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Global Sourcing Research / White Papers

In today's well-connected world, global sourcing and manufacturing have become basic strategies for managing costs and a competitive necessity for achieving high performance.
12:00, 21 Feb, 2007
For five consecutive years, Accenture has been evaluating the performance and challenges of supply chain executives within the procurement arena. This year, Accenture undertook a global survey to discover how companies can successfully source from low-cost countries to achieve high performance...
12:00, 21 Feb, 2007
As sources of both supply and demand, emerging markets like China, India, Eastern Europe and Brazil are rapidly gaining importance for corporations in the mature economies of North America, the European Union and Japan.
12:00, 21 Feb, 2007
Accenture in India released a study entitled "Making Indian Manufacturing Globally Competitive" that highlights India’s manufacturing industry could substantially impact the country’s economic well-being by increasing its growth rate from the current 6 percent to 11 percent by 2006.
12:00, 21 Feb, 2007
As the third-largest economy in Asia, India is growing in importance, both as a market in itself and as a player in world markets. New Accenture research looks at the implications for companies striving for high performance, from the perspective of multinationals operating in India, Indian companies and low-cost-country sourcing.
12:00, 21 Feb, 2007
Sourcing from low-cost economies is an established fact. However, how to best leverage the opportunities it offers remains obscure. While many companies have shown that they can successfully source from low-cost economies on a category-by-category basis, far fewer have institutionalized their overseas sourcing to the point where it becomes routine and "business as usual."
12:00, 21 Feb, 2007
For five consecutive years, Accenture has studied the practices and challenges of supply chain executives who manage sourcing and procurement, seeking innovative ways to help improve the performance of procurement organizations.
12:00, 21 Feb, 2007
Shifting spend volumes to countries with low labor cost structures, such as Asia or Eastern Europe, as part of a so-called ‘cost reduction program’ has been a big trend in western organizations in recent years. Now that the hype is gone and the dust has settled, it’s time to take stock of whether these programs have lived up to the high expectations they generated.
00:00, 19 Apr, 2007
Low-cost country sourcing is probably one of the most powerful means for realising cost-savings opportunities. In March 2005, Ariba, Inc. and Supply Management Institute SMI conducted a collaborative research project on the topic of low-cost country sourcing (LCCS) to investigate how procurement officers are using this to improve competitive advantage.
15:56, 17 Mar, 2005