Overview
- Global sourcing has been around for ages: first as commodity sourcing, then IT sourcing and now as activity or process sourcing.
- Global sourcing provides significant cost and quality benefits to U.S. companies.
- However, for many companies these benefits are short lived.
- This center specializes in making these benefits sustainable over time.
Charter
The center, through academic research and discussions with industry leaders, will have as its mission:
To make global sourcing sustainable for people, organizations, and society.
This will entail a consideration of several issues:
To make global sourcing sustainable for people, organizations, and society.
This will entail a consideration of several issues:
- How to decide if global sourcing is right for an organization?
- What aspects of business can and should be sourced globally and why?
- How best to implement various steps in global sourcing life cycle?
- How to effectively manage global sourcing relationships?
- What are the long term impacts of global sourcing?
