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CPG/Retail

How Leading Retailers Achieve Vendor Performance Management and Compliance Optimization

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

Most retailers lack the ability to efficiently process their vendor-performance information into knowledge that allows them to avoid or recover unnecessary costs from inaccurate shipments. However, there’s an outsourced solution that brings visibility into vendor operations, creating huge competitive advantage. Read what it did for Gottschalks and other retailers.

How Outsourcing to China Rescued INVISTA

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

INVISTA, which owns brands like Lycra, had promised the industry an online fabric library. The CEO had sent letters to thousands of companies announcing the system would go live by October 4. In June it discovered its supplier was failing. It hired Freeborders, whose teams in the US, Europe, and China delivered the library three weeks early.

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