Collaboration Cases Case 1: The engineering industry supply chain outsourcing partnership Jim was a product manager in a large company that manufactured heavy and complex engineering components. It is a business in which products are made to order and always have to be tailored to the customers requirements. It is also highly price-sensitive business so with plenty of competition on-time delivery to customers is important in maintaining reputation. The idea of pursuing a partnership arrangement arouse because one of the products that Jim was responsible for was not selling well. The aim was to outsource to the partner a subcomponent that they had previously made in-house but dominance so much as fighting for action. The nature of the final product meant that supplying the subcomponent was not simply a matter of one company delivering it to another. Rather, the product as a whole had to be designed jointly by the two, and modified jointly to match each customers specification. The final product was sold by Jims company and he was therefore dealing directly with the final customers. He was often frustrated with the partners lack of commitment to agreed deadlines. In one year the situation was so problematic that they failed to deliver on time to a single customer and in one case were eight months late owing to a technical query holding up an official certification procedure required in the partners country. Jim felt that the partner had failed to factor in to their schedules delays that the certification procedure might predictably produce and that they had underestimated the degree of specialization that would be needed for each order.

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- Before explaining the bases of collaborative advantage as to explain at a second stage how to manage to collaborate, we need to emphasize the fact that the interest is that of collaboration (collaborative relationships) between organizations and not between individuals Two types of Collaboration: Promoted bythe government (collaboration berween publicagencies, non-profit: organizations) Collaborative relationshins such as partnerships, alliances, joint ventures, networksof various sorts, collaborative foumsof contracting and dutsourcing, ioint working.ets - Examples: 1- Strategic Alliance between airlines and car manufacturing industry 2- Public - private partnerships expecially at the level of social services 3- Industry networks between regional and national gowernments to promote wealth creation and mutual support 14. Lehman Branch - 1325