Like in any other lesson learned in business, with greater value comes greater risks. Managing those risks is the key to effectively implementing the strategy for your organization. If your business is attempting to do this for the first time and does not have boots on the ground where your products are being manufactured and does not have boots on the ground that speaks the local language and those boots that are there that can speak the local language are not experienced engineers and manufacturing professionals then you can expect an increased risk profile that will most likely lead to cost issues as well as schedule issues.

Undoubtedly is it usually the schedule issues that pose the most risk and damage when these scenarios occur. Outsourcing the supply chain management can impact your company plans and possibly hurt your overall business and cost basis. Conversely by implementing this correctly and doing much preparation work as well as requiring boots on the ground that both speak the language and are experienced enough engineers and manufacturing experienced folks that can spot problems in real time and then have the leadership and fortitude to correct that issuesbefore they become a problem.