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For years, outsourcing was a simple cost decision. Run the numbers, pick a provider, move on. That math no longer holds — companies are outsourcing more than ever, and most still aren't happy with the result. In Episode 81 of Speaking of Supply Chain, Ellen Wood sits down with Prof. Dr. Bernd Müller-Dauppert of Miebach, co-author of the firm's new study, Outsourcing Under Pressure, to unpack why satisfaction stays low even as outsourcing keeps growing — and what the companies that get it right actually do differently. We get into: - Why dependence and the lock-in effect now rank as the single biggest outsourcing risk, well ahead of cost  - How automation and data-quality demands quietly rewrite the economics of the outsource-or-not decision  - Why only about half of these projects ever pay off, and far fewer in Germany  - Why most of a project's success or failure is locked in before operations ever begin - When a hybrid model — insource what's critical, outsource what scales — beats betting on either extreme It's a candid look at why the winning model isn't make-or-buy, but a deliberately managed partnership built on transparency and trust. Full episode link in the comments. #SpeakingofSupplyChain #Miebach #Podcast #Outsourcing #Logistics #SupplyChain

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