checked by a third party inspection company , or a professional person can be selected.
In addition to the control point to send personnel to the plant site, daily management can be used in the process equipment network "project management" module, in the information, documents, schedule management can play a control role.

 

 
Frank decided that all these three suggestions could be accepted and set out to plan for project management.