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2021.05.20 17:30 SajiMeister How the Retail Whales Finish off the Shorties Due to Us all Splashing Around the Ocean 🐳🐋🐳🐋🐳🐋🦍🦍🦍🦍🦍🚀🌕🔜
Here is the link to my previous DD which does not necessarily have to be read prior to this one so you choose. Also note that I sped wrote this as I have three kids; a job but really wanted to get this information out there so be mindful of the grammar and the way it was compiled. Also note I will have to add sources later which will be links to other DD’s since I do not have the time currently. submitted by SajiMeister to Superstonk [link] [comments] Link: https://www.reddit.com/Superstonk/comments/ngho3h/we_are_the_whales_blurrrrr?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 Let us jump into some speculation to get you critically thinking before I jump into the real DD. Would Shitadel be the only market maker to use the T+ rules to settle trades at a later date? I doubt it. Other market makers selling you shares also sell option contracts. They may not care about you owning GameStop but they would like to keep their option selling delta neutral. Shorting the shares given to you or just giving you an IOU can give them time to prepare for the incoming price jump. Not saying they would do this with all orders but would do this with some to keep the price from moving to quickly causing a gamma squeeze while they are not currently long on the position. . . How would they prepare? Idk maybe spreading out the shares within the time frame or purchasing calls for the following weeks. That’s the speculation to get you critically thinking and now we can get the actual DD going. The reason I threw the speculation in there about other market makers besides Shitadel is because we know bonafide market makers and market makers operate on different settlement time aka T+x dates. This gives us a wide flux of settlements being delayed with different time frames. Read some of the Hank at Home Depot DD’s to get a good understanding of the various cycles he found. The exact T+x cycles are not important in this DD so I will not get into them. Just know there are there are multiple groups of shares out there that need to be bought by certain settlement dates aka T+x days. The next two paragraphs are about Shitadel and other short market makers as they will not go long when they get buy orders as that would rip open their short positions infinite potential. They have to spread those shares in a way that they make as little of an impact in the market as possible or add to their short position. So if we just map out all of the t+x days we should be able to figure out when they will cover, right?!?! Wrong…. Let’s say they have 100 shares needing to be delivered by a T+4 settlement date. Putting them all at the end would be insanely not smart by the market maker because what if someone else starts buying shares these days or the price spikes up for no reason?? They would then have to purchase their shares at a higher price. Not gonna happen for a business with high numbers of mathematically smart employees. The next possibility is to peanutbutter spread it out evenly over time, right? Wrong again. I’m an engineer and if I put myself in their shoes I would do things a certain way. When I see the large order of retail flooding in, I would short the share then use the T+ rules to settle it. It’s a free charged short that stops the price from moving up so why not? I would then strategically plan to cover certain percentages of this influx of retail buying pressures within the next few weeks since the law allows me to do so. I would wait for low priced bearish weeks where there aren’t much calls and chances of gamma squeeze. This will make the price jump up randomly. This will also work against retail since they will think buying up shares when exciting news comes out has little effect and hedge funds cover short positions randomly throughout the month or institutions purchasing shares are causing the price jumps. Retail has a bigger impact than any of us thought before. Just look at the number of shares retail owns at the moment. Way more than institutions. The only problem with this ideology is that there are other T+X settlement dates that need to be settled due to options so they have to make some complex equations to determine how to best cover these shares while limiting the bleeding that comes from it. The following chart is a quick AutoCAD sketch I made to layout what different settlement dates laid on top of each other would look like. There are multiple T+X settlements being created every day of every week with widely varying degrees of magnitudes of shares. T + X Overlay Visual Let’s add in some Magnitudes at the end of the lines so that we can understand why multiple dates lining up can either be not so impactful or MOASS impactful. Let me clarify that the reason they would have a number of shares leftover to buy at the end of the cycle is if things were lining up shittily due to an influx of retail buying pressure so they delay the inevitable on a fraction of their shares. There are other situations that a large chunk would need to be bought in one day but I do not have the time to get into those. Let us say of a 100 share FTD they are only able to cover 40 before the T+X date. Well, that leaves them to cover 60 on the last day of the cycle. There may be another cycle landing on that same day of 30 shares. So add those up and you get 90. More ending on the same day with high magnitudes can cause a huge spike in price. On the other hand if 10 settlements fall on the same day with small magnitudes then you won’t have so nice of a jump. T+X Visual with Magnitudes The red circles represent the magnitudes at the end of the cycle of shares leftover to buy. Now let’s look at an additive bar chart with settlement shares leftover stacked on top of each other over different settlement dates. Bar Chart with different T+x cycles stacked on top of each other As you can see different numbers of T+X shares will land on different dates. The number of shares will depend on how many shares they have yet to cover. The only way out of this is to short more shares but actually pay for the shorted sales now to get out of the FTD time period they were allotted. The MOASS stack up in the bar chart would be a day they would cover some and add to their short position the rest. The reason for doing so would be to delay the MOASS. The next paragraph will get into why they do not want to short any more shares but may be forced to at times to delay the inevitable. We all know that GameStop is not going bankrupt and in fact looks like they will grow their business faster than anyone ever thought. Shitadel and shorts hate this because they can not hope for bankruptcy to get out of their shorts and now that GameStop is growing the lowest possible low for them to cover their shares in the end keeps getting new floors since GameStop is becoming fundamentally worth more. The next problem is retail. We do not buy based on fundamentals; we buy because we really like the stock. Every time good news comes out about our stock we buy. If GameStop posts pictures of a spaceman on the moon, we buy even more of the stock. When GameStop releases anything that could be taken as negative, we hold the line. So the magnitudes of the settlement cycle is in GameStop’s hands and Retail’s hands. When GameStop posts good news, retail goes crazy and buys shares. We then do not see the impact hit the market until later. Do not get discouraged on good news days because you see no price increase. They are just spreading it out using the T+ cycles. TLDR: We are the price movement we see on random days and it is due to the T+x settlement cycles. Market makers that do not have short positions still have incentive to move some of the retail buying into the T+x settlement cycles. Their incentive is to keep as delta neutral as possible for that week and possibly make some calls for the coming weeks to hedge the increased price they may pay when purchasing your shares the following days. Non bonafide market makers have different T+x cycles. It is not always the best move to cover shares at the end of the T+x cycles unless you are absolutely forced to. Forced to could mean multiple cycles stacking up against you or increased buying pressure during the settlement period. When enough cycles stack up to end on the same day and they are of high magnitude, this is a MOASS potential day. The only way for shorts to get out of these is to short more which adds to our rocket and hurts them really bad so they would try to avoid at all costs. Adding this to the TLDR. If GameStop, RC, or friends release news or post some dope shit that excites retail investors on a weekend prior to a T+21;T+35 week etc... then the T+4 rule will splash that retail buying pressure across the whole week as explained before. This mixed with the huge potential of FTD's coming up at the end of the major cycles could cause a substantial price increase. The T+35 on one day would set off huge buying pressure coupled with a T+4 buying pressure spread all week that would control the price from falling. This would allow for a week of high end of the day prices which you know as well as me can trigger margin calls if they haven't been triggered before. HODL. Also I like this stock. There are other stocks I like but I am 100% this stock until after MOASS. Spending my money else where would limit the MOASS potential so I will stick to this stock. I will start liking other stocks again later. Not financial advice. TLDR of TLDR: We are the whales that make random splashes on different days for different reasons. The impacts hit the market in waves. When these waves stack up with each other with big magnitudes of shares, they create a giant MOASS wave that eats Shitadel’s ship and they sink to the bottom of the ocean. Whales then gobble up all the tasty treasure they have been hoarding on their ships. BLURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGG 🐳🐋🐳🐋🐳🐋🦍🦍🦍🦍🦍🚀🌕🔜 Edit 1: Corrected a math error Edit 2: I was asked to provide evidence of the spread covering. It's easy to identify in T+4 cycles so here you go. EDIT 3: Shoutout to u/Broccaaa . https://youtu.be/iWKFPTgkpXo Start at 8.22. Perfect example of how all the T+X days can line up perfectly to create the MOASS. Edit 4: Adding a snip of the T+4 rule which applies to regular market makers and not bonafide market makers. Source below as well. Edit 5: Added to the TLDR. https://www.sec.gov/investopubs/regsho.htm Latest T+4 evidence of delayed buying of retail shares. DFV announcing he is still in it. DFV YOLO Update coupled with GameStop News. Also note GameStop dropped news on the 9th as well and could be why we didn't see a drop till after the 5th day. https://preview.redd.it/8gyor71isc071.png?width=785&format=png&auto=webp&s=9ff4cb1b0d862d663869567897d7ccc85d08966f Shitadel Trying to Dodge our Waves |
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2014.04.22 07:14 tabledresser [Table] Over the past 15 yrs I've been to ~100 factories in China developing, manufacturing and importing hundreds of the consumer products you purchase and use every day. AMA.
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What kind of working environment do the employe's have? What kind of age range have you seen working? | Others, like steel working factories are terrible. Especially in summer or winter because no A/C or heat. Just repetitive bending, welding, acid washing, etc. no protective wear. Many welders will make a 'mask' out of cardboard with eye holes cut into them for example. |
I've seen some questionable looking 'adults' but can't prove they are underage. | |
The lack of protective wear is bad, but to be fair, working in the metal industry makes any kind of climate control practically unfeasible. | In certain areas of the factory, that's true. |
People often associate made in China with cheap and poorer quality. Is it the fact that something is made in china, so it must be cheap? Or is it because the manufacturer specifies it to be of lesser quality to reduce costs? | They make it cheap because we want it cheap. There's no reason that they couldn't make high quality goods using high quality materials. And retailers are constantly pushing for lower prices, which I in turn have to figure out how to get them. Also, more and more retailers are going direct which cuts me out and further reduces cost. |
How do you get where you are? Specifically what degrees and/or what might be some good in-roads to the industry? | I have an Econ degree so for me it was really a choice after I started in the 'real world'. I took an entry level marketing job and focused on consumer products. I would think a business or engineering degree would give you a better start, but on the job experience is what matters. You can't teach people how to deal with the Chinese. That's one of the biggest learning curves. |
So what are some tips on dealing with the Chinese? | Depends on who you are dealing with and your 'status'. Who they send to a first meeting with you will tell you where you stand. |
Big boss - give him face (respect) especially in front of those who work for him. | |
Middle management - you deal with them 99% of the time so you have to be respectful, but get your message across. They are the ones who will make things happen. | |
Find out who's related to the boss. They'll be taking over soon. Treat them like the boss. | |
Everyone else, I'm just nice to but I know they don't influence any decisions. | |
Thank you for answering my question! I suppose I hadn't considered that- do you mostly deal with Mandarin? Do you speak and read the common language? | I keep telling myself I will, but I always have someone with me to translate. Ive picked up enough that I can get some basic points across, navigate cab direction, order dinner, simple conversations, etc but that language is HARD! And there can be regional slang which even the interpreters need to get clarity on sometimes. |
What kind of respect do you mean? Like, how far does it go? Do you kowtow, praise him to the heavens, exclaim about his beauty and wish him ten thousand years of happiness? Or do you simply learn about some of his achievements and accomplishments and tell him how impressed you are, like in the West? | Tell him how impressed I am with his factory, quality, etc. Toast him at lunch/dinner. Just try and show respect for his position as it relates to his employees, not as it relates to me per se. |
He's the figurehead. In general he likes to flaunt his wealth and be acknowledged then he lets his guys worry about the nuts and bolts. | |
I'm sure it is difficult! Are the facilities in industrial areas or do you ever get out into the country? | They are in the boonies, but close to the east coast because the major ports are there. If it's less than 4 hours to get from one factory to the next, I'm pretty psyched. It's a lot of being driven through open (beautiful) country from factory town to factory town. |
Shenzhen is kind if an exception. A lot of factories have sort encircled it to make themselves more accessible. | |
Who pays for dinner, stuff like that ? | I'm the visitor so the factory usually pays for dinner. Otherwise I pay and just expense it. |
Do you get to see things being made? Have you ever seen something being made and thought, "oh, so that's how..."? | All the time. That's what I'm there for. Some of the processes are so cool and you marvel at the efficiency in how they achieve it. It's not all cheap labor. Some of those guy are pretty damn innovative when it comes to how to make something better, faster, cheaper. |
What are some of the biggest issues OSHA would have with some of the factories over there? What are some obvious no nos? | The factories that I know wouldn't even sniff OSHA standards. It's a different level. There is nothing close to OSHA over there (that is enforced anyway). |
What were the average working conditions for factory workers? | Depends on the product. Worst I've seen are the steel working factories and the areas where they powder coat, paint, apply lacquer , etc. |
Steel working is hot, repetitive and working with totally open machinery that can compress steel under hundreds of tons of pressure. They are required to work pretty fast and it's really amazing how dexterous some of them are, but it almost seems like muscle memory. When you form 300 trash can lids an hour, you're going to get good at it. | |
Paint rooms, acid baths (to take the rust off), kilns - forget it. I have no idea what kind of shit they are breathing in all day. I move through those as fast as I can. | |
They said average though, not worst. | In area that's temp was mostly dictated by the outside temp. Uncomfortable, not extreme, but uncomfortable for the whole day. - Constantly working. Very few breaks. - Always wear your factory shirt. Always. - Lunch at the designated time with everyone else (Chinese fire drill) - Spend nights in a 'dorm' attached to the factory. Usually 4-6 to a room. Cots, clothes, some personal items, maybe a small stove. Spent the night in one once before big Walmart line review. Never again. - Many go home to the countryside on the weekends (or so I am told) - Plenty of people wanting to take your job. Many times there are lines outside the factory and the first however many are chosen to work menial jobs that day (think Cinderella Man when he was trying to get a job at the docks) - Depending on what job you are doing will determine the rest. The actual manufacturing is the worst, and within that you have different levels of suckitude. Packaging is probably the best. You can sit down generally and put all the pieces in parts into the box and send it down the conveyor to be stacked and shipped out. |
Where do you see the Chinese in terms of organizing their labor efforts? Just too large of a population, too easy to replace workers for this to be viable? | Not close at all. |
Everything in China is disorganized organization. For example (outside of major cities) there are traffic 'laws' that are really just suggestions. People kind of go where they need to go, cut each other off, will stop on the highway and back up if they miss an exit, etc. but somehow it works. It's a weird kind of efficiency that everyone has sort of silently come to an agreement on and everybody gets where they need to go. | |
And that seems to be how the labor 'system' is. Each factory sort of working independently, following the 'laws' and somehow making their factory get to where it needs to go. Each one seems sort of haphazard in how they do things, making their own efficiencies but at the end of the day the sum of those parts equal the whole and the boats in the harbor fill up with containers every day. | |
To make a long story longer, they aren't anywhere near being collectively organized, but individually they've got it figured out. | |
The truck coming the wrong way toward you up an expressway will always shake you out of your daydream I find! | I try not to look out the window, but the constant honking, breaking and swerving make that hard to do. |
Have you ever got a chance to talk to one of the factory workers? If you did, what was their general disposition? I feel like they all must be so miserable. | For the most part they don't speak English and when I am touring that usually means their boss is with me so it's heads down, work fast, impress big boss man. I could be the VP of Apple for all they know. |
Some get pretty nervous if I look over their shoulder to get a closer look at how they are doing something. I'm just inspecting the process or how it's being handled or packaged or something, but I think they think I'm seeing if they personally are doing it right. I try not to do that if I don't have to. | |
It seems to me that it all depends in their boss. Some bosses to the workers as we go through and they loosen up a bit. | |
You could be the VP of Apple for all we know! | I Reddit for the job I want, not the job I have. :-( |
How did you choose to find this niche market? How it been financially lucrative for you? What was the moral dilemma like in choosing to continue to do with you do and picking another career? | I wouldn't call it niche, but you do tend to see a lot of the same people jumping around CPG companies. |
I do ok for myself, but it can be up and down. 1 SKU in walmart can swing the needle $20MM or more one way or the other (not $20MM for me, for the company). | |
I don't really have any moral dilemma doing it. If I don't, someone else will. | |
What about sabotaging a competitor's processes, or inputs? What about killing competitors - actually murdering them? | Generally frowned up. |
Have you ever visited any factories that implement slave labor? If so, what are they like? | Not that I know of but I doubt it. It's 2nd world, not 3rd. |
Have you seen any product production moved either to the u.s. or to even cheaper countries? Have prices of doing business in China been going up (wages equalizing with the rest of the world?) | I've seen some moved to Mexico because we figured out the lower transport costs to the US outweighed the increase in labor, but only a few. |
Prices have been going up mostly transportation costs (oil), gov mandated label mins, and factories hedging on the fact that the gov may act again. It gets passed onto me, I pass it onto the retailer as best I can and it will get passed onto you. We all take a little bite. | |
Is there anything the American consumer can do to improve factory conditions? | Probably not unless there was some mass movement to not buy products from there. Some may have the means to buy American or be more discerning than others, but Bubba is still going to Walmart for them there diapers. |
How do you make them so cheap? | A lot of ways. Cheap labor for sure. And not just in manufacturing. If you can locate your logistics, graphics, design, engineering etc over there it's is way cheaper. you can afford 8 of them for 1 of us. |
Efficient packaging is important, especially for large items. The more I can fit in a container, the less cost I have to amortize across each product and the more I can fit on the shelf. | |
Economies of scale for larger companies. There is a reason Rubbermaid owns the Tupperware aisle. Nobody can run that kind of volume through the factory, and the factory won't even talk to another importer for the fear of Rubbermaid pulling the plug on them. | |
Buying the business. A lot if companies will take a loss just to get on the shelf in the hopes of staying there. That happens a lot with private label brands 'i.e. Mainstays at Wal-Mart'. They will give vendors the specs and bid it out. Lowest wins usually. | |
Just to name a few. | |
Hmm. Sounds like some things the ftc would label predatory, no? | It's business. |
What is the saddest or most depressing thing you've seen over there? | Was in the back of a car that hit a girl stepping off the sidewalk. She went down pretty hard, but not fatal hard. The guy got out and started yelling at the girl's friend for (I'm guessing) having his car dented. He did that for about 30 seconds, got back in and drove off. I still have no words for that one. |
What is the pollution like surrounding these factories? Do you personally carry a mask or other protection when you're outside? | It's bad. And it's a shame because its a beautiful country and it just seems like they are ruining it. |
I don't use a mask but should. I feel silly wearing one. | |
Has working this job changed your purchasing choices for consumer goods? | It has certainly changed how I look at products in store. Sometimes it sucks because I can't just enjoy that 'new purchase' feeling because I tend to try and analyze what I am buying and determine if I'm getting a good deal or getting ripped off. |
Do you see this as basically the norm in all the factories you've toured? | That has been my experience. |
Is there any humor or life in these factories? | Most of the jobs are very repetitive. Pick up the steel, place it in the mold, have the machine bend it, pile it up with the others, repeat. Its all about achieving consistency with efficiency. Once you find the right combination you rinse and repeat. |
I mean does management appear to care about their workers at all? | Humor, no. |
What's the most frustrating aspect of dealing with Chinese factories/corporations? Please vent. | That's easy. They 'yes' you to death to your face and then everything changes when you get back home and follow up. |
On many occasions I have gone through the whole process and a month before shipment they will say "Oh, we calculated our costs wrong. We need $5 per product or we can't ship". | |
What am I supposed to do? Tell Wal-Mart "Sorry, you know that space on your shelf that I said would generate millions in sales? Yeah, about that..." | |
They will hold you hostage because they know they can. Those are usually factories on their way out and you wont hear from them again, but it sucks. | |
I had a friend who worked in China for six months with a company and he said the exact same thing. It was unbelievable frustrating for him. | It's very frustrating, but what job isn't? |
Aside from the paycheck, I really enjoy seeing my product on the shelf and knowing that I've created something tangible that people pay their hard earned money for. It's pretty satisfying. | |
So as there on their way out they give the best prices, but cant you use other factories to barter the price down to prevent the last minute nonsense ? | Not really. My products all require tooling (molds) and they are expensive and time consuming to make. Turning off one factory and turning on another takes months. I could make multiple tools, but again they are expensive. For even a small BBQ grill for example the tooling can be in the hundreds of thousands depending on how many pieces and parts. Plus the tooling has to be exactly like the other one. If a screw hole on one is a mm off from the other, parts don't go together. Then the retailer needs to redo all of their inspections and audits to approve them. And how do I know that factory is any less apt to screw me over than the last one. |
Don't you own the die (mold)? That would be my first negotiating point with any sketchy supplier...are you hiring? ha. | Owning and possessing are very different. |
What other countries have you visited? Have you ever feared for your life or were put under dangerous conditions? As I've stated on another comment, I'm working towards a double degree in Business and International Commerce. I have also started taking mandarin classes a while ago. This line of work interests me very much, how should I proceed to get into it? How did you? | Japan, Taiwan, Mexico, Africa (I know it's not a country) for business. Scary in Africa just because there are military with you everywhere (at least when I went). And SARS in China was a little unnerving (the one time I did wear a mask). |
I would definitely recommend learning Mandarin. I haven't, but I wish I could find the time to (read: not be so lazy). A round eye who knows mandarin is a rare commodity. | |
Are there that few foreigners who speak Mandarin? I realize it's not an easy language, but I assumed that there would still be plenty of folks who spoke it well. | Not many that I know. And of those, they are only conversational speakers. I'm sure they are out there, but I haven't met them. |
What city in mexico did you go to? | There were a couple. I only remember Nogales. Right over the border. |
That's really interesting. Do you think the US would benefit from pushing for stronger Chinese language education or is it ultimately not necessary, in your opinion? | I wish they would. I'm going to have my daughter take Mandarin soon. I was forced to take Spanish or French in high school which was an absolute waste of my time and my grades suffered because I just didn't care to learn it. I would like to see Madarin as a third option, but not forced. I believe almost every child in China is required to take English classes, at least to a point. |
Have you become accustomed to that damn spice that they put on ALL of the food? That's the one thing I don't think I can ever get use to. If you don't understand, just think about the smell of the street BBQ's. | Street BBQs have too many smells (and squiggly things sometimes). I don't eat there. |
What were the scariest conditions you saw? Also what is something you saw being made that you had no idea even existed? | I wouldn't call them scary for me, but I don't have to work there everyday. There was a place where they were spraying lacquer all over a bunch of furniture laid out on the floor. No windows, no ventilation, and about 5 rooms removed form the front door. Just a fog of chemicals in the air. You couldn't even see the other side of the room it was so thick. I had all of those products pulled from there as fast as I could. Yes, I was not comfortable with people working in those conditions, but also because if my customer came to inspect I was fucked. |
I'm a liaison between a big company here and a company out of Kunshan. I really respect and enjoy working with the people there. How do I as an American let them know how I feel without looking like I'm just trying to suck up to them? | When you send them an email thanking them for doing something that really helped you or praising them for a job well done, CC their boss. |
From the time you started till now, have you notice things getting progressively better or worse? | In what regard? |
Probably in regard to safety and worker well being. | I have. But what a lot of people don't realize is that almost all of those improvements are mostly driven by US retailers. They do random factory visits, audits, safety checks, check to see if there is child labor or forced overtime, require that products pass testing by agencies like UL, CE, etc. |
For example, Walmart will do a factory audit and you get rated green, yellow or red. 2 reds and the factory is blacklisted. Nobody gets a green. | |
It's mostly self serving but improvements mine the less | |
Wow. That really goes contrary to how most redditers assume big companies like Walmart operate. | Walmart is 99.999% about profit, but the changes for the better they and other retailers have made are amazing. Question the motive all you want, the results are there. |
Well I imagine bad publicity on their manufacturing conditions might impact the bottom line, so it makes sense. | People need to remember, Wal-Mart (and many others) are organizations of thousands of people all just trying to do their job and hit the key performance indicators that allow them to keep that job and maybe get a small bonus. I work with everyone from the VPs to the QA guys at the factory. Nobody is actively trying to be evil, and more often than not the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. The vendors who sell them the products are way more in tune with whatever is going on before it hits the shelf. If a factory collapses in Bangladesh, I think it is so knee jerk for everyone to blame Wal-Mart or whoever. But that is the big target and they do assume the risk. |
They also sell things at the cheapest prices in town (price assurance thing, got stuck behind a lady doing this the other day) and tend to have decent wages, at least in my experience. They're far from perfect, but don't say that on reddit. | The people at the top look at numbers and that trickles down. But the people at the top also can't go to every factory and review every inspection report. They have people to do that...and those people have people... etc. Its far from perfect, but the average consumer has no idea what they do to ensure certain standards. Products fly on and off the shelf every single day at retailers and its a constant dance to maximize retail space, that is virtually seamless to consumers. The building you walk into, the annoying guy who greets you at the door (he's there to reduce 'shrinkage', not greet you), the product you pick up off the shelf and the cashier who checks you out probably represent 5% of what it took to get you out the door and home enjoying that new 5-piece Tupperware set. |
How easy is it to get from an idea (of a product) and the actual finished product? What kind of instructions do the factories need to be able to produce a product (ie, a blueprint, autocad model, or what have you) How much retooling of the factories is done when they make a new product? | Most product ideas never make it past the ideation stage. 1) it's hard to come up with a new product that you are confident enough in to invest X amount of dollars in (most big companies have a 'stage-gate' oriented process meant to weed these out, but it takes time, resources and money just to say no). Most people don't understand that this cost of doing business is real and shows up as an adder to the products that do make the cut. 3) the 'after market' issues are usually a best guess. Ever wonder where that replacement part comes from when your product is damaged? I'm warehousing it somewhere so that I can send you a new one. Don't warehouse enough and I have to refund you the full price. Warehouse too many and I am am paying warehouse fees for god knows how long 4) ever wonder where those rollbacks come from? I fund them. Either to clear space for a new product taking place of the old one or the units that don't sell come back to me (hello, amazon. You're about to be flooded with low cost goods). |
2) factories need very detailed instructions. Every angle in every product has a spec. They usually work off a control sample to determine if it is fit for shipment. | |
Miss a beat on getting product to the retailer in their designated time frame? Fine. Not labeled correctly? Fine. They screw up receiving your goods? Fine. | |
1.How possible is it for an intelligent person (such as myself) with a capacity for systems thinking, but no college degree, to talk his way into working this field? | I would think you would have to start near the bottom. Marketing associate possibly. I guess it depends on your other skills and experience, but most of the jobs like these require a college degree (not necessarily to do it, but just to get an interview. That's what businesses look for in almost any candidate) |
2.In reference to the low cost of labor over there, how does that factor out into the local cost of living? Ie, someone may make 1$ an hour, but housing and food are also to be had a much lower price? In relation to this, is the consumer industry at all helping these countries to raise their own level of quality of life? Or are the factories just being run to profit the owners and screw the environment and workers? | I cant really speak to the local cost of living, but the living conditions in/around the factories are not great. I don't know how much it costs to live there, but probably a lot more than 1 worker could afford on their own. I don't know of any company that is actively trying to improve the quality of life. I don't know that any of them could affect it. We are just buying product. The influence ends there. Factories are run for profit, and yes, screw the environment. Some of the 'rivers' in these towns look like toxic waste dumps. That gross looking foam and oil slicks in them. Its pretty nasty some places. |
I'm sure you don't want to reveal too many personal details but I was wondering what your title is today and what type of business you work for (retailer, import/export company, etc)? Just curious because I work in retail merchandising and although I often work with product/signage and getting it on our shelves, I have never had much insight into the overseas import side of the business. Just as an example, I've worked with a large propane grill company that has an engineering team develop and refine a prototype that is then manufactured in China and imported to the US. Everything from the dockyard to the shelf I understand well but I guess I always assumed their own people were over there doing a lot of the things you describe in this AMA. Now, it sounds like maybe there is a 3rd party that gets this done for them. If so, I guess a second question is how does that relationship work between the vendor and you? | My title now is Director of National Accounts. I handle all our business with the big box retailers. It's 75% customer facing and 25% front end development, but it's a relatively new role. Percentages used to be reversed. Smaller companies have to be very reliant on the factories to do a lot of that for them or they use a third party trading company to manage the factory. The upside is less overhead for the importer. The downside is less innovation and the threat that the factory will take your concepts and show them to other importers. Secondly, its seasonal. Your forecasting needs to be spot on or you either lose out on missed sales from under producing or sit on a warehouse full of unsold grills from over producing. Once the production line shuts down, that's it. They don't crank it up to run off another few hundred pieces. Oh, and Mother nature might just say 'fuck you' and give you a cold, rainy summer which means a lot less grills are sold. And then Bubba neglects to clean his grill and the grease drips onto his deck (where we expressly tell you not to put the grill, but you all do) and it catches fire. He calls the retailer, the retailer calls the CPSC and now I have to prove that he didn't follow the instructions in the manual (that he didn't bother to read). Oh oh, the retailer over ordered and now has excess inventory that they need to get rid of to make room for the X-mas trees going on display in October. Do they eat that cost? Hell no. They squeeze me for markdown money to move the product quicker. |
My role doesn't end at the port in China. I still have to ensure the goods get to the DCs and possibly allocate inventory at the store level. Then there are markdowns, buy ins, promos, defectives, consumer support, end of life planning, etc, etc. Gas grills are an excellent example of the complexities involved and the things most consumers don't consider. Then there are the after market parts. What happens if you get a grill home, get it 90% assembled and the lid is dented or doesn't fit right. Are you going to disassemble and take it back? Hell no, you are going to call me and have me send you a new lid (which are huge, expensive to warehouse and expensive to send you). And these spare parts also have to be made during regular production so I need to forecast defectives as well. Its nearly impossible without some sort of historical numbers to go off of. Then 3 years later when the grill isn't even in production any more, calls are still coming in for grill grates and other replacement parts. | |
Whats the most delicious thing you have eaten in China? | I find the food to be really good (as long as you know what to order). Vegetables and beef especially. My favorite are the little crawfish (or crawfish-like) that are delicious no matter how they are prepared. The fish is great too, but its almost all bones for some reason. They refuse to fillet. I don't know why. |
Shark fin soup I have a big problem with. I make sure they never order that or take me to a place that makes it if I can help it. I think that whole thing is major fucked up. | |
Another man's chicken claw. I'm probably biased though since I grew up eating all things chicken in Taiwan. I also found steak to be disgusting when I moved to Canada. It's about what you're familiar with. | I'm pretty good at trying new foods over there, but I cannot get past those. |
Have you read Poorly Made in China by Paul Midler? Would you say his experiences are similar to yours? Or does anything especially ring true or false? | Started to. Never finished. What I did read I recall being fairly accurate. There are some larger general truths that I think everyone experiences dealing with them, but part of what I like is that it's a new problem every day. Keeps things fresh. I like problem solving and there is never a lack of problems that need solving. |
Could you walk us through the average factory tour you go on? How people treat you, what you see, etc. | Everybody treats me great. I'm the guy who controls the pipeline to the US consumer (one of them at least). |
Its never really a 'tour'. I'm usually there to see specific things or work on new projects, etc. If I am visiting for the first time they will take me through all of the different areas (receiving, factory floor, packaging, staging, etc.). | |
If it is a new product concept it will be a whole day with the designers and engineers working through it. | |
New time over I will usually review prototypes. That's a big 'kick the tires' kind of trip where we tear things down to the last screw and figure out how to improve, make cheaper, package smallebetter, etc. | |
Then trips for off tool samples, pre-production manufacturing runs, packaging reviews, more kicking the tires, renegotiations. | |
Sometimes go over during the retailer factory audits. Generally that's not allowed, but I'll try to 'be in the neighborhood' if I can. | |
For big box products (grills, etc.) the retail buyers will come to China for the line review, we walk them through the line, listen to feedback, changes, likes, dislikes, pricing discussions. | |
Once the product goes into production I will go oversee that for a day or two to make sure everything meets spec, materials are being handled properly, some finished goods inspection and just wrap up final details. | |
It seems like you do a bit of engineering work too, am I right? Do you have coworkers who are engineers? | I work very closely with the engineers but I'm not one. A big part of the job is coordinating all of the 'skill positions' like eng, design, graphics, manufacturing, sales, to ensure everybody is on the same page and working towards the end goal. It's tough because they don't work for me, so I can't really tell them what to do. I need to get them to buy in and support the vision. |
You have my pity. But at least you don't have to work with architects! | Ha! My wife works for an architecture firm. I understand your pain. |