Today’s businesses are increasingly using temporary workers to access top talent, bridge the skills gap, save money and increase business agility. Yet, despite the benefits, many small and mid-market companies are struggling to successfully manage their temporary workforce. In this article, we look at why you shouldn't manage your temp workers and staffing agencies with manual spreadsheets.
Typically, businesses are failing to consolidate the management of their non-employee workers and the staffing agencies they use to source them. This is resulting in fragmented processes across departments, inconsistent hiring techniques, inefficient administration, overspending and a lack of visibility into the performance of their entire program.
There’s one reason why an increasing number of small and mid-market organizations are failing to get their temporary workforce, and the vendors they use to source them, under control.
Want to know what it is? It’s because they are using manual spreadsheets to manage their programs.
Why you can’t manage temp workers and staffing agencies with manual spreadsheets
Your organization is likely using more independent contractors, and staffing agencies, than it has ever done before. As a result, the management of your contingent workforce requires dozens of vendors, hundreds of transactions and thousands of data points.
It's simply not feasible to manage this data using manual methods such as spreadsheets, in-house databases or Share-point-like websites. This will only lead to human error, time-consuming processes and inefficiencies.
The worst thing, however, is what these errors and inefficiencies mean for your business.
Without a non-employee workforce management solution that automates your processes and consolidates your staffing vendors, it’s almost guaranteed that your business will suffer from a lack of visibility into the performance of your temporary workers and vendors. This results in overspending, poor hiring decisions and substandard vendor choices.
Are you looking to truly gain visibility into your contingent workforce management program? You need to invest in a vendor management solution (VMS).
How a VMS gives you complete control and visibility of your temp workforce
VMS technology is a cloud-based software solution that enables your company to automate, access and manage your entire non-employee workforce data in one centralized location. This includes functionality such as vendor management, onboarding independent contractors, approval and invoicing, time entry and much more.
The use of a VMS will automate and consolidate the management of your temp workers and staffing agencies in one centralized location. This will lead to benefits such as:
- Improved efficiencies and time savings through automated processes.
- Better vendor choices based on insightful reporting and analytics.
- The consolidation of vendors into one centralized location for easy management,
- Improved visibility of your entire contingent workforce.
- Saved money from better hiring decisions.
- And many others!
Conexis VMS: Enterprise Solution. Mid-Market Focus
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