Offshoring describes the relocation by a company of a business process from one country to another -- typically an operational process, such as manufacturing, or supporting processes. The primary business rationale for offshoring has been to reduce IT operating and infrastructure costs. The cost savings from offshore outsourcing increase with the percentage of total development effort outsourced and the percentage of work performed offshore. They are maximized when the entire development is outsourced and all the work is performed overseas.

FieldGlobal use Offshore outsourcing to achieve a variety of other financial and non-financial benefits, including faster time-to-market for new products and services, increased focus on core competencies, staff augmentation for work load balancing and/or access to skilled IT labor on an as-needed basis, access to skilled IT labor to augment existing (internal) skill sets, access to leading technologies, and the ability to have work performed nearly 24/7 by augmenting local activities with development centers on other continents. Other reasons why we use offshore outsourcing include a scalable business model that can be ramped up or down very quickly without incurring long-term costs such as unemployment insurance and employee benefits, and implementing the software development and quality assurance processes and practices of the offshore suppliers as a way to quickly improve the customer’s own internal processes.

FieldGlobal offshoring solutions range from strategic long term client partnerships covering ad–hoc project–based needs to the entire range of market research operations. Performance and customer satisfaction are as important as cost. In many cases, offshoring utilizes less-skilled labor working for low wages in plants that manufacture such items as shoes, apparel and generic computer components.

In other cases, offshore manufacturing contracts go to firms in nations that have developed very advanced technology and industrial bases with highly-skilled and educated workers. For example, final manufacturing of laptop computers and other electronics is frequently offshored to very high quality firms in Taiwan and South Korea. The goals of captive offshoring include greater company control through direct ownership, along with lower operating costs and the ability to utilize highly educated local workforces. FieldGlobal offshoring solutions range from strategic long term client partnerships covering ad–hoc project–based needs to the entire range of market research operations.