Sourcing

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Sourcing may refer to:

Video Sourcing

Business

• Several related procurement practices:
  • Sourcing (personnel), the practice of recruiting talent
  • Co-sourcing, where a service is performed by staff from inside an organization and also by an external service provider
  • Corporate sourcing, a supply chain, purchasing/procurement, and inventory function
  • Crowdsourcing, using an undefined, generally large group of people or community in the form of an open call to perform a task
  • Global sourcing, a procurement strategy aimed at exploiting global efficiencies in production
  • Insourcing, a process of contracting a business function to someone else to be completed in-house
  • Low-cost country sourcing, a strategy for acquiring materials from countries with lower labour and production costs
  • Multisourcing, a strategy that treats a function, such as IT, as a portfolio of activities, some of which should be outsourced and others of which should be performed internally
  • Outsourcing, the process of contracting a business function to someone else
  • Second-tier sourcing, a practice of rewarding suppliers for attempting to achieve minority-owned business spending goals of their customer
  • Strategic sourcing, a component of supply chain management, for improving and re-evaluating purchasing activities
  • Vested outsourcing, in which a company and service provider in a business relationship focus on shared goals

Maps Sourcing

Computing

• Open-sourcing, the act of releasing previously proprietary software under an open source/free software license
• Power sourcing equipment, network devices that will provide power in a Power over Ethernet (PoE) setup

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Journalism

• Journalism sourcing, the practice of identifying a person or publication that gives information
• Single sourcing, the reuse of content in publishing

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