Most China+1 plans move one layer — final assembly. The other four stay exactly where they were. Print it, tick what you can prove, score your product out of 50.
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Risk travels upward. Move layer 5 while layer 3 fails to supply, and you own an empty plant with a shipping schedule.
Plating, anodising and heat treatment are a one-hour-drive industry in the Pearl River Delta. Elsewhere they are a flight.
The mold can be shipped. The mold shop, the steel grade and the spare parts cannot.
Your new plant can be spotless and still assemble parts that ship from China. That is not a moved supply chain.
Yield lives in people, not drawings. Why 118 A on that weld, why 210 °C on that die — it is in someone’s hands.
The only layer most companies actually move — and the layer that decides the least about your risk.
Ten boxes per layer. A box only counts if you can show the document behind it.
Genuinely relocatable. Execute in full. Rare in practice.
Move L5. Dual-source L3 and L4. China keeps 30–40%.
Last process only. Risk dispersed, not reduced.
Deep process dependency. Fund resilience instead.
If L1 and L3 score 5 or less while L5 scores 8 or more, your real structure is Chinese sub-assembly, foreign final assembly. That can work — but write it into your origin analysis honestly.
Full BOM, including tier-2 supplier names and plant cities.Watch for · speed of reply
Can we enter your plant unannounced within 2 hours — in writing?Watch for · the one they cannot bluff
One PDF. Five pages. Fifty boxes. About twenty minutes.
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