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Outsourcing Pricing Models – FTE based or Transaction based ?
cost, BCP cost ( Coming technology platforms if
soon: What are the needed for BPO
hidden cost components operations and reduce
of an offshoring deal). their overall cost of
operations so they can
What is Transaction offer a per transaction
Based Pricing Model cost at lower price
points to the clients
without sacrificing their
margins.
Why is Transaction
Based Pricing hard
to start out with
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Outsourcing Pricing Models – FTE based or Transaction based ?
processes. For multi to the ‘promised land’ of
vendor scenario this gets productivity and process
tougher if different parts efficiencies which all the
of the end to end IT, service providers claim
Operations are with as their secret sauce
different vendors. during their sales pitch.
How ever companies
For Customers looking need to be realistic
to start with transaction about how soon and
based pricing , they have when to switch to
the risk of trusting their transaction based
entire process , pricing if they decide to
application, data with a do. There are three
third party provider things we recommend to
which is hard to do at consider as a baseline
the beginning of a when moving to
relationship. This also transaction based
assumes that a number pricing:
of these processes have
very strong internal 1. Complexity of the
metrics, benchmarks Process
which the companies 2. Repetitive nature
can move over to service of the
providers to measure transactions
the effectiveness and being processed
hence the cost of the ( Nature of IT
transaction. Without the support for ITO)
baseline metrics of 3. Clearly defined
knowing how much it measurement
cost you to perform this metrics
internally , it is hard to availability of the
get into an agreement process
with a third party
service provider and Transaction based
expect them to perform pricing tries to capture
‘better’. This will result cost savings, efficiency
in failed expectation improvements and
match. productivity gains which
only come into play as
When and Should you the relationship with
go to Transaction Based your provide matures.
Pricing As you start your
Over a period of time as outsourcing and
you mature the offshoring relationship,
relationship transaction FTE based pricing help
based pricing should you take baby steps and
allow companies to get
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Outsourcing Pricing Models – FTE based or Transaction based ?
refine your outsourcing
model as you progress.
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