Outsourcing

By outsourcing services, you free up staff to be deployed elsewhere. For example, the development team may focus on its expertise and core competences, while additional tasks are realised in collaboration with a specialist external partner. Thus, new products are realised more quickly and can be launched on the market.

Is your company going through a strong growth period? Or are your business sectors subject to strong short-term seasonal or cycle fluctuations? With outsourcing, you are able to rely on an experienced pool of resources which is available as and when required. In phases of low workload, capacity might then be readily and flexibly reduced.

By outsourcing services to specialised companies, cost savings of up to 25% can be achieved. These reductions are due, for example, to the reduction of fixed costs, the use of lower infrastructure costs and/or the elimination of additional, expensive know-how development.

As an outsourcing partner, we possess systems developed in-house, optimised methods and technology expertise or solution approaches from a wide range of industries. By outsourcing services to us, you will be able to benefit from this knowledge without the need to invest in expensive experts yourself. This way, process efficiency and the quality of services are significantly improved.

In addition, outsourcing offers you the possibility to open up new business options and to improve the transparency of the value chain. In this way, services by external partners are easy to monitor in terms of costs and quality. The business processes will become more transparent and the cost sources more clearly identifiable.

If outsourcing is used purely as an emergency solution and is only considered when a company is fighting a lone battle on multiple fronts, success normally comes at the price of additional effort and often also with extra costs. If the outsourcing of engineering services is well prepared and well thought out, however, the expertise of the development partner becomes available at an early phase of the project. In most cases, it is alternative approaches or new ideas that can lead to more economical solutions.

In the absence of open and transparent communication, misunderstandings may arise easily. For example, unclearly defined contracts or specifications can lead to conflicts between the customer and the service provider and hinder successful collaboration.

Project interfaces that are not properly defined hinder coordinated procedure. A reliable calculation of the time required and the project costs is made more complicated or even impossible.

Often the total costs of outsourcing are insufficiently accounted for in the estimate and, for example, only the costs of the service provider are included. However, in most cases there are also in-house costs (personnel, infrastructure etc) that have to be included in the forecast.

Employees or the team are internally informed too little or too late about the planned outsourcing. The result is a lack of understanding and opposition, which makes cooperation more difficult.