Outsourcing For Industry
2003/06/05, OKIN FACILITY CZ, s.r.o – Technical Facility Mangement Company Supporting Partner
Outsourcing For Industry
On 5th June 2003 in cooperation with CzechInvest and OKIN FACILITY CZ company a professional economic seminar "OUTSOURCING IN INDUSTRY" took place.
The theme of the seminar was outsourcing of "support processes" – facility management in industrial complexes. Various lectures covered all key aspects of points of issue from general approaches, implementation technologies and bottlenecks, to legal, tax and financial aspects, all oriented towards the corporate client.
Outsourcing as such is a hit of the 21st century. The reason for outsourcing certain processes from the core business is self-evident. After enhancement of logistic processes, IT solutions etc. outsourcing is just another logical step in evolutionary economic development.
The principle is obvious. Everyone focuses on his strengths, i.e. any area in which he excels and is most effective. Other activities not connected with his core business are handed over to other specialists. Only they can substantially cut costs and at the same time often increase quality of contracted processes.
We are past the age when a company employed its IT team, operated its own canteen, took care of cleaning, security and general care of its own buildings. And all those services belong to the great package of "support processes" – facility management that are demanding in financial and manpower terms and are at the same time a source of great cost savings for industrial corporations. The projects implemented thus far involve savings in operating costs ranging from 10–30 %.
What is facility management then?
Well, facility management is the shortest definition for "support processes". At the root of it there is permanent drive to cut or stabilize costs of support processes and to increase comfort of our clients. Technical maintenance of buildings, upkeep, maintenance and operation of machinery, optimisation of energy consumption and operation of power machinery, cleaning on a small or industrial scale, security (security services and also sophisticated security technological solutions), reception services, internal logistics of industrial complexes, secretarial work, operation of a canteen and many other processes that do not belong to core business of our clients are the core business of companies concerned with facility management.
Chaotically defined processes are straightened out, streamlined and centralised. In the long run streamlining of support processes contributes towards increasing efficiency of the whole company
Radka Kvasničková,
Marketing Manager
radka.kvasnickova@okinfacility.cz