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How a Money Management Firm Benefited from Outsourcing Its HR to a PEO

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

Pegasus Capital Advisors, a private equity firm, is operating in today’s uncertain financial markets. Instead of doing strategic work, the CFO found he lost whole days dealing with employee problems, since he was also responsible for HR, too. Outsourcing to ADP TotalSource not only saved time but also gave the firm’s employees more benefits, which became a great recruiting tool.

Leveraging Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL®) Best Practices to Attain Organizational Maturity | White Paper

Outsourcing Center, Staff Writer

In order to be competitive today, companies must actively listen to their customers and innovate quickly in response to new challenges, customer needs, and business opportunities. This paper discusses how to achieve a higher level of organizational maturity by leveraging the best practices of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library.

Thinking in and Out of the Box (or Crate): Outsourced Logistics Solution

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

Not all logistics services are the same. Many do not pick up loose items and lack the capability to create specialized crating for hi-tech equipment and other costly items delivered worldwide. Here’s what two companies found when they went searching for the best deal in logistics services for their products.

Offshore Manufacturing Proves a Boon for Small Business

John Harney, Business Writer

One of the toughest problems people in small businesses face in getting a product to market is finding a manufacturer that will run small batches. Ashe Archery overcame this problem by outsourcing its design and manufacturing to Metrotech, a Chinese provider that produces small runs as needed at a substantially lower cost per piece than domestic manufacturers.

Growing Nationally With A PEO Partner

John Harney, Business Writer

When the government agencies award a contract to IT vendors, they expect them to ramp up staff in a hurry. But carrying staff to potentially service a big contract is as cost-prohibitive as maintaining a large human resources department. That was the challenge for EMCO Technologies, a small Louisiana IT company. It hired Administaff to pick up the HR load so it could land more federal contracts and expand nationally.

How One Manufacturer Grew Its HRO Over Time

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

ABB Inc., a technology manufacturer, grew by acquisitions. In 1995 ABB wanted to create a single culture with centralized processes and policies. It decided the best way to do this was outsource. Its first step: centralizing its 401(k) plan. Today, 13 years later, ABB has outsourced many of its HR processes to its original supplier: Fidelity HR Services.

An Onshore American ADM Model that Competes with Offshore’s Cost, Scalability, Flexibility, and Quality

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

If you have the mind-set that American application development outsourcing providers can’t compete with the costs and other benefits of using offshore providers, think again. A Texas-based outsourcer has a uniquely competitive model and very satisfied clients.

Energy Company Had to Outsource HR as It Grew

John Harney, Business Writer

Three executives, including the president, performed HR tasks when U.S. Energy Services was a small company. When the employee roster exceeded 50 people, it was time to outsource HR. Even though the costs remained the same, the company is getting five times the benefits.

RPO Puts Visteon Staffing in the Fast Lane after Ford Spin-Off

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

How do you hire 1,000 human resource employees ASAP when you’re the untested new kid on the block? That was the challenge Visteon Corporation faced right before Ford spun off the automobile parts manufacturer. Manpower Business Solutions helped the newcomer fill its roster and cut its time to hire 50 percent.

Can You Program a Remote? How Veritude Populated Overhead Door’s Call Center

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

Overhead Door Corporation’s Genie call center gets 55,000 plaintive calls a month. The manufacturer outsourced its call center operations unsuccessfully to two different U.S. suppliers. So it decided to bring the call center function in-house and hired Veritude to populate it…which it did 30 days early because the incumbent supplier abruptly decided to close its doors. Here’s the story.

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How a Money Management Firm Benefited from Outsourcing Its HR to a PEO

Leveraging Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL®) Best Practices to Attain Organizational Maturity | White Paper

Thinking in and Out of the Box (or Crate): Outsourced Logistics Solution

Offshore Manufacturing Proves a Boon for Small Business

Growing Nationally With A PEO Partner

How One Manufacturer Grew Its HRO Over Time

An Onshore American ADM Model that Competes with Offshore’s Cost, Scalability, Flexibility, and Quality

Energy Company Had to Outsource HR as It Grew

RPO Puts Visteon Staffing in the Fast Lane after Ford Spin-Off

Can You Program a Remote? How Veritude Populated Overhead Door’s Call Center

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