Outsourcing contracts:Hid cost driver

The advocates of outsourcing strategies would not long only start the cost saving as advantage. This aspect nevertheless represents as a rule a central motive for the paging of IT or telecommunications structures. „However an automatism is to be warned toward a cost reduction “, gives the Active Sourcing managing director Stefan rain rivet to consider of the estimate, with the outsourcing exists. „With an outsourcing contract one does not acquire oneself by any means a natural right on the fact that the paging becomes more favorable than the Inhouse enterprise. “Rather the economic use is above all also a question of the contractual agreements. For the result in particular an exact view at the possible risks and the avoidable cost expense is crucial. Leave to the offerer freedomsTo it spread-tests cost drivers belonged after the realizations from rain rivet that the users want to exert influence on the provider in their contractual conceptions, without including the consequences sufficiently into the evaluation. Thus users would be inclined frequently to prescribe for the offerers the technologies which can be used. „Good is it to leave to the provider technical freedoms because it can use then the scale effects favorable for it and pass it on as cost reduction to the user “, recommends the Active Sourcing managing director. Same is valid for the reporting. If the supplier can fall back to its standardised procedure, substantially favourable prices are possible. If he am however arranged to take over a system wished by the customer inevitably additional costs of the installation and the enterprise would arise. Also should in the opinion of rain rivet be done to get the achievements covered in detail and variant-rich measured. Rather the costs of the service management process could be limited by a concentration on the substantial clearly.Sufficient time installation-countSince outsourcing strategies can be converted not at short notice, should be paid attention to a realistic according to schedule planning. The straight elaboration of the contracts may not happen hastily, because otherwise important aspects possibly receive no sufficient attention and later to a boomerang develop. „With to short term time limitations the suppliers tend to take into consideration risk impacts because they could fear own disadvantages due to the time pressure and ignore relevant details. “Rain rivet stresses besides that with the contracts to respected is to account for all achievements if possible over fixed prices. And where regularly a substantial variability develops with the volume, should be absolutely accounted for after unit prices. This offers also the advantage of a certain plan barness and thus the possibility to the provider of doing without additional risk impacts. „Unfavorable are also accounts on fee basis, because thereby more is usually computed clearly than with piece or fixed prices “, recommend the outsourcing expert.