GLOBAL SOURCING

Global sourcing is the practice of sourcing from the global market for goods and services across geopolitical boundaries. Global sourcing often aims to exploit global efficiencies in the delivery of a product or service.

Global sourcing often aims to exploit global efficiencies in the delivery of a product or service. These efficiencies include low cost skilled labor, low cost raw material and other economic factors like tax breaks and low trade tariffs.

The whole point of global sourcing is to find better sources of supply around the world, offering improved quality and lower prices.

HOW TO MAKE GLOBAL SOURCING WORK

·        Source to a country with low labor costs and good quality control.

·         Source to a country where you can take a plane ride with comfort and ease.

·         Source to a country where you can understand the language.

·         Source to a country where you can respect and abide by the laws.

·         Source to a country where you can trust the people you do business with.

REASON WHY TO SHOULD CONSIDER GLOBAL SOURCING

• ·     Access to raw materials. If your company uses raw materials that are not abundant in your own country then you can lower your supply risk by sourcing globally
• ·      Access to cheaper wages. Manufacturing processes that are labour-intensive can be sourced more cheaply from countries where wages are lower than in your own country.
• ·        Reciprocal trading. Global sourcing works both ways as it involves both a buying organisation and a selling organisation.
• ·     Learning how to do business in another country. Knowing the culture and ways of working of other countries can be a significant benefit when you want to sell to them.
• ·      Increasing supply capacity. If there is a current or potential shortage of a key material or component for your own manufacturing operation then you may have a serious supply risk.
• ·   Stimulating competition domestically. Sometimes suppliers in your own country can become complacent if they think that they have a major share of the local market.

DISADVANTAGES OF GLOBAL SOURCING

Can Contribute to Exploitative Practices

Transnational corporations are often criticized for the working conditions in their overseas facilities, and there are many instances of severe human rights and environmental violations stemming from the lack of regulation in host nations.

Domestic Job Losses

Global sourcing, sometimes referred to under the blanket-term "outsourcing," is commonly criticized by domestic labor advocates and economic nationalists alike.