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Offshoring Evolution: Changing Trends in India and China
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A survey by Capgemini, one of the world's foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, and ProLogis, a global leader in industrial real estate, suggests that India could challenge the position of China as the manufacturing center of the world in the next three to five years. |
For the past 15 to 20 years, Western economies have seen the economic role of India and China move from being mainly raw material suppliers to become important production and service platform providers, as well as growing consumer markets. While China is currently the preferred offshoring destination for manufacturing activities, India is the destination of choice for IT, finance and customer service activities. However, according to the responses of more than 340 of the world's largest international manufacturing companies - from Europe, Americas and Asia Pacific-India will become a substantial manufacturing destination over the next three to five years.
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The 2007 ERP in Manufacturing Benchmarking Report |
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) strategies are driven by growth strategies, customer service expectations, and pressures to reduce costs. While ERP is generally viewed as a necessary infrastructure for all but the very smallest of companies, it is also a strategic weapon in streamlining and automating business processes - while providing visibility to those processes throughout the enterprise.
This report explores feedback provided by over 1400+ manufacturers, and aims to serve as a roadmap to those in the manufacturing ommunity who desire to reduce costs, improve accuracy of inventory and schedules, and develop customer responsiveness through successful ERP implementations.
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Leading Through Growth - 2007 Manufacturing Study |
| Study Reveals Less than Half of U.S. Manufacturers Are Very Confident They Can Meet Their Own Growth Goals. |
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The 2007 Manufacturing Study, "Leading through Growth," conducted jointly with IndustryWeek Custom Research, looked to uncover how manufacturers capitalize on growth opportunities in a changing global marketplace. |
| The study showed that manufacturing performance may be compromised by the fact that very few -- on average, less than 20 percent -- of the 273 respondents consider their companies to be "world class" in the revenue-generating areas of product innovation, operational excellence and customer retention. More |
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Manufacturing in a Service-Oriented Enterprise |
Manufacturer U.S. article by Jan Winters and Gary Baldwin, Capgemini
A service-oriented transformation starts with IT, but it should shape the enterprise as well.
When the aftermarket service group of a large high-tech manufacturer decided to look closely at its legacy landscape, it found too many functional silos attempting unsuccessfully to keep customers satisfied and support low costs.
Learn how the company took a service-oriented approach to eliminate the silos, leverage its legacy systems, and realign its IT landscape to enable an open, virtual, and dynamic business ecosystem! More.
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Emerging Manufacturing Markets and Outsourcing 2.0 |
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Based on newspaper headlines and dramatic television reporting it would appear that China, with its teeming masses of low-cost workers, will continue to decimate more and more of North America's manufacturing industry. If your company is preparing its next strategic plan based on this assumption, you might want to take a deep breath and go back to the drawing board. More. |