Make or Buy Policy, in-Sourcing and out-Sourcing

One of the fundamental building blocks to a supply chain is deciding whether to make or buy and often companies have a set of rules that the dictate if they are going to make or buy a component or finished product, this is the make or buy policy. Saturn Projects can help you establish or update the Make or Buy policy. Typically Total APS would help:

• Assessing the internal and external supplier capability and capacity.

• Benchmarking finished product and component pricing.

• Assessing the quality criteria for the product and the capability of the internal and external suppliers to meet the criteria.

• Assessing the risks of the current make or buy policy.

• Reviewing market and industry trends and evaluating their applicability to your supply chain.

• Aligning the ethical policy of the business and the Make or Buy policy.

• Costing estimates of individual products, and product ranges, and post sales servicing .

• Reviewing and assessing cost and margin targets.

Also we help you answer questions such as: