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Vendor selection is the process of choosing a partner or supplier to work with on the process that will be outsourced. It is possibly the most critical part of the entire road to outsourcing because, after months of planning, you have taken the decision to go ahead with the project and that plan must work.

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Kobayashi-Hillary, M. (2004). Vendor Selection. In: Outsourcing to India. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-09168-5_17

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