Managing the three transition streams
If you compare the average timelines for implementation and transition required to outsource accounting and purchasing processes with the time needed to do the same with HR, you might be surprised.
While outsourcing accounting and purchasing processes to a service provider takes four months on average, the transition to outsourcing HR can take from 6 to 10 months in each country.
Managing an HR outsourcing project involves taking local legislation into account and making sure the new services are compliant with the relevant legislation. But it also involves making sure that the new processes in place are deployed in a consistent way company-wide. For example: terminations processes today are probably managed differently according to the country. After the outsourcing contract has been implemented, the termination process for each of your HR teams will be the same. This requires gaining knowledge of local practices to converge them into a global design.
On the other hand, accounting and purchasing are often some of the first functions in international companies to be industrialized and centralized in shared service centers in order to be managed globally. When it’s time to outsource them, it is then easier for a provider to literally “lift and shift” those functions, considerably reducing the transition time.
Author: Patrick Nolot, Global Program Director, ADP.
Posted: July 20th, 2010
at 12:11am by admin
Tagged with implementation, outsource, outsourcing project, relevant legislation, time, transition time
Categories: business articles
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okay, but are you going to post more info related to this topic?
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23 Jul 10 at 5:20 pm
sikkona @ you can request more info direct from article author: Patrick Nolot, Global Program Director, ADP. Linkedin profile:
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