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Lean outsourcing may drown supply chain
“Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to bury our lean outsourcing supply chain partners, drowned at sea …". That's a sobering thought.
The breaking news as I went to dead-line was Flextronics' acquisition of Solectron. On the surface, this seems like a good thing. Flextronics gets bigger, taps into more markets and customers, passes on lower costs … that sound you just heard was the needle screeching across the turntable of my mind.
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