Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Purchasing and supply management affect much more than material and service flow, and current trends cast their role and importance in sharper focus than ever.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
It is an apt characterization that may be applied to the steep dilemmas that currently snag the efforts of the US federal government to increasingly implement competitive sourcing and privatization of public sector activities..
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
During an outsourcing agreement the vendor becomes polluted with what is considered to be very proprietary intellectual property, says Gene Slowinski, director of strategic alliance research at the graduate school of management at Rutgers University. When a vendor works with a customer in an outsourcing relationship, the customer tells the supplier many things that are protected by patent, information protected by trade secrets, and vital company knowledge that is retained by the employees within the corporation. The customer and its new business partner the vendor must discuss these issues or it can be very damaging to both sides.
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