Skyline Global Outsourcing Update

Spirit AeroSystems said Wednesday that it is outsourcing some of its IT work to IBM, a move that will result in the elimination of jobs for 37 Spirit employees and 15 contractors. Debbie Gann, Spirit spokeswoman, said the company would work with the employees to find them other jobs with Spirit, with IBM or in the community. She said the move came as part of an evaluation of "what we're good at, what other people are better at.

Though Spirit is based in Wichita, it has to be able to support its operations worldwide, she said. Spirit has seven facilities in five countries. In addition to the United States, Spirit has operations in the United Kingdom, China, Russia and Malaysia. The employees affected are among 455 Spirit employees and 22 contractors in IT. Gann said. Most were on Spirit's help desk.


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According to InformationWeek, Northrop Grumman has admitted that it is nine months behind schedule on revamping Virginia's information technology systems. Under the ten-year, $1.9 billion outsourcing deal, Northrop Gruman was supposed to complete the transition this past June. Now the contractor says the move won't be complete until at least March 2010.


The admission is part of a corrective action plan "the contractor submitted to the Virginia Information Technologies Agency. Says Tom Shelman, VP and general manager for the Civil Systems Division at Northrop Grumman Information Systems. Controversy reached a height in June when Virginia lawmakers began an investigation into the outsourcing deal. There has been at least one casualty of the deal: State CIO Lemuel Stewart, who was axed shortly after a presentation in which he claimed Northrop Grumman was not meeting its contractual obligations.


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Volkswagen plans to manufacture more car parts itself rather than buying from outside suppliers as part of a bid to boost productivity, the German carmaker's head of production told a German newspaper. We are increasingly thinking about insourcing, production head Jochem Heizmann told daily Braunschweiger Zeitung in an interview provided to Reuters on Tuesday before publication on Wednesday.

It's about engineering, about jobs in production and about making prototypes. We could also intensify in-house tool making. And we will certainly make more components ourselves, he was quoted as saying.



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