When hiring contingent workers, to ensure the success of your projects you need people with the required skills and with the right spirit to join your organization. If you have many candidates to choose from, you will have to spend time checking everybody’s resumes, ask previous managers for feedback and, finally, make a choice, trying to base it on facts in order to avoid any biased decision. This is a complex and time-consuming task. SAP Fieldglass comes with a set of embedded functionalities to help you take this decision with more data and with the assurance that you have considered all ca ..read more

Using and managing contingent labor is a growing trend in the workforce. In order to manage these contingent workers as part of your workforce in SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central, SAP introduced the Contingent Workforce Management (CWM) feature. Additionally SAP offer SAP Fieldglass Vendor Management System (VMS), a fully-fledged system for managing all aspects of contingent labor, including, sourcing, procurement, vendor management, invoicing, and more. In this blog, I aim to answer some of the common questions around the CWM feature, as well as where SAP Fieldglass VMS fits into the bigg ..read more

First published on The Digitalist by Samir Damag Mining evokes images of men in hard hats, headlamps lit, covered in dust as they trudge through mines. Soon those images may be replaced by ones of workers poring over computer printouts as they guide a robotic excavator to the next dig location. Smart products lead the way The increase in smart, connected equipment presages a changing mining workforce. Tools are shifting the industry from top to bottom, causing firms to rethink business models and processes. Most importantly, the shift to different kinds of machines makes mining a much safer ..read more

42% of an organizations spend is on services. And today, with a growing need for organizations to bring in vendors to perform services in any organization to boost competitive advantage now requires unique skills and labour. This means that in any service an organization procures, the External Workforce plays a more important role than ever. But let’s face it, there are limited options that help organizations manage Service Requests and the External Workforce at the same time. As an example, a buying organization would like to avail an IT Service to build their Network Infrastructure where mil ..read more

Overview Contingent Workers extensions always seem to cause troubles in terms of wrong Job Information records getting created, Employee status wrongly updated, and sometimes, even Job Information portlets getting blanked out. In order to make some clarity on this process, today we will analyse the specific steps to extend a Work Order (which means, changing its end date), but the same approach needs to be followed if any of the work order fields need to be changed. Please note that it is recommended to perform these steps out of working hours and/or notify internally that users should avoid a ..read more

External workers (contractors, contingent labor) have served as a critical workforce segment for the utilities and oil & gas industries for decades. While external workers augment full time employees and allow an enterprise to quickly scale a workforce in response to shifting skill and labor demands, their use can also create risks related to worker capabilities, organizational commitment, and workforce alignment and collaboration. In this session, we will discuss external workforce management from both employer and worker perspectives and consider how organizations can optimally manage th ..read more

In the HR world, we regularly hear buzzwords describing the next important trend.  One such trend is “future proofing”.  But this isn’t just a buzzword; it’s a critical step CHROs and HR leaders should be taking to position HR as a long-term strategic partner to their business.  In today’s digital workplace, organizations large and small have to be nimble, strategic and armed with the most qualified talent.  So, how do you “future proof” HR? We believe you start with the backbone of HR and one of the most debated topics these days: performance management. It’s no surprise ..read more