SAP Fieldglass Contingent Workforce Management

Centralise visibility and control to find and manage top talent.
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What is SAP Fieldglass Contingent Workforce Management?

External workers help build a strong, scalable workforce. SAP Fieldglass Contingent Workforce Management is an application that helps you to find the right talent fast, engage the best workers, manage their assignment and payments and complete offboarding and analysis.

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Manage the complete lifecycle of your contingent workforce from requisition and engagement to offboarding and evaluation. Our application offers:

  • SAP Business AI and machine learning to source and select candidates faster

  • Centralised processes for holistic visibility, collaboration and control

  • Automated work orders, time sheets, expenses, approvals and payments

  • Powerful reporting, benchmarking and analytics for informed decisions and strategies

SAP Fieldglass mobile apps

Stay on top of essential tasks while on the go. Especially for tasks that are time-sensitive and done often, flexible functionality makes it simple.

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Key benefits

Mitigate cyberthreats and other risks

Automate and enforce on- and off-boarding activities, track assets such as gate passes and laptops and control access to sensitive information.

Manage your way to the best results

Guide users to preferred vendors with pre-approved pricing, negotiated rates and proper contracts.

Create workforce capacity on-demand

Source top-skilled candidates at optimal rates from talent pools and compare them side-by-side including their benchmarked rates.

Key features

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Source top talent quickly to meet market demands

  • Improved sourcing and worker classification

  • Enhanced job descriptions with business AI

  • Active management of qualifications, pay rates and more

  • Configurable distribution and tiered posting

Streamline payment, evaluation and reports

  • Pro forma invoices aligned with defined terms

  • Integrated evaluation and feedback tools

  • Advanced analytics to assess workforce data

Centrally manage processes with strict security

  • Background checks, security IDs and access restrictions

  • Automated oversight and compliance for minimised risk

  • Unified processes and data, integrated with your ERP

  • Increased visibility, collaboration and control

See how customers are succeeding with SAP

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Boost competitiveness by combining employee and contingent workforce strategies

Volvo Cars and SAP share how you can employ integrated workflows, trusted data and AI-assisted matching to improve visibility, accelerate hiring and achieve an agile, skills-based, total workforce management strategy.

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Transforming the sourcing and management of specialised skilled labour to power stronger, more connected communities

Discover how a leading utility digitised contingent workforce management and streamlined operations with SAP Fieldglass and SAP S/4HANA.

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Optimising staffing and workforce management with greater cost transparency and actionable insights

Read how Atruvia uses SAP Fieldglass solutions to manage an external workforce that complements its staff with the expertise and competencies needed to build the future of banking.

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Centralising contingent workforce management for greater control and efficiency

Learn how a leading cruise line gained greater visibility and control over its contingent workforce. By capturing a clear view of contractor headcounts and enabling fast access to the right temporary talent, it streamlines workforce management and supports more agile decisions.

What analysts are saying about SAP

Contingent workforce is on the rise

Find out why nearly half of the average company’s talent pool is now contingent workers. With this report you can benchmark your own approach, prioritise investments and build a skills-first operating model that scales.

SAP Fieldglass named Market Leader

Review the Ardent VMS Tech Advisor 2025 report to learn why SAP Fieldglass was ranked Market Leader in the VMS landscape.

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Frequently asked questions

SAP Fieldglass Contingent Workforce Management helps you to find and onboard the right external talent faster; streamline the processes that support your workforce; and control risk, compliance and secure onboarding and offboarding across more than 180 countries. It's designed to help reduce labour costs and improve invoice accuracy through real-time market data and automated processing.

SAP Fieldglass integrates natively with SAP SuccessFactors, SAP Ariba and SAP S/4HANA, plus key partners like DocuSign, giving you a unified view of your total workforce. It supports 21 languages and more than 180 countries with localised employment rules and tax tables, self-service administration tools that reduce your IT team's support burden and an expert support team with you from programme kickoff through ongoing use.

The solution handles complex contingent scenarios, including crew-based hiring, variable pay rates by task and security credentialing for sensitive work. Every worker gets a persistent security ID that tracks onboarding, offboarding and rehire eligibility across your entire programme.

A VMS is software that manages the full lifecycle of your external workforce, from job requisitions and candidate selection through timesheets, invoicing and offboarding. SAP Fieldglass is an enterprise VMS with global compliance and AI-powered sourcing built in.

SAP Fieldglass connects your contingent and permanent workforce data through native integration with leading HCM solutions, including SAP SuccessFactors. This gives your HR and procurement teams a single view of every worker, internal and external, including where they are employed, what they cost and how they contribute.

Ardent Partners named SAP Fieldglass a Market Leader because of its best-in-class contingent workforce technology, continued dedication to innovation and powerful array of modern tools. Plus, SAP Fieldglass has deep integration across SAP's ecosystem—including SuccessFactors, SAP Ariba and Joule Assistants—positioning it as a strategic hub for external talent, services procurement and workforce planning.

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