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Join this free online course to learn about the next module in SAP Fieldglass: Assignment Management. The course will enable you to explore use case scenarios, understand the transactional processes, and describe the benefits of this module for your organization.

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Course summary.

This nutshell course is a high-level introduction to SAP Fieldglass Assignment Management. It’s designed to provide the introductory knowledge necessary to help you better understand assignment management, and how the functionality can be used by SAP Fieldglass customers to deliver their external workforce program goals. By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to:

• Describe the key terms used within SAP Fieldglass Assignment Management and the time processing service
• Recount the assignment management and resource business process
• Outline the benefits SAP Fieldglass Assignment Management can bring to your organization and the problems it can help solve
• Understand how to create an assignment and set up a resource
• Understand the new timekeeper role and the service receipt process

Throughout this course you’ll see a number of demonstrations to help you understand the transactional process workflow in detail.

Course Characteristics

• Starting from: October 31, 2022, 09:00 UTC. ( What does this mean? )
• Duration: This course is open for 4 weeks
• Effort: 2-3 hours in total
• Course assignment: You can take the course assignment at any time whilst the course is open
• Course closure: November 29, 2022. 09:00 UTC
• Course language: English
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Course Content

Unit 1: What is Assignment Management? Unit 2: Key terms, navigation, and workflow Unit 3: Creating an assignment and a resource Unit 4: Overview of time processing Unit 5: Creating a service receipt

Target Audience

• SAP Fieldglass customers and prospects
• Current and future users of SAP Fieldglass
• Business decision makers
• Anyone who wants to learn more about how the many functionalities of SAP Fieldglass work

Course Requirements

No prior experience with SAP Fieldglass is necessary.

Further Learning

This is SAP Fieldglass For further learning, we recommend that you check out the SAP Fieldglass Services and External Workforce learning journey .

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Tunde Nagy is an instructional designer on the SAP Training and Adoption team. Her focus is on developing eLearning content for SAP Ariba and Fieldglass solutions.

Tunde is passionate about designing insightful and engaging courses for SAP customers and partners.

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Introducing SAP Fieldglass Assignment Management (Repeat) (April 20, 2022, through May 19, 2022)

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Nicole scotland-hall.

Nicole Scotland-Hall is the senior learning architect in APJ, and creates global content for customer and partners of SAP. She facilitates all SAP Fieldglass learning offerings in APJ and delivers bespoke Program Enablement workshops for customers. 

Nicole is passionate about SAP Fieldglass and the benefits it can bring to external workforce and services procurement programs. As a subject matter expert on the SAP Fieldglass application, she is able to deliver guidance and expert knowledge. Combined with extensive internal and external recruitment expertise from around the globe, Nicole is well positioned to provide insights and advice on the use of SAP Fieldglass.

She is certified as a Contingent Workforce Professional (CCWP) and SOW Management Expert through Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA). Nicole is also certified by The Association for Talent Development (ATD) as a Master Trainer.

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McKenzie Sewell

McKenzie Sewell is a learning architect for SAP Training and Adoption. Her focus is on training and content development for the SAP Fieldglass solution. McKenzie is a certified Association for Talent Development (ATD) Master Trainer.

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Introduction to Fieldglass Assignment Management

• August 6, 2021

In an earlier blog article we discussed SAP Fieldglass as a cloud-based solution which provides an efficient way to handle external workforce by any organisation. However, there are more complex business needs such as workers performing multiple activities resulting in the charging of their costs to different cost objects. Assigning workers to the right jobs, assigning the workers to more than one assignment in each time period, keeping control of their work, manually entering and correcting the time for different assignments, calculating cost based on different pre-agreed rates are all complex and time-consuming activities for organisations.

SAP has released “Assignment Management” as a solution module to address the complex situation mentioned above. It works alongside the other modules of SAP Fieldglass. In simple terms, the whole gamut of activities starting from registering a new worker, onboarding them, integrating time data from badging systems, applying the different pay-rules, allocating the work times and finally, up to generating a service entry sheet, is handled in this new solution.

Exhibit-1 (Credits: SAP SE)

Terminologies

Assignment Management uses certain terminologies relevant in this solution and it is imperative to know them to understand the solution.

Resource can be a person or an equipment. Persons with certain skills such as welding, electrical repairing and so on are engaged to do the work of the Buyer, provided by the Supplier.

Buyer is an organisation, which is looking for people with a specialised skillset, who are required to provide certain services on a temporary or ongoing basis.

Supplier is an organisation which provides such staff to the Buyer organisation.

Work Schedule Shift is a pre-configured object in Assignment Management. The buyer assigns the shift information details such as starting time, ending time, a name of the shift etc in the object.

Work Schedule is a combination of “work schedule shifts” for a cycle of 7 days. This can be flexibly defined by the buyer according to their needs. The working days and non-working days are marked in a work schedule. A Buyer can define the start date of the schedule. The time processing service uses the info provided in the work schedule to determine the standard rates or Overtime rates to be applied in the calculation of payment for the work done. The time sheets submitted by the resource is validated against the permitted work hours defined in the work schedule.

Time Journal is a journal record created for a combination of attributes e.g. Rate Category, Purchase Order number, Resource ID and Day. The overall time recorded in a time bundle is allocated for these combinations of attributes. This is done by a timekeeper.

Service Receipt is a document created by consolidating time records. This is done by the Supplier in the system. The service receipt contains a summary of total numbers of hours worked, total amount to be paid, cost allocation of these amounts and other such information.

Person Record is an internal document collated by Time Processing Service. This contains the resource related information, work schedule information and other info for accomplishing time processing service. A single time template is associated with the person record.

Time Event is an event which captures the start and stop times of a work duration. For example, a pre-lunch time event could start from 08:00 Hrs and end at 12:00 Hrs and a post lunch time event could be from 13:00 Hrs to 17:00 Hrs.

Time Record : The duration of a task or an event is considered as one time record. Typically, time events are combined to form one time record. For example, the pre-lunch time event and post-lunch time event can be combined to form one time record for a given day.

Time Bundle : Multiple time records are combined to generate a time bundle. Time bundles are used to allocate one or more rates, task categories, maintenance orders, offsite work, purchase orders and job skills to determine cost allocation.

Assignment : Assignment is an Object created by the Engagement manager of the organisation. This object holds info such as Job, Dates of Start and End, etc.

SAP Fieldglass Assignment Management (SFAM) Process:

SFAM is a configurable solution which can be centrally deployed for management of all external resources across multiple locations for any type of project. One resource can be assigned to multiple jobs and also track their submitted time sheets yet get a unified view of cost of the resource for all the jobs together. The skills relevant for each job and certifications, if any are required, can all be part of the assignment object and can be validated to ensure a resource has all the relevant certifications and skills for the job. In certain organisations, there can be specific onboarding processes, which is detailed out as part of the Job and ensured that it can be adhered to by the engagement manager. Some of these can be due to regulatory needs and organisations can be penalised for non-compliance. This solution also provides for integrating time from the “Badging Systems”, if any that the organisation may already have. With an approval workflow, the solution creates a service entry sheet for posting the payment into SAP ERP with complete cost object allocation. This is depicted in the diagram below.

There is a role named “Timekeeper” which is important in this context. In SFAM the role can be played by a user assigned specifically for this task who works with either the Buyer or Supplier Organisation. He/she has the full visibility of the work completed by different resources across all the locations. Based on the timesheet info and other such additional info available, he/she allocates the time bundle to different attributes in the system, which in turn determine the amount to be paid to the resources and the necessary cost objects assignments of the same.

Overview of Typical Process

The high-level overview of a typical process is explained below. This scenario is an integrated system with badging system and the time data flows to the “Time Processing Service”. There can be other scenarios where data could be manually entered. It is pictorially shown in exhibit 3.

Exhibit-3 (Credits: SAP SE)

There are 5 distinct steps in this process. All the heavy computational work is taken care of by the Time Processing Service, based on master data and configuration settings. The collection of time entry/exit data from Badging Systems is setup during the implementation of the solution. It is then presented for review/edit/allocation which is also handled by the Time Processing service. The steps are as below: 1. Create Assignment 2. Create Resource 3. Create Time Journal 4. Create/Submit Service Receipt 5. Approve Service Receipt and generate/post service entry sheet

Step-1: Create Assignment

The Assignment Object contains lots of information, amongst which the following are key: job, owner of the job, supplier of resources for this job, Start and end Dates of the job, the site/business unit/Location where job is to be performed, the financial Budget value approved for this job, Purchase order number/ PO Line items. They are provided at the time of creation by the Engagement Manager. For example, “Annual Maintenance”, “Electrical Repairs”, “Welding”, etc can all be jobs created as different “Assignments” in the system. Resources are assigned to the “Assignment Object” subsequently. One “Resource” can be assigned to multiple “Assignments”. A sample assignment screen is shown in exhibit-4 below.

Exhibit-4 (Credits : SAP SE)

Step-2: Create Resource

The Resource is a master data, which contains the details of the resource to be deployed. Amongst a set of information, the following are the key data. • Supplier who provides the resource • Engagement Manager, who is responsible for managing this resource • First name, Last name, e-mail, and contact details • Associated Rate Look up: these are the contractually agreed rates • Work Schedule: To validate and provide time-related calculation inputs • Work Schedule effective Date: Date from which the resource starts work • Site: Where the resource is expected to work • Job Codes: The Job codes pre-configured in the system (they are associated to rates) • Resource registration: Automatic or Manual • Activity Check List: Tasks/Certifications during onboarding and offboarding

The above key data drives further activities when the resource starts work. For example, the necessary onboarding and offboarding tasks appear in a separate tab for the resource based on the activity check list. It can be monitored and updated as and when they are complete. This helps the organisation to ensure regulatory compliances. A sample screen is shown in exhibit-5 below. At the end of the project or contract, the resource offboarding process can be completed. The resource is then technically “Closed” in a simple process in the system.

Exhibit-5 (Credits: SAP SE)

Step-3: Create Time Journal

Time Processing System will create a “time record” and “time bundles” per person based on the data flowing from the “badging system”. They are the starting point for the “timekeeper” to review the time and allocate them, may be at the end of each day, to the different attributes like Purchase Order, PO Line item, work order, job code, supplier agreements. The Time processing system has already determined and split the total time of the resource into the Standard times and Over times, based on the work schedule of the resource. Once the allocation attributes are updated, the system determines the appropriate rate to be applied, the costs determined and cost objects to be allocated and create a time journal record. A sample screen shot of the allocation is shown in exhibit-6 below.

A sample of the time journal created is shown in exhibit-7 below.

Step-4: Create/Submit Service Receipt

The timekeeper then chooses “Create Service Receipt” in his menu, shown in exhibit-8 below.

The system automatically opens up a window, wherein the timekeeper has to choose the buyer organisation and click “create”. A service receipt is automatically generated and submitted to the buyer via a worklist. This is shown in exhibit-9 below.

Exhibit-9 (Credits: SAP SE)

Step-5: Approve Service Receipt and generate Service Entry Sheet

The Engagement Manager or the Program Consultant receives a notification. He/she can open the notification item and verify entries are ok and click approve. Based on the configuration, the solution generates a service entry sheet and sends it to ERP. The approval screen is shown below.

Industries such as Oil & Gas, Utilities and Hospitality employ several external workforces to manage projects and maintenance tasks. It is quite laborious to manage these workers and additionally so is the cost allocation and other such finance related tasks. SFAM brings all these tasks to a single interface and helps to efficiently handle them such as tracking assignment-wise hours, paying using different hourly rates, allocating costs to different objects and so on.

The control it brings to the organisation with operational flexibility and simplicity in handling high volume activities is of immense benefit to the organisation. SAP Fieldglass consultants can upgrade themselves with knowledge on SFAM, which integrates well with existing skills to bring more value to customers.

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What is SAP Fieldglass? Your Guide to Better Vendor Management

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In modern business management, where agility, efficiency, and resource optimization are paramount, organizations increasingly turn to advanced technology solutions to streamline their operations.

Enter SAP Fieldglass — a cloud-based Vendor Management System (VMS) that has revolutionized how enterprises manage their external workforce.

This article takes a deeper dive into the world of SAP Fieldglass and offers greater insight into where our team of SAP consultants can fit in your organization. Read on to learn more!

What is Fieldglass in SAP?

Fieldglass is a vendor management system (VMS) acquired by SAP in 2014 and designed to help companies manage external workforces, vendors, and workers more efficiently, from sourcing to asset management, payment, services procurement, and more.

Key Components of the SAP Fieldglass System

SAP Fieldglass provides a centralized, cloud-based platform that empowers customers to revolutionize how workforce talent is managed across multiple channels, control the basic functions of their internal and external workforce, and gain better insight, control, and cost savings across teams.

When it comes to connecting, streamlining, and managing external workers and their tasks, calculating the associated costs for all completed tasks, and facilitating more efficient external workforce management, SAP Fieldglass offers the right tools for the job.

Here are the main components included in the SAP Fieldglass solution:

1) SAP Fieldglass Contingent Workforce Management

The Contingent Workforce Management solution in SAP Fieldglass manages their contingent workers’ entire lifecycle, helping users simplify workforce volatility, find the best-fit workers for each task, manage worker progress and payment, and conduct efficient employee analysis and offboarding.

With the SAP Fieldglass Contingent Workforce Management component, users are enabled to:

• Initiate: Initiate projects with contingent workers, create new requisitions for vacant positions, communicate with internal stakeholders to determine external talent details and grant approvals, configure requisitions by position or role, and automate core requisition approval and support functions.
• Manage: Manage your entire workforce from a centralized platform, automate core employee onboarding tasks, facilitate more efficient background checking tasks, track allocated worker hours and timesheets, and generate payments and invoices based on approved timesheets.
• Complete: Automatically terminate access to systems, evaluate and flag workers to prevent rehiring, conduct performance analysis and offer employee feedback, determine vendor performance, generate worker KPIs, rate vendor performance, and conduct offboarding processes to complete the employee engagement.

2) SAP Fieldglass Assignment Management

The SAP Fieldglass Assignment Management module allows customers to onboard multiple workers simultaneously, confirm their qualifications for the job, assign them to various tasks or job orders, and track hours worked more accurately across teams.

Here are a few key features of the Assignment Management module:

• Improved compliance: Standardize onboarding and offboarding processes, ensure proper certification and training for new employees, approve external workers and contractors, leverage built-in controls to meet labor regulations, and improve access and security controls.
• Better cost control: Manage budgets, monitor costs across individual or aggregated PO lines, automate contractor time management processes, eliminate manual time entry, load time cards directly into your SAP ERP system, and complete payment for projects with prenegotiated rates.
• Enhanced productivity: Place the right people on the right projects, create multiple assignments for individual workers, track employee hours by individual assignment, ensure accurate clock-in and clock-out times, and pay workers according to predefined rate cards.

3) SAP Fieldglass Services Procurement

SAP Fieldglass Services Procurement provides a comprehensive service procurement solution to help business users ensure the components of each procurement project meet company demands and support project success across the board.

With the Services Procurement solution, companies are enabled to:

• Initiate: Initiate service requests, collaborate on bid criteria and project requirements, leverage pre-populated templates to create service orders and statements of work, facilitate more efficient communication between internal stakeholders and vendors, send requests to selected vendors, and expedite approvals for authorized budgets and project terms.
• Engage: Receive and evaluate vendor responses, compare key metrics for each vendor, leverage built-in communication tools to negotiate back and forth with vendors, and finalize agreements with the selected vendor.
• Manage: Manage all global services engagements in a centralized system, automate onboarding tasks for new workers, track and approve timesheets, approve and validate services, ensure services are performed properly, generate invoices for completed work, and track payments.

Features Included in SAP Fieldglass Solutions

Here are a few key features included in the SAP Fieldglass solution:

Vendor Management

SAP Fieldglass allows companies to streamline and optimize their vendor management operations, ensuring high-quality service vendors are leveraged, total costs are minimized, and revenue is maximized across the board.

Service and Invoice Management

With automated service and invoice management capabilities in SAP Fieldglass, users can simplify the creation and management of service requests and invoices for completed tasks. The SAP Fieldglass solution automatically converts approved timesheets into invoices, including local tax deductions, GST, and other tax details for each invoice.

Time and Expense Management

SAP Fieldglass provides time and expense management functions, like time entry, expense entry and control, scheduling workflows, and more, to facilitate better employee performance, control expenses more effectively, and gain visibility into core external workforce operations.

Performance Management

With advanced administrative tools, template libraries, upload tools, predefined workflows, and more, SAP Fieldglass can streamline vendor, contractor, and external workforce operations and provide a more efficient way to manage and upload massive amounts of data and improve system performance.

How Can We Help?

Whether you need help outlining the best plan of action to implement SAP Fieldglass, an extra hand understanding how SAP Fieldglass solutions integrate with other systems like SAP Ariba, or additional support handling any other SAP modules , our SAP consulting team at Surety Systems is here to help.

And, in the past three years, our team of SAP consultants  has been engaged on more than 100 consulting projects, making us the perfect fit for all your unique SAP project needs!

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SAP Fieldglass Assignment Management launches to tackle projects and track worker access, compliance and pay

03/17/2021 By Pierre Mitchell

SAP Fieldglass today announced a new solution that enables organizations in asset-intensive industries (like Oil & Gas, Chemicals, Utilities) to manage the execution and accounting of day-to-day plant maintenance work conducted by external workers, the provider said in a demo with Spend Matters. Addressing this specific use case, SAP Fieldglass Assignment Management adds to SAP Fieldglass’ other platform offerings: Contingent Workforce, Services Procurement and Worker Profile Management.

The new solution enables organizations to track and manage the assignments of on-site contract workers starting from an issued maintenance work order and approved single or blanket PO all the way to an auto-generated supplier invoice.

“As the portion of business spend on external labor grows, companies need full transparency into their external workforce operations,” SAP Fieldglass General Manager Arun Srinivasan said in a press release . “SAP Fieldglass Assignment Management enables organizations to better control their costs with a highly configurable, integrated tool. Businesses in asset-intensive industries can be confident that highly skilled contractors have access to the right facilities to complete the critical maintenance work while ensuring billing is done accurately and labor regulations, including worker safety, are followed.”

From Spend Matters’ demo, it’s clear that the solution can deliver a range of benefits, including control for real-time visibility into activities in the course of a day. Benefits also include efficiency from automation (e.g., time tracking, invoice generation, etc.) and from integration with other SAP solutions and modules across a unified platform.

In the new solution, contract workers are typically those of service suppliers that have already been onboarded and placed under contract elsewhere in the SAP platform (independent contractors can be treated as their own supplier as well rather than working for a larger service firm). An “assignment” is a type and quantity of work that is specified by a maintenance order (or a work breakdown structure from a project), moderated by a PO (that links to contracts and budgets) and is billed hourly.

Use Case and Solution

In an onsite plant setting, any number of maintenance activities may be conducted by multiple suppliers’ different workers each day.

Some personnel may work on a range of activities and assignments that involve the application of different skills, or “crafts” — in effect, separate job roles/applicable skills associated with different rate cards. The tracking and management of many different assignments and ensuring that worker-hours are tracked and are correctly costed is complicated, error prone and potentially non-compliant (at the worker, contract and supplier levels).

The SAP Fieldglass Assignment Management solution provides organizations with capabilities to address these problems.

Management of assignments begins when approved work orders (e.g., driven by a maintenance order from an ERP or maintenance system) and associated POs trigger the generation of work assignments for specific workers that have the skills required to perform certain tasks. These workers have been selected from a contractor worker pool already established in SAP Fieldglass, and they are already linked to specific suppliers and contracts.

With Assignment Management, any number of assignments, associated with any number of suppliers and contracts, can be tracked and managed in real time over the course of a day. Daily work plans and shift structures (which can be complex, like when accounting for domain-specific work calendar rules) are generated in SAP Fieldglass.

The solution provides organizations’ site operations managers with dashboard visibility into assignments at the site and drill-down capabilities into details (of assignments, worker profiles, etc.). Managers view hours worked by a given worker (including that works on multiple assignments and assumes different skill-based roles). Managers can also request changes in assignments and track costs against PO amounts or spend pools.

The solution tracks active worker assignments and hours worked based on timekeeping systems (e.g., Kronos) that have gate passes (secure access points to different areas of the site), where workers must use their badges to swipe in and out. Rules can be set up in the site to determine billable hours based on planned start-times and actual entry and exit times. It also supports a user role for suppliers’ “timekeepers,” who monitor time worked and ensure that hours are being allocated properly to assignments and POs.

Hours worked by given workers (potentially with multiple assignments), as mentioned above, are processed through the organizations’ time tracking systems. Rates from contracted rate cards are applied based on worker skill/craft types and associated job codes. Service entry sheets (in SAP parlance) have been auto-generated, reviewed and then auto-flipped to the service invoice line items that are pre-matched and ready for payment processing in the AP system.

Key Analyst Takeaways

The SAP Fieldglass Assignment Management solution demonstrates the provider’s capability to build a new solution that addresses a specific problem, like this one in asset-intensive industries — or even any industry where there are complex projects/programs with clear work breakdown structures and specific skills for the tasks. It also indicates SAP Fieldglass’ commitment to addressing complex services procurement in addition to simple SOW and basic staff aug contingent workforce scenarios.

Some of our takeaways from seeing a demo of the new solution are:

• The module is a strong set of operational capabilities that address the plant maintenance assignments, workers, work, accounting, etc. during the course of a day, thus filling both an efficiency gap and a control gap for organizations.
• The efficiency benefits are potentially massive given the complexity/volumes in play. And spend management benefits also arise from visibility, process management, adding fail-safe features and digitization.
• The solution relies on, and adds to, the data objects and capabilities from other solutions and modules within the Fieldglass application ecosystem. For example, it adds a “time journaling” dimension to track resources (workers) as their status changes throughout the day. Accordingly, the syncing among modules and data sets is ensured.
• The solution more directly addresses the demand scenarios/use cases that drive the required services/work.

We’re looking to get more insights on how SAP Fieldglass uses its Decision Wizard solution on the front-end to help orchestrate multiple service types across the SAP Fieldglass portfolio, and how other services (like deliverable-based or milestones-based) and service-related expenses (like billable expenses from contractors) will get merged together to manage spend across the complete services spectrum.

There is also basic integration between this solution and both S/4HANA and SAP Ariba (e.g., process integration with guided buying, data integration with SAP Ariba Contract Management, and an evolving effort to move supplier engagement to the SAP Ariba Network), but this is part of a much longer and more strategic discussion that we’ll save for future Spend Matters PRO analyses.

SAP has championed the slogan of “Run Simple,” and today SAP Fieldglass is in fact reducing a pain point and continuing to help customers to run simple in this complex services scenario by offering better services modeling and automation to reduce human touches and error. And that is indeed a very good thing!

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New SAP Fieldglass Assignment Management Solution Simplifies External Workforce Management for Asset-Intensive Industries

SAP SE  (NYSE: SAP) today announced the general availability of SAP Fieldglass Assignment Management , a new solution to help manage contractors performing ad hoc work under existing supplier agreements.

The solution simplifies assigning and managing work projects across multiple workers and variable pay rates, enabling operations managers to quickly deploy assignments, minimize downtime and maximize return on investment.

Companies in asset-intensive industries such as oil and gas, chemicals, utilities and mining rely heavily on contractors to perform ad hoc maintenance and project work. These external workers are often assigned simultaneously to multiple projects. But each project may be managed individually under separate contracts, often across disparate systems. This makes it difficult to find and deploy the right resources with the right skills for each job, pay those hourly workers on time while enforcing contract compliance, and track hours and costs against purchase orders, cost centers and work orders.

“SAP is providing a solution on a single platform on which companies can manage the complexity of multiple projects with several contractors under one supplier agreement,” said Mickey North Rizza, IDC Program Vice President of Enterprise Applications and Digital Commerce. “This solution limits up-front sourcing for every project and reduces overall supply agreements while extending information into the manufacturing operation systems and ERP.”

External labor accounts for 42% of total workforce spend, according to a recent report by SAP and Oxford Economics. Although 55% of the executives surveyed said that their company would be unable to conduct business as usual without an external workforce, many organizations lack visibility and insight into this large, strategic spend category. The SAP Fieldglass Assignment Management solution helps provide transparency, flexibility and control with a single interface to simplify how organizations manage contractors deployed on an as-needed basis within gated facilities.

“As the portion of business spend on external labor grows, companies need full transparency into their external workforce operations,” said SAP Fieldglass General Manager Arun Srinivasan. “SAP Fieldglass Assignment Management enables organizations to better control their costs with a highly configurable, integrated tool. Businesses in asset-intensive industries can be confident that highly skilled contractors have access to the right facilities to complete the critical maintenance work while ensuring billing is done accurately and labor regulations, including worker safety, are followed.”

Already an industry leader in external workforce management, SAP is responding to customer demands with the release of SAP Fieldglass Assignment Management to empower organizations with:

• Visibility to improve cost control and results. Pay rules help manage compliance at the contract and location level, and businesses can track standard time and overtime on a daily basis.
• Flexibility to increase speed and productivity. Integration with gate pass systems and embedded smart logic help ensure more accurate calculation of working time with fewer errors, enabling organizations to help keep their maintenance crews and operations running smoothly to minimize downtime and disruptions.
• Confidence to manage compliance and security risks. Better tracking and management of work assignments help ensure contractors have access to the proper facilities and that on- and offboarding are standardized across workers. This helps to mitigate risk and increase compliance with local labor regulations.

To learn more about SAP Fieldglass Assignment Management, visit here .

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Fieldglass is a vendor management system (VMS) founded in 1999 and acquired by SAP in 2014.

Driving an agile and resilient external workforce

Today, SAP Fieldglass solutions are helping businesses manage flexible workforces better and faster with greater insight, control, and savings across assignment management, contingent workforce management, services procurement, and worker profile management.

Transform how you manage external workers and services providers

A well-managed, dynamic, and flexible external workforce can strengthen your competitive edge. SAP Fieldglass solutions can help you find specialized skills fast and scale up or tighten down with speed and efficiency to build a new and better way of working.

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SAP Fieldglass Contingent Workforce Management

Streamline processes, enhance security, improve worker productivity, and mitigate risks by holistically managing your nonpayroll workforce in one cloud-based application.

SAP Fieldglass Services Procurement

Increase savings, ramp up productivity, and meet demand by tracking the “who, what, where, when, why, and how” of global SOW-based projects with external services providers.

SAP Fieldglass Assignment Management

Onboard multiple external workers, assign workers to one or more job orders, and create a service entry sheet that integrates with your ERP by centralizing worker management.

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Access your SAP Fieldglass solution by logging in to fieldglass.net.

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International Cooperation

Directions of International Working Relationships:

4. Participation of professors, teachers, and students of the university in overseas training.

5. Co-operation with overseas companies and the incorporation of modern technology and equipment in the education process.

6. Distance learning programmes.

7. Work with overseas students

8. Who are we interested in working with in the future?

• Economics and management
• Land management
• History and law
• Architecture and landscape
• Ecology and economics