Aug 1, 2024
•2 minute read
SAP Fieldglass
SAP Fieldglass focuses on external workforce management, services procurement, and contingent labor governance in SAP environments. SAP Fieldglass is SAP’s cloud-based vendor management system for managing contractors, contingent workers, and freelancers, with integrations into SAP Ariba for procure-to-pay and SAP SuccessFactors for total workforce management. The topic is relevant to HR, procurement, finance, IT, compliance, and operations leaders seeking better visibility into external spend, worker onboarding, supplier performance, assignment management, and workforce risk.
What is SAP Fieldglass?
SAP Fieldglass is a cloud-based vendor management system that helps organizations source, engage, manage, and pay external workers and service providers. It gives enterprises a centralized way to manage contingent workforce programs, services procurement, worker profiles, and assignments while connecting external labor activity to broader SAP processes. For SAP customers, Fieldglass supports total workforce management through SAP SuccessFactors and total spend management through SAP Ariba, helping organizations align talent access, procurement controls, compliance, and cost visibility.
SAP Fieldglass focuses on external workforce management, services procurement, and contingent labor governance in SAP environments. SAP Fieldglass is SAP’s cloud-based vendor management system for managing contractors, contingent workers, and freelancers, with integrations into SAP Ariba for procure-to-pay and SAP SuccessFactors for total workforce management. The topic is relevant to HR, procurement, finance, IT, compliance, and operations leaders seeking better visibility into external spend, worker onboarding, supplier performance, assignment management, and workforce risk.
What is SAP Fieldglass?
SAP Fieldglass is a cloud-based vendor management system that helps organizations source, engage, manage, and pay external workers and service providers. It gives enterprises a centralized way to manage contingent workforce programs, services procurement, worker profiles, and assignments while connecting external labor activity to broader SAP processes. For SAP customers, Fieldglass supports total workforce management through SAP SuccessFactors and total spend management through SAP Ariba, helping organizations align talent access, procurement controls, compliance, and cost visibility.
How do enterprises use SAP Fieldglass?
Managing contingent workers across business units
Enterprises use SAP Fieldglass to centralize contractor, freelancer, and temporary worker management across departments. This helps HR and procurement teams replace fragmented local processes with a single view of external headcount, assignments, onboarding status, and supplier activity.
Connecting external labor to procurement and finance
SAP Fieldglass helps organizations track external workforce spend as part of the broader procure-to-pay process. By integrating with SAP Ariba, companies can connect labor sourcing, approvals, invoices, and supplier management to procurement and finance workflows.
Supporting services procurement
Enterprises use SAP Fieldglass to manage service providers and statement-of-work-based engagements. This gives procurement teams better control over deliverables, supplier performance, approvals, and spend tied to project-based work rather than only individual contingent workers.
Reducing compliance and workforce risk
SAP Fieldglass supports configurable workflows, compliance checks, onboarding and offboarding controls, and visibility into workforce metrics. These capabilities help organizations address risks related to worker classification, access management, financial reporting, operational governance, and external workforce accountability.
Integrating external workforce data with SAP systems
SAP-centric organizations use Fieldglass alongside SAP SuccessFactors, SAP Ariba, and SAP S/4HANA to connect external workforce activity with HR, procurement, and ERP data. Energy Queensland, for example, integrated SAP Fieldglass with SAP S/4HANA to improve contractor sourcing, procurement, reporting, spend visibility, and invoice tracking.
Where does SAP Fieldglass emerge in SAPinsider research?
De-Risk Your Contingent Workforce Strategy with SAP Fieldglass highlights why external workforce governance is becoming a strategic concern, noting that 92% of companies are increasing reliance on contingent labor and that 41% of executives lack clear visibility into their external workforce.
Procurement’s Top 10 Transformation Initiatives positions SAP Fieldglass within procurement transformation, where teams face an 8.8% productivity gap and an 8.9% efficiency gap while prioritizing data analytics, talent management, and flexible workforce access.
Energy Queensland: Lighting up communities by transforming the sourcing and management of highly specialized skilled labor shows SAP Fieldglass in practice, with SAP Fieldglass and SAP S/4HANA helping reduce sourcing and procurement processing time by more than 60% and cut process steps from nine to three.
How SAP’s Embedded AI is Revolutionizing Procurement ProcessesIn a rapidly changing global economy, companies must leverage every advantage they can to work more effectively, minimize disruptions, and plan for the future. More and more, companies are recognizing AI is a potent solution to overcome many of the issues they struggle with on a daily basis.
AI adoption has been uneven across different departments and procurement professionals have some of the lowest AI usage rates. As many organizations are unsure of how to find and deploy the right solutions to meet their business needs, SAP has started embedding AI into spend management and procurement solutions like SAP Ariba, SAP Fieldglass and SAP Business Network. These enhancements enable SAP users to grow their AI familiarity and capabilities at their own pace, automating workflows and increasing efficiency.
Capgemini’s Key to Managing Its External WorkforceIn this case study, we are looking at how Capgemini was able to overhaul the way it manages its global workforce. With employees and offices around the world, the organization needed end-to-end visibility into its external workforce. Managing such a large and disparate team can be difficult. To help solve the issue, Capgemini turned to SAP Fieldglass Contingent Workforce Management.
You will learn how Capgemini leveraged the solution to help acquire the best talent in different regions, streamline its compensation functions into a single application, and install a single solution enterprise-wide. This solution helped Capgemini fill gaps, gain insights, reduce costs, improve business controls, and mitigate risk.
Jun 9, 2023
•1 minute read
Gig Economy Is the Future of WorkContributing Editor: John Yuva, SAPinsider The gig economy is part of a broader concept referred to as the distributed workforce or remote workers who are distributed across locations outside of a traditional workplace, with gig workers representing a subset who work on specific projects or execute specific tasks for a defined period of time. The […]
Sep 21, 2021
•1 minute read
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