Beeline is enhancing the integration between its vendor management system and its OnForce online staffing operation it acquired last year.

“OnForce will now be ‘plugged into’ Beeline’s VMS to give enterprises an option for self-sourcing workers,” David Francis, research associate at Staffing Industry Analysts, writes in The Staffing Stream. “This means when a company (or its MSP) inputs a requisition through Beeline’s VMS, they will now have the option — in addition to sending the requisition to staffing agencies — to send an invitation to apply for that job directly to independent workers.”

Francis sums it up: “At the end of the day, the integration of a direct-to-talent platform into a VMS is an important innovation signaling the evolution of the contract labor ecosystem.”

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