The product inspection, review and research data collected in the first quarter of 2021 highlights the wishes of enterprises to achieve global supply chain. As the company wants to work hard to get rid of the "crisis model" during the epidemic, China's procurement is rebounding, but it has not returned to the level of neoguan pneumonia epidemic, while Vietnam, India and Turkey, etc., in replacing the procurement area is experiencing ongoing growth levels. However, as the global procurement industry seeks fast recovery, violations of compliance regulations are increasing, and all brands have turned to digital technology solutions to better manage social responsibility risk, and solve current suppliers' Communication and product quality challenges.

Vietnam continues to be popular, is the strongest opponent in 2020 and 2021 competition with China.

Vietnam as a traditional preferred sale of buyers from China, in the past few years, Vietnam's popularity in Western buyers has taken this trend in 2021. Data show that Vietnam's inspection and auditing demand in the first quarter of 2021 increased by + 16%, representing the growth of the third quarter after the end of the epidemic in 2020.

It is worth noting that this increase is not only the level of the epidemic, but the product inspection requirements in the first quarter of 2021 have doubled average than the first quarter of 2019.

Vietnam's inspection demand surge and global procurement survey is consistent, 43% of US respondents said Vietnam was one of the top three procurement regions in early 2021 (twice the same period in 2019).

In addition, the buyer's demand for Vietnamese is unattainable, which will redefine the procurement pattern in 2021: about one-third of global buyers and 38% of the US buyers say Vietnam belongs to its 2021 plan to increase purchase One of the countries of the country.

At the same time, Vietnam is not the only country that benefits from traffic expansion in the region. The data on the inspection and audit demand in Southeast Asia is displayed. Due to the promotion of the restoration of the US and European brand procurement, the entire Southeast Asia has achieved two digits growth. .

India is going to return to return after a difficult time of 2020, and the procurement of multiple industries is being concerned.

After the calendering of the blocked and Western demand crashes in the past year, India is now re-recovering the first-line position of many buyers preferred procurement destination. Among the surveyed respondents, 26% of the buyers rank India as their top three procurement areas. It is worth noting that although India is traditionally being regarded as a textile center, it is still highly attached to the privilege of promotional products, footwear, glasses, jewelery and accessories. In the above industry, more than one-third of interview Put it as the top three procurement options).

The data on reviewing and inspection requirements also confirmed that the buyer's purchase interest in India has increased in the first quarter. Compared with the 2020, India is facing completely discontinued production, the product inspection and audit demand in the first quarter of this year increased by + 72% year-on-year. A $ 94% greater than 2019). This growth rate far exceeds the overall growth rate of South Asia in the first quarter (the first quarter of 2021 increased by + 28% in the first quarter), mainly due to the pouring of American buyers, and its product inspection requirements have emerged for six consecutive months. rise.

However, the current rebound seems to depends on whether India can effectively manage the sustainable struggle of new coronal pneumonia, because the number of cases in April have risen sharply, and the epidemic control measures are re-tightened.

China's rebound is still strong, but it is still working hard to meet the level before the epidemic.

Although China continued to perform strong in the post-epidemic period, the long-term diversification of the global supply chain continued to weaken its dominant position, although compared with last year, China's first quarter of the purchase is undeniable (2021 first The quarter is more than + 55% in the first quarter of 2020), but it may not be achieved compared with the epidemic.

The textile and apparel industry is the vivid example of this trend: China's textile product inspection demand increased by + 8.3% in the first quarter of 2021, but still decreased from -20% compared to the first quarter of 2019. In contrast, China's competitors in textiles and clothing, such as Vietnam, India and Bangladesh, compared with the first quarter of 2020 and the first quarter of 2019, their product inspection requirements have achieved two digits growth. It indicates that continuous expansion is achieved above the epidemic, not a simple rebound.

Due to the European brand hopes to restore approaching, Turkey becomes the first choice

In 2020, the crowds caused by huge setbacks and epidemic in the near-shore, as well as the United States and European buyers to the near-shore (Southern America and Latin America, North Africa, and the Middle East) have double strikes. However, as the global supply chain is restored from the crisis model, near the procurement returns to the agenda of brand and retailers.

EU brands are especially desirable to return to familiar Mediterranean coastal procurement markets, Turkey is obviously the most popular country, and in the survey, nearly one-third of the EU respondents are listed as priority procurement options. In the first quarter of 2021, it was displayed that European buyers had launched the plan to reinvigorate Turkey, and Turkey's inspection and audit demand in the first quarter of 2021 also increased by + 89% year-on-year.

With the increase in social responsibility, the violations of compliance reach the three-year high

In the previous year, in the face of complex challenges and extensive damage, the social responsibility risk of global supply chain continued to increase, more than one-third of the company reported that they found that their supply chains have more social responsibility issues during the epidemic. . The latest on-site data collected by social responsibility auditors show that this related trend continues to exist in the first quarter of 2021: due to severe uncomfortable ("red"), it is climbed to 27%, Come into a three-year high.

What is not affected is that the compliance in health and health sectors is the worst, and 15% of the audited plants have serious violations.

The digitized transformation of purchases is critical to supply chain visibility, product quality and supplier communication.

In addition to responsible procurement and sustainability, 2020 epidemic communication (in the survey, 59% of respondents said this is a valid impact on product quality (41%). . It is worth noting that companies with low-supply chain have doubled the possibility of serious problems in these two areas.

Given the far-reaching influence of technology on the supply chain, digital transformation is still the top priority of enterprises. In the survey, approximately two-thirds of respondents said that in 2020, new technical solutions were implemented in response to new coronary pneumonia, and more companies will further promote supply chain digitization in 2021. The use of technical solutions in the supply chain will also help improve the visibility of the supply chain to help solve social responsibility and operational issues in the supply chain.