Compensation Outsourcing

Compensation outsourcing incorporates the processes necessary to analyze our clients' competitive position for pay to deliver the results to both the management team and to the Company's ERP systems to support downstream decision-making. The core processes include data management, survey submission, job matching, and pay comparison / recommendations. The core processes may be augmented with job evaluation, custom survey analysis, software development, and systems integration.

Since 1998, NPKtools has provided compensation outsourcing services in Canada and the USA to the world's largest chemical firm, The Dow Chemical Company. We believe that our outsourcing philosophy is a key factor in our success. That philosophy incorporates four components:

Dedicate senior staff who integrate with the client internal team for the long-term and who have the authority to alter the delivered resource mix to respond to changing client requirements:

• Invest in information management, analysis software, and in streamlining work processes to continually improve delivery capability
• Pass a portion of the productivity improvement on in the form of increased services
• Share the risk with clients by providing services at a fixed cost

NPKtools is committed to compensation outsourcing. We have invested heavily to build the infrastructure, tools, and staff competency to do the job efficiently. We view outsourcing as a joint long-term relationship that requires the ability on our part to adapt to our client's changing needs. We are in this business for the long-term as evidenced by our 6 year relationship with Dow Chemical.