$350 Million Outsourcing Contract

Reader’s Digest is moving its IT operations spanning 45 countries to India.

By: LIFS

Reader’s Digest is moving its IT operations spanning 45 countries to India in a seven-year, $350 million outsourcing agreement with India’s HCL Technologies. Albert L. Perruzza, senior vice president for global operations, IT and business redesign at Reader’s Digest, which publishes 92 magazine titles and 65 web sites, said, “We expect to see dramatic reductions in our total IT costs, even as HCL helps us to bring our IT standards up to world class in terms of cutting-edge technology and practices, functionality and service.”

Outsourcing security tasks brings controversy

Sunbelt Outsourcing has changed its name to Sunbelt Business Solutions
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State asked to aid outsourcing industry
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Big companies look to benchmark recruitment outsourcing
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Web Designing Services Outsourcing to India
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Sector Snap: Outsourcing Boosts CRO's
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Ya’ll Are Invited: Hangzhou Service Outsourcing Forum
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Outsourcing Adds Hours to Your Day
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Outsourcing 2.0 - thoughts from SXSW and beyond
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Will and I attended a core conversation panel at SXSW called Outsourcing 2.0 led by Sandeep Sood of Monsoon Co. It was a very interesting discussion, and Sandeep worked through a number of topics that are important in the next ...
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Why FAO Buyers Hire Sourcing Advisors
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The process of procuring business services, especially those that are finance related, is unlike procuring hardware, software or consulting services Prospective outsourcing buyers generally lack a solid understanding of the outsourcing ...
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ACI signs outsourcing deal with IBM

ACI signs outsourcing deal with IBM
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General Physics Corporation Named Top Training Outsourcing Company ...
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Wipro plans to boost outsourcing to US
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By Amy Yee in Bangalore Wipro plans to open more centres in the US in a continuing trend of “reverse outsourcing”, as Indian information technology ...

TPI Facilitates $1.5 Billion Outsourcing Transaction Between ...
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... a leading life and pensions provider in the UK, in the conclusion of a $1.5 billion business process outsourcing (BPO) transaction with Capita Group Plc ...

How to Succeed with Customer Care Outsourcing
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Procurement services’ demand rising: Logica
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TCS opens 1000-seat development centre in US
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In November last year, Mumbai-based Tata Consultancy said it had won a four-year outsourcing deal worth more than $200 million from Social Security ...

CEOs give poor rating of local outsourcing firms
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March 19, 2008: Top executives in Kenya’s corporate scene say they are yet to embrace business process outsourcing (BPOs) for fear of trade secrets being ...

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Outsourcing industry rebounds

20 January, 2008

Despite fear of a recession in the U.S., jitters on virtually all major stock exchanges worldwide and widespread cut-backs in corporate spending, EquaTerra's 4Q07 Pulse surveys revealed that outsourcing demand is rebounding, with continued strong growth in EMEA and a substantial increase in North America. In fact, 70 percent of EquaTerra advisors cited increased demand levels for Information Technology (IT) and business process outsourcing in 4Q07, with demand up 19 percent over 3Q07, up 24 percent over 4Q06, and at the highest level recorded since 2Q05. Further, 59 percent of service providers cited new deal pipeline growth in 4Q07, and 57 percent expect demand to increase in 1Q08. EquaTerra attributes the increase in outsourcing demand levels to a variety of factors including: Weak economic indicators: Although expense reduction isn't the only driver for outsourcing, many organizations are reemphasizing outsourcing to increase their bottom line; New functions outsourced: Buyers are focusing on new and growing areas like legal and knowledge process outsourcing, document and electronic records management, industry specific offerings and knowledge intensive services; Service provider readiness: EquaTerra advisors are seeing some improvements in overall service provider capacity, in part driven by improved pricing and contracting terms; Smaller, more numerous deals: The outsourcing market continues to evolve with more but smaller deals spread across a greater number of service providers and delivered on a more global basis.

Said Stan Lepeak, EquaTerra's Managing Director of Research, "While the current state of the economy is forcing Western commercial enterprises to cut budgets for capital investments and many types of discretionary business and IT services, the projection for outsourcing investments remains positive and is improving. This highlights the importance of outsourcing as a tool for cost reduction and avoidance, as well as the ongoing broadening of the outsourcing footprint beyond traditional BPO and ITO areas. Although the outsourcing market will remain choppy over the next two to three quarters at the individual buyer and service provider level, demand growth will increase at the macro level. It is important to note, however, that the outsourcing demand improvements we saw in 4Q07 will for the most part not result in new deal closings until late 2008 and into 2009."

Based on the 4Q07 Pulse Surveys, several EquaTerra research studies and client interaction, following are some anticipated 2008 trends: Outsourcing will continue to be recession-proof; Public sector demand will continue to grow, and shared services and internal transformation in this sector will get stronger; Recent turmoil in credit markets will selectively slow outsourcing in the financial services sector in the short term but drive more ITO in the long term. Financial services firms will also continue to pursue offshore captives but often within the region rather than in India or China for various regulatory and risk reasons; Global multi-shore and multi-provider outsourcing will become more the norm than the exception; Indian service providers will set up more local delivery services centers in the U.S. and EMEA, and will also expand offerings into new areas of ITO and BPO; Canada's appeal as a near-shore destination will lessen due to currency appreciation; A confluence of factors will lead to the expansion of service delivery capabilities beyond India to regions like Central/South America, Central/Eastern Europe and China; Governance of outsourcing deals will become paramount as buyers seek to maximize value and minimize value leakage; Capital expenditure avoidance (e.g., enterprise software upgrades, migrations) will become a key driver for increased ITO and BPO, as will the continuing challenges of appropriately skilled talent and workforce shortages. For more information, visit www.equaterra.com.

Gartner Predicts Strong Outsourcing, Weakening Business Intelligence Markets

Published: January 21, 2008

by Timothy Prickett Morgan

I don't know what is more disconcerting: the large number of predictions and prognostications that we usually see being publicly made about the forthcoming IT spending year as one year ends and a new one begins, or the lack of such auguries--at least publicly--from the usual suspects in the IT consulting racket. But at least some of the analysts at Gartner have the itch to predict, and they made some calls recently about the outsourcing and the business intelligence software markets.

The amount of money that companies worldwide spend on outsourcing is just staggering. In 2007, the global outsourcing market accounted to $408 billion in sales, according to Gartner, and will grow another 8.1 percent in 2008 to reach $441 billion. Interestingly, the number of big bang outsourcing deals done by large public companies with a single outsourcing provider are down, according to Gartner, falling by 50 percent in 2007. Some of the decline is also due to the fact that outsourcing is common place, and deals are not reported as if they were novel--any more than companies talk about switching from one server platform or ERP system to another. But you can bet that the outsourcing giants based in India will continue to try to make some noise, as their businesses are growing at an approximate 40 percent rate in the United States and 60 percent rate in Europe; spending on offshore outsourcing services is still three times higher in North American than in Europe, however.

More details about the outsourcing market are available in a new report, entitled Gartner on Outsourcing, 2007-2008, which you can get here. Gartner is also hosting the Outsourcing Summit in Washington, D.C., from May 19 through 21 to dice and slice the complex outsourcing market for its customers.

"Other countries will continue to emerge as challenges to India for a number of reasons," explained Ian Marriott, a research vice president at Gartner and one of the authors of the report. "Strong demand is putting a strain on the available Indian labor force, while staff attrition and cost increases remain high. Global companies continue to accelerate their demands for a presence in countries other than India, and providers are seeking to expand their geographic footprint of delivery centers accordingly. More-sophisticated buyers are seeking a multicountry strategy to minimize risk and align nearshore and offshore delivery centers with their primary time zones. Although India's offshore revenue will continue to grow, the country's share of total offshore spending will decline slightly in 2008."

In the business intelligence area, Gartner is projecting that growth will slow in the wake of vendor consolidation, price competition, and mature products and customer bases. With Oracle acquiring Hyperion, SAP buying BusinessObjects, and IBM buying Cognos, you might think that aggressive pricing might settle down now that some competition has been eliminated and something akin to an OPEC cartel for BI software would evolve. First of all, that would be illegal, and second, Oracle, SAP, and IBM did those BI acquisitions to be competitive and to sell more products and services to outside of the BI realm. Giving a sneak peak into the future of BI software and services sales, Gartner's analysts say that the market will grow more slowly at 12.5 percent in 2007 than the rate set in 2006, and that by 2011, when the market will crest above $7 billion globally, growth rates will be in the single digits. Gartner calculates the compound annual growth rate from 2007 through 2011 (inclusive) to be 8.6 percent, in fact.

Basically, the remaining BI software vendors are going to try to make it up in volume. With North America, Western Europe, and Japan already accounting for five-sixths of BI sales worldwide, you can bet that the remaining players will be chasing opportunities in fast-growing and green-field markets, such as Brazil, Russia, India, China, Singapore, Malaysia, and such. The mid-tier players, such as SAS, Microstrategy, and Information Builders are going to be fighting hard to compete, and smaller players such as Arcplan, Panorama, and Qliktech are going to have to ramp up their sales and marketing efforts, too. Luckily, the SMB space is large and underserved in so many markets, including BI software. For most SMB customers, business intelligence is synonymous with "Microsoft Excel."

BPAP sizes up China as an outsourcing market

By Lawrence Casiraya
INQUIRER.net
First Posted 15:23:00 01/20/2008

MANILA, Philippines--Is China really worth looking as a business process outsourcing (BPO) market? Could be but not quite yet, according to the head of a local industry group.

The Philippine BPO industry has largely catered to US customers and most of the major players here have been spun out from American companies.

Oscar Sanez, head of the Business Process Association of the Philippines (BPAP), believes the industry remains "Western-centric."

"There is a lot more opportunity coming from these existing markets," Sanez said during an e-Services briefing last week.

The BPAP chief, however, does not completely discount China as a market for outsourced services. China itself is looking to become an outsourcing destination, investing in infrastructure necessary for BPO operations.

"From our understanding, the BPO market in China is already [there] but it addresses largely the domestic market," Sanez said. "But there could be room for support services that require English capability especially as more companies there become global."

One significant factor is cultural affinity. The Philippines is widely acknowledged for its affinity with Western culture, which makes it an ideal destination for US companies.

On the other hand, China is part of a larger Asian culture. The city of Dalian, for example, is reportedly becoming an outsourcing hub catering to Japanese and Korean companies.

"China represents a new frontier for us," Sanez said. "We need to understand a lot of things for us to devise a strategic plan on how to address potential opportunities."

Job fears as Widows chief talks of more ‘outsourcing’

THE head of Scottish Widows has admitted there is more scope for outsourcing within the company – but insists they will not be in “customer contact” areas.

More than 500 jobs have been lost to Edinburgh in the past three years, sparking fears of the gradual “erosion” of the firm’s Morrison Street headquarters.

Chief executive Archie Kane has admitted the process is not complete as he continues to oversee reform of the Lloyds TSB-owned insurer.

A major element of recent cost-cutting at the firm has been its focus on outsourcing.

In anmedia interview today, Mr Kane said: “We look at it from the point of view – does it make commercial sense and does it make operational sense to do these things.”

As well as jobs going to India, US bank State Street now handles much of the behind-the-scenes work at Scottish Widows Investment Partnership, Widows’ investment arm.

“What we will not do is outsource consumer contact,” Mr Kane said. “We own the contact with our customers, we have to stand and communicate face-to-face or via the telephone.

“But with things like medical underwriting or administrative processing that goes on behind the scenes, if it makes commercial sense to do it, we will avail ourselves of the opportunity to do so.”

He added the company always looked to improve “efficiency and effectiveness” but pointed out that had not decreased employment within its business in Scotland, where 4000 staff work.

The Top 10 Reasons To Outsource Sales Appointment Setting

By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Brian_K_Grinonneau]Brian K Grinonneau

There are myriad reasons to outsource your prospecting, cold calling and sales appointment setting duties. Suffice it to say, the sales game has changed and you need the best methods to win the most sales. Outsourcing your sales prospecting makes sense on many fronts and increased sales and morale are just part of the equation.

Here are the TOP 10 REASONS to use professional appointment setters:

1. Statistically they are much better at scheduling qualified sales appointments than salespeople who prefer the limelight of presenting, negotiating and closing.

2. Appointment setters average 30 calls and 1.5 appointments set per hour.

3. When using an appointment setting company, sales organizations see sales reps’ productivity double.

4. In numerous surveys, salespeople say cold calling is their number one dislike. Some say they plain hate it and avoid it at all cost.

5. It is much easier to manage a sales staff when the appointment setting is outsourced. There is no more designing and reviewing call sheets that are of very little benefit.

6. Appointment setting firms are better able to call on the most profitable leads—those most likely to buy from you soon.

7. Appointment setting services provide a trackable and much improved ROI over traditional sales approaches.

8. Appointment setters provide you with analytics that improve the effectiveness of your entire organization.

9. Professional appointment setters can gather valuable information about your brand and position.

10. Separating prospecting and appointment setting from selling is part of the new paradigm the top 2% of companies everywhere are using.

Sales appointment setting firms can also be invaluable in surveying your customer base, introducing new products and performing data base marketing.

Brian Grinonneau is a partner with Marketing and Sales Managment Group (MaSM), a company that sets sales appointments for the top sales organizations in the world.

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Smart Ways To Outsource In Your Internet Business

By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Fabian_Tan]Fabian Tan

As small business owners, oftentimes there are many tasks to be completed. Tasks such as writing sales copy, creating graphics, writing reports and articles, setting up your inventory etc. All this takes work, and if you do it all on your own, it could overwhelm you.

Smart Internet entrepreneurs outsource tasks on which they are not so skilled on to the experts. Not only do they save you time, but they will probably come up with better quality too. It’s no use focusing on your weaknesses, when you should be out there marketing and making money! Creating graphics doesn’t make you money, and you may waste a lot of time doing it on your own and then coming up with a shabby end result.

So, what do you outsource? Simple, just outsource those areas in which you are weak in! If you’re poor in writing, outsource that. If you can’t create good graphics, outsource that. In fact, a lot of the top Internet marketers outsource both of these skills! They concentrate on marketing their business, which is what really brings in the money.

You can find freelance writers and designers who will work for you over the Internet. A simple search on Google will reveal all. If you are low on budget, you may only want to outsource certain parts of your project. In other words, start small! And build from there.

Outsourcing may cost money, but it does save time. Evaluate where you are in your business, and decide the degree of outsourcing you want to implement in your Internet business. I wish you luck in all your Internet endeavors!

Fabian Tan makes a short trip to his office everyday – his home! In 2006, he ‘murdered’ his job and now earns a solid income online. Go behind the scenes to discover more of his job-killing strategies and secrets at [http://www.murderyourjob.com]MurderYourJob.com

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Why Outsource to the Philippines?

By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Aweng_Moral-Basco]Aweng Moral-Basco

Outsource to the Philippines and you'd be doing your business a lot of good by skyrocketing your profits and productivity by minimizing costs, not only financially but also effort and time wise. Delegating your non-core business processes to qualified outsourcing staffs and/or Filipino freelancers gets rid of the need to hire on site employees and the monetary benefits that comes with it. Having a Filipino staff to work on your projects, you'd be assured of quality results at an amazingly low price.

Outsource it and never have to worry on frequent supervision on tasks. Philippine-based, Offshore outsourcing provides college-educated staffs with above average IQs.

Outsource it and you'd be lifting some unnecessary burden in running your business. Availing of outsourcing services, you are given more freedom, to live your life while lavishing on your business's success. Outsourcing staffs let you focus on the more important aspects of marketing, strategic planning and other major business operations leading a more personalized business success.

When outsourcing a task, you'll be getting specialized results, from professionals who are highly capable of bringing forth the exact, if not better outcome asked for.

Customer satisfaction are met almost perfectly. With the high quality of deliverables, the timely manner with which your outsourcing partner has furnished the job, and with you taking care of more important clientèle needs, you'd be getting two thumbs up from your clients.

Outsource it and gain one of the best business management solutions and gain advantages over your competitors.

Outsource to the Philippines now and experience these first-hand!

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Knowledge Process Outsourcing: A Brand New Type of Outsourcing

By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Olga_Makhnach]Olga Makhnach

The countries, which have established the greatest number of knowledge process outsourcing firms, are India, Philippines and China. These countries possess extensive knowledge banks and enough professionals in different fields for fulfilling the knowledge process needs of businesses in the USA. The work of knowledge process outsourcing firms requires profound analytical and highly specialized skills.

It is estimated, that knowledge process outsourcing is rather prospective and is going to grow in the next few years. Most probably, the area of information technology services, which is currently provided by knowledge process outsourcing firms will expand and include such services as intellectual property services, clinical research, legal research, business research, analytics and publishing.

Right now, knowledge process outsourcing firms specialize in the fields of content writing and rewriting, research and development, patent research, pharmaceutical technology, equity research, market research, data research, database management, finance modeling, design and development in various industries, animation, medical reports and services, distance education. Engineers, doctors, attorneys and many other professionals are becoming more and more popular.

Experts of the market research industry have already evaluated all the benefits produced by knowledge process outsourcing firms and have started to outsource the fields in which technology and [http://www.moveyourweb.net/solutions.html]IT solutions can seriously improve the research process. The researches are highly profitable as they are really cost effective. Even small companies can make use of them, not having to increase their budget spending. Therefore, knowledge process outsourcing is a really proven method of quickly boosting the productivity and cost savings in the field of market research.

Olga Makhnach, copywriter for MoveYourWeb [http://www.moveyourweb.net]Offshore Web Development Company

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Offshore Software Outsourcing

By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Rakhee_Chowdhary]Rakhee Chowdhary

Offshore software application development outsourcing has led to vegetative industry growth around the globe. Software needs to undergo a step-by-step process before it is available for general use to leverage best industry practices at minimum cost, meeting international standards and industry norms. Nowadays, everyone of us, an individual or an enterprise wants to be at the top, but just gaining the top positioning won’t do; retaining and maintaining that position is of utmost consideration. Outsourcing software applications to offshore companies has strong impulse to monetize spending of business players.

Software outsourcing gathered strength with increasing number of sources available in present IT-edge, requirements delivery in possible least time, less skilled personnel available, discrete communication and inefficient management of various modules within a large enterprise. These corporate players started looking and relying on third party for better management at lesser cost and remain competitive in the global marketplace. These are the few factors that led big companies to outsource their software application development to offshore companies where they find time zone difference from eastern countries most attractive, cheaper human capital, rich resources, and skilled professional and low processes cost. Market analysis shows gradual penetration of investors in Indian market and other developing countries. We find increased productive, managed easy solutions where full control remains in the hand of outsourcing companies.

40% of the Fortune 500 companies including GE, Lucent, Oracle, Microsoft, Motorola are leveraging the outsourcing model. The list is growing depending upon the onsite and the outsource resources available. Offshore Software Outsourcing is the most leading area of outsourcing. Cost saving by adopting this model can vary from 40% to 70%.

Manipulating overall strategy (considering failure and success) we find overall the offshore outsourcing campaign is a success. Objective is to maximize the ROI, remain competitive and reduce upbringing cost.

Remember offshoring software outsourcing is not always the solution, so before moving to it, the best approach is to find the niche requirement and then find solution to the root problem. Proper synchronization between onshore and offshore team members, improved processes, and better time management and growth opportunities for both developed and developing countries are among few benefits that offshore software outsourcing companies are enjoying.

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Benefits Of Small Business Outsourcing Accounts Receivable

By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Debamalya_Chowdhury]Debamalya Chowdhury

One of the most critical accounting activities for a business is accounts receivable (AR). Ironically for a small business that operates with limited capital, AR becomes very important to remain competitive. In today’s credit linked business environment, it is very relevant & efficiency can be much better harnessed and at a much lower cost. With the offshore service provider taking care of this aspect, the small business has more time and flexibility to attend to other core business areas like procuring orders, improving service delivery and mobilizing resources. Accounts receivable outsourcing is thus a trend among small business today.

Advantages of Accounts Receivable Outsourcing

Recovering past due accounts without spending more in staffing and training is one of the greatest challenges for a small business. Most often, companies write off this receivable amount as loss because the cost to train and hire a qualified in-house staff to manage them outweighs the cost of collecting the debt. This predicament for small business is now set to come to an end. By outsourcing accounts receivable, small business can avail a less expensive - and often higher quality solution and achieve significantly higher collection efficiency, thereby improving liquidity and company bottom lines.

By accounts receivable outsourcing, companies gain access to top notch collection agency professionals and advanced collection agency resources even if they don't have full time AR management needs. It doesn't take a long roster of past due clients to make a big dent in a company's bottom line. According to statistics, once an account becomes 90 days overdue, your business is likely to receive only 73 cents for every dollar owed. After 6 months, the amount drops to 50 cents on every dollar and down to 25 cents after one year. Bringing a collection agency on to handle accounts receivable addresses delinquent accounts within the first 90 days, before they get out of hand.

How Accounts Receivables Matter

Sales that have not yet been collected as cash reflect Accounts Receivable. In today’s credit based business environment, small businesses sell their merchandise or services in exchange for a customer's promise to pay at a certain time in the future. Timely collection of accounts receivables is an extremely important source of cash inflows. If this management is bad, small business may not have sufficient liquidity to meet its own expenses. Moreover, accounts receivable portfolios can amount to 21 percent to 34 percent of a small business company's assets. Inefficient collection can amount to 25% of the asset base of a small business could put the very existence of the business at stake.

For a small business, like any other enterprise, accounts receivable also represent an investment. The money locked up in accounts receivable is not available for meeting the costs of running or expanding the business. The return from an investment in accounts receivable doesn't occur until the customers clear their invoices.

Day-to-day management of accounts receivables is traditionally paper intensive, time consuming and expensive. Invoices, payments, purchase orders, and statements are often received via mail, fax, or email. It is always not feasible for small business operators to implement Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Line of Business (LOB) applications for data management because of high investment cost. Even if they manage the cost, capturing information from hardcopy documents, routing them to concerned individuals, and providing easy access to the documents in a timely fashion is indeed a very complex task for small business involving deployment of skilled manpower and enabling systems. Ultimately, management and collection costs of accounts receivables far outweigh the collection putting the small businesses in financial jeopardy.

Efficient Accounts Receivable management is thus a key task for a small business enterprise.

AR Outsourcing - Small Business Advantage

Small business operates with less manpower and do not have the ability to deploy highly expensive credit recovery mechanisms in their own country. Again, no-credit business is absolutely unthinkable in today’s perspective. Just by outsourcing small business accounts receivable to an offshore destination like India where there is an abundance of technically competent and skilled manpower at labor costs in the range of almost one-tenth of the rates in USA, small business can leverage best resources to attend a critical business domain that is very much relevant to its sustainability and viability.

Partnering with an accounts receivable outsourcing firm has many benefits. These benefits include, but are not limited to, increased cash flow; reduced operating costs; better small business accounts receivable control; efficient management of small business balance sheet accounts, increased sales to slow paying accounts; fewer delinquencies resulting in lower collection costs; and improved customer service. According to IDC review, outsourcing business processes from US is expected grow with a compound annual growth rate of 7.1 percent through 2009, when the market is expected to reach $355 billion. Of the total spending on account of outsourcing, small and medium businesses would have a share of 29% by 2009.

The progress of small business accounts receivable outsourcing can be fairly mapped on the company’s Daily Sales Outstanding (DSO) figures and reduction in bad debt. Number of outstanding invoices drops sharply, the impact being felt more in case of very old outstanding invoices as somebody in the offshore destination handling the accounts receivable portfolio is consistently following the invoices on a day-to-day basis. Due to increased fluidity and availability of time for concentrating on more core activities, small business witness significant growth and their overall turnover improve noticeably. On the whole, this better functioning and cash flow consistently improves their bottom lines. Offshore companies deploy cutting-edge technology to carry out their accounts receivable functions without any investment impact on the outsourcing company. This technology integration adds speed and efficiency and improves customer service for the outsourcing small business. Prompt and efficient follow-up reduces delinquency, thereby offshore companies work with many customers on accounts receivable processes and they are an excellent resource on best practices across companies that can be accessed by small business companies to improve their business efficiency and generate higher returns.

Accounts receivable outsourcing for small business is a trend that has come to stay. By leveraging dedicated and skilled manpower backed with high-end cross cutting technology, small business units can drastically turnaround locked cash to instant liquidity at a minimum process cost and utilize the resource to accelerate growth and higher returns.

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Outsourcing Is Not A Synonym For Off-Shoring

By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Joris_B_Vankuyk]Joris B Vankuyk

It is interesting to note the amount of noise and controversy there is about a topic over which there is so much misunderstanding and that at times is used to stir fear, uncertainty and doubt. This topic is open to being cynically exploited because so many people do not really understand it.

The main confusion surrounds the words outsourcing and off shoring. The two words are used indiscriminately and invariably assumed or interpreted to mean the same or are synonyms. They are not.

One can outsource without offshoring and one can do offshoring without outsourcing. Therefore outsourcing work can be done anywhere in the world including in ones own country.

To outsource a service or a function merely means that one will no longer be performing that service or function within ones own corporation or in house but instead subcontract it out to some organization or company outside ones own.

One of the main objectives of outsourcing is to get something done by someone who is either an expert at that service or function, can do it more efficiently or cheaper or both. The main drivers for outsourcing really came from the need for subject matter experts (SME's) and achieving critical mass. Another major factor was the increasingly higher investments in plant and equipment required to keep an operation efficient and competitive.

The person who performs the function or service better and more efficiently than anyone else tends to have the most success in the market place.

So what happened that made outsourcing such a popular discipline and changed the world's traditional business models?

In the 1990's the market place began ruthlessly demanding lower prices, technology was advancing and changing at an increasingly rapid pace, but the investment necessary to produce all this complicated rapidly advancing technology at lower prices grew out of all proportion and soon became unaffordable for the smaller players.

One of the forerunners of outsourcing was the concept of Original Equipment Manufacturing (OEM). Many companies needed new products in a hurry, that they did not have the facilities for to produce, were operating at full capacity, did not have the money to build or it was not clear whether the product would be successful and worth the investment required.

So they started to look around for producers that had the expertise and could start production of these new products almost immediately at the right price. Therefore many corporations started subcontracting with other corporations to produce these products on their behalf and then stamping their logo on it as if the larger corporation had manufactured it in house.

Also, the combination of an inability to keep up with the investment required to keep an operation cost competitive and the concept of SME's forced organizations to contemplate their future and look at what their expertise was and what they wanted to be when they grew up. So each company looked at their strengths and weaknesses and focused on their subjects/things that they were expert in and shed/outsourced activities that they knew least about.

Thus the SME component manufacturing focused on component manufacturing, the SME assembly focused on assembling products, the SME transport focused on logistics and so forth in order to attain critical mass and survive.

The transportation industry is an interesting example; you may have noticed that all the big guys now call themselves logistics experts. Whilst looking at their strengths and weaknesses the transportation industry found out that they were experts at moving stuff from place to place (distribution), they further knew that in operating their business efficiently they used hubs, huge ware houses where they sorted picked and packed and shipped their customer's packages. Thus they were experts in logistics and started to offer their expertise to customers and offered them a bundled value proposition which included warehousing, distribution and logistics.

Bingo! They offered a specialty product of greater value in which they were the SME that would greatly increase the use of all their capital intensive assets in a sector that SME's in another sector were ready to shed or outsource.

As the above illustrates that outsourcing does not have to be offshoring, examples of domestic outsourcing e.g. FedEx, UPS, component suppliers to GM, Paychecks, ADP Total source and so on.

I will share with you why offshoring does not have to be outsourcing as a follow up.

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