Ventive’s service chain software takes an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) approach to staffing solutions. Explains Ventive's Web site: "The services chain (or supply chain for services) encompasses the complex and distributed processes that connect managers, employees, and contractors of both hiring organizations and service-providers (vendors) in the services industry. While manufacturing organizations have relied on ERP and supply-chain software applications to manage the production and distribution of products, similar distributed solutions for service industries have not existed - until now."



Ventive's Service Chain Automation (SCA) technology divides the staffing world into "buyers," or organizations that procure staffing services, and "sellers," or suppliers that deliver these services. Ventive then uses its ERP premise to optimize supply chain processes between all relevant parties. Its solutions deliver real-time collaboration technology that automates and integrates both demand and supply-side, while enabling collaboration between multiple inter-dependent firms to manage services.