Trying To Be Perfect In An Imperfect World

More and more suppliers are investing significant time and effort to developing compliance programs. Can these comprehensive plans guarantee that all these suppliers' products are 100 percent safe and compliant? I regularly hear these questions from end-buyers and distributors alike.

There seems to be an expectation of perfection that is being driven perhaps from end-buyers who do not have a full understanding of manufacturing processes. Regardless of industry, manufacturing can be complicated. This is especially true for the promotional products industry, which has so many under-developed supply chains and suppliers with little resources to actually oversee their manufacturing abroad.