It’s an operations-oriented business culture, and everyone is fluent in Lean Manufacturing and The Toyota Way. If, on the other hand, you LIKE running your own factory, then you’ll probably do fine in Mexico. If you don’t want that or don’t know how that works, you should talk to someone qualified BEFORE moving further into Mexico. You will most likely have your own factory in Mexico. This is more of a quick cultural compatibility quiz. The real feasibility studies and business planning comes after. This is the “wish I had known before…” category. Let’s do MORE INFO on three crucial areas: The question they want answered is, “is Mexico for me or not?” It’s part about their business success, part about their life/family/lifestyle/sanity/etc. The people I know have been in China for a long time and most want to start the moving from China to Mexico conversation with a quick gut-check type of overview. ![]() Westerners in China and Asia ask me about Mexico often. Is Mexico right for you? Yes _ No _ Need more info _.When it comes to getting China-based companies production-ready in Mexico, I have in my head what I call my “Checklist of One.” This checklist of one is the cheapest, most important step you’ll ever take on a business survey: The below was written by Andrew (with a few revisions by me) and it constitutes our fifth piece in the series. This year we (mostly Andrew) have written Three Mistakes We Made in China and Three Things We’ll Get Right in Mexico, Mexican Supply Chain Management: You’re not in China Anymore, Five Potential Shocks to your Chinese Supply Chain in 2023, and Your China Supply Chain is a Bet Against the House. Then at the end of last year, we wrote Three Things Everyone Leaving China for Mexico Should Know, as an introduction to what we expect will be a roughly ten-part series to be written over the next 7-9 months. Mexico for China Managers, Part 5: The Three Types of China-Mexico Supply Chain Transitions.Mexico for China Managers, Part 4: A Guide to Cross-Culture Negotiation.Part 3: Comparing China and Mexico Manufacturing at the Operational Level.Mexico for China Managers, Part 2: China vs.The China Manager’s Guide to Mexican Operations: Comparing and Contrasting China and Mexico Operations.Who better, then, to write about what it takes to leave China (in whole or in part) for Mexico than Andrew Hupert?Īndrew wrote a series of five posts on the differences between China and Mexico manufacturing and I urge you to read all five of these: So much so that Andrew moved to Mexico, reinvigorated his Spanish language skills and began helping companies - especially companies looking to leave China - navigate Mexico. ![]() Though Andrew had for decades tied his life and career to China, he - like me - was one of the earliest proponents of a post-China manufacturing world. My law firm frequently consulted with Andrew when we first started doing China legal work, and at that time Andrew was living in China. I chose Andrew for this because he has spent so much time in both China and Mexico, navigating their manufacturing systems from the inside. Last year, I asked my good friend Andrew Hupert of North American Strategic Planning to explain what is involved in moving manufacturing from China to Mexico.
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