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COPYRIGHT 2006 Ingram Investment Ltd.
M2 PRESSWIRE-31 January 2006-Transport Intelligence Ltd: Eastern European countries to benefit from 'near sourcing' trend(C)1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
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In a recently published discussion paper, Transport Intelligence's Chief Analyst, John Manners-Bell discusses how the trend towards 'near-sourcing' is affecting global supply chains.
Although out-sourcing manufacturing to regions of low cost production has been gathering pace for many years, the trend is by no means homogeneous. The decision of where to source goods from or where to locate production facilities takes into account a wide variety of different factors, labour costs just being one. For this reason it is overly simplistic to view out-sourcing as occurring in 'waves', starting in Central and Eastern...
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