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RALEIGH, NC, May 31, 2005—Outsourcing is one of today’s top business challenges. To help logistics and manufacturing executives meet this challenge, Tompkins Associates has published the new book Logistics and Manufacturing Outsourcing: Harness Your Core Competencies.
This book release comes at a time when outsourcing is gaining momentum as a way to reduce costs, improve services and streamline operations. According to a recent global study on outsourcing, initiatives need to deliver comprehensive solutions that create value for users and their supply chains. Logistics and Manufacturing Outsourcing: Harness Your Core Competencies demonstrates how to create and maintain a successful outsourcing relationship that benefits your entire supply chain.
“Outsourcing can open up a world of opportunity, but it can also create major setbacks if not approached as a core competency,” said James A Tompkins, Ph.D., one of the main authors. “This is why I joined with other outsourcing experts to write a solutions book specifically designed for logistics and manufacturing executives.”
Altogether, the four authors of this book have nearly 100 years of experience in logistics and manufacturing outsourcing—either as providers, consultants, clients, attorneys or expert witnesses. “In other words, we’ve seen outsourcing from all angles, and it isn’t always a pretty picture,” noted Steve Simonson, another author of the new book. “This makes us uniquely qualified to share the secret to harnessing the power behind outsourcing with others.”
The book includes:
- 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 or less” panic.
- A list of key risks associated with outsourcing and how to avoid them.
Logistics and Manufacturing Outsourcing: Harness Your Core Competencies is a resource that will allow business leaders to follow a robust outsourcing process and add value to their supply chains for years to come.
About the Companies
Tompkins Associates
Tompkins Associates is the leading operations-focused consulting and integration firm, specializing in end-to-end supply chain solutions. Customers look to Tompkins’ expertise to develop and implement strategies for intelligent solutions in distribution center design, warehouse strategic planning, distribution network configuration, transportation system planning, system integration and implementation, logistics and manufacturing outsourcing, benchmarking and best practices, and supply chain optimization. As consultants and integrators for more than 30 years, Tompkins offers a proven track record and deep industry expertise for solutions that reduce costs and improve overall supply chain performance. The company is headquartered in Raleigh, NC. For more information, visit www.tompkinsinc.com.
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