Backsourcing

The Backsourcing or Operation of reinternalisation of beforehand externalized activities is the reverse of the Externalisation (infogérance). This operation can be done either by rupture of the contract of externalisation or to fine the normal of this contract.

Field of application

These operations relate to primarily the externalized data-processing services. Many economic sectors seem to observe phenomena of this kind but the Infogérance is undoubtedly one of the precursor as sector was it with the Externalisation combined with the Délocalisation. This tendency seems particularly true in the Anglo-Saxon countries which practice in a total way as of the such services.

As example, in October 2004, the rupture of the contract between JP Morgan (4000 data processing specialists) and its supplier IBM knew an important press coverage which explains why one speaks more and more about the phenomenon.

Other sectors and companies of any size consider the backsourcing with relocalization since the advanced advantages of externalisation and delocalization were not held in financial terms, of quality of the products or services, cost of Logistique. The proximity and the reactivity at the market following the example Spanish company Zara which preserves part of its production Textile in Spain become key factors which take again value with the eyes of the economic decision makers.

Studies describing the phenomenon

Study in the USA of the cabinet Deloitte Consulting of May 2005
French Study of documental of October 2005

study in free access: http://www.documental.com/v2/article_3877.php?recherche=backsourcing

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