The 10 Most Popular Reasons that manufacturers outsource an aspect of their manufacturing process

Manufacturers that use Strategic Technical Out-sourcing as a way improve productivity and reduce costs were polled to determine their primary motivation behind looking to 3rd party companies to take responsibility for an aspect of their operation.  Results are shown below.  Each participant was asked to list their top 2 primary reasons in order of importance.

#10: function difficult to manage


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#9: lets Share the risk!!

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Reason 8:  Free up resources

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Reason 7:  Push Our resources to improve

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Reason 6:  accelerate time to implementation

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Reason 5:  expertise not available internally

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Reason 4:  bring data driven decision making

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Reason 3:  gain access to world class resources

Reason 2:  improve focus

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Reason 1:  reduce or control costs

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