Harbour Group is a management holding company buying and selling other companies in North America. Shanghai Rep Office is responsible for sourcing components or semi-finished products for portfolio companies. Sourcing Project Identification. Working with portfolio companies to review the full supply chain, locating sourcing potentialities, and building up sourcing strategy.  Multi-project Management. Managing multiple projects simultaneously and ensuring each project is processing on the right track. Achieving over US$5 million savings annually. Supplier Development. Leading to find new potential suppliers, performing supplier audits to evaluate their manufacturing, quality, engineering and other capabilities.  Supplier Management. Building up supplier database. Setting up process to track suppliers’ performance.  Risk Mitigation. Dealing with all kinds of surprise in the supply chain, e.g. regulation upgrade, technique/market change, cost, quality or delivery problems. Facilitating portfolio companies to set up branches in China, including location selection, management team recruit, certificate application, etc.  Taking charge of sourcing work for the new branches to ensure soonest possible delivery after production line build-up. Handing over the sourcing job seamlessly to local team.  Expediting localization projects, averagely get 10%-20% savings and shorten the production lead-time about 8 weeks. Logistics Improvement. By involving the 3rd party logistics, successfully save the total logistic cost, shorten the delivery time and get higher customer satisfaction.  Operation Optimization. Improving the company policy, sourcing process, and performance review system. Providing immediate feedback on the staff’s performance. Employee Training. Organizing annual staff trainings. Picking up different courses for each person and evaluating the outcomes

 Sourcing qualified suppliers of Die Casting, Heavy Metal machining, Sheet Metal Fabrication, Plastic Injection Molding, Hardware, Tools, Wire harness, LED Display, PCBA, Fasteners, etc.. Benchmarking cost and negotiating commercial contracts, aggressively pursuing favorable purchasing environment – dual source, low cost, good payment terms, short lead time, etc. Developing suppliers to fully meet our requirement, monitoring their performance to ensure in-time delivery of qualified goods; Recommending to cut the total cost; helping solve the technical problems and material substitution issues. Committing supplier annual review, and scoring suppliers; Coordinating with SQE team to improve the supplier quality system, arranging 3rd party to do IPQC and FQC.  Collecting market information and sharing with portfolio companies for them to fine tune the strategy.

Sanyei is a multinational company with an annual sales over USD140 million, it headquarters in Tokyo with branches and offices all over the world. Shanghai’s function is to source products in China to meet other branches’ requirement. Hands on to source and purchase machinery accessories, hardware products and furniture with an annual business over US$4m; Maintaining existing suppliers and developing potential ones, organizing to build up vendor database; Negotiating with suppliers to get better prices, cutting P/O and dealing with complaints. Controlling the quality and ensuring in-time delivery Recruiting and training new staff, facilitating the communication with the general manager and other departments

International trade of industrial and electrical products