Outsourcing Of Facility Management

Facility management is an effective form of organizational changes that support the orientation of the organization on core business activities. At present, at the time of financial crisis, the application of FM is used the most since it provides savings in operating costs of organization. The most common form of FM application is outsourcing. Outsourcing is understood as a modern trend of management and also the changes which serve to transfer support activities of a company on an external provider. Practical utilization and application of outsourcing is frequent and very popular in many industries of all developed countries since it brings a lot of positive effects. Wood processing industry in Slovakia is influenced by the economic crisis causing stagnation in the construction industry and decrease in the customer demand for construction, woodwork and furniture products. Many companies are looking for different forms of cost savings and recently more companies have increasingly used the possibilities of outsourcing. The authors present the results of the questionnaire research aimed at the use of outsourcing within the chosen sample of woodworking industry companies in Slovakia. It focuses on the area of outsourcing FM with the use of correlation analysis lining the dependencies of the chosen questions. Within the article there is also the presentation of the proposal for partial methodology of evaluation for economical effectiveness of the potential outsourcing use which within the ABC calculation methodology suggests implementing conceptual schemes such as criterion outsourcing costs, transaction costs and costs savings. The authors also present the suggestions for general methodology of outsourcing FM implementation project which includes analysis of outsourcing opportunities and threats in this area of business, definition for service supplier requirements, selection of providers, contracting the conditions for the contract relationship and the management of the transonic phases of the outsourcing relationship.