We occasionally get questions about outside processing (OP). There does not seem to be much published on this subject, at least in the APICS literature, so we thought we'd start a dialogue with our readership. We'll summarize what we think we know and readers are invited to contact us with information from their experiences, which we will share in a future column. (Our contact points are — phone: 716- 475-2098; ; e-mail: [email protected]