

SAP Fieldglass is part of SAP’s focus to integrate its cloud offerings.Knowing what your company spends on external labor can help your company figure out if it is using external labor correctly and make it easier to plan budgets overall. SAP has tied SAP Fieldglass to SAP Ariba as part of Total Spend Management because it identified customers’ need to track total spend on all procurement - whether it be for labor, services, or goods. Untracked spending on external labor impacts the bottom line.Making it easier for your employees to bring external labor aboard with a VMS system like SAP Fieldglass can help provide consistent, positive experiences for your total workforce. Finding good contractors may be an essential option, with labor being harder to come due to the Great Resignation. In our recent HR Technology State of the Market report, adoption of contingent and contract labor management tools was more common than traditional HR tools such as compensation and onboarding. Identify your need for contingent or contract labor and the tools you need to provide positive experiences for those roles.Key SAP Fieldglass Considerations for SAPinsiders Total Workforce Management integration with SAP SuccessFactors.Procure-to-Pay integration with SAP Ariba.SAP Fieldglass Worker Profile Management.SAP Fieldglass Contingent Workforce Management.Tools and functionality within the SAP Fieldglass VMS include: The lack of a central view of external work makes it hard for these companies to track total spend and know if they are spending efficiently. Many companies manage external workers without centralization, often on a department-by-department basis. The importance of functionality in a VMS like SAP Fieldglass has been amplified in recent years as external labor becomes more common in the “Gig Economy.” Businesses may be more likely to fill roles through external sources, and more workers are freelance as a career. It also integrates with other SAP cloud solutions - with SAP Ariba to form a Procure-to-Pay suite and with SAP SuccessFactors to form Total Workforce Management. SAP Fieldglass manages external labor such as contractors, contingent workers, and freelancers. SAP Fieldglass is SAP’s cloud-based vendor management system (VMS) for supporting external workforce management and procurement.
