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EVEREST VOICE
FAO Suppliers: Clouds Will Darken Today's Bright Future. Get Ready!: Currently FAO suppliers are enjoying enviable growth. But will it continue? Paul Nowacki thinks not, at least not in the same way. He discusses what the coming changes mean for both buyers and suppliers.
FOCUS ON: Retail
Analytics Helps Retailer Compete: 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.
FOCUS ON: IT
Nielsen Media Augments IT Strengths, Turns Data Into Dollars: Nielsen 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.
The Manufacturing Outsourcing Issue
FOCUS ON: China
American Manufacturer Leverages its China Outsourcing Solution With Nearshore OEMs: 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.
FOCUS ON: Equipment
Pass It On--Manufacturing Equipment Solution: 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.
FOCUS ON: Government Compliance
Partnering--the Key to Long-term Success: 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.
FOCUS ON: Energy
Outsourcing Enables Renewable Energy Factories: 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.
FOCUS ON: Mexico
Outsourced Service Shelter Opens Mexican Doors to High-End Manufacturing Firms: 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.
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