Your relocation management company is only as good as the supply chain it relies on to move your highly-valued employees. And today it seems there are more hands involved in the process than ever before. In fact, as talent deployment grows increasingly critical to business growth, C-suite and procurement professionals have voiced concern that the workforce mobility supply chain has become too fractured, with too many touch points and unnecessary complexity bringing increased risk.
In response, we’ve worked to eliminate supply chain management layers, taking steps toward vertically integrating our supply chain and building organizational core competencies. By performing more key mobility functions in-house and building stronger performance-tracking parameters around our key suppliers, we can maintain greater point-to-point accountability over every transfer, boosting speed, efficiency and employee satisfaction and productivity, while delivering an unrivaled value proposition.
This is a philosophy we have embraced since 2005, when we acquired PwC’s Global Mobility practice, integrating specialized international tax and compensation expertise into our Assignment Management Services team. It continued to evolve with the 2013 launch of Weichert Real Estate Support Services (WRESS), which brought two critical components of the mobility process—title and closing services–in-house. This makes us makes us less reliant on outside vendors while maximizing accountability and efficiency.
We also offer our industry’s broadest range of in-house tax capabilities, including tax preparation for domestic and international assignees, tax consulting and tax compliance services.
For our suppliers, we maintain the industry’s highest standards for performance monitoring, using the balanced Scorecard and the globally-recognized Supply Chain Operations Reference model (SCOR) to link business processes and performance metrics. We also conduct an annual Supplier Risk Assessment—a proprietary, comprehensive analysis of our suppliers’ financial health and performance metrics—to ensure that they can continue to provide uninterrupted service to our clients and their employees.
Our vigilant supply-chain management practices enable us to control more elements, resulting in better service, lowered risk and reduced costs. And we’ll continue to seek new ways to expand the breadth and depth of our core competencies so we can better serve our clients and their mobile employees.