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Join Renaud Anjoran, Founder & CEO of Sofeast, in this podcast aimed at importers who develop their own products as he discusses the hottest topics and shares actionable tips for manufacturing in China & Asia today! WHO IS RENAUD? Renaud is a French ISO 9001 & 14001 certified lead auditor, ASQ certified Quality Engineer and Quality Manager who has been working in the Chinese manufacturing industry since 2005. He is the founder of the Sofeast group that has over 200 staff globally and offers services (QA, product development & engineering, project management, Supply Chain Management, product compliance, reliability testing), contract manufacturing, and 3PL fulfillment for importers and businesses who develop their own products and buyers from China & SE Asia. WHY LISTEN? We‘ll discuss interesting topics for anyone who develops and sources their products from Asian suppliers and will share Renaud‘s decades of manufacturing experience, as well as inviting guests from the industry to get a different viewpoint. Our goal is to help you get better results and end up with suppliers and products that exceed your expectations!
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Friday Jun 04, 2021
Friday Jun 04, 2021
In This Episode...
Renaud Anjoran, Sofeast's CEO, joins Adrian from the team to explore product development agreements that clarify your expectations, protect your IP, keep leverage over your supplier, provide you with transparency and control over your supply chain, and make it 100% clear who is responsible for what when working with a supplier on developing a new product that is going to be manufactured in China or other Asian countries.
Show Notes
00:00 - Introducing the episode
00:45 - What is a product development agreement?
03:46 - Common risks that a PD agreement will protect against
07:03 - Is working with a contract manufacturer best when developing a new product?
12:04 - The 3 key phases of a product development agreement -
17:44 - Key points that a development agreement needs to clarify
25:31 - The difference between owning Intellectual property rights and the 'deliverables'
29:44 - Retaining the ability to switch to another manufacturer as a worst-case scenario
31:04 - Wrapping up
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