At Cisco Systems Inc., 95 percent of the contingent workforce is statement of work. It processes about 6,000 SOWs quarterly and 1,500 job postings, writes Melissa Finley Neal in a new post in The Staffing Stream. Neal, director of category and supplier management at Cisco, discusses how supplier specialization is a useful system. For the post, click here.

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