Strategic Advantages for Outsourcing

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Allows your company to focus on core functions to deliver the customer value proposition:

• Companies that outsource certain routine functions to outsource experts are capable of focusing on their core competency. With our partnership with Shamrock Renewable, Your company can now focus on designing and engineering world class solar system solutions; and manage the end to end customer installation process through world class Project Management.
• Companies with outsourced processes are better enabled to migrate to new installation best practices with minimum downtime and productivity disruption.
• The lower cost of doing business can potentially be passed on to the customer in terms of lower price.

Allows your company to use its strategic internal resources to develop and deliver better products, processes and services:

• Outsourcing the installation process to Shamrock Renewable ensures that a Your company internal resources are freed up for more mission-critical activities that support its business model.
• Your company’s installation management can focus on the definition and design of world class best practices that will translate to lower costs, highest quality and safety, and a better customer installation experience.

Lowers the risk of something going wrong:

• Your company will NEVER abandon its customers; and will always have its own installation crews.
• In any outsourcing model the Shamrock Renewable supplements the operations of Your company with redundancies and back-up mechanisms for the installation process.
• In the event of any natural calamities, accidents, or technical crises, the rigorous back-up mechanisms and detailed planning at Shamrock’s end can help Your company to rapidly respond to the situation and get the project back on track within the agreed to milestone.

Provides Access to world-class capabilities:

• In coming from several companies to form this new business, the teams from Shamrock Renewable have collectively installed over 700 solar jobs in both the residential and small commercial markets.

Partnering with Shamrock gives you:

• Over 30 years experience and expertise in the design and management of both residential, small and large commercial projects.
• Over 35 years of customer care experience for both product and technical issues in both the high tech and construction businesses.

Tactical Reasons for Outsourcing

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Control operating costs and improve profit margins:

• This translates into major cost savings for companies. They also save on operational costs such as payroll, administrative costs, HR, power, rentals and utilities.

Improve operational performance:

• Companies outsource to vendors who have domain expertise in the outsourced process. Their experience in the field translates into greater operational efficiencies for the outsourcing company.

Talent shortages in California:

• One of the key reasons why outsourcing has become a necessity is the shortage of talent in California. As of August 27, 2008, the process for obtaining a C-46 Solar installation license has become longer and harder. The new experience requirement is four (4) years.
• As the previous generation of workers approach retirement, there are precious few newcomers coming in to fill the skills pipeline. The obvious outcome of this acute talent shortage is an increased demand for skills wherever they may be available.

Overcome seasonal workflows:

• Industries in California are subject to seasonal fluctuations in work and lack of workers during holidays and off-seasons. One of the advantages of outsourcing to companies like Shamrock Renewable is that companies can deal with peak workloads and poor staff strength during vacations and holidays.

One time needs:

• Companies often need labor and project management for one time projects. Such ad hoc or one time projects will require which require high skilled manpower resources; and companies find that they are faced with the need to ramp up in relatively short time spans. Outsourcing such needs is the best solution for companies that want to avoid expensive outlays for the short term.