Outsourcing Center, Bruce McCracken, Business Writer
Even though Quicksilver, a fashion retailer, was keeping up with the latest hemlines, its was still using a manual system for inventory control dating back to the Nehru suit. Outsourcing to KWI brought the retailer up to date.
Chris Pryer, Business Writer
An insurance brokerage was expanding rapidly. But doing IT the old way hindered that growth. Revamping the infrastructure in-house would have cost more than the agency’s annual revenues. Outsourcing IT turned out to the best policy.
Michael S. Mensik, Partner, Baker & McKenzie
Companies face five key legal issues when they outsource their eCommerce offerings. Attorneys at Baker & McKenzie show you the legal sandbars and explain how to navigate around them.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Virtual warehousing is not new, but it’s sometimes not successful. QVC.com outsourced to ensure its quality standards and a seamless experience for its customers would be the result.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
ELearning is more than applying technology to the learning process. If done effectively, it changes several business processes, and outsourcing is the best catalyst for those changes.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
This outsourcing partnership started an entirely new industry that’s now a significant source of revenue for both parties. It’s an unparalleled story of what can be achieved through innovative outsourcing partners.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Boeing discovers outsourcing is the Rx for health administration.
Outsourcing Center, Bruce McCracken, Business Writer
For Quill, a mail order office supply retailer based in the Chicago suburb of Lincolnshire, eCommerce in the late 1990s was a lucrative and untapped marketing channel. Its first Web site, launched in 1996, was rudimentary. We figured that everybody has one, so we better get one up, too. We did not pay a lot of attention to it. It was not a focused effort, says Lisa Iannuzzelli, senior Internet marketing manager. Email marketing, which Quill decided to do itself, included converting its printed newsletters to email.
Jerri L. Ledford, Business Writer
Any company doing business on a global scale knows what a hassle supply chain management can be. Everything from procurement to receiving becomes a difficult task when multiple currencies, customs departments and logistics are considered. And it’s that difficulty that drove Hong Kong-based global logistics management company, United States Consolidation (USC), Ltd., to look to an outsourcing supplier to ease the pain of supply chain management (SCM).
Outsourcing Center, Bruce McCracken, Business Writer
National retailers face a challenge when they enter the professional services sector. In the area of medicine, many customers view multiple location clinics with apprehension. They conjure up images of inexperienced, overworked and underpaid interns dispensing medical solutions on an assembly line.
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