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WHAT IS BPO :
BPO as expanded sounds as Business Process
Outsourcing and can be aptly defined as the act of utilizing the services of a third
party by a company in order to perform its back office operations that might be
payroll administration, customer help desks/ call centers, tele- marketing,
accounting, billing; the list is endless. BPO outsource is being widely accepted in
powerful companies worldwide. BPO outsourcing of various services is not just a
method to save cost but also enhance productivity and efficiency. Many
companies like GE, Dell, Sprint, AOL, AMEX and Amazon have already recognized
the importance and feel that cost saving is not the only benefit of BPO outsource.
Offshore BPO outsourcing units are well employed with customer care executives,
telemarketing persons and management with supervisory expertise in the BPO
outsource process. BPO outsourcing allows companies to lessen or diminish cost
of training, hiring and infrastructure with benefits of value added services,
scalability, flexibility and increased productivity experience.
WHY IS IT IMPORTANT :
There are various factors for that company require BPO as:
Increase productivity
Cut operational costs
Provide better service
Save costs
Improved accountability
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to the advantage of Indian BPO industry. India has an 8-12 hour time zone
difference with respect to the US and other developed markets. Most of the
Indian call centers servicing American customers have timings between 5:30 p.m.
to 9:30 a.m. This time zone difference allows Indian companies BPOs to service
American clients by working in the nights. Last, but not the least, India has a huge
pool of English speaking workforce that provides excellent voice based services at
extremely competitive costs resulting in huge savings for companies. Some of the
leading BPO companies in India are: GE Capital, Convergys, Wipro Spectramind,
WNS, Dell, Daksh e-Services, ICICI OneSource, and MphasiS.
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Service Example: Customers calling to resolve a problem with their home PC,
customers calling to understand how to dial up to their ISP, customers calling with
a problem with their software or hardware.
Telemarketing Services
Service Example: Outbound calling to sell wireless services for a telecom provider,
outbound calling to retail households to sell leisure holidays, outbound calling to
existing customers to sell a new rate card for a mobile service provider or
outbound calling to sell credit or debit cards etc.
Service Example: of this service include level 1 and 2 multi-channel support across
a wide range of shrink wrapped and LOB applications, system problem resolutions
related to desktop, notebooks, OS, connectivity etc., office productivity tools
support including browsers and mail, new service requests, IT operational issues,
product usage queries, routing specific requests to designated contacts and remote
diagnostics etc.
Insurance Processing
Service Example:
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Data entry from Paper/Books with highest accuracy and fast turn around time
(TAT)
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Top 15 BPOs in India
1 WNS
INDIA'S TOP 15 BPO FIRMS : 2 Wipro BPO
3 HCL Technology BPO
Services
4 IBM Daksh
WNS is the top ranking third party ITES (Call 5 Exl Services
Centre and BPO) company in India [ 6 MphasiS BPO (formerly
Images ], says a survey conducted by the MSource)
7 Intelenet Global
National Association of Software and
8 ICICI [ Get Quote ]
Services Companies.
OneSource
9 GTL
Wipro [ Get Quote ] BPO Solutions and HCL 10 Progeon
Technologies [ Get Quote ] BPO Services 11 24/7 Customer.com
follow at the second and third position, 12 Datamatics Technologies [
respectively. Get Quote ]
13 Hinduja TMT [ Get Quote ]
14 Transworks
15 Tracmail
The ITES-BPO segment contributes 30 per cent of the total IT-ITES exports from
India and witnessed a growth of 44.5 per cent to reach $5.2 billion in 2004-05. The
ITES-BPO exports are expected to clock revenues of $7.3 billion in 2005-06.
It is important to note that the largest company GECIS was a captive operation till
the end of 2004 and hence has not been considered for the rankings. If it had been
a third party operation, it would have been the largest player by far.
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Client First
Place clients at the core of everything we do
Integrity
Be ethical, honest and committed in all actions
Respect
Be sensitive to individual differences and treat everyone with dignity
Collaboration
Always keep "One WNS" as uppermost in everything we do
Learning
Learn from our experiences; share knowledge and best practices to create
innovative solutions
Excellence
Strive for excellence in everything we do and aspire to outperform at every
stage
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emotional support for under privileged senior citizens for more than 25 years. It
conducts numerous projects aimed at improving the quality of life for the elderly.
PROFILE :
WNS (Holdings) Limited, incorporated on February 18, 2002, is a provider of
offshore business process outsourcing (BPO) services. The Company provides
data, voice and analytical services. It transfers the business processes of its clients,
which are companies located in Europe North America and Asia Pacific regions, to
its delivery centers located primarily in India, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Romania,
the United Kingdom and Costa Rica. It provides execution of client processes,
monitor these processes against multiple performance metrics, and seek to improve
them on an ongoing basis. The Company designs, implements and operates
business processes for its clients, involving data, voice and analytical components.
Its services include industry-specific processes that are tailored to address its
clients’ business and industry practices, particularly in the travel and banking,
financial services and insurance (BFSI) industries, as well as businesses in the
consumer products, retail, professional services, pharmaceutical, media and
entertainment, manufacturing, logistics, telecommunications and utilities
industries. The Company operates in two segments: WNS Global BPO and WNS
Auto Claims BPO. In its WNS Auto Claims BPO segment, it provides both fault
and non-fault repairs. For fault repairs, it provides claims handling and accident
management services, where it arranges for automobile repairs through a network
of third party repair centers.
The Company’s service portfolio includes processes that support air, car, hotel,
marine and packaged travel services offered by its clients. The key travel industry
sectors served by WNS (Holdings) Limited include airlines and hotels, travel
intermediaries and others, such as global distribution systems and network
providers. During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2010 (fiscal 2010), the Company
served a diverse client base in this business unit that includes British Airways,
SITA, Travelocity, United Airlines and Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd. During fiscal
2010, it served 25 airlines, hotels and 13 travel intermediaries.
Some of the banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI) industry sectors
served by the Company are integrated financial services companies; life, annuity,
and property and casualty insurers; insurance brokers and loss assessors; self-
insured auto fleet owners; commercial and retail banks; mortgage banks and loan
servicers; asset managers and financial advisory service providers, and healthcare
payors, providers and device manufacturers. WNS (Holdings) Limited serves a
diverse client base that includes AVIVA, Biomet Inc. and MMC in. fiscal 2010.
WNS (Holdings) Limited BFSI business unit includes its auto claims business,
branded WNS Assistance, which comprises WNS Auto Claims BPO segment.
WNS Assistance offers a blended onshore-offshore delivery model that enables the
Company to handle the entire automobile insurance claims cycle. The Company
offers accident management services to its clients where it arranges for repair of
automobiles through a network of repair centers. The Company also offers claims
management services where it process accident insurance claims for its clients. It
also provides third-party claims handling services, including the administration and
settlement of property and bodily injury claims while providing repair management
and rehabilitation services to its insured and self-insured fleet clients and the end-
customers of its insurance company clients.
Emerging Businesses
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Prior to April 2008, the Company’s emerging businesses unit addressed the needs
of the manufacturing, logistics, telecommunications, utilities, consumer products,
retail, professional services, pharmaceutical and media and entertainment
industries. In April 2008, it created an industrial and infrastructure services
business unit to focus specifically on the needs of the manufacturing, logistics,
telecommunications and utilities industries. The Company develops certain
capabilities, which are classified as finance and accounting services focused on
finance and accounting services; research and analytics services focused on
market, business and, financial research and analytical services, and business
transformation services focused on business and process optimization services.
In the research and analytics services area, the Company offers market, business,
and financial research and analytical services, such as business and financial
research, market research, domain specific analytical services, data services and
business services to its clients who are pharmaceutical companies, consulting
firms, market research companies and investment banks. Its research and analytics
services also include processes that are tailored to address its clients’ business and
industry practices in the pharmaceutical, retail, financial services and insurance,
consumer products and other emerging industries like travel, manufacturing,
technology, media and telecommunications.
Business transformation services helps the Company's clients identify business and
process optimization opportunities through technology-enabled solutions, process
redesigning and improvements using a variety of techniques, and leveraging
technical and management development programs. Its services include
implementation of technology-enabled solutions optimization and analytics. It uses
various processes, tools and methodologies to deliver its business transformation
services, including the Six Sigma and Lean methodologies, engagement models
tied to results, analytics-based business insights, domain and process expertise,
process re-engineering and automation.
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS :
EricB. Herr Chairman
Mr. Eric Herr serves as the Chairman of the Board. Mr. Herr became a
member of the board of directors with the completion of the company’s
initial public offering in 2006. Formerly, Mr. Herr has been director of Taleo
Corporation and chief financial officer of Autodesk, Inc. Mr. Herr received a
Master of Arts degree in Economics from Indiana University and a Bachelor
of Arts degree in Economics from Kenyon College.
with the SEC on accounting and auditing issues affecting KPMG clients. He
has also served on the Advisory Board of KPMG India, as its Deputy
Chairman and as head of its audit department. He co-authored the chapter on
SEC Reporting Requirements appearing in the 2001-2008 annual editions of
the Corporate Controller’s Manual. Mr. Aboody is a member of the
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, he was a Post-graduate
Research Scholar at Cambridge University and he received a Bachelor of
Arts degree from Princeton University.
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SERVICES PROVIDED BY IT :
Customer Care
Finance and Accounting
Legal Services
Procurement
Research and Analytics
Transformation Solutions
WNS helps leading BFS companies to ‘extend their enterprise’. Our deep domain
expertise, global delivery network and strong focus on operational excellence
allows companies to focus on their core business while WNS delivers business
processes, and supports decision making through its rich research and analytics
capabilities.
WNS combines industry best practices and proprietary tools and methodologies to
deliver Banking BPO and Financial Services Outsourcing services across Retail
Banking, Commercial Banking, Investment Banking, Mortgage, and Wealth
Management. We add value to our client’s business by improving their customer
satisfaction, unlocking cost efficiencies and streamlining processes through
continuous improvements and technology optimization.
Communications :
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Healthcare :
Insurance :
Building upon our deep experience of delivering business processes for several of
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the world’s leading insurers, WNS combines deep domain expertise, strong talent
and operational excellence to allow insurers focus on their core business while
WNS delivers business processes such as industry specific processes, finance and
accounting, business and financial research, analytics, and optimizing the power of
technology.
Our insurance outsourcing service offerings extend across the insurance value
chain of Property and Casualty, Life, Pensions, and Annuity.
WNS is a preferred Shipping and Logistics BPO provider to companies across Air,
Express, Trucking, Shipping/NVOCC and 3PL (Third Party Logistics). Building
on our extensive experience of delivering shipping and logistics outsourcing
solutions for leading companies, WNS combines deep domain expertise, strong
focus on alignment with our clients, and operational excellence to allow shipping
and logistics companies to focus on their core business while we deliver their
business processes.
Manufacturing :
WNS helps a number of the world’s leading CPG and Retail brands to ‘extend
their enterprises’ by leveraging outsourcing of key business processes in order to
become more agile and gain competitive advantage. Our deep CPG and Retail
domain expertise, strong talent pool and focus on operational excellence help
companies focus on their core business issues while their team at WNS delivers
their business processes.
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Our deep domain expertise, qualified and experienced talent pool and strong focus
on operational excellence help companies focus on their core business issues while
their team at WNS focuses on managing their processes.
The combination of our BPO offerings, industry best practices and proprietary
tools and methodologies add value to our clients' processes by helping them
improve customer service, reduce costs and streamline processes through
efficiency, quality and productivity improvements.
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strong talent pool, and exquisite focus on operational excellence help you focus on
your core business issues while WNS delivers your customer care processes.
WNS ‘extends your enterprise’ by leveraging our deep finance and accounting
functional expertise, industry intimacy, focus on operational excellence and global
delivery model. CFOs outsource accounting services to WNS so that their
internal teams focus on core business issues, while the WNS team delivers to goals
of standardizing finance and accounting processes, transforming the finance
operations and lowering costs.
WNS helps clients reduce costs of their legal process and more importantly, have
their associates focus on spending more time with clients thereby creating greater
value for the organization.
Procurement Outsourcing :
By partnering with WNS, our clients are able to achieve rapid, sustainable
improvement in their procurement performance. Our procurement BPO (business
process outsourcing) services deliver several benefits including sustainable long
term savings in procurement that directly impact the bottom line. Our employees
focus on managing our clients' indirect and non-strategic spends by delivering
process efficiencies and measurable savings quickly.
The challenge faced by companies today is discerning the needs of the customer in
the face of decreasing brand loyalty and of competition in an increasingly global
marketplace. WNS's research and analytics outsourcing services help companies
better understand their customers, providing insight-based business decision
support. Business insights that help our clients answer the following questions
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Leveraging our deep research and analytics expertise, industry intimacy, focus on
operational excellence and a robust global delivery model, WNS helps leading
companies make insight-based business decisions.
Transformation Solutions :
Operational Transformation
Drive operational excellence and achieve step-change business strategies
leveraging:
o Global Operations with Lower Cost Operating Models
o Process Re-engineering, Benchmarking, and Best Practices
o Domain and Technology Innovations
Sustainable Change
Architect a transformation vision / roadmap that incorporates organizational
change and enables sustainable business results.
Actionable Insights
Leveraging WNS's strength in Analytics to enable actionable insights that
drive direct business impact.
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CLIENT OF WNS :
T-Mobile UK Selects WNS Philippines to Provide
Customer Care
WNS Philippines will handle inbound customer calls for T-Mobile UK’s prepaid
subscribers. The WNS associates will support a full spectrum of customer care
services ranging from price plan inquiries to handset issues such as lost, stolen or
faulty phones. The contact center staff will manage queries on promotions, charges
and credits and roaming, and alert new customers to the range of subscription
benefits.
WNS Philippines is a joint venture between WNS Global Services and Advanced
Contact Solutions (ACS), a global contact services provider, based in Manila,
Philippines to offer contact centre services to global clients across a full range of
industries.
“T-Mobile is committed to ensuring that our customers receive the best care at all
times. We are recognized for our superior customer service, and by leveraging the
capabilities of WNS Philippines, we will take our customers’ experience to the
next level,” said Russell Taylor, T-Mobile UK’s Customer Services Director. “We
have chosen WNS Philippines as our partner because they bring a deep
understanding of customer needs, have a track record of operational excellence and
most importantly, are aligned to our values.”
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Victor M. Endaya, President and CEO of ACS Philippines said, “We are confident
that our team will deliver the high standards of customer service that T-Mobile is
known for,” He added, “T-Mobile UK’s vote of confidence also affirms The
Philippines as the customer care destination of choice.”
About WNS
WNS is a leading global business process outsourcing company. Deep industry and
business process knowledge, a partnership approach, comprehensive service
offering and a proven track record enables WNS to deliver business value to some
of the leading companies in the world. WNS is passionate about building a market-
leading company valued by our clients, employees, business partners, investors and
communities. For more information, visit www.wnsgs.com.
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