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Beyond "Lowest Total Cost": The Move From Global Sourcing to Global Market-Making

Overview Global sourcing is going mainstream - helping companies leverage low-cost labor and overhead to acquire goods and materials for less money. However, in today's well-connected world, low-cost country sourcing opportunities shouldn't be the sole inspiration for new business initiatives. Instead, retailers and manufacturers need to see that the world is now their marketplace and that the lesser-developed countries from which they source are rapidly becoming the venues into which they also must sell.

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Publisher: SAS Institute
File Format: HTML
Date Published: Aug 30, 2006
Format: White Papers
Topics: Outsourcing, ROI - TCO

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