Labour Supply Chain Efficiencies

Are your labour contracts generating tangible value for your business? Managing high volumes of contracts is not only time-consuming and complex, but can involve significant compliance, legal, financial, and security risks.
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Poor contract performance management

Limited focus on workforce management and plans

Market-led conditions impacting availability of supply

If underperforming contracts and lack of visibility of your labour supply chain are impacting your business efficiency and profit margins, it’s time to partner with MAD4.

We specialise in empowering businesses such as yours to create rapid change to optimise their resource management. Our proven and agile strategies ensure an ongoing supply of relevant resources to support your business needs of productivity, flexibility, and scalability.

The challenges

Managing the huge volume of contracts is not only time-consuming and complex, but can involve significant compliance, legal, financial, and security risks. According to an estimate, an average business loses 10 percent of its annual revenue due to poor contract management.

Improve distressed relationships

  • Move towards working in partnership
  • Management of performance and risks
  • Improve operational challenges
  • Focus on mutual benefits and efficiencies

Develop a workforce plan for continuity of supply

  • Improve pipeline of candidates
  • Plan according to real time needs
  • Deliver actionable insight through data
  • Drive consistency across all business areas

Mitigate against economic uncertainties

  • Standardisation of agency fees
  • Consistency on roles and rate cards
  • Minimise leakage spend on non-complaint contracts
  • Risk of penalties and increased costs

OUR AGILE SOLUTIONS

MAD4 presents a simple and effective way for CFOs, Operational Leaders and HR Leaders to address these challenges.

Having developed strategies and delivered outcomes for organisations such as your own, we have honed and perfected a contract management model that can be quickly and profitably implemented within your business.

We leverage our extensive experience to objectively review contracts across the labour supply chain and report back on their value to your company.

Our services:

  • Risk-based independent review of current contracts with recommendations for improvements
  • Dedicated procurement or contract negotiations from inception to implementation
  • Compliance and assurance requirements including IR35 requirements
  • Operational activities process mapped and embedded within the business
  • Commercial review of all options to drive future value and benefits realisation

Our tailored solutions allow you to focus on doing what you do best, improve efficiency, and increase profitability.

KEY BENEFITS

An average ROI of 3 times our costs within 12 months is just the beginning. In addition to rapidly increasing your profitability, our comprehensive processes indentify and shut down supply chain risks, reducing the pressure within your business.

Here is an overview of the benefits you can enjoy when you partner with MAD4:

  • Average ROI 3X our costs within 12 months
  • Scalable solution from small to major companies
  • Over 250 agencies reviewed and rationalised for customers
  • 12% P&L savings opportunities defined on total contract spend
  • Revenue Opportunities identified through improved operational processes

Agile, plug and play solution

Results-led approach

Agreed outcomes delivered in the defined timeframe

Tried and tested solutions provided by our team of experts

A customer-first and tailored approach

What makes us different?

01

A bespoke approach

MAD4 offers a more flexible, agile, and tailored model. We believe in taking a radically different approach to deliver the most significant positive impact on the efficiency of your estate. Our compact team can offer the right mix of flexibility, personalisation, and agility that exceed your expectations.

02

Short, high-impact intervention

Our team rapidly assesses your needs. It provides a short, high-impact intervention, delivering a clear set of outcomes in a defined time period, captured within a Statement-of-Work focused agreement.

03

An agile, digital plug-and-play solution

Our remote working model, supported by a dedicated worldwide network, produces results regardless of external events. We collaborate with your business securely and remotely for an efficient service tailored to deliver your needs.

04

Extensive experience

MAD4 has assembled an experienced team to provide consultation and delivery of solutions to drive estate efficiency. Underpinned by significant industry experience driving solutions to operational delivery, defining change impacts for business, customers, and colleagues.

05

Results-driven

Rather than a rate-card approach, we are results-led. We utilise the best people for each job stage to provide exceptional value and pace. We focus on getting the job done within the agreed timeframe and budget, adapting our approach to business challenges.

Case Study

Labour

Sustainable value through supplier rationalisation

Overview

  • Customer with post pandemic labour chain supply challenges, required an evaluation and reset of their supplier strategy, engagement, contractual and financial proposition
  • Managing large volumes of contigent labour contracts is not only time-consuming and complex
  • With resources at premium, relentness firefighting and absence of data clarity can obstruct your view of individual contracts
  • An uncontrolled HR supply chain presents an immediate risk which will lead to reputational, financial and legal penalties

MAD4 Approach

  • Implemented PMO to run multiple streams of work to manage stakeholders and project delivery 
  • Engaged with 40+ leaders to determine business led risk reduction strategy and requirement for successful suppliers
  • REP across national and global suppliers involved all business areas across the business
  • Savings opportunities of 10% of spend

Results

  • Timeline 6-month to review and identify robust, compliant and competitive suppliers
  • De-risk strategy of dual supplier achieved, improved relationship with exhisting supplier and new supplier proof-of-concept
  • Communication plan to roll-out across the business achieved and verified
  • Benefits strategy, calculation and realisation process agreed
  • Created and delivered process improvements to integrate IT systems and minimise manual work by front-line operators

WHAT OUR CUSTOMER SAY

At ISS we found MAD4 to be a truly values-led business. The whole team worked to understand our values, and this ensured that all delivery of projects aligned with both our OneISS values and strategy, this approach was refreshing. MAD4 were also focused on delivering through full collaboration and engagement with all areas of our business, ensuring that clear governance and risk management is embedded.

 The MAD4 team are a highly organised business and have demonstrated the ability to mobilise high quality colleagues at pace, who can work on highly sensitive time critical big projects and most important who deliver in full on time. 

 MAD4 are flexible, commercially astute, and are true problem solvers who have become a valued trusted supplier to ISS.

Sandy Lucas

ISS UK&I Board Member
People & Culture Director

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