Advantage Human Resourcing Media Alert: Requisitioning Staff by eProcurement: Success Dependent on Adding "High Touch" to "High Tech" Process.

Business Editors

NORWALK, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 30, 2002

What will they think of next? We can buy everything else off the Internet. Now companies can even "order" their workforce electronically.

It's called eProcurement and more and more companies are "eBuying" into the concept. It's fast, efficient, and gives a high tech buff to a process that historically has been cumbersome. But there is a catch. What's missing is the human touch to a human situation. After all, it is not in a company's best interest to totally rely on a resume or an electronic key word search to identify the "right" candidate. Recruiters and applicants still need to meet in person and spend time together to determine the candidate's attitude or motivation, or alignment with the corporate environment and culture ("fit").

eProcurement is a powerful technology-based tool in the recruiting and hiring process. But human relationships still remain critical to creating a productive workforce. What companies in the vanguard of the eProcurement process have found is that "High Touch" (human interventions) must accompany "High Tech."

Advantage Human Resourcing is a key player in providing eProcurement solutions to corporations, successfully establishing just the right blend of high tech and high touch for optimal staffing results. We would be pleased to offer our expertise to:

- Provide an interview with our technology or staffing experts based on
real-life examples for an article that you may be developing in the staffing or
technology area.

- Create a feature or side-bar with a step-by-step "how to" for establishing an
eProcurement process, including critical success factors for implementation and
ongoing management, and "best practices" of companies that enjoy the advantages
of eProcurement.

- Provide a fully developed article on the complexities and advantages of
requisitioning staff by eProcurement, including:

1. What exactly is eProcurement as it relates to the staffing

process? It is the ability to requisition Talent

electronically from back office staff to high-level

executives. A company utilizes an eProcurement system in order

to gain efficiencies by streamlining various processes,

putting controls around purchasers and vendors, and better

managing costs.

2. How to effectively integrate High Touch with High Tech.

Integrating eProcurement effectively into workforce management

strategies, and with various staffing models.

3. The overall advantages to the company, including increased

quality and efficiency, and the control and reduction of

expenses.

4. Costs associated with eProcurement versus paper-based

procurement procedures, and the impact of an effective

eProcurement strategy on the bottom line.