Canon, a Japanese manufacturer of photographic equipment, decided against offshoring and kept its manufacturing and new product development processes in Japan, which has relatively high labor costs, in contrast, GM, headquartered In the United Sates has a joint venture with Shanghai Auto Industry Corporation to produce cars in China. Given our discussion of outsourcing offshoring, and supply chain design explain why these two companies chose different approaches to their supply chains and how the approaches selected support their respective operations strategies.