IMS 6360 - Chapter 11 - Global Operations and a Digital Networks
|| Acknowledged Answers 100%.
Three main reasons companies outsource correct answers Cost cutting, enables core business
focus, and solves capacity
Offshoring creates a global operational network of correct answers Integrated production and
service centers
The internationalization is the value chain is called correct answers Offshoring
Focus is on moving internal operations to a third oarty correct answers Outsourcing
Focus is on geographical activity, developed countries seeking cost advantage in developing
countries correct answers Offshoring
Two modes of offshoring correct answers Production and outsourcing
Offshore objectives: desire to take advantage of local market correct answers Market localization
Offshore objective: search for resources and cost advantages correct answers Global
competitiveness
Offshoring is accepted for ——, but not for ——- correct answers Markets / global
competitiveness
Home countries don't seem global competitive approaches with offshoring as positive; see it as
correct answers Delocalizing (leads to sanctions and protectionism)
, Four major decision dimensions of global operations correct answers Location, production,
sourcing, logistics
Four major decision dimensions of global operations: where to our facilities correct answers
Location
Four major decision dimensions of global operations: what to produce and where correct answers
Production
Four major decision dimensions of global operations: for whom to buy, what, and how correct
answers Sourcing
Four major decision dimensions of global operations l: how to manage flow of goods and info
correct answers Logistics
Three main areas of setting up a global operation: correct answers Localization, location, linkage
Localization is a decision of correct answers Why we should set up a op facility outside existing
locations
Location is a decision of correct answers What to produce and where
Linkage is a decision of correct answers How do we integrate with our other operations and what
degree of autonomy should be present
Two reasons why we localize correct answers Competitive forces and growth opportunities
The choice of where is contingent on correct answers Kind is facilities and their role in the
global network
|| Acknowledged Answers 100%.
Three main reasons companies outsource correct answers Cost cutting, enables core business
focus, and solves capacity
Offshoring creates a global operational network of correct answers Integrated production and
service centers
The internationalization is the value chain is called correct answers Offshoring
Focus is on moving internal operations to a third oarty correct answers Outsourcing
Focus is on geographical activity, developed countries seeking cost advantage in developing
countries correct answers Offshoring
Two modes of offshoring correct answers Production and outsourcing
Offshore objectives: desire to take advantage of local market correct answers Market localization
Offshore objective: search for resources and cost advantages correct answers Global
competitiveness
Offshoring is accepted for ——, but not for ——- correct answers Markets / global
competitiveness
Home countries don't seem global competitive approaches with offshoring as positive; see it as
correct answers Delocalizing (leads to sanctions and protectionism)
, Four major decision dimensions of global operations correct answers Location, production,
sourcing, logistics
Four major decision dimensions of global operations: where to our facilities correct answers
Location
Four major decision dimensions of global operations: what to produce and where correct answers
Production
Four major decision dimensions of global operations: for whom to buy, what, and how correct
answers Sourcing
Four major decision dimensions of global operations l: how to manage flow of goods and info
correct answers Logistics
Three main areas of setting up a global operation: correct answers Localization, location, linkage
Localization is a decision of correct answers Why we should set up a op facility outside existing
locations
Location is a decision of correct answers What to produce and where
Linkage is a decision of correct answers How do we integrate with our other operations and what
degree of autonomy should be present
Two reasons why we localize correct answers Competitive forces and growth opportunities
The choice of where is contingent on correct answers Kind is facilities and their role in the
global network
