Partnering with staffing vendors and employing contingent workers is crucial for the success of any light industrial business's workforce strategy. This article highlights how innovative technology tailored for the mid-market can transform the management of contingent workers in the light industrial sector.
Collaborating with staffing agencies can enable businesses in the light industrial sector to tap into top talent, but it may also lead to increased costs and suboptimal hiring choices.
This issue, however, is not inherently due to working with staffing agencies. It often stems from inadequate vendor management and non-employee workforce management processes, which result in poor supplier performance, limited visibility into your workforce, and ultimately, financial waste.
To enhance the management of your contingent workforce, your organization must first understand the intricate nature of contingent workforce management and why manual processes are insufficient.
A temporary workforce can be complex - manual management processes simply won’t do!
The temporary workers you recruit, engage, and oversee, along with the vendors you collaborate with to hire them, generate a vast amount of data that your company must effectively manage to maintain full visibility and control over your non-employee workforce.
Lacking visibility into your temporary workers and failing to consolidate your vendors into a single centralized system will lead to inefficient processes, wasted time, excessive vendor payments, and poor hiring decisions, all of which negatively affect your bottom line.
This is why manual processes are inadequate for managing your non-employee workforce.
Nevertheless, most light industrial businesses continue to rely on manual and time-consuming spreadsheets, in-house databases, or SharePoint sites to manage their temporary workers and staffing agencies. This approach leaves your organization without a reliable method to manage its vendors, resulting in hiring decisions based solely on opinion rather than data.
Why your business needs a VMS to manage its temp employees
Instead, it’s essential for your light industrial business to adopt an automated technology solution like a vendor management system (VMS). This will provide you with full visibility and control over your staffing vendors and temporary workers.
A VMS is a cloud-based software platform that streamlines and centralizes the management of your entire non-employee workforce and staffing vendors. It automates the entire process, from engaging with staffing vendors, evaluating vendor performance, sourcing talent, to paying temporary workers, and more.
By using a vendor management system to automate this process, your light industrial business will realize many benefits such as:
- Improved workforce visibility.
- Saved money and better workforce hiring decisions.
- Complete workforce automation for improved efficiencies.
- Consolidation of your vendors in one centralized location for better performance metrics.
- In-depth reporting and analytics on the performance of your entire non-employee workforce management program, allowing you to base future decisions on fact and not opinion.
- And much more.
Is it possible to find a VMS that works for your specific needs?
Historically, light industrial businesses lacked access to a vendor management system that met their requirements. The costs were exorbitant, and the features were designed for large commercial enterprises, not mid-market firms.
However, this has evolved in recent years, with VMS solutions tailored specifically for mid-market businesses. Conexis VMS is the pioneering vendor management system crafted specifically to assist mid-market organizations in automating and enhancing the entire process of managing contingent workers and staffing vendors.
Conexis VMS: Built for the unique needs of Light Industrial
Light Industrial workers make up over 60% of the Conexis worker population. Conexis has developed VMS functionality specifically to support high volume worker environments such as digital site rosters and easy time clock integrations. With our unique functionality and specialized experience, Conexis customers report a significant reduction in turnover and an over 90% attendance rate. Conexis VMS is the smart choice for organizations that leverage a light industrial temporary workforce.
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About Conexis VMS
Conexis is an award-winning VMS tailored specifically for mid-market contingent workforce programs. Leveraging the latest technology, Conexis delivers the expertise, reliability and security of enterprise systems, while offering the flexibility, user friendliness and tailored service you require. Conexis delivers enterprise level software - without the enterprise level complexity.
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