Sourcing
In business, the term word sourcing refers to a number of procurement practices, aimed at finding, evaluating and engaging suppliers of goods and services:
- Global sourcing, a procurement strategy aimed at exploiting global efficiencies in production
- Strategic sourcing, a component of supply chain management, for improving and re-evaluating purchasing activities.
- Sourcing (personnel), the identification of job candidates through proactive recruiting technique
- Co-sourcing, a type of auditing service
- Low-cost country sourcing, a procurement strategy for acquiring materials from countries with lower labour and production costs in order to cut operating expenses
- Corporate sourcing, a supply chain, purchasing/procurement, and inventory function
- Second-tier sourcing, a practice of rewarding suppliers for attempting to achieve minority-owned business spending goals of their customer
- Netsourcing, a practice of utilizing an established group of businesses, individuals, or hardware & software applications to streamline or initiate procurement practices by tapping in to and working through a third party provider
- Inverted Sourcing, a price volatility reduction strategy usually conducted by procurement or supply-chain person by which the value of an organization's waste-stream is maximized by actively seeking out the highest price possible from a range of potential buyers exploiting price trends and other market factors
- Multisourcing, a strategy that treats a given function, such as IT, as a portfolio of activities, some of which should be outsourced and others of which should be performed by internal staff.[1]
- Crowdsourcing, using an undefined, generally large group of people or community in the form of an open call to perform a task
In journalism, it can also refer to:
In computing, it can refer to:
- Open-sourcing, the act of releasing previously proprietary software under an open source/free software license
- Power sourcing equipment, network devices that will provide power in a Power over Ethernet (PoE) setup
In electronics, it can refer to:
References
- ^ Mary Cecelia Lacity, Rudy Hirschheim, Beyond The Information Systems Outsourcing Bandwagon: The Insourcing Response. John Wiley & Sons Ltd.