Select a US-based firm that has made the decision to outsource some portion of its manufacturing operations offshore (i.e., not in the United States). Assume the role of the business unit manager with overall responsibility for the outsourced function(s). Create a case analysis for the Chief Operating Officer (COO) that critically evaluates the outsourcing decision. Select two peer-reviewed articles and two industry-generated articles to support your analysis. Structure paper that addresses the following five elements: 

1) Introduction - summarizing internal and external factors leading to firm's decisoin to outsource functions offshore; 

2) Analysis - Review the decision to outsource the function offshore, potential long-term impacts of the outsourcing decision, including the impact on employees based in the U.S. quality of the outsourced product(s), and company sales, profit and reputation; 

3) Synthesis - Identify and recommend strategies to move the company not only to a positoin of maintaining current levels of quality and sales, but toward improvements in each of these measures of success;

 4) Conclusion - summarize the essence of the information discussed and recommended solutions that incorporate the outsourcing decision into an overall successful corporate strategy for sustainability and implementation.

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