Supply chain management staff could be among those who are moved abroad in the next two years if predictions from one research company are accurate.
US researcher Hackett has predicted that, in the next two years, large companies will double the number of members of staff they send offshore, and that the departments most heavily affected by such moves would be general and administrative roles.
"Companies that fail to push ahead with general and administrative globalisation initiatives risk being saddled with an operating model and cost structure that compromise their competitiveness," explained a Hackett statement in a Management Issues report.
"Since competitiveness is ultimately the condition for survival in the ruthlessly Darwinistic global economy, the higher a company's competitiveness risk is perceived to be, the more it will tend to trump other globalisation risk considerations."
Supply chain management, however, can already be outsourced to third-party consultants in the UK, and the cost-cutting potential of reassessing a supply chain is so great that many companies will find that they no longer have a need to outsource supply chain management abroad.
Instead, redesigning a supply chain, even from within the UK, will often create years worth of future savings, benefiting almost any organisation.
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