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Client Profile A global supplier of automotive components that has been serving the world's OEM and aftermarket for more than 100 years.
Issues/Challenges
- Management needed a long-term solution that provided both economic and strategic value
- Dissatisfaction with the incumbent selection process and results
- Experienced high turnover and elevated accident rates, negatively impacting the client's productivity as well as customer and employee satisfaction levels
- Inability to successfully meet fluctuating labor demands
- Needed to better deploy and utilize internal management and human resource functions for higher-impact initiatives
Solution Staff Management implemented Staff Flex, a part-time job-sharing staffing program, in the Packaging department to help minimize overtime costs; Staff Site, our full-time staffing program, for the Manufacturing department to work with the existing workforce; and developed a Blended Staffing Solution that offered a mix of full and part time labor in the Distribution department
Results
- Supplied more than 600,000 annual hours, and operated an on-site office 24 hours a day, 5 days a week
- The client realized more than $200,000 in savings due to reduction in overtime
- Training initiatives reduced client spending by $144 per new hire
- The client reached 114% of its productivity goal in the Packaging Department
- Reduced average weekly turnover by 29%
- Minimized client exposure by reducing accident/incident per hour rate by 52%
- Became a strategic tool to corporate management, allowing them to free internal resources to address the other operational demands of its fast-paced growth
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