24 Jun Ready to go global? How a VMS built on Salesforce Supports Your Growth
How can organizations expand globally while managing contingent labor with compliance and control?
For most leaders, global growth is more than strategic ambition – it’s a critical plan to ensure resilience and flexibility. As organizations seek to diversify and future-proof their revenue streams against economic fluctuations and slowdowns, finding a path in existing or brand-new markets offers the potential of lowered costs, enhancing brand visibility and positioning it as a serious player in global workforce management on a competitive world stage.
But expansion comes with its own set of obstacles. Here’s what to watch for, and how to stay ahead.
5 Potential challenges of going global (and what to do to get ahead of them)
Global organizational expansion unlocks growth and success, especially in global workforce management, but it’s not without its challenges.
- Communication barriers: Time zone differences, language differences, or even cultural differences can pose issues in collaboration and communications.
- Use a centralized platform and tools that improve workflows and talent sourcing between departments and cross-cultural communication.
- Data security: Global operations can increase the chance of exposure to data privacy leaks
- Choose platform solutions that prioritize enterprise-grade security and local data residency options.
- Compliance risks: Every region and country have its own labor laws, tax regulations, and privacy and compliance standards.
- Ensure your organization is deploying solutions with built-in compliance support in any geographical location you source and manage contingent talent.
- Project management complexity: Managing multiple teams and workers across different geographies, languages, time zones and expectations becomes more complicated and demands extra layers of coordination and flexibility.
- Ensure your workforce management solution enables your team to leverage automation and real time reporting in easy to understand and easy to manage dashboards that span the entirety of your expanding workforce.
- Talent sourcing and quality control: Global rate fluctuations, crossed/misunderstood skills needs and inconsistent talent quality can quickly derail plans and bottleneck project timelines.
- Use smart rate benchmarking and supplier performance tracking to optimize your sourcing endeavors and quickly choose between the best service providers.
How Salesforce enables organizations to go global quickly and safely
Salesforce empowers organizations to go global by offering the infrastructure needed to scale quickly and efficiently. With fast access to a broad talent pool, businesses can tap into specialized expertise across regions, accelerating time to market. Its cloud-based model reduces overhead and operational costs, while supporting seamless scalability as growth demands evolve.
Flextrack’s Platform as a Service (PaaS) architecture enables enterprises to adapt and scale their contingent workforce programs globally. Flextrack is built on the Salesforce lightning platform, which means Salesforce’s language, currency, data privacy, compliance, and local data centers are all automatically part of the Flextrack global toolkit. Salesforce enables global workforce management by offering secure, scalable infrastructure that ensures compliance, talent alignment, and data protection across geographies. Localization is more than just that, however. It requires adapting workflows and adjusting calculations to comply with diverse local regulations and changing markets.
How Salesforce Powers Global Workforce Expansion
- Centralized secure platform for managing data, streamlining processes, enabling collaboration across teams.
- Processing languages for improved communication and cooperation across countries and teams.
- Analytics and AI capabilities for improved reporting and data processing.
EXAMPLE: Salesforce’s $8 Billion dollar acquisition of Informatica highlights their dedication to constant improvement in the space of data and Artificial Intelligence - Improved customer relationships through the flexibility of a platform that drives better decision-making and connections.
- A user experience built on the latest standards with Salesforce UX/UI.
Salesforce solves scaling and change with the power of data control
As the world’s leading customer relationship management (CRM) platform, Salesforce brings together organizations and talent in strong, flexible connections that span across borders.
- Development: Developing custom applications that integrate with systems and the flexibility of building new features.
- Customizations and Configurations: Seamless adoption processes guide organizations through growth and change – workflows, setting configurations.
- Customer support: Always available and ready to support leaders and teams, especially when it comes to training staff on data management practices to improve quality.
- Testing and data quality assurance: From duplicate management, standard matching rules, to duplicate prevention and error logs for duplicate rules, Salesforce spends BILLIONS of dollars to keep its services secure, flexible, and ready for expansion.
- Superior tools created for growth: Tools like Tableau powering customer relationship management with advanced analytics and latest AI development.
- Apps, tools, and services created for connection: Natively built on the platform, tools like Data Cloud takes your data from spreadsheets to real-time insights and future-proof action.
Where Flextrack fits: global workforce management by design
As a result of being built on Salesforce, Flextrack is capable of enabling global workforce management by quickly standing up capabilities and workflows by country for external workforce-specific requirements when needed without having to address core infrastructure requirements by locality.
Flextrack partners with workforce consultants, MSPs, and legal teams to ensure that we are always up to date on current legislation and local requirements in order to support expansion, and our adjustable workflow engine, Flow Builder, allows for updating workflows in days, not months, with little or no reliance on IT while keeping up with legislative and regulatory changes. Our AI-powered advanced analytics and reporting capabilities enable rapid, up-to-date monitoring or compliance, talent success, and allows for timely action – all from one place.
6 standard global capabilities of Flextrack
The core of the Flextrack solution is a multi-geographic, purpose-built architecture that enables complex organizations to grow at speeds and breadths that work for them. Designed for multi-tier reporting and complete global oversight, Flextrack supports contingent workforce management across borders and functions, ensuring consistency, visibility, and control whether you’re managing a single region or scaling across continents.
While we offer a wide range of customizable capabilities to meet your unique needs, here are a few foundational features that come standard to what a VMS of our caliber is able to provide:
- Localized finance configuration
Automate country, state, and/or local tax compliance with out-off-the-box global finance capabilities, Flextrack is designed to allow for local-specific financial configuration with a global roll-up. Users have access to over 250 currencies and pre-built integrations with global tax table solution provider Vertex. - Architecture that’s based on precision
Enabled permission allocation (down to the field level) allows anyone to configure and apply the appropriate levels of control and security when it comes to data sharing within teams.
- Data privacy
Flextrack leverages Salesforce’s heavy investments in local data protection laws, including GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, and others. This commitment to complying with data protection laws and maintaining new data privacy legislation as it emerges is provided by the Salesforce Lightning platform.
- Flexible workflows
Designed to accommodate all types of labor throughout different geographies, cost centers, approval chains, time zones, and expense entry requirements, Flextrack’s workflows are ideally suited for the needs of an organization that requires a global workforce. Our built-in configuration engine is capable of handling all types of procurement workflows, including sourced resources, agency-sourced resources, payrolled resources, SOW resources, or any resources engaged by you or your specific supplier. - Global infrastructure
Operating on AWS, Flextrack has the capability to customize where an organization’s data is hosted from anywhere in the world, letting us meet data localization needs. - Multi-language capabilities
Flextrack offers three levels of language support, fully supported languages, end-suer languages, and platform-only languages, allowing users to select what they need. Currently, Flextrack supports over 200 different languages.
Ready to go global? Discover how Flextrack supports growing confidently with control, compliance, security, and speed.
