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Outsourcing: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – Lessons from Nortel Networks

NC State SCRC

Nortel was on the first to create an outsource system house in Boston which was moved to Penang. ” The UGLY – “Nortel went to Chapter 11 in 2008. When they declared chapter 11 – they left Flex with $400M of inventory. That was surely developed on the foot of getting stuck with Nortel’s inventory!