Wise decision makers are finding that outsourcing their Accounts Payable (AP) function not only achieves short-term goals but also enables business transformation beyond AP. Because the AP function sits at the crossroads of an information highway, outsourcing this function to the right provider can have a dynamic impact on a company’s strategic goals.
Outsourcing your copy center and mailroom can provide more than cost savings.
Outsourcing your warehousing, distribution and other supply chain functions is not just about reducing costs and speeding up deliveries. Some companies use this outsourcing strategy to achieve a more dramatic impact on their competitive advantages.
Small business must have generous benefit packages to keep its talent from jumping ship. After spending 45 percent of its time on HR functions, one small business found outsourcing employee benefits cut costs and provided the services its employees demanded.
After a merger, British Aerospace was using 21 different HR systems. Creating a joint venture with a service provider led to the creation of a Web-based peopleportal, a service it can also sell to other companies.
Damon Rosenhan says BPO is set to change the face of business as we know it. In his view, people are core, not HR administration. And in finance and accounting, how can balancing the books be a core competency when the company makes widgets? He begins a three part series tiled Building a Case for BPO.
Peter Bendor-Samuel says finance and accounting outsourcing is exploding. Read why in our continuing series on Outsourcing the Enterprise.
Outsourcing is changing. Now agreements cover more than one country and may include processes that deal with a company’s lifeblood, its customers. Attornies at Baker & McKenzie explain the legal ramifications of these changes.
Electroglas was using 20-year old IT solutions. Enterprise-wide software like SAP was the solution to upgrade. An ASP with a deep commitment to SAP made the transition seamless.
The implementation and transition phases of outsourcing are fraught with complexities and unexpected challenges. Some relationships move on to meteoric success; others hemorrhage so badly at this stage that it’s difficult to recover. Why? Find out in this second in a three-part series on outsourcing relationships.
Leading companies are increasingly using global concierge services and other ‘wow’ features of a specialty outsourcing service provider to build their brands and offer unique capabilities to their end customers in specific markets. It’s outsourcing at its best — affordable, effective access to highly valuable resources, expertise and flexibility that can’t be achieved internally.
In IT deals, many buyers think price is the determining factor. But if you’re dealing with a high quality service provider, it’s the people and the cultural fit that really make the difference.
Recent political instabilities in many of the world’s regions have been thrust into debates as to the wisdom of offshore outsourcing strategies. Now there’s a made in America outsourcing solution that offers viable alternatives to mitigate that risk.
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