Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Criteria for Selecting An Outsourcing Vendor?

Outsourcing activities are helpful in bringing out more flexible, more dynamic, and better able to change themselves to meet the changing opportunities. It is also useful in protecting huge investments coverage on investment. Professional Expertise Outsourcing of work helps in bringing professional expertise.

Outsourcing is a process of shifting a company’s essential operations to a third party vendor in order to gain various benefits including better services, low cost and speedy work. In an outsourcing deal, clients want to achieve superior quality service at lower cost and minimum involvement. On the other hand, outsourcing the work to an external agency exposes the customer to risks of the work being delivered poorly. In such a scenario, selection of a vendor for outsourcing is not an easy task, which becomes even more complex while selecting an offshore vendor. Customers generally think about these aspects when selecting an outsourcing supplier:

Transferring your work to an expert helps in delivering better results and greater satisfaction to clients. Correctness giving the work to a professional staff also brings correctness in the work. We can use these points as given below-


1. Quality assurance: The vendor should be quality focused.


2. Cost: The vendor should have prices that enable the customer sufficient cost saving.


3. Additional resources and capabilities: The vendor should have resources and capabilities that are not available to the customer internally.


4. Prior work: The vendor should have experience working with other organizations and should have delivered satisfactorily to them. Checking with the references help the customer understand the vendor’s capabilities properly.


5. Contract terms: The terms of contract should offer flexibility to the client to modify the requirements or terminate the contract easily, if required.


6. Confidentiality: One of the most important is to keep secure the customer’s data at the vendor site? The vendor should have well-defined security policies in place.

In addition to these criteria, other parameters such as location, reporting methodologies, vendor processes, financial stability of the vendor and cultural similarity play a vital role in deciding the supplier.

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Monday, October 29, 2007

Key To Outsourcing Success

Outsourcing involves getting work from an external firm which has limited knowledge about the customer’s internal processes and operations. Hence, a customers needs to pay attention to certain considerations, apart from selecting the right vendor, to achieve outsourcing success.

These considerations include the following:

1. Setting the right expectations: The customer needs to set right expectations upfront about the services that it needs (and will get) from its vendor. Outsourcing should also have a proper plan in place with well defined goals and objectives.


2. Benchmarking methodology: The customer should establish tools or criteria to benchmark the quality of output required from the vendor. Vendor’s performance should be regularly monitored using these criteria.


3.Experience in handling outsourcing projects: If the vendor and customer both have experience in handling outsourcing projects, the chances of making the outsourcing deal a success increase significantly. Adequate planning and back-up plans for any foreseeable pitfalls will help both the client and supplier maintain a successful relationship.


4. Internal resistance: The buyer’s management should explain the advantages of outsourcing to its employees and ensure agreement on the outsourcing decision internally before taking the outsourcing plunge. It should gather support for its decision from the top management as well as lower ranked employees.

There are so many companies in this industry like call centers India were ready to change the dimensions of this industry. Call centers India believe is a rigorous quality procedures and cost.

Call Centre India is a leading source for outsourcing vendor companies, offers voice services from Large to small enterprises, presently offer technical support services to one of the largest fortune 500 companies, also offer outbound cold calling and telemarketing services from small to medium companies, inbound order taking services to several companies for customer service.

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Thursday, October 25, 2007

Help Desk Services: In Demand Now

According to one job portal site, the Demand for entry-level helpdesk positions has increased by 45 percent compared to the same period last year. The priority of the business is always to cost-cutting and to improve their bottom lines methods. Help Desk Services are giving this favor to companies.


To fulfill the customers needs and expectation now a days small and home based businesses are taking support from the help desk services. Due to less number of the employee or the financially challenging organization prefer to go for the help desk services. These services will give the support to give the best service to the clients on time. Accuracy and on time delivery of the project is two major factor for other client and the organization to get the more projects in future. Help desk service is suitable for the companies and processes which is huge and the client wanted the delivery in less time. Help desk services provided by the offshore contact centers 24/7×365 days.

A small company or even large company can save the money by taking the support from the helpdesk outsourcing. They don’t need to pay the outsourcing company a contracted amount and are not responsible for personnel expenses such as payroll taxes, worker’s compensation insurance and employee benefits for the employees of the call center that provide their sales, service and support functions. Another benefit of the helpdesk outsourcing is to save the cost of equipment, software and ongoing maintenance expenses.


We can entrust on the Help Desk service provider with their service and support functions which directly impact their customer’s level of satisfaction and relatively, the company’s reputation. As a result, the quality of service can reduce making outsourcing more of a burden than a benefit.


Take your decision to outsource help desk activities by doing an analysis of help desk support processes, expected service levels, customer expectations and costs of outsourcing. Training systems should be developed to ensure that your company’s expectations in regard to service quality, policies and procedures are clearly conveyed to the outsource provider. Ongoing monitoring of customer satisfaction is also necessary so that you can determine whether or not the outsource provider you have selected is meeting the needs of your customers in line with their expectations and your quality service standards.
The huge benefit of help desk outsourcing is that it removes the complication in work station support and makes it easy and flexible. By employing well-prepared who work for both effective and quick in completing their tasks.

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Thursday, October 18, 2007

Are You Going to Set Up a Call Center?

Any industrialist getting into the call center business today should be aware that he is entering a commodity-like business. Anyone claiming that they will offer innovation with niche practices is clearly not in the loop of the industry. One should accept the fact that this is not an innovative business. Given this how does aone go ahead and make it a good proposition of investing in this pretty capital-intensive foray.

Infrastructure: After having finalized that you would want to get ainto the call center business, it is imperative that you have the required infrastructure in place, the core team to propel the business and around ten call agents fully trained and capable of taking up a pilot project.

Hire Experience People: One has to make a mark in the call center business; the focus should be based on high-end quality and experience people at the helm to drive this extremely intense business. Accent neutralization and training in various situations should be absolute and the message should be pretty much clear on how a call should be handled. The business is in real time and there is no getting back after a call is messed up.

Register Under STPI: Next to this is to register under STPI so as to get the benefit of duty free imports for all the required hardware.

Collection of Assets: In addition to this the important requirements are carpet area, equipment, communication and manpower. The carpet area depends on the number of seats. It can range from 55-155 sq feet per agent, depending on the services rendered by the center. Based on this, and the space planned for facilities, amenities and support areas, you can estimate the total carpet area. Communication/connectivity depends on the volume of traffic and services rendered from the center.

A 200-seat call center will usually invest in a 2 Mbps international private leased circuit for inbound services, comprising two half circuits-one in India and the other in the US or UK through an international carrier.

Manpower deployed in a center falls under two broad categories-operations or agents and support or management. The ratio between the two varies depending on different parameters based on organization, services deployed and client requirements.

Technology needs: In terms of technical resources, a voice witch/EPABX, multiplexers (for data and voice transport), modems, routers and RISC/ CISC servers, headsets, desktops, E1/T1 circuits for the connectivity, IVR, CTI and ACD (Automatic Call Distributor) are needed.

The essential is to have a core team who has gone through the learning process in a call center and the essential team of HR, Finance, Trainers, and Operations in place.

If the business is managed efficiently, the entrepreneur can look at breaking even in around two and half years.
One more crucial aspect that one should accept and work it in the business plan is that the attrition levels in this industry north of 35 per cent. One should have a proper recruitment plan in place for such attrition levels and should not try to swim against this tide.


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