The time that a buyer spends at a plant is crucially important. The main goal of taking a plant tour is to observe and judge the plant.

By Leanne in 'The China Sourcing Blog'

All international purchasing managers try to minimize import risk. As a China sourcing expert, in order to achieve this goal we will always recommend you to undertake plant visits to China before you place an order, for the following reasons:

The Financial Times just did a story, entitled 'Fears rise on China groups' payments' on how private Chinese companies are being negatively impacted by the credit crunch (h/t to 'China Economics Blog').

Before coming over

Now that we have established that plant tours are an absolute necessity, we can move on to how these tours should be undertaken.