Key Takeaways :

• Due to advancements in available online platforms and solutions, all companies and departments can take advantage of the features and benefits that digital transformation offers.
• While companies’ internal contractor prequalification and compliance programs have reduced minor injuries, they have done little to address serious injuries and fatalities, as they focus on meeting minimum safety requirements rather than ensuring effective safety systems.
• The use of contractors and subcontractors has grown exponentially as companies seek to take advantage of the cost savings they offer. However, most companies, both large and small, do not have the resources, money or time to effectively manage this ever-growing network of contractors and subcontractors on their own.
• As your company’s scope of clients and business grows, so does the need to meet both national and regional health and safety regulations, with the onus on your company to ensure compliance of all the contractors and subcontractors that you utilize.

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Introduction

Every year serious health and safety accidents and fatalities befall company workforces.  What is typically not reported is the dire effects these events have on the workers, their families, and the companies who are financially responsible, no matter if it was a direct employee, contractor,or subcontractor.  Despite advances in technology and safety programs, it is still the company’s responsibility to effectively manage their workplace safety while simultaneously achieving profitable results.

In this post, we’ll examine how these contract worker safety challenges can be easily managed by moving to a digital transformation of your supply chain.

Top Reasons for Digital Transformation of Your Supply Chain

The following lists a brief overview of why all companies, regardless of their size and scope of work, can benefit from managing their supply chain with the latest online solutions, such as Avetta.

1. Cost savings – Reduce costs by automating processes, improving efficiency and streamlining operations with reduced paperwork.
2. Operational efficiency – Digital tools allow you, your contractors, and subcontractors to all work from the same single source of information, saving time and money and reducing errors in miscommunication and information.
3. Improved productivity – With tight work deadlines and even tighter profit margins, any gains in productivity go right to the bottom line. Companies, no matter how large or small, can no longer pass on the benefits that digital transformation provides.
4. Enhanced decision-making – By utilizing the metrics that online digital offerings such as Avetta and the Avetta One solution provide, better decision making can be quickly unlocked.
5. Increased time savings – With both you and your supply chain all working from the same online solution, available anywhere and at any time, everyone involved has the same immediate access to the valuable information needed to assure compliance of all involved parties.
6. Skilled Digital Supply Chain – All parties will benefit from the experience gained by working in a digital process that provides timely and accurate information and direction to everyone at anytime from anywhere.

How To Begin Your Supply Chains Digital Transformation

No matter how many contractors and/or subcontractors you or your company manage, the idea of moving from manual spreadsheets and notepads is a daunting proposition, particularly if you are already inundated with too many tasks and responsibilities. Often, the responsibility for managing the supply chain falls on procurement professionals who now must concern themselves with health and safety requirements while meeting all of the other job requirements.

For many, they are only able to manage their supplier’s prequalification or past experience as the model for supplier safety, where companies screen potential suppliers based on past safety performance and safety policies. Though this is a helpful step to identify safe suppliers, it does not account for all the national and regional requirements, worker training and qualifications, or necessary documentation for meeting all national and regional requirements, both in the present and ongoing into the future.

By working with an offering such as Avetta and the Avetta One online digital supply chain management solution, companies both large and small can take advantage of all the benefits it provides for managing their supply chain’s health and safety requirements. With over 20 years of contractor health and safety management experience and a network of 130,000 global suppliers and 1.5 million contract workers, Avetta is expert at quickly and easily working with you to make all the challenges of this complex task a thing of the past. Our trained team of support experts will seamlessly be your resource for readily identifying, achieving, and reporting on all of your supply chain’s health and safety requirements. Once fully onboarded, the Avetta One application provides you, your company, and all of your suppliers with a central dependable and intuitive platform that all parties can faithfully rely on.

With the added benefit of a large network of fully vetted suppliers that you can resource on a geographic basis all provided on a very cost-effective basis, the time saved will more than justify the investment.

Conclusion

Due to expanding national and regional health and safety regulations and the consequences of not assuring those requirements are met by your supply chain, basic prequalification and compliance programs tracked on a manual basis, while important, are not enough to drive significant reductions in serious incidents and fatalities as well as protect your company from serious consequences. To truly improve workplace safety, organizations must move beyond their current antiquated processes and embrace the assurance and continual improvement that digital transformation platforms such as Avetta can provide.  By doing so, you can reduce risk, build safer workplaces, and create a proactive culture of health and safety for your company and all of your suppliers.

For organizations ready to move beyond traditional methods that cost time and money, Avetta offers the tools and insights needed to transform your supplier safety program. Now is the time to make the shift, improve safety performance, and protect your company, suppliers, and their workers from the hazards that could derail them, their jobs, and your company.

Digitally Transform Your Supply Chain Now!

If you would like to learn more about how your organization can easily achieve the digital transformation of your supply chain contractors and subcontractors, click here now to receive a free no obligation analysis of your current list of suppliers and discover how Avetta can manage your safety and compliance program at a fraction of your current costs in time and money.

Avetta is a SaaS software company providing supply chain risk management solutions. Avetta’s platform is trusted by over 130,000 suppliers in over 120 countries. Visit Avetta.com to learn how Avetta can help you go beyond the use of manual spreadsheets and antiquated costly processes to assure supply chain compliance and prequalification.

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