Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/21

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Subject: Re: [Leica] outsourcing manufacture ...
From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 22:17:00 +0200

From: Godfrey DiGiorgi <ramarren@bayarea.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 21:13
Subject: Re: [Leica] outsourcing manufacture ...


> When we outsource, we are looking to maximize quality
> to our customers for greatest customer satisfaction
> along with minimizing the cost of production and
> accomodating in-house resource constraints. Customer
> satisfaction is our greatest concern and improved
> quality is the best way for us to achieve
> it: many studies and tests have proven this.

Sounds like it came right out of a brochure!

> ... we cannot outsource purely for cost of production
> at the expense of quality because that would kill our
> customer satisfaction.

But you can compromise, sacrificing some quality in the hope that customers
won't notice.

  -- Anthony