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High-Tech Companies Raise the Stake for eSourcing
Sourcing for profitability is difficult in any manufacturing industry. For high technology companies the task is immensely more challenging due to a unique combination of industry characteristics.
Unique challenges for high tech companies are:
- Speed
- Global ubiquity
- High volume & complexity
- Disintegration
- Transitory
- Volatility
A look at the specifications emanating from high-tech eSourcing services at the moment suggests the early adopters are now craving more flexible solutions and more comprehensive e-Sourcing functionality that can support truly global, end-to- end management and control over well defined and well informed sourcing processes.
This paper explores the e-Sourcing features and functions that high-tech companies are specifying most frequently and the benefits they are hoping to realize from the upgrades.
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Sourcing for profitability is difficult in any manufacturing industry. For high technology companies the task is immensely more challenging due to a unique combination of industry characteristics.
Unique challenges for high tech companies are:
- Speed
- Global ubiquity
- High volume & complexity
- Disintegration
- Transitory
- Volatility
A look at the specifications emanating from high-tech eSourcing services at the moment suggests the early adopters are now craving more flexible solutions and more comprehensive e-Sourcing functionality that can support truly global, end-to- end management and control over well defined and well informed sourcing processes.
This paper explores the e-Sourcing features and functions that high-tech companies are specifying most frequently and the benefits they are hoping to realize from the upgrades.
