Manufacturing Industry
Electronics giant centralizes contract labor buy online. (Texas Instruments).(Brief Article)
Purchasing, February, 2002 by Hannon, David
The cyclical nature of the semiconductor business makes it prone to staffing changes. When business is up, hiring is frenzied and contract labor is in high demand. When times are bad, layoffs are common and contract labor is minimized. Keeping track of the comings and goings of these temporary employees can be difficult if the data are not centralized.
Texas Instruments of Dallas was certainly victim to those hiring tends in the early 1990s. At times, TI could not hire fast enough, nor could it gather the information it wanted on its contract hires, many of which had already worked for TI in the past.
"We needed to track things such as when the contractor worked here last and what we paid that contractor," says Luther Harris, director of...
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