I work for a service company that outsources a lot of work to India. The representatives in India will take phone calls from customers, process claims or other functions, or just about anything. Outsourcing service is probably a lot easier than outsourcing manufacturing. No. What "business process outsourcing" means is outsourcing the "non-core" overhead parts of a company's business, such as payroll, employee benefits, accounting, and customer service (no joke on that last one).