Philippine Business Process Outsourcing (BPO)

Business process outsourcing is the answer too many business’ prayers. BPO offers new possibilities of having more efficient ways to get hold of cutting-edge technology without the need for a huge investment outlay. BPO is also an escape from the trend of increasing cost structure in the competitive industry. And the Philippines has taken the whole world by storm when its BPO industry suddenly boomed to global proportions and is now even ranked 3rd in the world.

Business process outsourcing is the assignment of one or more, often information technology intensive business processes to an external or offshore provider that on the other hand, executes and governs that said processes according to particular and measurable criteria of performance.

Business process outsourcing has transcended into a flexible and very powerful approach to the realization of a wide variety of strategic and tactical goals from a mere tool for cost savings in transaction-intensive, back office business processes.

Benefits of BPO

1. Speed to Market – BPO dramatically hastens the process of launching a new startup business, allowing them to be fully operational in a matter of weeks rather than months through state-of-the-art facilities, equipment and workforce.

2. Competitive Capabilities – businesses can trade their traditional processes into highly capable world-class BPO processes.

3. Cost Savings – BPO almost entirely eliminates process fixed costs thus significantly lowering costs.

4. Growth Stimulus – BPO provides unique and highly competitive capabilities thus facilitating growth, development and expansion.

5. Revenue – firms partnered with BPO firms acquire new and better knowledge aside from the more capable processes thus increasing their revenues.

The point of view that business process outsourcing is just a mere method of trimming down fixed overhead costs has drastically changed over the decades. Now, BPO is considered more and more as a strategic move to have that competitive advantage over competitors. BPO allows a company to put more focus on its core activities and processes by assigning its non core functions to a provider that specializes on the said function. For instance, in the case of outsourcing human resource management, the HR functions like payroll and benefits, recruitment, and personnel evaluation are delegated to an outsource provider that specializes in HRM. The said provider will also keep the company posted with constant changes and updates in the HRM realm.

Experts consider that the real advantage of BPO is something intangible and may not even show up or be valued in the balance sheet or any other financial statement. The value BPO brings does not necessarily mean cost savings. Elements such as support and time to market are likely to be critical to success but are usually invaluable.

Philippine BPO is viewed as one of the top drivers that will keep pushing the country as the top destination for outsource services especially in terms of ICT services. The Philippines now supplies several noncore yet critical backroom operations that have been outsourced to the Philippines include accounting, contact center services, human resource administration, claims administration, and logistics to several countries. With the country’s huge pool of superior skill and talent especially when it comes to English proficiency, coupled with excellent telecommunications infrastructure, the Philippines is on the run to becoming the king of global BPO.

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