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According to Beeline, a leading contingent workforce solution provider, “For many organizations lacking formal analytics and reporting on their contingent workforce, identifying key metrics can even be challenging.” The focus on analytics goes well beyond hiring, scheduling, and payment data, to include deeper areas of concentration. The following are several analytic subsets imperative to contingent workforce management and performance.

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CWM Analytics for Insights

According to Beeline, a leading contingent workforce solution provider, “For many organizations lacking formal analytics and reporting on their contingent workforce, identifying key metrics can even be challenging.” The focus on analytics goes well beyond hiring, scheduling, and payment data, to include deeper areas of concentration. The following are several analytic subsets imperative to contingent workforce management and performance.

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• Direct sourcing and workforce solutions platform WorkLLama announced a series of $50M strategic investments. The new funds will enable the innovative tool with a variety of advantages, including possible acquisitions, a continued commitment to direct sourcing innovation, etc. This level of investment translates into the ability for WorkLLama to continue its long track record of progressive automation in the digital recruitment and total talent management arena.
• Opptly announced that it is has completed its the integration of its platform with major extended workforce and VMS solutions provider Beeline. The integration with Beeline’s direct sourcing API suite will deliver an advanced, seamless means of connecting enterprises with the best-aligned, best-fit talent via Opptly’s industry-leading AI-fueled functionality.
• Talent management platform LiveHire announced its acquisition of Arrived Workforce Connections, Inc. Arrived’s shift management and mobile-led matching application will be powerful addition to LiveHire’s already-robust suite of offerings. In corresponding news, Arrived’s CEO, Jennifer Byrne, will join LiveHire as its Global Chief Product and Technology Officer. Antonluigi “Gigi” Gozzi, LiveHire’s co-founder, Executive Director, and Chief Product and Technology Officer, will transition out of his executive role.
• The Fed’s record rate hikes have done little to cool the hot job market, as unemployment claims dropped once again. A seventh straight week of claims under 200,000 means that unemployment has remained at a level not experienced since 1969.
• Thoma Bravo, a Chicago-based software investment firm, has officially completed its acquisition of business spend management (BSM) platform Coupa Software. Announced back in September, Thoma Bravo has finalized the massive $8B transaction. Coupa’s wide range of spend management offerings includes Coupa Contingent Workforce, its dedicated VMS tool for the extended workforce industry.

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The origins of modern commerce can be traced back to the eighth century in India, where early organizations, called shreni, first started to emerge. Shrenis were associations of crafts persons and merchants and the people who worked for them performed various functions. They provided services such as training, the purchasing of raw materials and the distribution of finished products.

In all the time that has followed since, the world of business has undergone tremendous amounts of change. But the one constant is that few, if any, commercial organizations are ever likely to be totally self-sufficient. They will always need to spend a proportion of their operating costs on some form of external services support.

With more than 1,200 years of practice under our belt, you would think that we’d have the procurement of external services down to a fine art. Requirements would always be well-considered and clearly articulated. Service providers would know exactly what they have to do and how their customers will be judging their performance. Price negotiations would always be fair and equitable. And all parties would be working seamlessly together to create bi-directional best value.

Unsurprisingly, this is not the reality of the business world we live in.

Buying services involves people, and people have different perceptions of value. People have different tolerances of quality. They have differing levels of budget, knowledge, patience, urgency, and ambition.

Every day we talk to organizations who would like to buy services better, who know they should be buying them better. Some are not sure what they need to do and how to do it. Some know what to do but they never quite get around to doing it. Some are ready and willing, but they are waiting for someone else to make the decision for them before getting on with it.

And this is precisely why services procurement should matter to your CEO. 

Firstly, because a CEO is ultimately responsible for maximizing shareholder value. And if they are to do that, then they need to be aware of what might be diluting it too.  It is highly likely that the assumed ROI of procured services is being negatively offset by the inefficiencies and procrastination embedded in your organization’s buying processes.  For example, according to the World Commerce and Contracting association (formerly IACCM), the most frequent source of claims, disputes and disrupted relationships is due to poorly drafted contracts, most notably around the scope and objectives of the work.

Here are five insights that your CEO should have ready access to:

1. How much is your company spending on external services in their entirety?
2. How much is your company spending on different types of services?
3. How has your company’s spend profile changed over time and what is driving that change?
4. Who are your company’s key suppliers and how strong are your relationships with them?
5. How do your company’s buying processes compare to recognized best practices?

If these insights are not readily available to your CEO, then it is implausible to claim that shareholder value is being maximized.

The second reason why services procurement should matter to your CEO is because they are the guardians of your organization’s reputation. There are increasing legal and compliance risks associated with the engagement of external service providers, such as disguised employment off-payroll, and so it is crucial that executive leadership are not only wise to these risks but that they implement appropriate and workable mitigation strategies, too.

The third and final reason is because CEOs need to ensure their organizations are continually scanning the market for competitive advantage. Organizations that purposefully adopt a win-win approach to their engagement of external service providers are much more likely to become a customer of choice. Customers of choice are much more likely to be given access to the most current, innovative, and progressive thinking from their service providers because the relationship is mutually beneficial.

Clearly a CEO should not be spending their time down in the weeds of spend analytics, contract negotiations, and supplier relationship management. However, at the macro level, if they can’t be certain your organizational approach to buying services is fit for purpose, it could have serious repercussions for the long-term health of your business.

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