Outsourcing is a growing trend in the United States. Currently, companies in the United States spend $96 billion annually on outsourced services. About a third of electronics manufacturing is outsourced. This is expected to grow to by more than half by 2005.

Outsourcing is a viable way to improve your core business, while reducing personnel, payroll taxes, insurance and overhead. Contracting out tasks that are not part of a company's core competency can free up cash for other high return processes

Management can focus their time on growing their business and making improvements on your product line.  Finally, it is the ability of the contract supplier to respond to the peaks and valleys typical in the manufacturing process that makes outsourcing so rewarding for a company.

How can you benefit directly?

	Reduce Capital Asset Purchases
	Increased capacity
	Cost reduction
	More effective resource utilization
	Better labor deployment
	Higher quality product
	Greater focus on core competencies