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
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, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Larger companies opt for the ASP model as hosted solutions become mainstream.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
The plane that crashed into the Pentagon wiped out every accounting record for the entire year for one military service. Data warehousing can rebuild those records overnight.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Like many manufacturers in America, BOCE is in the midst of a major slowdown, according to Tom Connelly, North American supply manager for the Wilmington, Massachusetts, company. Demand in the semi-conductor industry for its vacuum pumps, turbo molecular pumps and temperature control units is down.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
If you’re a patient in the emergency room, you definitely want that hospital or trauma center to have all the necessary supplies on hand — from IVs and blood plasma to bandages and syringes. But the hospital can’t keep everything on hand; it’s in the patient care business, not inventory warehousing. So the doctors and nurses rely on medical distributors to be sure they have what’s needed — or can deliver it in a couple of hours for an emergency. Many of them depend on Owens & Minor, Inc. (O&M) and, in outsourcing their supplies process to O&M, they enjoy the added advantage of reduced costs.
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, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
To survive in our rapidly changing world, companies need agility to make progress in the shifting sands in the business arena. So today’s executives seek advice on how to survive or even get ahead of the pack. One of the most crucial survival tools is outsourcing, and Siemens Business Services (SBS) has a proven track record in helping its clients streamline workflow, reduce costs and improve time to market through outsourcing.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
To succeed in the United States, you have to do everything right from A – M. But to go international, you have to do everything right from A – Z. A lot of factors come into play that are not present in a domestic market, says David Cisneros, sales and marketing manager for Western Export Services, Inc.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
An Interview With Deborah Kops – Location, location, location is the number one rule of commercial real estate. For corporations worried about their bottom lines, the cardinal concern for their real estate should be process, process, process.
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