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Outsourcing Business Functions -
Administration
SMEs requiring assistance to help build their
business can use administration outsourcing companies (AOCs) to
gain a competitive advantage.
Outsourcing allows the business to focus its
efforts on its core activities whilst the AOC continues to run
the administration and back office processes that can often be
labour and cost intensive.
The benefits of using an administration
outsourcing company are numerous, however it is imperative that
the key areas of responsibility and the processes for
authorisation are agreed and understood beforehand.
Some of the benefits:
- (AOCs) are specialists in providing streamlined business
processes using both technology and human resources so your
business can benefit
- less management time spent on routine processing issues
and more on core business activities
- KPIs can be used to target and work with your AOC
ensuring that they continue to meet objectives and that your
back office activities remain in step with your business
- with the right agreement in place workload and
associated costs can be more closely synchronised
- skills& knowledge that may otherwise not be available in
a company are available on tap from the AOC (especially true
for accounts and HR )
- AOCs may be working with other companies within the same
sector as yourself so best practices can be introduced that
would otherwise have been an unknown
Using an AOC is not something that should be
rushed into and indeed, a lot of thought needs to go into how,
when and if indeed you should outsource some of your business
functions. If you decide that there will be a benefit then as
mentioned above it is imperative that clear areas of
responsibility are documented and understood.
Further reading:
http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/layer?topicId=1073921035
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsourcing
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