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Outsourcing in the winds of change
By Arno Meyer, arnom@richfield.ac.za and Aveshin Reddy,
aveshinr@richfield.ac.za of Richfield Graduate Institute of Technology
Outsourcing is a powerful tool for organisations to support and adapt their operations in a
changing world.
ur world, or how we knew it, has seismically events such as Brexit, the Suez Canal blockade,
To aggravate the situation, additional disruptive
L O GI S T I CS NEWS Oof the most challenging and unprecedented natural disasters, political unrest and other issues
shifted since 2020. It has emerged as one
years in recent history. Globally, we are still
have further contrived to drive global supply chains
responding and looking to recover from the health
towards their breaking point.
and economic challenges posed by the COVID-19
pandemic.
6 A U GU S T 2021 Notwithstanding the above-mentioned disruptive
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