Avionté, a provider of front- and back-office software to staffing firms, acquired SimpleVMS, a vendor management system for midsize to large employers.

With the acquisition, Avionté aims to streamline the staffing process while helping to create a reliable supply chain of labor.

“This is a significant deal that serves to underline technological development in the workforce solutions ecosystem,” said Matt Norton, workforce solutions research director at SIA. “Both staffing firms and end clients are looking for efficiencies to reduce friction.”

The deal closed last week.

“Our goal is to create the fastest way from going to an employer, to a talent agency, to talent and back,” Avionté CEO Rishabh Mehrotra told SIA.

Avionté will bring together its software, along with its mobile app for employees, and SimpleVMS. It aims for employers to benefit from increased information and faster time-to-fill and for staffing firms to benefit through increased efficiency and reduction of duplicate work flows, Mehrotra said. The employees themselves will benefit via more visibility and information through Avionté’s mobile app, he said. Functionality on the app includes the ability for workers to choose their shifts and view paychecks.

“Our goal is to enable staffing firms to fill that job faster and a lot more efficiently than they have before,” Mehrotra said.

The sellers of SimpleVMS were its founders Jason Oswald and Scott Frost. They will remain with the company and continue to run SimpleVMS with Oswald as president of SimpleVMS and a member of Avionté’s executive committee. The VMS will operate as a division of Avionté.

“We now have the opportunity to create a seamless data integration that can push an employer’s requisition to the staffing agency and the talent’s mobile phone in near real time,” Oswald, CEO and co-founder of SimpleVMS, said in a press release. “This eliminates redundant data entry for staffing agencies while improving overall collaboration and responsiveness.”

Both Oswald and Frost are staffing industry veterans.

“We’re excited to see the change we can see in this industry by creating a reliable supply chain of labor and the benefits to employers and staffing companies and talent,” Mehrotra said.

Terms of the transaction were not announced.