[constantcrying]

>However much you can "save" by outsourcing...in a sufficiently fraud-plagued business environment, it's seldom worth it longer-term.

Outsourcing is mandatory if you are a company in aerospace. How would you even start making an airplane without outsourcing?

[bell-cot]

Literally, true.

But, just like that fraud-plagued business environment, scale is what really matters. If you had 10X fewer suppliers, each with 10X fewer second-tiers, and so on down the chain...then how much easier would it be for Purchasing's QC people to stop sub-spec crap from reaching your factory floor?

[drsnow]

I'd imagine by insourcing.

[constantcrying]

Probably Airbus single most important supplier is CFM who is making most of their engines. CFM is a JV of Safran and General electric. How do you insource that?