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Archive for February, 2006

Outsourcing Enables Renewable Energy Factories | Article

Outsourcing Enables Renewable Energy Factories | Article

Companies focused on R&D and new product development must operate lean. Here’s the story of how outsourcing has enabled one such company to operate ahead of its goals.

Partnering–the Key to Long-term Success | Article

Partnering–the Key to Long-term Success | Article

What would you do if you were a start-up company that immediately experienced phenomenal growth and then encountered regulatory challenges? Arizona Vanilla found an outsourcing solution that just keeps growing like its own products.

Pass It On–Manufacturing Equipment Solution | Article

Pass It On–Manufacturing Equipment Solution | Article

Within the manufacturing industry, outsourcing plays an important role beyond the processes associated with just manufacturing products. Here is the story of what’s taking place behind the scenes with surplus equipment.

Nielsen Media Augments IT Strengths, Turns Data Into Dollars | Article

Nielsen Media Augments IT Strengths, Turns Data Into Dollars | Article

Nielson Media, which assigns television ratings, used to have it easy: just check when people were watching. Now people are watching TV with DVRs, the Internet, and cable, making the job much harder. Outsourcing its IT helped the company satisfy its clients, who demanded increasingly detailed data.

Outsourced Service Shelter Opens Mexican Doors to High-End Manufacturing Firms | Article

Outsourced Service Shelter Opens Mexican Doors to High-End Manufacturing Firms | Article

Tolerance Masters, an aerospace manufacturer, had cut all its costs but labor to the bone. It addressed the labor issue by entering a Mexican maquiladora program. The result: 30 percent profit growth and a modest raise for its US employees.

American Manufacturer Leverages its China Outsourcing Solution With Nearshore OEMs | Article

American Manufacturer Leverages its China Outsourcing Solution With Nearshore OEMs | Article

Electronic Hardware Corp. was suffering from spiraling costs, which hurt its competitiveness. It offshored to China. The result was so successful the company created its own shelter group to help other manufacturers send their work there.

Analytics Helps Retailer Compete | Article

Analytics Helps Retailer Compete | Article

Returns due to sizing errors had been a problem for a company selling children’s clothes on the Internet. Outsourcing solved the problem thanks to the supplier’s analytics.

Transformational Offshoring: Why and How? | White Paper

Transformational Offshoring: Why and How? | White Paper

This Paper by Patni discusses some of the biggest challenges faced by organizations in aligning their applications to the business. The role of an offshore strategy in transforming those applications so as to align them with their business while they are offshore is a central theme of this Paper.

Avoiding Blind Spots in ERP: Risks and Strategies Mid-size Companies Need to Know | White Paper

Avoiding Blind Spots in ERP: Risks and Strategies Mid-size Companies Need to Know | White Paper

This paper by Infocrossing takes an up-close look at the use of ERP software in mid-size companies, assessing the unique challenges and identifying strategies that enable the desired return on investment (ROI). The paper answers questions mid-size companies need to know.