A multiple-factor decision analysis framework for manufacturing outsourcing

The competitiveness of the global market and availability of multiple outsourcing options have greatly increased the complexity of making ‘good’ outsourcing decisions. Improving the decision-making process when faced with a complex decision situation requires a systematic decision-making framework. We propose such a framework for making strategic manufacturing outsourcing decisions that benefits from prominent decision analysis tools. We envision a multiple factor outsourcing decision model and specifically advocate the use of We have developed a procedure for dividing the outsourcing choices into dominated and non-dominated sets, and rank ordering the elements of non-dominated set to identify the best strategy.