I worked for a Fortune 100 company and participated / assisted with the offshoring of labor, first to Singapore, then Mexico, then to China and then finally to Eastern Europe. It never made sense to many of us, but questioning the whole strategy was obviously not popular. It was always sold as "strategic, targeted cost savings and / or expanding global footprint for regional opportunities". However, when one understood the entire infrastructure to support the globalization, from IT networks, to logistics, EDI conversions, language, quality standards, localization laws, brokerage etc...it never added up. Then, the kicker, always sold as cost savings, but the prices of everything has risen continuously over the years. A decent F250 with all those cost savings components from around the globe now goes for $80K. Quite the savings.
I worked for a Fortune 100 company and participated / assisted with the offshoring of labor, first to Singapore, then Mexico, then to China and then finally to Eastern Europe. It never made sense to many of us, but questioning the whole strategy was obviously not popular. It was always sold as "strategic, targeted cost savings and / or expanding global footprint for regional opportunities". However, when one understood the entire infrastructure to support the globalization, from IT networks, to logistics, EDI conversions, language, quality standards, localization laws, brokerage etc...it never added up. Then, the kicker, always sold as cost savings, but the prices of everything has risen continuously over the years. A decent F250 with all those cost savings components from around the globe now goes for $80K. Quite the savings.
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