right-shore

present singular third person right-shores · participle present right-shoring · participle past right-shored · past right-shored

1. businessTo move (a part of a business) overseas while retaining other portions of the business locally in order to maximise efficiency and profits.

   The objective should be to 'right-shore', that is, integrate the domestic, near-shore and off-shore processes so that logistics can operate within one plan for all the supply chains.

   2010, Roger Oakden, Katia Leonaite, A Framework for Supply Chains, →ISBN, page 26

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   Even EDS, which had a sizeable representation in Adelaide under the former government (having won a contract to handle all government ICT outsourcing), has now 'right-shored' its South Australian operations to a significant extent, after the current state government's change of its outsourcing policy to one in which government ICT activities are outsource predominantly to interstate and offshore companies.

   2008, Guy G. Gable, The Information Systems Academic Discipline in Australia, →ISBN, page 217

   Thanks to technology, organizations are able to outsource, 'off-shore' or 'right-shore' key parts of their operations which they believe can be done more cheaply and effectively elsewhere.

   2009, Linda Holbeche, Aligning Human Resources and Business Strategy, →ISBN, page 32