As we discussed in, The Ultimate Guide to Sourcing and Managing Temp Workers (Part 1), using staffing vendors and hiring non-employee workers is the foundation of success for any light industrial business’s workforce strategy.
Working with staffing agencies, for businesses in the light industrial sector, is often seen as a “necessary evil” to beat the skills shortage. It helps companies to access top talent, but it often results in high costs and poor hiring decisions.
This, however, isn’t just a fact of working with staffing agencies. This is often down to poor vendor management processes and non-employee workforce management processes that lead to poor supplier performance, a lack of visibility into your workers and, ultimately, wasted money.
To learn how you can better manage your non-employee workforce, your organization first needs to learn the complex nature of contingent workforce management and why manual processes are far from effective.
A temporary workforce is complex to manage effectively, and manual management processes simply won’t do!
The temporary workers you source, engage and manage, and the vendors you work with to hire them, create a huge amount of data that your company must properly manage if you are to have complete visibility and control over your non-employee workforce.
Without visibility into your temporary workers and without consolidating your vendors into one centralized location, your business will end up with inefficient processes, wasted time, overpaying vendors and poor hiring decisions that all impact your bottom line.
That’s why manual processes simply aren’t enough to manage your non-employee workforce.
Despite this, most light industrial businesses are still using manual and time-consuming spreadsheets, in-house databases or sharepoint sites to manage their temporary workers and staffing agencies. This will leave your organization with no real way to manage its vendors, and your hiring decisions will be entirely based on opinion rather than fact.
Why your business needs a VMS to manage its temp employees
Instead, it’s crucial that your light industrial business turns to the automated technology solution of a vendor management system (VMS). This will give you complete visibility and control over your staffing vendors and temp workers.
A VMS is a cloud-based software platform that automates and consolidates the management of your entire non-employee workforce and staffing vendors in one centralized location. It allows you to automate the entire process, from engaging with a staffing vendor, measuring vendor performance, sourcing talent, paying temporary workers and much more.
By using a vendor management system to automate this process, your light industrial business will realize 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?
Traditionally, light industrial businesses didn’t have access to a vendor management system that would fulfill their needs. The prices were ridiculously high and the functionalities were for large commercial organizations, not mid-market companies.
That has changed in recent years, with technology developers creating VMS solutions specifically for mid-market businesses.
Conexis VMS is the very first vendor management system built specifically to help small and medium-sized organizations automate and improve the entire non-employee and staffing vendor management process - with absolutely no minimum spend required for its use.
The software has been designed without the bells and whistles that mid-market companies never use, making it a simple, easy-to-use, cost-effective and fast-to-implement solution that gets your organizations results instantly.
Want to learn how the Conexis VMS solution can help your light industrial business properly manage its staffing vendors and non-employee workers? Contact us today. We would be pleased to hear from you and answer any questions that you may have.
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