Logistics and Manufacturing Outsourcing:
Harness Your Core Competencies
By: James A. Tompkins, Ph.D., Steven W. Simonson,
Bruce W. Tompkins and Brian E. Upchurch
 This is unlike any outsourcing book you have seen because it is specifically designed for logistics and manufacturing executives. To successfully outsource today, you need to gain a core competency in outsourcing, avoid setbacks, and understand how to keep the outsourcing relationship robust.
Most organizations do not have outsourcing as a core competency, and this is why so many outsourcing relationships fail.
Altogether, the four authors of this book have nearly 100 years of solid experience in logistics and manufacturing outsourcing. They have seen outsourcing from all angles—either as providers, consultants, clients, attorneys or expert witnesses—and it is not always a pretty picture. This expertise makes the authors uniquely qualified to teach companies how to harness the real power behind outsourcing.
You will find several features of the book to be particularly useful:
- Real-life case studies of successful and “not so successful” outsourcing;
- An “Elevator Speech” summary of the entire book in the appendix. This is the perfect remedy for the “I’ve got a captive audience and need to state my case in five minutes” panic; and
- A list of key risks associated with outsourcing and how to avoid them.
For more information, see the Table of Contents
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Price: $24.95 USD
Format: Hardcover, 216 pages
ISBN: 1-930426-05-4
Publisher: Tompkins Press
Pub. Date: May 16, 2005
Table of Contents
- Logistics and Manufacturing Outsourcing
- Today’s Business Challenges
- The Outsourcing Opportunity
- Defining Core
- Defining Outsourcing Targets
- The Solicitation Process
- Request for Proposal and Service Provider Selection
- Creating the Outsourcing Relationship
- Successful Outsourcing Relationships: A Legal Perspective
- Getting Started: Putting the Outsourcing Relationship in Motion
- Establishing the Ongoing Relationship
- Managing the Relationship
- Mitigating Risk
- Outsourcing Is Here To Stay
- Appendix: “On the Elevator” Summaries
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"... well-crafted ... goes one step further..." read the full review from Supply Chain Management Review
"This is a book that all manufacturing and logistics executives should read. Logistics and Manufacturing Outsourcing: Harness Your Core Competencies takes strategic outsourcing a step further by presenting outsourcing as a core competency. It is a resource that I highly recommend."
— C. John Langley, Jr., Ph.D., professor of supply chain management and 3PL, Georgia Tech Books
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