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| Company e-News Q3 2002 |
Outsourcing at TMA
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| TMA is the UK's leading
exhibition for telecoms companies. This year, TMA will
have an area dedicated to the increasingly popular subject
of outsourcing. As a company that has led the way in demonstrating
how carriers and OEMs can outsource parts of the network
build and engineering functions, Greenwoods will be present
to discuss particular outsourcing initiatives with those
who may be interested. Greenwoods fully understands the
often sensitive nature of this subject and any discussions
will be treated as confidential. |
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 Greenwoods
has specialised in providing outsourcing services for many years,
but the recent downturn in the telecom market has meant increasing
numbers of telco's and OEMs are interested in talking to the company
about how its services can help drive down costs and maximise efficiencies.
During the time at TMA, the company will be able to discuss the often
misunderstood concept of outsourcing telecom network build to a third
party company such as Greenwoods and explain how it can deliver significant
cost savings.
 Outsourcing
is basically where a company takes an area of activity currently undertaken
internally and contracts it to a third party to undertake on its behalf.
Outsourcing should enable management to better focus on the activities
it regards as 'core' to its own business and should also bring cost
benefits. The logic of the whole process is that the third party will
have the outsourced activity at the core of its own business and will
be able to bring efficiencies of scale to the outsourced component.
One form of outsourcing currently being expanded by Greenwoods Communications,
is to take the network build function, with engineering staff, workshops
and a depot, and run it more efficiently, returning savings at the
same time. Most telcos have traditionally run these operations reliably
by simply having enough slack in the system. However, this is no longer
a viable option for troubled telecoms companies. Non-utilised assets
are now regarded as dangerous liabilities, and many companies would
rather see yet-to-be utilised assets such as network equipment, fibre
or consumable materials, held by their suppliers with them buying
what they need, when they need it. |
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