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.
Introducing SAP Fieldglass
Assignment Management Software
Easily onboard, manage, and pay external workers across all facilities and project types – with one solution.
Agility Isn’t Always On The Payroll
Discover three key actions you can take right now to drive better business outcomes with your external workforce.
Ramp up business resilience with the external workforce
Learn how the external labor market responds to unexpected shocks and why you need an effective strategy to manage non-payroll labor in 2021 and beyond.
The Future is External: Unlocking Value from your External Workforce
Learn how to get the most value from your external workers and services providers in this all-new guidebook.
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.
The modern workforce is here. Are you ready?
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.
Resources
Education Library
Browse our collection of articles, e-books, infographics,
and whitepapers focused on vendor management systems
and the external workforce.
What is a Vendor Management System or VMS?
The label and acronym may be misnomers, but the results are clear.
Vendor management software can yield significant benefits for finding and managing external workers.
What are the benefits of a
vendor management system (VMS)?
Discover the top ten ways a vendor management system,
or VMS, can benefit your business...
...if it’s the right VMS for your business.
What is a managed services provider?
Managed services providers, or MSPs, offer a variety of outsourced
support services for your business.
But the right MSP can also help strategically grow your business.
What is services procurement?
The external workforce, which includes non-payroll
(i.e., contingent) workers and services providers,
is essential to thriving in the digital age.
What is the external workforce?
They're known by many names - contractors, consultants, freelancers,
service providers, and contingent workforce.
What they are is essential to the success of your business.
What is a contingent worker?
42% of the global workforce is contingent labor.
Learn why this talent segment is so vital to the digital economy.
Stay informed with our exclusive research
SAP Fieldglass, in collaboration with Oxford Economics, conducted several global research studies examining the increasingly important role of the external workforce consultancies – both contingent workers and services providers consultancies – in getting work done. See how the results can inform your business strategy.
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Track supplier diversity to reach your diversity and inclusion goals
SAP Fieldglass provides tools so that organizations can advance their commitments to socially responsible external workforce engagements.
- Allow customers to flag diverse suppliers to help ensure they participate in the requisition process
- Provide app extensions for easy connectivity to Daivergent, The Mom Project and other talent networks focused on inclusivity
Are you ready?
Interested in a demo of SAP Fieldglass Solutions? Contact a member of our sales team to learn more about our full suite of contingent workforce applications, including SAP Fieldglass Contingent Workforce Management and SAP Fieldglass Services Procurement.
