What is SAP Fieldglass?

SAP Fieldglass is a cloud-based vendor management system focused on the external, or contingent, workforce. Many organizations rely heavily on contractors, temporary staff, freelancers, and services suppliers, yet this spend is often poorly tracked. Fieldglass provides a structured platform to procure and manage these workers and services, covering job postings, candidate selection, work orders, time and expense capture, and invoicing.

By centralizing external workforce management, Fieldglass gives organizations visibility into who is working for them, at what cost, and under which agreements, while helping enforce compliance, rate controls, and onboarding and offboarding processes. It addresses both contingent labor and statement-of-work services engagements, and it fits within SAP's broader intelligent spend management portfolio alongside procurement solutions such as Ariba.

Fieldglass typically integrates with HR systems like SuccessFactors, with procurement and ERP for purchase orders and payments, and with identity and access systems for provisioning. Keeping these integrations accurate ensures that external workers are properly onboarded, tracked, and paid. Designing and maintaining that connectivity in a hybrid landscape is a technical responsibility that supports reliable external-workforce management.