Glossary terms: C

Term

Definition

Product

CAC

Cost Allocation Code; converged term is allocation code.

CAM

Customer Account Manager (acronym)

The application-based role required to support a particular client. Individuals are listed as the CAM on a requisition in the IQN platform. On Managed Service Provider accounts, the CAM is referred to as a Sourcing Consultant.

Candidate

The talent submitted manually or by automated matching to a requisition for an open position in the Beeline platform. An applicant for a job who has been prequalified for temp or fulltime consideration.

Also used to distinguish an individual from a pool of unqualified applicants.

Contingent Staffing

Services Procurement

Candidate Compare

Feature was sunset EOY 2020. Candidate Compare is replaced by the Candidate Evaluation module, which had General Availability on October 26, 2019.

Beeline feature that allows a user to filter the list of talent, view talent details, compare skills, certifications, tenure, and a number of other attributes helping them to see how all of the talent stacks up against one another.

Contingent Staffing

Candidate Management tool

A report that provides information on Candidates.

Contingent Staffing

Candidate Masking

Process where talent’s name and information cannot be legally used, such as in France or Japan.

Contingent Staffing

Capabilities

What a supplier can and cannot support.

Services Procurement

Catalog

An indexed list of all items presented for use by the buyer and representing the sum of all supplier units available for purchase.  These items represent various unit types, including worker roles, milestones, fixed units, or anything that can be inventoried and presented in a unit x price calculation for buyer consumption.

Services Procurement

Category

Industry, geography, level (Jr, Sr, etc.), job family.

Contingent Staffing

CCPN

See Certified Curation Partner Network.

CDF

Client-Defined Fields (initialism)

This term replaces User-Defined Field (UDF).

A section or field in the application a client uses to record any additional required information for which a standard field is unavailable in the application. CDFs are used to capture client-specific information pertinent to the decision making or the approval process throughout the procurement lifecycle. CDFs can be made available on various system transactions.

Certified Curation Partner Network

CCPN (initialism)

Curation partners who are certified on TalentNet's application.

Change Management

Process for making changes to the request

Contingent Staffing

Change Order

Work added to or deleted from the original scope of work of a contract. Depending on the magnitude of the change, it may or may not alter the original contract amount and/or completion date. A change order may force a new project to handle significant changes to the current project.

Services Procurement

Change Request

CR (initialism)

A ticket submitted by Client Services or Implementation on the behalf of a client requesting development for features or enhancements for which an acceptable workaround is unavailable.

Chatbot

A computer program or an artificial intelligence which conducts a conversation via auditory or textual methods.

Services Procurement

Clause Library

Beeline's Feature where terms and conditions are collected/managed for use on a SOW (typically pre-approved by Legal)

Services Procurement

Client

aka Buyer; converged term is Client.

Beeline's client, such as Home Depot, NCR, Western Union. 

Community

Beeline's private online community for its clients and partners. 

IQN's legacy online community was called I-ON. I-ON was replaced by the Beeline Community in Fall 2017.

Compensation

Talent pay, including allowances, per-diem and travel.

Contingent Staffing

Competitive Bid

A process of issuing a public bid with the intent that companies will put together their best proposal and compete for a specific project. By law, this process is required for every government agency that issues a bid. Competitive bidding creates a transparent environment that is open and fair.

Services Procurement

Competitively Sourced

Describes a requisition released to multiple suppliers.

Client Onboarding

Compliance and Certification Management

CCM (initialism)

Feature that determines what compliance items are required for a requisition.

Contingent Staffing

Configuration

The combination of settings, conditions, roles and features that define a client's Beeline platform.

Client Onboarding

Configuration Requirement Document

CTD (initialism)

A technical requirements document for configuration changes on which a client signs off to initiate a site build out

Client Onboarding

Consultant

A contract worker on a consulting services engagement or Statement of Work (SOW) project.

Do not interchange consultant with the terms contract worker, contractor or contingent worker.

Contextualized Analytics

Using data to prevent known and unknown problems

Contingent Staffing

Contingent Staffing

An umbrella term referring to the combination of software and services used to streamline and manage the “req-to-check” temporary staffing processes.

Services Procurement

Contingent Worker

aka contract workers, contractors, temp-to-hire, or workers.

Individuals who accept work on a contractual basis. A worker on an assignment for a client who is typically paid hourly and reports to the client’s hiring manager.

Contingent Workforce Management

An umbrella term that refers to the combination of software and services used to streamline and manage the “req-to-check” temporary staffing processes.

Contingent Workforce Management (CWM) processes typically include: requisition, approval, release, sourcing, evaluation, onboarding, management, payment, offboarding, and performance evaluation of the contingent workforce. Duties may also include quality and performance management of workforce suppliers.

Contingent Workforce Solution

CWS (initialism)

Obsolete term for the Beeline platform included the Beeline platform, a Managed Service Provider (MSP) or a Program Management Office (PMO), Analytics and Business Intelligence, Services Procurement, Resource Tracking, and Professional Services.

Contract Lifecycle Management

CLM (initialism)

Streamlines management of each contract, making it easier for companies to deal with tens to thousands of vital contracts that affect their business and could expose them to risk.

Services Procurement

Contractors

aka contingent t workers, temp-to-hire, or workers.

Individuals who accept work on a contractual basis. A worker on an assignment for a client who is typically paid hourly and reports to the client’s hiring manager.

Contractual Amendment

A change that impacts scope, timelines and financials

Services Procurement

Cost Allocation

The process of identifying, aggregating, and assigning costs to one or more cost objects.

Those selected cost objects carry over to the assignment and then to the billing where the invoiced amount for the assignment is split across each of the cost objects according to their cost allocation option: percentage, unit or amount. Cost allocations can be amended.

Contingent Staffing

Services Procurement

Cost Allocation Code

CAC (IQN acronym)

A client-determined value that specifies how the client plans to allocate and report on costs within its financial organization

Client Onboarding

Cost Center

User Interface fields that map to the client's internal accounting charge codes, designating which charge codes a contractor can bill their time against, based on whatever the hiring manager has designated for that contractor on their assignments or project billing. 

Keeping close track of the expenses of operating using a cost center allows an organization to control total costs, allocate resources more strategically, and calculate profitability on a product or department basis. Tracking costs by function allows clients to allocate scarce resources wisely.

Also, a Beeline platform organizational hierarchy used to allocate objects (requests, assignments, projects) and spend to specific client cost centers and business units.

Customer

aka Buyer; converged term is Client.

Beeline's client, such as Home Depot, NCR, Western Union. Beeline doesn't refer to clients as customers.

Change Request

CR (initialism)

A ticket submitted by Client Services or Implementation on the behalf of a client requesting development for features or enhancements for which an acceptable workaround is unavailable.

Craft Labor

A specific trade or category of Craft Labor, such as ironworkers, pipefitters, journeymen and operators, or especially skilled sub-categories within a craft employed by the Contractor or Subcontractors for the construction of the Project.

Services Procurement

Credentials

aka compliance package

A set of certifications that permit a contractor to work at a job or location.

Credit

Providing payment back to the supplier.

Services Procurement

Curation

Review of talent pool to ensure the quality of the talent through community management app matches expectations.

Contingent Staffing

Curator

A user who is responsible for creating and curating an organization's talent experience from acquisition to onboarding and offboarding. Curators can manage the talent pipeline, identify current and future hiring needs, prepare role profiles, advertise job openings, generate longlist and conduct initial interviews.

Contingent Staffing

Custom Reporting

IQN's reporting module that allows users to create a customized report by choosing a data source, and then choosing the parameters and format.

Similar to Beeline's Report Builder.

CWM

Contingent Workforce Management (initialism)

See Contingent Workforce Management