The SAP ecosystem enables seamless integration between different SAP modules and third-party applications, allowing businesses to streamline their operations, improve efficiency, and make data-driven decisions across the entire enterprise. It provides a unified platform for managing nearly all end-to-end business processes, including resource planning, finance, sales, procurement, manufacturing, spend management, and human resources, among others. Indeed, should an organization’s processes require the use of an external workforce, SAP Fieldglass can play an important role.
By itself, SAP Fieldglass supports the entire external workforce management lifecycle. It enables organizations to automate the procurement process, from requisition creation to supplier selection and onboarding. It also facilitates the management of contracts, invoices, and payments, ensuring compliance and reducing manual effort.
However, working in parallel with other SAP solutions—particularly SAP S/4HANA, SAP Ariba, SAP SuccessFactors, and SAP Analytics cloud—SAP Fieldglass proves to be an integral part of not only an organization’s external workforce management, but of a company’s intelligent spend management. This integration allows for seamless data exchange between systems, ensuring that information is up-to-date and accurate across the organization.
Here’s where the positioning of SAP Fieldglass in the SAP system landscape demonstrates its value:
| SAP Ariba | SAP Fieldglass can integrate with SAP Ariba to streamline the procurement process, including requisitions, purchase orders, and invoices for contingent labor and services. |
| SAP SuccessFactors | Integration with SuccessFactors allows for a comprehensive view of both the internal and external workforces, enabling better talent management and workforce planning. |
| SAP Analytics Cloud | SAP Fieldglass provides analytics and reporting capabilities to gain insights into external workforce spend, usage, and performance. This data can be combined with data from other systems for a comprehensive view of the organization's total workforce and spend. |
| SAP S/4HANA | SAP Fieldglass can integrate with these systems for seamless data exchange related to procurement, invoicing, and worker management. This includes synchronizing vendor data, purchase orders, goods receipts, and invoices. |
SAP Fieldglass can exchange data with third-party systems as well, using various methods such as APIs, SFTP, and web services. This ensures that data is consistent and up-to-date across the entire system landscape regardless of what solution is used.