The View from 50,000 Feet

What's Best for the Organization?

There was an interesting discussion recently on an Internet bulletin board. An in-plant manager lamented that he was forced to place a job with an outside vendor because that vendor's price was significantly lower than that of the in-plant. His point seemed to be that his cost structure placed his shop at a disadvantage, and using the vendor to reduce costs to the organization somehow hurt the in-plant.