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



#9: lets Share the risk!!



Reason 8:  Free up resources


Reason 7:  Push Our resources to improve


Reason 6:  accelerate time to implementation


Reason 5:  expertise not available internally


Reason 4:  bring data driven decision making


Reason 3:  gain access to world class resources


Reason 2:  improve focus


Reason 1:  reduce or control costs