China Reality Check Part IV

10/26/21 • 39 min

SOPBox.co presents a DUALcast podcast for SellerSessions.com and Awesomers.com Danny McMillian and Steve Simonson are teaming up to share some background about what has happened in China and the global economy since the covid-19. The last chapter in our mini-series helps highlight some of the distraction tactics and other behaviors that China is engaged in at present. Perhaps more importantly we also learn how the instability of production can be something that negatively impacts amazon FBA sellers and ecommerce operators at large ability to procure enough inventory. Supply chain disruption comes from 3 primary areas: Labor, Energy and Raw materials. Companies engaged in product production must have a consistent supply chain to manage those 3 key ingredients. The lack of any one of these 3 components means that the supply chain is failing. Steve speculates about the future of China and it's competitiveness. Additionally Steve shares suggestions about where to consider manufacturing in the future and how to structure your own mental framework to deal with the present day problems while planning for the future.

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China Reality Check Part III

SOPBox.co presents a DUALcast podcast for SellerSessions.com and Awesomers.com Danny McMillian and Steve Simonson are teaming up to share some background about what has happened in China and the global economy since the covid-19. Part III of this series focuses on causation of the issues at hand, beyond Covid, and specifically into the inflationary pressure driven by changing Demographics. Your ability to understand how populations are changing gives you an edge in planning your products, production, supply chain, and even your products and selling strategies. The world population is changing in large ways and the most critical parts of the supply chain in China, Japan, Germany and most of Europe have shrinking populations which removes their ability to operate as a consumer based economy and forces them to export to survive. Furthermore the aging population changes the dynamics of how economies work especially related to the retirement populations being larger than the working and tax paying populations so your understanding of this can help you position your business properly.

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