Glossary terms: B

Term

Definition

Product

Background Check

The process a person or company uses to verify that an individual is who they claim to be, and that provides an opportunity to assess and confirm the validity of someone's criminal record, education, employment history, and other activities from their past. Background checks are usually performed on a candidate during the hiring process.

Beeline Enterprise: Functionality for Onboard called "Onboarding Checklist". A specified Payment Request option for the cost a supplier incurs to perform a background check on talent, usually completed before the start of an effective assignment.

Contingent Staffing

Beeline ID

An identification number (or letter/number combination) a supplier uses to track their workers. The ID format is defined by the client.

Beeline Processing Service

A Windows service used to handle long running tasks in an asynchronous fashion to ensure a responsive and performant user interface. The Buyer Processing Service (BPS) handles specific processes required for cleanup, validation, workflow (approval) instance creation, and tracking.

Contingent Staffing

Beeline Workflows

How a process is routed to an approval or rejection through Beeline Enterprise. 

Bid

The supplier’s response to a Competitive Bid.

Services Procurement

Bill Rate

The monetary amount charged to a client that reflects the rate the supplier is paid. The bill rate is the amount independent professionals charge clients pre-taxes, fees, and discounts.

Billing Cost Center

aka Bill to Cost Center

The cost center charged or billed for an assignment to which funds are paid. Each assignment record has only one primary cost center, but a contract worker can enter time against multiple cost centers on their timesheet at time entry.

Billing Schedule

This is the defined period after which all timesheets are gathered to create an invoice. This can vary depending on client preference. Examples include weekly, calendar month, and business month (for example, 4-4-5).

Billing Shift

This is the time period in a given day which are designated as worked time. Based on the time period in a given day, the worker may be paid at a different rate, for example, regular time, overtime, holiday time.

Billing Terms

The category used to bill fees against an assignment. The billing term drives the Beeline fee, so it could be a reduced fee for grandfathered assignments or a different fee for payroll purposes. Predefined fees can be categorized depending on the type of labor or how the workers were sourced.

Billing term categories can be associated with up to four fee types: Beeline, MSP, Client Human Resources Division, and Client Admin. Billing Term Categories are required on Requests & Assignments. Fees can be applied to timesheets, milestones and miscellaneous fees. Fees are not applied to expenses.

Billing term categories are available during SOW creation/editing (when adding billing terms), on rate cards or pricing templates, and in invoice generation and reporting structures.

Billing term categories are set up by Enterprise personnel during site implementation. Billing term categories are managed by Enterprise personnel only.

Billing Term Categories on an assignment can be updated and effective dated through the standard assignment amendment process by a program office user. 

Blanket Purchase Order

Aka blanket order, blanket purchase agreement, call-off order

An offer from the client to its supplier allowing multiple delivery dates over a period of time. Frequently negotiated to take advantage of predetermined pricing when there’s a recurring need for expendable goods.

Services Procurement

Bots

A software application that runs automated tasks over the Internet. Typically, bots perform simple and structurally repetitive tasks at a higher rate than would be possible for a human alone.

Services Procurement

BRO

Business Rules Organization

A type of organization unit where business rules/policies and reference data have been executed.

BTE

Beeline Time and Expense system

Beeline's time tracking system included as a module within Beeline Enterprise. Most clients use BTE; however, some clients choose to use their existing time system. In those circumstances, that client imports time on a regular basis to facilitate the consolidated invoicing process.

BU

Business Unit

A fully functional component of a business with its own vision and direction.

Bulk

Process for selecting records that can then be processed as a group rather than on an individual basis.

Business Area

An area of business, a category of business, a project or shared service within a client's organization used to group Functional Partitions.
 

Business Case

A justification for a proposed project or undertaking on the basis of its expected commercial benefit.

Services Procurement