Offshore Sourcing Risks

Product Quality
• Lack of Up front Understanding of all requirements
  
• Use of crude incapable equipment and processes
  
• Multiple set up
  
• Unawareness of quality processes
  
• Material and metallurgical specification differences
  
• Lack of adherence to processes through the run
  
  Schedule Attainment
• Communication
  
• Staffing inability to support timing
  
• Misunderstanding
  
• Cultural
  
  Pricing Attainment

Price drift due to changing understanding
of part requirements
• Not fully understanding or addressing requirement issues in quoting
  
• New equipment required
  
• Logistics
  
• Economic Shipment size to obtain container efficiency
  
• Shipping schedule and pipelines
  
• Difficulty with schedule variations
  
• Warehousing
  
• Duty