Outsourcing has risen up in recent times due to increasing cost of production, labor cost, taxes and other many direct or indirect expenses. Since the economies of other developing countries are improving particularly that of Asian countries, European and U.S. companies are now looking for outsourcing their jobs to these nations to cut the costs.

Considering the cut-throat competition in almost all the businesses, it has now become necessary for established companies to outsource their time-consuming and labor intensive jobs to others so that they can concentrate more on areas of their core competencies.

This way companies would consider more on marketing, expansion, takeovers and mergers.

However, finding the right one for outsourcing is also very important. Outsourcing companies should have well-qualified staff, carry great experience in handling overseas projects with minimal supervision and must deliver on time. Above all, such outsourcing companies should also be very cost-effective.

By outsourcing, companies should be able to rely on the services provided by outsourcing companies. Any imbalance in rising costs of outsourcing service providers will affect heavily on the organizations. Price factor should be static for long period and organizations lending outsourcing jobs should not foresee any immediate turmoil in agreed pricing. If these are taken care of then companies will be more competitive in their industries.

An organization will only be successful if it is very competitive and to be competitive, it must be able to cut its costs. Organization must try to cut costs to remain profitable. While outsourcing the job, any organization must do the thorough inquiry about the outsourcing company.

Following major points should be checked for outsourcing company.

• Infrastructure of the outsourcing company.
• Quality of workforce, its qualification and experience for the job.
• Whether outsourcing company has bagged any reputed quality certificate such as ISO 9000
• Capability of keeping trade secrets.