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Benefits and Risks of Outsourcing to Boeing

Boeing has outsourced almost 70% of the content of the 787 to other manufacturers, most of them based in other nations. The most apparent benefit of outsourcing this much content to foreign suppliers is that the partners (suppliers) would contribute around $8 billion in the development costs of 787. Contribution of such a huge amount of money is the most obvious benefit that the Boeing Company tends to receive in order of outsourcing to foreign suppliers.

The second benefit that the Boeing perceives is that by involving the top notch and most efficient producers irrespective ...