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Outsourcing Pays Off for Personal Paper Products Leader

Summary
The world's top maker of personal paper products, the client manufactures facial and bathroom tissues, paper towels, and other household products. In 2004, the firm realigned its North American and European businesses and formed a unit to increase sales in emerging business abroad. The client embarked on a major cost reduction move, and wanted to outsource it non-core process to a third-party provider.

Client Challenge
Substantially reduce the cost of its Finance and Accounting Shared Services Center (SSC) by moving to a lower cost location while maintaining current service levels.

How Alsbridge Helped

  • Assisted with a lower-cost near-shore location analysis of an existing pan-European SSC.
  • Options analyzed includes (major metro areas in) Latin America, Jamaica, Central (and?) Eastern Europe, South Africa, Asia, and surrounding cities and towns.
  • The high quality location analysis included qualitative and quantitative analysis of each option.
Benefit
  • We’ve proposed a shortlist of locations in order to perform in-depth analysis and choose the best option.


"Alsbridge brings experience and independent challenge to the strategic decision and business case development process that is invaluable to any senior leadership team." –GUY COWAN, FORMER CFO, SHELL OIL