Like it or not, outsourcing and offshoring have become business as usual for many manufacturers. Solectron has built a business on providing outsourced manufacturing and supply chain services to electronics manufacturers and other companies around the world. In this exclusive Executive Q&A interview, David Brakenwagen, the company's vice president of sales and account management, talks with MA's Senior Editor Stephanie Neil about the job of interfacing with customers' widely varying IT systems and what the future holds for the outsourcing giant.