Sentence examples for offshore sourcing from inspiring English sources

Offshore sourcing usually involves larger inventories, for example, and higher administrative costs.

For instance, formal models may take into account demand risks while considering governmental pressures, e.g., in the form of carbon emission taxes for on- or offshore sourcing decisions (e.g., Choi 2013; Rosic and Jammernegg 2013).

The technology of 3DP is recognized for its potential to disrupt the traditional supply chain, in which offshore sourcing for manufacturing from developing countries will evolve into more domestic or local production (Winnan 2013).

As manufacturers reexamine offshore sourcing models that rely mainly on the Asia-Pacific region, they see countries in Central and South America as prime opportunities to expand supply chain cohesion, especially with the presence of favorable trade policies, abundant natural resources, a growing middle class, and, of course, the region's accessibility to North America.

The offshore sources are the very ones the interim plan will cannibalize.

Have offshore sources simply become so much more productive or higher quality that dependence on American sources is a risk to global competitiveness?

One of the main aspects of this project is to study the possibility of land reclamation using fill material from offshore sources rather than onshore quarries.

Initial development of the barrier complex required a sufficient supply of sediment, maintained by offshore sources, to keep pace with rising sea level, which permitted progradation of a shoreline and development of a barrier complex.

Other innovations, such as producing liquefied natural gas from offshore sources and shipping it to its destinations directly, and technologies that might allow exploitation of the natural gas that is frozen into some permafrosts, further increase the scope for new production.

He acknowledged the challenges with turning to offshore sources for production or other kinds of ad work, among them time differences, "the quality of the work returned," the "number of rounds" it may require for the work to reach acceptable levels of quality and how "command of the English language" can vary from office to office.

In this study, we simulate and compare ground motion shaking in the city of Lisbon and surrounding counties (metropolitan area of Lisbon (MAL)), using two possible earthquake models: the onshore source area of Lower Tagus Valley, M5.7 and M4.7 and the offshore source area, Marques de Pombal Fault, M7.6, one of the possible source of the 1755 Lisbon earthquake.