Just because someone has bought from an external source, doesn’t make them an expert in outsourcing. Client companies (as well as large consultancies) turn to Strategic Procurement Solutionsfor the expert leaders we provide to their outsourcing projects. Our professionals have held positions with leading supply management organizations, and have personally led successful outsourcing initiatives involving major business operations.

Strategic Procurement Solutions supports several types of outsourcing initiatives:

• Global Outsourcing – We provide true “experts” in outsourcing to LCC regions (“low cost countries). Our personnel have experience in Defining Requirements, Identifying Qualified Suppliers, Solicitation Evaluations, Make/Buy Analysis, Tactics of Inter-Cultural Negotiations, and Global Logistics. In addition to the outsourcing expertise we can assign to work on projects from a client’s own sites, Strategic Procurement Solutions has “in-country” representation in China available to perform initial supplier qualification tasks.

  The reduced labor and overhead costs of LCC regions can provide financial advantages to suppliers in those areas (see the following chart for representative examples):
  
  

  Perceived financial advantages of outsourcing must be weighed against the potential of losing or compromising the client company’s competitive advantage, reducing its flexibility and responsiveness to customer requirements, or lose core business competencies. Most importantly, outsourcing must be considered carefully when proprietary Intellectual Property (IP) rights must be protected. When asked to do so, Strategic Procurement Solutions can work with our client’s executive team to ensure prudent protections are identified for each outsourcing relationship; otherwise we may recommend other lower-risk alternatives to be investigated.

• Business Process Outsourcing: Whether domestic or international in scope, we can provide thoughtful support of client’s selection of suppliers to whom core business operations (product or service-related) can be outsourced. These operations may be Production Line Functions, or Business Services like Call Center Operations, Billing Services, Maintenance Operations, etc. Unlike many of our competitors, however, our team understands that some core business operations are better-kept internal to an organization, and Strategic Procurement Solutions provides clients with objective recommendations about the potential benefits and disadvantages of each outsource decision.

Please contact us with your requirements, and we’ll provide the expertise you need to make a successful outsourcing decision.