SÛRCH is a proprietary web-based vendor relationship management tool that streamlines the management of contract, contract-to-hire, and permanent staffing needs. Below is a general list of the benefits of SÛRCH™, and how it can enhance the flow of staffing process.

GENERAL FEATURES

Our Vendor Management System eliminates many of the inefficiencies inherent to managing a contingent workforce by helping you to:

• Streamline the employment requisition, bid evaluation and job candidate selection process
• Use this valuable tool to reduce the time it takes to orient new employees and separate from departing employees
• Consolidate your paperwork, including timesheets, invoices, payments, reports and other employment paperwork
• Automate requests to set up new passwords, establish security clearance, provide file access, assign computers, disseminate keys, deliver parking permits and arrange phone extensions.
• A private board where clients can post jobs and vendors can bid on them. Clients and vendors can track bids as well.
• Flexibility for making matches--a true open market where clients accept the right person, right time, best price.
• Easier negotiation. Vendors can see the lowest bid to match
• Simplicity in handling accounts payable through aggregated invoicing
• Clients have access to a pool of vendors; vendors get better visibility even when they have not worked with a client before
• Online timesheets, with a single place for all the necessary approvals and records
• Savings reports that compare low bid, high bid, and budget for clients. Vendors get win/loss data to determine and match clients' top concerns
• Quick start—a fast, painless implementation
• Instant updates: With the SÛRCH™ internet-based application, updates and enhancements to our software are applied automatically, and are waiting for you on your next login.

Technology

• Openware System
• No monthly fees usage fees of any kind
• MySQL database backend for storage
• Data retrieval through secure access

Security

• You control who accesses the system, password administration, with roles and permissions
• Firewall protection restricts access to data
• Encrypted cookies
• Stored procedures
• Secure offsite data storage
• Regular data backups
• Complete virus protection
• Hardware and operating system updates and patches are applied within 24 hours of release

CLIENT BENEFITS

Make your jobs available to vendors.

Post your company’s needs, and let vendors bid. Vendors can see the lowest bids, and you can both negotiate appropriately. Plus you can get the metrics you need to support your decisions. It’s an open market—good for you and for your vendors.

Get the staffing flexibility you need.

Flexibility—that’s what you’re looking to vendors to provide. But they can’t help if your systems shut you or the client out of important communication, when you need to strike the right balance of talent, price, and timeframe. SÛRCH™ provides you with flexibility you need.

Work with staffing vendors you want.

Get the right resumes. We get you working on a private network with just those vendors your hiring managers want to use. You can work with your company’s preferred vendor program, but finally--you have options to supplement it, too, getting the right person in those hard-to-fill job options, plus, our resume ranking allows you to spot the best fit resumes on the spot.

Get the right information of hiring.

Get the information you need about a resource’s background so you can do the right background checks and comply with your company’s hiring processes.

Streamline your time posting and approvals with consolidated invoicing.

No more lost timesheets, faxes flying all over the place, and missing or lost approvals. Resources log in and complete timesheets that bill to their projects and cost centers. Managers log in and approve resources’ time, all at once. It doesn’t matter who’s working remotely or who’s on-site—all you need is a web connection.

Streamline your resource billing and A/P processing.

Forget about those multiple bills on multiple schedules with multiple approvals. Pay one bill, and you’re paying all your vendors.

Implement quickly.

Smart managers know that implementation is part of the challenge with any software. We know that, too. That’s why our “cascading implementation” gets your whole implementation into place in days instead of weeks or even months, automatically delegating data entry to the right people.

VENDOR BENEFITS

SÛRCH vendor portal streamlines the hiring process for Human Resources and Staffing Agencies alike.

• Restrict outsourcing to preferred providers
• Expedite hiring of urgent positions
• Prevent misinterpretation of selection criteria
• Clearly identify which vendor first submitted a candidate, and to which requisition
• Reduce administrative burden and unnecessary telephone inquiries
• SÛRCH automatically notifies authorized staffing vendors of urgent positions and transmit precise selection criteria automatically
• Eliminates confusion and prevents agencies from submitting candidates to requisitions for which their services have not been engaged
• Vendors perform their own data entry; potential duplicates and conflicts are identified in advance; and both direct and outsourced candidates can be evaluated against the same objective selection criteria
• Productivity is further enhanced by decreasing the number of inquiries from agencies regarding the status of their candidates. They can simply look it up themselves.