Companies that think ahead of their time are the ones that scoop larger profits and set examples as leaders for their rivals to follow, says research.

Today companies are not outsourcing just for cost benefits but have well realised the fact that there is much more beyond cost savings.

Studies reveal that companies outsourcing various strategic business activities to vendors in the developing countries such as India, "best-in-class" companies reaped many more benefits beyond just cost savings than "industry average" companies or "laggards".

These successful outsourcers also agree that "Looking beyond cost savings in outsourcing is strategically beneficial for both buyers and sellers of outsourcing services".

Top 5 Benefits of Outsourcing:

1. Enhance competitive edge

Operating a global supply-and-demand chain is becoming increasingly complex in today's competitive environment. By outsourcing strategically decided activities, an organization can deliver their projects more effectively than their competitors, thereby outperforming them. This means they are ahead in four areas: being responsive to customers, innovation, quality, and efficiency.

2. Increase shareholder value

Outsourcing helps in building capacities and preserving capital investment. As outsourcing reduces the need to invest capital funds in infrastructure and human resources of non-core business functions these funds can be diverted towards strategic business expansion. This in the long run results in increase in shareholder value.


3. Access to new markets

While entering new geographies, companies can fend off competition from local players. Outsourcing provides access to off shore resources with world-class capabilities who have already worked and gained expertise by working with many clients facing similar challenges in these geographies. This reduces company's effort in chasing technologies (such as Revit / BIM), methodologies (local codes and standards) and trained people.

4. Achieve tighter dead lines

As the outsourcing firm acts as a virtual extension of their client's in-house team, it helps the client to bid for projects with challenging deadlines. This can be achieved without any compromise on the quality of work delivered by the off-shore team.

5. Handle more projects

By opting for off-shore outsourcing, the internal resources of an organization are freed for other core activities, thus enabling them to redirect these people to greater value adding activities such as getting new projects and spending more time with their customers. This results in more project handling and satisfied end customers and thereby a reason for repeat business.

Thus we have seen that though in the past, cost had always been the motivation behind outsourcing, but in today's competitive world outsourcing moves beyond cost cutting. These were few of the top rated reasons to outsource apart from cost benefits.

As Mr. Lee Kuan Yew rightly quoted: "If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business."

Indian ESO (Engineering Service Outsourcing) companies like Blue Star Design & Engineering with commercial offices in UK, USA, Middle-East have been successful in providing outsourced services to some of the large MEP/M&E consultants globally. To enhance their reach in the non-continental Europe Blue Star Design & Engineering also partnered with local business associates in France, Germany & Netherlands.

Blue Star Design & Engineering is a growing provider of outsourced cost-effective Engineering & CAD Support Services to global Mechanical, Electrical & Plumbing (MEP) Consultants and Contractors in Building Services.

For more information visit: www.bluestar-de.com