SAP Gains Total Visibility Into Its Flexible Workforce Through The Fieldglass Vendor Management System (VMS)
Fieldglass Provides a Highly Integrated Cloud Solution for Complete Transparency
CHICAGO, Sept. 14, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Fieldglass, Inc., an SAP company and the global cloud technology leader in external workforce management, is now deployed at SAP SE (NYSE: SAP), providing an end-to-end process to manage its global contingent labour and services spend. SAP will use Fieldglass as a centralised, single point of access to engage with more than 20,000 external workers via multiple service providers and global partners.
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"Now with Fieldglass, we have an integrated, secure and compliant process alongside SAP ERP and Ariba," said Amy Gordon, Global Head of External Workforce Center, SAP. "We have been able to accomplish two very important things: transparency into our external workers and alignment of that workforce to our overall company strategy."
The Fieldglass Vendor Management System (VMS) has allowed SAP to:
- Streamline the process to find and engage qualified workers
- Enable reporting and reconciliation of work hours performed
- Gain visibility into external workforce headcount as well as contingent spend and rates by location
- Automate supplier invoicing
- Mitigate risk through background security and compliance checks
Fieldglass is currently being deployed in a phased approach across SAP's external labour programme across the U.S., Canada and Germany. When complete, it will be used to manage all temporary workers and Statement of Work (SOW)-based services and request for rfX — such as information, proposal, quote or bid — globally. Identity management across SAP's global contingent workforce will also be managed within Fieldglass.
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ABOUT FIELDGLASS, INC.
Fieldglass, an SAP company, provides an intuitive, cloud-based Vendor Management System (VMS) to optimise contingent workforce and services procurement programmes. More than 400 customers leverage Fieldglass to gain visibility into their external workforces, including contingent labour, services managed through Statements of Work (SOW) and independent contractors.
The Forrester Wave™: VMS, Q1 2014 report named Fieldglass the highest-scoring VMS provider in Contingent Workforce Management/Vendor Management System (CWM/VMS) functionality and market presence. GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, Monsanto and Rio Tinto are among the 300+ companies that leverage Fieldglass to achieve total workforce visibility and ultimately optimise complex spend, worker quality, corporate and external compliance and programme efficiencies. For more information, visit www.fieldglass.com.
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