Executive summary
An evidence pack for automotive sourcing decisions: every assumption behind the continuity and localization business case, graded, sourced, and either confirmed or queued for research before options are priced.
What is inside
What the research pack covers
The asset takes the outputs of the continuity baseline and readiness assessment and walks the team through harvesting every quantitative claim the business case will depend on, separating observations from hypotheses, grading the evidence behind each, quantifying ranges, and writing funded research questions for the critical gaps. It ends at a research gate that releases a frozen assumption register to the options appraisal.
- Scope: the flagged part families and suppliers the sourcing business case must cover
- The demand, cost, benefit, alternative and uncertainty claims behind sourcing changes
- Evidence grading and a dated source log for every claim the case will rest on
- Separating observations from hypotheses before any option is priced
- Research questions and a time-boxed, costed plan to close priority evidence gaps
- A research gate that hands a frozen assumption set to the options appraisal
- Worked example, failure case and practice exercises for sourcing teams