Each day the oil giant has 300 tanker trucks distributing up to 15,000 gallons of gasoline to filling stations across the United States. But a glaring shortage of qualified drivers, both long-haul employees and short-haul contractors, was so acute that it became a critical HR challenge. Too many tankers sat idle because of this driver shortage ? until ExxonMobile went the RPO route.
The SaaS model has now been applied to a supply chain, warehousing, and inventory management solution. It’s cost-effective, flexible, has a quick implementation, and resolves all the challenges that 3PLs and their customers face.
Recruitment process outsourcing is facing dramatic change in 2009. Not only is the pricing model changing, but even the definition of services is changing. The provider landscape is also shifting. This article takes you through the drivers for the ways RPO is evolving and where it’s headed in the future.
Neways, a multi-level marketing company, lacked staff with deep procurement skills. It chose to outsource the process to Smart Cube, an Indian supplier. The labor arbitrage saved 50 percent. But that’s not where the real value was; it was in the supplier’s vast domain knowledge.
Outsourcing made the Rocawear mo’ money, to quote a Jay-Z song. The outsourcing partnership grew the brand from $600,000 in sales to $10 million in seven years, doubling the business the first year. And in today’s plummeting economy, sales are up dramatically over last year. Read why.
Three years ago book publisher John Wiley & Sons was about to purchase Blackwell Publishers. The acquisition created a challenging situation for Wiley’s IT department: it had to keep its other businesses going before, during, and after the acquisition. But the publisher didn’t want to grow its internal IT staff. Offshoring was the answer.
The RPO team at Adecco helps Owens-Illinois find high-quality candidates more efficiently.
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