Starting this month, it will pay independent auditors to visit its own factories and, eventually, those of its suppliers.
Its rival Cisco Systems, though it does have four of its own factories, was committed from its infancy to going outside.
Long ago, when Apple managed its own factories, precisely matching the waxing and waning demand of the market sometimes caught the company flatfooted.
The company also said once again that its own factories in Thailand have not been directly affected by the flooding, but it repeated that it will be constrained by component shortages tied to the floods.
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By going abroad and getting companies like Maytag, which they may or may not get, Lenovo buying other brand names, China can instantly have this recognition for the brands that it's already making in its own factories.
Handspring, the company behind the Visor personal digital assistant, followed the Cisco model from the start: It has no factories of its own.
Wahaha has established its own production plants and processing factories in the major fruit growing areas to ensure the quality of juice products and a competitive retail price.
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The company said that while its own component and disk drive factories in Thailand have not been directly affected by flooding, its ability to manufacture hard disk drives has been impacted due to external component supply constraints, as it has disclosed previously.
The Times, which had separately published a series of its own articles about Apple's factories, said it stood by those.
Toyota took a deeper dive, first spending four years developing its own software that connects dealers to factories and factories to suppliers.
Although Sony announced Tuesday that two of its factories in China would resume production on September 19 after a two-day closure, Panasonic China instructed its factories to use their own discretion to decide whether to resume production or not, according to Chinese media report.
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When Rubbermaid could not, or would not, rationalize its delivery system to consolidate shipments from different factories, Wal-Mart took simplification into its own hands.
Well that is good, because the company will own a productive resource, its factories.
Top Glove makes its own equipment and stacks the machinery high in its factories to maximize square footage.
His stores receive most goods directly from factories, while Lowe's runs most items through its own warehouses.
Mr Swan says that, thanks to China's own stimulus last year, Australia's exports of iron ore and coal to its steel factories exceeded the government's hopes.
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