Many IT professional see outsourcing as giving up control, when in fact, a well-structured outsourcing contract actually gives the district far more control of the quality of services and the associated costs.
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Furthermore, compliance with the RoHS directive(1) and REACH regulations(2) regarding the safety of chemicals in ICT products has made it challenging to control the quality of recycled plastics, and until now it has been impossible to reuse recovered plastic in a computer bodies.
Once they factor in rising shipping and transportation costs, the addition of increased quality control and the management of unreliable fulfillment dates, they may find that they're not actually saving any money.
And in any event, a way to control the quality of semiconductor crystals was lacking.
Inventory has spiraled out of control, quality has dropped and costs have soared.
In a similar fashion, we control the quality of our product by developing our software and supporting our product in house.
Pharmacopoeias have been used to control the quality of medicines for centuries.
The combination of giving developers full control over dimensionality and the quality of movement of objects within that space will open up galaxies of new possibilities.
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Supt Kinnell said the pills were "not covered by any form of quality control".
For reasons of quality control and price, the company strictly limits the latitude of local franchisees.
They, along with the manufacturers of both planes and parts adhere to industry standards of quality control.
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Shinichi Sasaki, who was in charge of quality control, played a key role in handling the 2009 recall.
Trademarking the methodology of a deliberative poll (as Mr Fishkin has done) may be a form of quality control.
He says the building was poorly constructed and that the person in charge of quality control for the construction took bribes.
She insisted providers adhered to stringent "procurement policies and procedures for sourcing and ensuring quality control of food products for school menus".
Who are these people and what kind of quality control is there?
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Big Pharma could integrate low production cost in China with the quality control of Western medicine and tap a huge domestic demand, Li foresees.
The outcome from the workshop should help ensure consistently comparable quality control of selected chemical data collected on a global scale and over time.
National Semiconductor recruited him and gave him a number of jobs over the next 20 years, including head of logic chips and of quality control.
RIKILT, the Dutch National Institute for Quality Control of Agricultural Products, is that the experiments do not actually lead to this conclusion, because of procedural flaws.
In fact, the serviceman may be sub-contracted which means the store would not have that much control on the quality of the workmanship due to lack of accountability.
The founders, with their tech background, chose to design digital versions of the game in house, and they exercised the sort of quality control they honed on the print product.
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The key questions, then, are how to avoid lapses of quality control such as that of Thames Valley University, and how to deal with such lapses when they do occur.
The company line up to now has been that walling off content allows for a sort of quality control, assuring that apps are developed specifically for the unique form factor of its devices.
Two other former officials charged in the case - Akio Hanawa, 63, and Tadashi Koshikawa, 61 - also held positions at the time of the accident, with Mr Koshikawa in charge of quality control.
Establish a compliance program to ensure mortgage-servicing and foreclosure operations, including loss mitigation and loan modification, comply with all applicable legal requirements and supervisory guidance, and assure appropriate policies and procedures, staffing, training, oversight, and quality control of those processes.
They say that the proposed change could weaken state control over the distribution, quality-control and taxation of alcoholic products.
"The merger will increase the diversification of both companies, with Glencore achieving stronger control over the high-quality mining resources of its currently 34% associate Xstrata, and the latter gaining full access to the trading and logistic platform of Glencore, " it said.
Productivity, competitiveness, cost control, and the quality of goods and services were all largely incidental.
Past experience has taught that such deadlines greatly complicate the task of maintaining quality control in such negotiations.
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