Numi Organic Tea Challenges Maintaining Standards

1. Save Costs/Cost Reduction Dilema

1.1. Sustainability

1.2. Improving Product Quality

1.3. Maintaining Fair Trade

1.4. Over seas Production

1.4.1. Better Workers

1.4.2. Improved Working Conditions

1.4.3. Factories

1.4.4. Standards in which Numi wants

2. Outsourcing-Positive Aspects

2.1. cheap labor

2.2. no machinery overhead

2.3. Quality control

2.3.1. via internet/computer programming

2.4. everyone is involved/valued

2.5. testing/sampling

2.6. importing finished product

2.7. materials sent to China for manufacturing

3. Outsource manufacturing

3.1. Negative Aspects

3.1.1. machinery

3.1.1.1. down time

3.1.2. fluctuating costs

3.1.3. manufacturing costs

3.1.4. shipping costs

3.1.5. overhead

3.1.6. maintaining same standards