WHO WE ARE
Professional Global Sourcing BVBA (PGS) offers a variety of outsourcing services
both to European companies wanting to outsource tasks to near-shore, off-shore or far-shore destinations
or locations and to off-shore companies wanting to expand their business towards the European market. By
doing so, Professional Global Sourcing is the bridge between Europe and offshore destinations, partners,
suppliers and vendors around the world.
For every specific request or demand, there is a best matching company out there who is capable of
fulfilling your needs in terms of company processes and culture, capabilities, availability, skills,
experience and cost. Professional Global Sourcing searches for the best matches between European
companies with their specific requirements and the best outsource companies for fulfilling
the requirements. Professional Global Sourcing brings offshore companies together with the
European industry facilitating business on both sides.
Professional Global Sourcing (PGS) offers as variety of consultancy services for companies
considering going offshore or companies wanting guidance when going offshore including
strategic consulting on outsourcing, coaching the transition to outsourcing, setting up and managing
outsourcing, training of staff at all levels and at both sides of the partnership, and immigration
services for non-EU companies sending their associates to Belgium (including work permit administration).
Linked to this, PGS also offers advice on how to protect your intellectual property (IPR) in an
international setting, how to actively manage and protect your knowledge, and to compute, validate,
optimize or safeguard your intellectual capital (e.g. for the purpose of validating a company in
case of mergers and acquisitions) or to optimize the local and integrated operational performance of
your operations across your locations, sites, partners and suppliers.
Professional Global Sourcing (PGS) also provides all kinds of management services aiming to optimize your
international business such as Vendor and Supplier management services, International Procurement
and Contract management, Vendor relationship management, remote site management, training and
coaching (at both sides of the table), quality management. These services can be offered at an early
stage when a company is starting up his international business or at any next stage when an improvement
or optimization is required or seems appropriate.
Professional Global Sourcing (PGS) helps you to set up a fully owned (captive) subsidiary or a long term
partnership such as a joint venture abroad as well. Professional advise is given about how, where and
what to outsource, where to go to (country, region), providing support for the legal and administrative
process to register a company and to start up a business abroad. PGS can even help you to seek for some
governmental funding for setting up your business in a non-EU country. PGS also help you to adopt your
business processes during the transition (change management)in order to integrate your off-shore business
within your own business. Together with going international (near-shore, off-shore, far-shore), which
inevitably means that you will share some of your company intellectual property, PGS advises you in
taking the right measures for protecting your intellectual property (IPR) and your intellectual capital.
The target audience of Professional Global Sourcing in Europe are companies considering to
outsource, near-shore, offshore or far-shore activities or services, wanting to outsource or
dislocate activities, struggling to finding the right outsourcing solution or partner,
wanting to optimize their way of working with their outsource partner, seeking for optimizing
their business processes including an outsourced part of their business, seeking for improving or
securing the quality of their products of services in an international setting.
The target audience at outsourcing destinations (near-shore, offshore and far-shore) are companies
wanting to develop, expand or sustain their business towards the European market but lacking onsite
presence, the knowledge of local languages or local rules and regulations, or facing
prospects hesitating doing business with an offshore/near-shore destination directly and
seeking for the comfort of being able to do business through an European partner. Professional
Global Sourcing (PGS) can represent foreign companies to local authorities in the EU for all
kinds of services such as for registering a subsidiary, obtaining work permits, managing personnel
administration for fulfilling all legal and administrative obligations when deploying activities
and businesses within Europe.
