Balanced Sourcing and New Product Development
Successful sourcing and product development relies on delivering new products to market quickly, balancing new production portfolios and improving the capability of manufacture.
Standards provide a clear, up to date description of what an individual needs to be able do in order to perform a job successfully. The Standards have been developed over a number of years by both people who work in the industry and experts from each occupational area through a process of investigation, analysis and consultation with a wide range of people.
You may wish to download the entire suite of Standards, but it is also possible to download individual units.
Download the entire suite of Standards and Job Map:
National Occupational Standards for Balanced Sourcing and New Product Development
Balanced Sourcing and New Product Development Job Map
Download individual units:
BS2 Calibration of project ideas
BS3 Evaluation and assessment of future projects
BS4 Follow the project evaluation process
BS5 Fundamentals of outsourcing
BS6 Outsourcing requests for proposals
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