8 Common External Workforce Challenges and How to Solve them
Find out how global companies such as Northwestern Mutual, Philips, Siemens, and Nestle Purina conquered their contingent workforce challenges with transformative results.
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The modern workforce is experiencing a seismic shift. Employees now represent only 58% of workforce spend, with the other 42% going to external resources* – contingent workers like independent contractors and freelancers as well as services providers like consulting firms or marketing agencies.
*Sources: Services Procurement Insights: The Big Reveal and Contingent Workforce Insights: Expertise in Full Force
SAP Fieldglass is a cloud-based, open Vendor Management System (VMS) that helps organizations find, engage, manage, pay, and unlock more value from this growing external workforce – anywhere in the world. With our future-focused platform, you can:
- Proactively manage everything from costs and compliance to security, quality of work, and more.
- Leverage a connected ecosystem of global talent and partners to stay ahead of the competition.
- Adapt the solution to your needs in a seamless, end-to-end experience.
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- Invest in a long-standing, industry-leading solution
- Boost ROI with active management
- Deploy globally in more than 180 countries
- Gain visibility, reporting, and analytics
- See how innovation is in our DNA
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Find, engage, manage, and pay via our connected ecosystem that enables customers to work seamlessly with talent and partners around the world.
- Connect to the Digital Partner Network
- Integrate efficiently with open API framework
- Curate a strong external talent supply chain
- Build strong relationships with MSPs
Seamless, end-to-end experience
Gain a seamless, end-to-end experience managing your external workforce, with a platform that adapts to meet your needs.
- Optimize the end-to-end process of external workforce management
- Adapt our platform to suit your business
- Gain world-class customer support – 99% retention rate
- Achieve visibility and holistic oversight of your total workforce
The SAP Fieldglass Vendor Management Solution (VMS) automates the entire process of finding, procuring, and managing external talent. Our platform helps companies reduce costs, enforce compliance, improve worker and supplier quality, and increase program efficiencies.
Contingent Workforce Management automates the entire process of procuring and managing flexible labor, from requisition through invoice and payment.
Services Procurement simplifies how external services providers are engaged, ensuring greater compliance, quality, and cost savings.
With Worker Profile Management, companies can ensure greater external workforce security and compliance, while enhancing visibility and efficiency.
With Assignment Management, you can centrally deploy, manage, and pay external workers across all facilities and project types with one solution.
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SAP Fieldglass solutions help you find, engage, manage, and pay your external workforce – contingent workers and services providers – across a wide variety of industries and professions.
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