I have tried for years advising our International Sales & Marketing group to
budget into their yearly budget plan the cost of compliance. As usually when
I try too find a dept. account number with some cash in it to reference on
my PO's I get to this "strange" look back - like "what are you asking for?"
It has always been my experience that compliance engineering is the last
concern with management when it comes too releasing new product or marketing
into an International country. If I don't constantly remind the dept
managers & engineers of the "why's" and "need's" of product compliance it
would be an after thought, if a thought at all. But - I guess that's what
keeps this job challenging.
If anyone has experienced the same and has recommended solutions please
advise (or is it just by employer?).
Thx in advance.
-----Original Message-----
From: Egon H. Varju [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2000 8:13 AM
To: EMC-PSTC
Subject: RE: Certification of Products and other emerging countries
At 07:24 PM 22/03/2000, you wrote:
>This issue isn't change - its the gyrations, expense and increased
>overhead incurred by manufacturing companies that is the concern
>here.
Excuse me for being a bit blunt, but if any foreign company wants to sell
their product in the US, they have to face the gyrations, expense and
increased overhead of having to comply with NRTL, FCC, FDA, OSHA, etc., ad
nauseum. I see no reason why other countries shouldn't put up similar
economic trade barriers.
Anyway, if your company has a market in these countries, then you are
presumably making a profit. In most cases, if you look at your marketing
and advertising cost in each of these countries, I suspect that the
compliance costs pale in comparison. It's not a big deal.
Perhaps what companies should do is to include the compliance costs in
their marketing budget. In this case, you could get on with your job,
without having to put up with any more bitching from all those
bean-counters and pimple-faced MBAs.
Just my 2 yen's worth ...
Egon :-)
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