Why Does Quality Drop on the Second and Third Order From China?
Quality on a repeat order rarely collapses because a factory stopped caring. It collapses because the price you negotiated on the first order became the cost ceiling on the third, while the specification stayed in a sample nobody re-archived. Here are the five mechanisms, the rules they trigger, and four controls that hold up across repeat orders.
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