History of outsourcing

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 445.

The history of outsourcing originated (1)____ the USA. The manufacturing sector, in particular, (2)____ been outsourcing processes successfully(3)____ several decades. In(4)____ past, of course, companies used the expression ‘sub­contracting' but this has become known(5)____ ‘outsourcing' since the 1980s.The new Boeing 787 is an interesting example of how aircraft manufacturers (6)____ outsourcing production around the world. Only about 10% of the production of the 787 is done in the US. The rest is carried out by Boeing's 40 partners in the project as far (7)____ as Japan and Italy, France and Australia. However, the aircraft company is a newcomer to outsourcing (8)____ a large scale. American carmakers have been outsourcing production for much longer. In (9)____ late 1970s, US car companies were facing a desperate financial situation and consequently needed to find ways of cutting costs and increasing profits. In the mid 1980s, in response (10)____ the crisis, General Motors took the unusual decision of closing 10 factories in the US and moved them to Mexico. Today, all the big three US car companies, Ford, Chrysler, and General Motors, have moved substantial parts of their production abroad.

TASK 6

Fill the gaps with an appropriate form of the words in capital.

TASK 7

Grammar. Read the nouns 1-20. Form the plurals and write them down on the right side of the table. Make sure your spelling is correct.