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The Power of Outsourcing for Supply Chain Improvement

Logistics Bureau

Across our many blog posts, videos, webinars, eBooks, and other shared content, you’ll find a wealth of information about various aspects of outsourcing in the supply chain. However, I can’t recall writing a general guide about exploiting outsourcing opportunities to improve your supply chain.

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Boeing: The Turning Point(s)

The Lean Thinker

Then we were video-linked to other groups in identical sessions, perhaps in some effort to show how we were all in this together. The structural designs were far more tolerant of production variation, for example. Since then Boeing has had a clear, but unpublished, intention to get out of the fabrication business and outsource it.

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3PL Outsourcing Tips

Logistics Bureau

i.e. Outsourced Logistics Services). Having advised hundreds of companies over the last 20 years on Logistics Outsourcing, I still find many people struggling with the whole process. I’m going to provide some links below, to a whole range of articles, guides and videos that will assist you with lots of the detail.

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Creating extra value for customers by outsourcing logistics services

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

And also, our Logistics Professor said that outsourcing of logistic services as a very intelligent decision in many cases. So, I asked myself, what exactly are the advantages of outsourcing logistics external companies and how can extra value for the customers. So, what are the advantages of outsourcing logistic services to 3PLs?

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Why Large Companies Increasingly Opt for 4PL Services

Logistics Bureau

By contrast, the third-party logistics model is where a manufacturer retains oversight of its supply chain but outsources such processes as warehousing, shipping, packing, and distribution to a 3PL provider. This outsourcing allows the company to focus on its core manufacturing business and higher-value projects.

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The Strategic Importance of Global Procurement

Logistics Bureau

For example, BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) in logistics, manufacturing, IT and HR requires an organisation to not only know how to procure or acquire an external solution through cross-functional effort, but also be able to manage vendor performance and ensure the value of the outsourcing solution is sustainable.

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Unlearning Supply Chain Management

Talking Logistics

Here’s an excerpt: Unlearning is something that we see people struggle with every day in the University of Tennessee’s Vested Outsourcing and Collaborative Contracting classes. A great example is a procurement professional who has spent the last 30 years perfecting the art of “buying.” Perverse Incentives in Outsourcing Agreements.