The Great Micro Company is an Import export transport business. Primarily a cargo shipping operation, Great Micro moves 13, 000 containers each month. Air shipments and customs clearance are also areas important to its business. From the U.S., the company imports agricultural products e.g. soy beans, corn, animal feed, and wood. From China to the U.S, machinery products are the primary export. Nancy Zhu, our Asian Institute guide, aided company representatives ...

Oops!! Hotel snafu! Upgraded to five star hotel, New World Shanghai! We eagerly accepted our new digs. (Maybe we can extend our stay.) Getting fortified with a good breakfast for our visit to Parker/China today.

CSU faculty members Frank Klaus (Accounting) and Dr. Oya Tukel (OSM) meet Mitch Kaduboski, Asia Pacific Supply Chain Integration Manager at Parker Hannifin.

It was good that our field experience brought us to Shanghai because spring is awakening here. Beijing to the north is yet to see budding trees and flowers. China's landscape can be lush and beautiful which we see in Shanghai.

At 3:00 PM we arrived at our 3rd international classroom experience of the day! We were greeted with gracious hospitality at Jintuo Metals Company Co., LTD., a supplier to Parker. The owner and general manager, Zhangdong, was so taken by our interest in his company that he invited us all to be his guests for dinner this evening! The company was established 2001 & presently employs 1000 employees. Components of the business include a die-casting, a machinin...