
What Mid-Size Companies Get Right When They Partner with Asian Contract Manufacturers
For most of the 2000s, outsourcing production to Asia was a fairly straightforward numbers calculation: lower wages meant lower unit costs, and that was the end of the analysis for most buyers. That logic still applies in certain product categories, but it is no longer the complete picture. Companies across medical devices, electronics, industrial equipment, and consumer goods have found that the decision involves far more than labor cost arbitrage. Infrastructure investment, specialized tooling, supplier density, and decades of accumulated process knowledge in manufacturing clusters have created something more durable than a simple cost advantage.…
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