MAKE-OR-BUY ANALYSIS

Several companies are faced with the choice of internalize or externalize activities or parts of business processes.

Make or Buy awareness decisions grows along with the supply chain and logistic process reengineering and lean production efforts

ANALYSIS ISSUES

Make or buy decisions must be carefully evaluated and need expertise because of their importance and broad impact on:

economic field (for example, outsourcing of some activity can bring sustainable cost savings)
organizational area (each Make or Buy decision modifies the production and procurement process - particularly vendor selection and evaluation)
company's strategy (for example, Make or Buy choices can reflect the strategy of focusing on the core business as well as the intention of increasing the control on a scarse resource)

Moreover, Make or Buy analysis are complex as they depend on numerous variables. These decisions depend on internal and external elements:

internal, like resources competence and skill or the degree of internal coordination
external, like market entrance and exit barriers, or the complexity of evaluating a new supplier

Finally, the analysis must be leaded by skilled professionals; they must be able to evaluate and analyze all these variabiles in the customer's specific business context

VALUE DELIVERED BY PRAGMATA

PRAGMATA bases its offer on numerous succesfull Make or buy case histories, both strategical and operational.

Our work methodology enables us to identify the most interesting opportunities and to pick them in reduced amount of time and costs.

Our projects are always characterized by business process analysis and quantitative estimate of achievable benefits.