Managed Services: VMS

MSP | VMS | RPO

Web-based application (eProcurement) used primarily for procuring and managing contingent labor and staffing service providers.  

  • Contingent Management Challenges
  • Internal management costs are typically 10% of total spend
  • Decentralization leads to rogue spend and higher costs
  • Candidate quality, time to fill and retention are not monitored
  • Vendors are largely unmanaged and not directed
  • Bill rates vary for the same skill sets
  • Lack of industry/market benchmarking analytics

VMS Utilization Benefits

  • Software that is customized to enhance the end-user experience of on-boarding contingent labor
  • Creates a competitive environment for all requirements to insure the best rate and best candidate for each position
  • Supply chain integration lowers vendor’s costs  
  • Management and monitoring of vendors
  • Reporting on rates, spend, utilization and vendor performance
  • Analytics and benchmarking for increased rate structure visibility
  • Refined business process with expert consultancy on contingent labor management
  • Improved tracking and abilty  to access “proven performer” talent
  • Allows for strategic leveraging of spend with vendors
  • Preferred vendors benefit from access to more requisitions

Return on Investment

  • Fully vendor-funded model
  • Rate rationalization savings - estimated to 20% of the current, unmanaged spend
  • Elimination of internal resources to run process, resulting in resource savings - estimated to be 10% of total spend
  • Expanded management reporting
  • Greater access to talent achieved through higher end-user visibility of best-in-class vendor