Business-to-Business Activities: Improving Efficiency and Reducing Costs
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Learning Objectives
In this chapter, you will learn:
How businesses use the Internet to improve purchasing, logistics, and other support activities
How the Internet facilitates implementation of outsourcing and offshoring business strategies
How electronic data interchange works and how it has evolved using Internet technologies
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Learning Objectives (cont’d.)
What supply chain management is and how businesses are using Internet technologies to improve it
How the various types of online business marketplaces operate to make B2B transactions easier and more efficient
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Introduction
After a year of working in Ghana teaching English, Leila Janah started Samasource in 2008
Links workers in developing countries with companies who need work done
Has lifted more than 6,500 African, Asian and Haitian workers above the poverty line
Cost-effective for businesses
Builds worker knowledge and skills in less developed countries and gives low-income workers in developed countries similar opportunities
Use of the Internet to do good around the world
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Outsourcing and Offshoring
Outsourcing is using other organizations to perform specific activities
Typically used for manufacturing
Offshoring is outsourcing done by organizations in other countries
Business process offshoring includes purchasing, research and development, record keeping, information management
Impact sourcing (smart sourcing) is offshoring done by or through not-for-profit organizations
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