It involves the analysis of procurement costs, strategic sourcing based on criteria other than price and making sure staff only purchase via pre-negotiated contracts. European businesses are trying to save money through 'haggling' with suppliers...
Peter Dew, CIO at FTSE 100 industrial gases giant BOC, said a failure by some companies to develop a comprehensive sourcing strategy in the past has resulted in the high number of rushed decisions to pull previously outsourced operations back in...
India will be one of the key factors in all IT sourcing decisions over the next five years as a low-cost and flexible option for skills and resources, according to CIOs. Graham Yellowley, director of technology services at investment bank...
We continue to see headlines of companies 'in-sourcing' - bringing outsourced IT projects back in-house - the most recent being Boots which said last week it is moving 100 IT jobs in-house as part of a revised outsourcing contract with IBM.
Judging by a poll of silicon.com's CIO Jury - and even more recently by the results of this year's exclusive Skills Survey - the answer when an outsourcing relationship sours is not to find a new supplier but to bring the deal back in-house (aka...
With the dust barely settled on the outsourcing mega-deal obituaries, the hype around the trend for using multiple suppliers - multi-sourcing - continues to gather pace. The strategic deployment of a multi-sourcing approach can result in several...
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