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 Ocean Spray Saves $500,000 Annually by Outsourcing Energy Operations and Keeps the Regulators Happy
Ocean Spray was steamed. The steam generators at its New Jersey plant continually lost pressure, which shut down its packaging operations. Outsourcing its energy management allowed the manufacturer to improve reliability and safety while reducing the cost of goods. (2008)
How One Manufacturer Grew Its HRO Over Time
ABB Inc., a technology manufacturer, grew by acquisitions. In 1995 ABB wanted to create a single culture with centralized processes and policies. It decided the best way to do this was outsource. Its first step: centralizing its 401(k) plan. Today, 13 years later, ABB has outsourced many of its HR processes to its original supplier: Fidelity HR Services. (2008)
Offshore Manufacturing Proves a Boon for Small Business
One of the toughest problems people in small businesses face in getting a product to market is finding a manufacturer that will run small batches. Ashe Archery overcame this problem by outsourcing its design and manufacturing to Metrotech, a Chinese provider that produces small runs as needed at a substantially lower cost per piece than domestic manufacturers. (2008)
RPO Puts Visteon Staffing in the Fast Lane after Ford Spin-Off
How do you hire 1,000 human resource employees ASAP when you're the untested new kid on the block? That was the challenge Visteon Corporation faced right before Ford spun off the automobile parts manufacturer. Manpower Business Solutions helped the newcomer fill its roster and cut its time to hire 50 percent. (2008)
Centralizing Asset Management Helps Promotional Products Manufacturer Manage Its IT Infrastructure
Like many promotional products manufacturers, The GEM Group has a manufacturing facility in China. The manufacturer was changing its IT desktop infrastructure. Did the computers in Shenzhen have enough memory to work in the new IT environment? Everdream's application allows GEM to manage the Chinese infrastructure from its Massachusetts headquarters. (2008)
Can You Program a Remote? How Veritude Populated Overhead Door's Call Center
Overhead Door Corporation's Genie call center gets 55,000 plaintive calls a month. The manufacturer outsourced its call center operations unsuccessfully to two different U.S. suppliers. So it decided to bring the call center function in-house and hired Veritude to populate it...which it did 30 days early because the incumbent supplier abruptly decided to close its doors. Here's the story. (2008)
Hosted ERP Suites Improve Front- and Back-Office Operations, Yield Dramatic Cost Savings for Smaller Manufacturers
Since installed ERP systems are expensive, complex to deploy, and require dedicated IT resources to maintain, automating mission-critical systems for small manufacturers is a challenge. ProSoap found itself concentrating so much on our servers that we couldn't get on the phone enough to make sales calls. Outsourcing a hosted ERP solution solved the problem. (2007)
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Manufacturers Seek Resources to Regain World-class Status
- Manufacturing companies must grow to remain competitive, yet executives at many large, global companies face obstacles and uncertainty when it comes to product innovation, operational excellence and customer growth and retention - three areas they must imp... - November 2007
Dangerous Liaisons
- The degree to which cultural elements in an outsourcing buyer and service provider's separate cultures are compatible is a primary key to success in outsourcing. The parties' degree of compatibility will enhance (or hinder) their ability to jointly solve p... - November 2004
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