Is China Losing Its Competitive Edge?

Among the study’s key findings:

Operations management is a factor: The study found that three out of four companies lack fundamen-tal best practices in their China operations, including integrating the dual functions of export platforms and domestic market pen-etration. Survey respondents cited a num-ber of best practices that have yet to be fully applied in China. Just 11% reported fully applying integrated planning systems such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) software and material requirement plan-ning (MRP). Even fewer companies—only 7%—had fully deployed analytical invento-ry calculation tools and processes, and 4% employed best practices for supply chain risk management.