How
difficult! But why?
Sometimes in the life of consultancy, you’ll find discussions that go over and over again without you actually grasping the deeper reason why people make it so difficult. This week, I was involved in a meeting at one of my customers on the topic of integration with Temps Agencies. Of course I understand the fact that things seem easier when you have done it 20 times before, where the matter is new to others in the room, but why oh why has this topic already been under discussion here for more than one and a half years…?
Optimizing
Temporary Labor related P2P solutions is easier than it seems, just keep in
mind the following 4 key principles:
1. Never enter data more than once, the
transactional volumes are simply too high to accept data failures by typo’s in
copy actions.
2. Who is the owner of the data-object?
That is the one that brings or maintains that data-object in the process.
3. Market standards (technology-driven
as well as process-driven, such as SETU and SIDES) are there for a reason: they standardize a complete
market, bend along, lower your risk and supplier lock-in!
4. Do not hassle about the savings and
costs on any individual basis. Optimize the dataflow, optimize your
informational value, minimize the chance for failure, and divide the benefits
afterwards… Keep commercial discussions away from your change project
They always
say “procurement of people is not the same as procurement of goods”, but the
simplest of Supply Chain Optimization values are the only truth really to make
it happen…
Doede van Haperen
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