Offsourcing Your Employees: Transferring Engineers to the Existing Service Providers for Better Integration
October 9, 2009 by Bierce & Kenerson, P.C. ·
Just when your manufacturing company management thought your engineering employees were ready to deliver key technologies for launching new products, you discover that they need access to even more resources than you can afford. So what do you do? You “offsource” your employees. Offsourcing. Offsourcing (a term we invented) refers to the restructuring of a […]
Strategies for OEM Manufacturing – Contract Manufacturing
October 9, 2009 by Bierce & Kenerson, P.C. ·
Instead of exiting a losing line of business, companies can retain customer relationships and full product lines by creative outsourcing of manufacturing capacity. A contract manufacturer could rescue the customer. Computer Manufacturing. Nowhere do we see this more than in the personal computer business. Economic recession, sharp declines in unit prices and direct-to-customer customized mail […]
Outsourcing Tools for Insourcing
October 9, 2009 by Bierce & Kenerson, P.C. ·
Outsourcing Tools for Insourcing. The typical outsourcer also provides a spectrum of support and consulting services compatible with a totally insourced environment. Thus, outsourcing is only one of the core service offerings. Enterprise customers now ask the question: why outsource when I can insource using the right tools? While there may be many reasons to […]
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August 26, 2009 by Bierce & Kenerson, P.C. ·
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Contingency Planning for your Supply Chain: Business Continuity in a Pandemic
May 31, 2009 by Bierce & Kenerson, P.C. ·
The risk of a pandemic has become a realistic possibility, following the SARS outbreak in China a few years ago and the “swine flu” outbreak in Mexico in 2009. Business contingency planning should include not only the possibility of a pandemic but also the impact of a pandemic upon the supply chain including business operations […]