How to Choose the Right Vendor Management System (VMS)

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The UK staffing industry is worth around £41 billion, third largest in the world, and agency work across Europe accounts for close to €190 billion. A lot of it still runs on spreadsheets and phone calls. This guide explains what a VMS is, how it works, and how to choose one that fits your size, your sector and the countries you hire in.

• Where the market stands: UK and European figures, country-by-country regulation, and what’s driving temporary hiring
• What manual management costs you: unapproved spend, admin hours on timesheets and contracts, and exposure under the Agency Workers Regulations, GDPR and the Working Time Directive
• The ten modules of a full VMS, from job requisition through timesheets and pre-billing to business intelligence
• How a VMS differs from an ERP, an MSP, a master vendor programme and an FMS
• Selection criteria for agency-built versus independent platforms, weighed against your volumes, integrations and growth plans

Written for the people who run temporary staffing. If you own agency spend, compliance or the day-to-day of filling shifts, this is for you. It draws on 20 years of working with both staffing agencies and end-user companies, and covers the features that matter, the questions to put to a vendor, and the cost factors that don’t appear on the first quote.

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