COST MODEL OF AN INNOVATIVE COMPANY BASED ON OUTSOURCING AND AGILE METHODS

Tomasz Chlebus, Arkadiusz Kowalski, Mateusz Minkus

ABSTRACT: The paper describes a logistic model of an enterprise based on outsourcing and the agile methods. The purpose of this model is reduction of risk in conditions of business uncertainty. The model was constructed in order to place as much as possible cost sources outside the enterprise. In the paper, two groups of processes are described: product design and supply chain management. The design process is so built that cost sources are located at the customer. In certain sectors, it is possible to create also an additional value and increase the customer’s satisfaction. It is described how to set the customer as a designer and to create a system protecting against design errors. On the example of this process, estimation of process costs is described.

Keywords: Innovative enterprise, costs, computational cost estimation, outsourcing.