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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-04 02:57 PM
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HP stepping up outsourcing in India, sources say
Company now offering back-office services from India to its customers

By John Ribeiro, IDG News Service June 03, 2004

BANGALORE, INDIA -- Having handled a large chunk of its own global accounting functions from a subsidiary in Bangalore for more than three years, Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) is now offering similar back-office services from India to its customers, sources familiar with the plans said.

"Having gained the confidence that we can do this out of India, we are extending these accounting services to our clients," said a senior HP official in India, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

To begin with, HP is setting up a back-office accounts processing facility in Bangalore for Procter & Gamble Co. (P&G), according to other HP sources in India. It was unclear how many staff will work at the P&G facility or exactly which accounts functions will be handled. HP has offered some of the staff working in its own accounting operations the opportunity to work at the P&G facility, the sources said.

HP said in March that it had agreed in principle to outsource P&G's worldwide transactional accounts payable operations to HP Services, although it didn't say at the time where the work would be done. P&G, based in Cincinnati, is the largest household products company in the world, operating in markets such as foods, beverages, personal care, laundry and cleaning.
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/06/03/HNhpindia_1.html
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Frodo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-04 02:59 PM
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1. Does anyone know if Dell does this too?
If so... do any of the decent computer amnufacturing companies NOT follow this trend?

It's important since I intend to buy a new PC later this year.
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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-04 03:18 PM
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2. Dell is one of the worst.
They moved some of their corporate support back because it was so bad.
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Village Idiot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-04 03:26 PM
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3. Dell stopped outsourcing last year
due to customer complaints...
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Robert Oak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-05-04 11:40 AM
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4. YES MPC Computers - BoyCott HP
http://www.buympc.com/about/media/press_releases.html?id=052004_1

They do as much as possible in the US and I'd buy them not only for patriotism but overseas products with their slave labor often
have problems.

For example, HP sells cheap desktops and only puts 128k RAM in the configuration and that absolutely isn't enough...

So, buy MPC and also get a better system.
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