Elevate VMS · Modern Release

Everything your contingent program needs.
In one intelligent platform.

Elevate VMS unifies requisitions, suppliers, submissions, engagements, timesheets, and invoicing: with MEL available at every step. Automation first, judgment always: MEL clears the manual work while your team keeps the decisions. One app in the Elevate suite, built for mid-market and enterprise programs managing $10M–$500M in annual contingent spend.

20+
Years of mid-market & enterprise leadership
7
User personas supported
40+
MEL workflow tools
95%
Customer retention
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Core Modules

Every workflow your program needs,
in one platform.

Requisitions

AI-Guided Intake

Paste a JD, get a structured req. MEL extracts skills, rates, location, margin analysis. Workflow approvals by role and threshold.

Submissions

Candidate Pipeline

Resume parsing, AI match scoring, candidate comparison, interview self-scheduling, offer management.

Engagements

Active Worker Management

Rate management, task tracking, extensions, amendments, performance reviews, contractor profiles.

Time & Expense

Approval Workflows

Contractor timesheet entry, manager review, AI exception flagging, multi-period consolidation, expense receipts.

Financials

Invoicing & Payment

11-state invoice lifecycle, VMS fee handling, tax overrides, supplier payment orchestration, audit log.

Analytics

PMO Dashboards

Real-time spend, supplier scorecards, aging analysis, SLA monitoring, executive reporting.

Services

Statements of Work

Sourcing through vendor payment for services engagements: rule-based approvals, combinable billing models, and live budget tracking with a Do Not Exceed guardrail.

Multi-Tenant Architecture

Built for networks of clients and suppliers.

Elevate operates on a network model: network owner (the PMO), multiple client entities, and a curated supplier ecosystem. Every user, every workflow, every report respects perspective: client, supplier, resource, or admin.

  • 4 user perspectives · owner, client, vendor, resource
  • Per-client program configuration (rates, fees, payment terms)
  • Tiered supplier assignment with auto-invite rules
  • Privilege system on top of roles for granular control
Network Architecture
◆ Network Owner
PMO, facilitating workflow between clients and suppliers
▣ Client Entities
Acme Corp · Vertex Industries · Northwind Logistics · TechServ
▲ Supplier Network
Tiered suppliers · 12 assigned to Acme, 8 to Vertex
● Resources
Active contractors · timesheet entry only
Financials Engine

An invoice lifecycle
that actually works.

Eleven invoice states from draft through client-paid to vendor-paid. VMS fee math in integer cents (no floating-point drift), tax override persistence, and a full audit log on every status change.

  • Ready-to-invoice dashboard aggregating approved timesheets
  • Discount-from-supplier or markup VMS fee modes per client
  • Withheld timecards workflow for disputes
  • Supplier payments (ven_pay) for PMO-managed payouts
  • PDF generation + email delivery + CSV export
Invoice Lifecycle · 11 States
draftpendingvms-approvedsubmittedclient-approvedpartial-paidrejectedclient-paidvendor-paidvendor-receivedvoid

Every status change logged to inv_sts_log with actor, timestamp, and reason. Six privilege codes control who can do what.

Services & SOW

Statements of work,
governed like everything else.

Agreement terms, conditions and pricing for services vary widely across locations and providers. SOW management brings the whole services lifecycle into the same platform as your contingent labor: standardized terms, real-time budget control, and approvals that route themselves.

  • Rule-based approval workflows: routing determined automatically by project value, region, or cost center
  • Flexible billing models: payment requests, deliverables-based, or resource-based T&M, combined on one engagement
  • SOW budget management: spend tracked live against approved budget, with a Do Not Exceed project type
  • Stand-alone SOW creation: services created independently of the RFP workflow, for sole-source and renewals
  • Real-time reporting: project status, budget utilization and supplier performance through the query tools
Services Project Lifecycle
① Project Sourcing
RFQ generation & distribution · proposal submission and evaluation · contract award
② Project Management
Deliverable review & approval · T&M time and expense · rate and task management · onboarding / offboarding
③ Vendor Management
Consolidated invoicing · milestone and deliverable payment · supplier scorecarding · contract management
Billing Models · combinable per project
payment requestdeliverablestime & materialsdo not exceed
Already running another VMS?

Switching does not have to take a year.

Industry-typical VMS replacements run six to twelve months. Our Frictionless Migration Program is built around a 30-day path to live, and it starts with an X-Ray of your own data.

Personas

One platform. Seven personas.

MEL adapts to who you are: surfacing what matters for your role, hiding what doesn't.

Client-Side

Hiring Manager

Creates reqs, reviews candidates, approves timesheets. MEL surfaces aging reqs and pending approvals.

Client-Side

Project Manager

Tracks team spend, extensions, engagements. Budget dashboards, burn analysis, workforce plan.

Supplier

Account Manager

Finds open reqs, submits candidates, tracks placements across multiple client programs.

Supplier

Recruiter

Candidate pool management, resume parsing, bench matching, submission prep.

Resource

Contractor

Timesheet entry, expense submission, schedule view, profile. Mobile-first.

PMO

Program Manager

Single pane of glass: spend analytics, supplier scorecards, compliance tracking, SLA breaches.

PMO

Financials Admin

Invoice lifecycle, supplier payments, adjustments, tax overrides, audit log review.

Admin

Superadmin

Tenant configuration, user provisioning, integration management, security controls.

vs. Legacy & Alternatives

The best of both worlds.

The Old Way

Built for Fortune 500

  • ×6–12 month implementation
  • ×AI added as afterthought
  • ×Designed for enterprise complexity
  • ×Chatbot bolted onto old UI
AI Startup VMS

No Track Record

  • ×Unproven in production
  • ×AI-first but no domain depth
  • ×No analyst recognition
  • ×Unknown implementation risk
Elevate VMS

Best of Both Worlds

  • Weeks to go-live, not quarters
  • AI-first from the ground up
  • Everest Group recognized
  • Two decades of mid-market and enterprise expertise

Modernize without starting over.

See a personalized demo of Elevate VMS tailored to your program size, supplier network, and financial workflows.