Category Archives: Outsourcing

Sourcing as a Service

Historically, sourcing organizations are mainly focused on securing sources of supply to deliver value across the enterprise through appropriately negotiated quality and pricing terms.  Organizations that utilize sourcing are better positioned to realize cost efficiencies that can be leveraged to support company initiatives from increased cash/working capital than those that are not. So it comes as no surprise that driving down costs has a positive effect on the bottom line and can have an impact …

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Tipping Point for Procurement BPO 2011?

The business process outsourcing (BPO) market is one that is still relatively immature, particularly when compared to the IT outsourcing (ITO) market. Often businesses that enter into a potential BPO deal have a relatively limited knowledge of procuring those services and as a result use specialist advisors such as TPI, Everest, KPMG (who acquired EquaTerra in early 2011), Nelson Hall etc to advise them on the procurement of those services. One of the implications of …

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