“Since Apple’s current CEO Tim Cook took over the company’s management, sources from supply chain players have revealed that Cook has adopted even stricter management over its supply chain than before, and in addition to conducting inspections more frequently, the time spent on the inspections is also a lot longer,” Aaron Lee and Joseph Tsai report for DigiTimes.

“The sources pointed out that Apple has been putting a lot of effort into managing costs and product quality for the past half year, and the company’s suppliers are all being heavily evaluated,” Lee and Tsai report. “The sources expect the strategy to become a challenge to suppliers’ production line management as well as a threshold for players wishing to enter Apple’s supply chain.”

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[Attribution: AppleInsider. Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Fred Mertz" for the heads up.]