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Article: Strategic sourcing: insights from early Marine Corps commodity teams.(LESSONS LEARNED)
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- Defense AT & L
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- May 1, 2006
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A quick review of literature on strategic sourcing (as the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) dubbed the information-based enterprise-wide procurement approach) will yield a collection of truisms, the predictable responses to which are "We're already doing that where it's cost effective," or "We need more resources to do more of it."
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(In this article, strategic sourcing refers to the May 2005 enterprise-wide strategic approach to procurement explained below. The Navy has also used the term strategic sourcing to refer to OMB Circular A-76 competitions where government labor formally competes for ongoing work against private ...