Bear Necessities

An article on the Lean Production site Evolving Excellence brings a few good points into focus on the problems companies have when outsourcing. It features the German Steiff company, famous for its toy bears, and discusses why its outsourcing of bear production to China ended in disaster. The lessons learned could be applied to a lot of other companies making products a lot more complicated than toy bears. You can read the article here. Thanks to AJ Sweatt on Manufacturing Crunch for the recommendation.