SAP acquired Fieldglass in 2014 as a means to deliver total spend management to its customers through both Ariba and Fieldglass solutions. There are a variety of natural integration points between Fieldglass and Ariba. Attend this session to learn about the various approaches customers are leveraging to integrate their Ariba and Fieldglass investments. In addition, learn about the joint Ariba–Fieldglass roadmap and business case scenarios.
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Industry Leader
Leading vendor for contingent and
SOW/project capabilities
Highest scoring vendor in CWS/VMS
functionality and market presence
Global
Highest ranked in global adoption and
market presence
ROI
Solution with highest ROI
Fieldglass Named VMS Industry Leader by
Forrester Wave™ 2014
Source: Forrester Wave™: VMS Contingent Capabilities, Q1 ‘14.
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Basic Configuration Requirements
• While the integration between Fieldglass, Ariba Procurement and the
Ariba Network is available as “out of the box” functionality, it is
disabled for customers by default and must be configured to be
enabled
• Accounting structures and extrinsic/custom fields will need to be
aligned and mapped
• Customer approach to Single Sign On will need to be consistent
between Ariba Procurement and Fieldglass (IDP vs. SP)
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Vendor Enablement
All in scope vendors will need to be enable on the Ariba Network
• Vendors associated with a Fieldglass buyer company leveraging an Ariba
Procurement or Ariba Network configuration will be required to enter their ANID in
their account details before being enabled to receive Fieldglass transactions
• Vendor enablement will be a coordinated effort between Ariba Network and
Fieldglass Account Services vendor enablement teams
• Vendors will only be charged Fieldglass fees when transacting under the integrated
solution
Key message: Business Networks help you do these things.
Script: At SAP, we believe solving the inter-enterprise collaboration challenge is one of the biggest opportunities of our era. It’s a greenfield opportunity to bring the simplicity, scale, and insights of personal networks we use to run our daily lives – like Amazon and eBay and Facebook – to business. An opportunity to extend existing IT infrastructure and business processes outside the four walls of the enterprise in the most scalable and efficient way possible – no matter what systems companies or their trading partners use.
And that’s exactly what the Business Network are designed to do. They eliminate the hassles, costs, and risks of collaboration between businesses. Just like with Amazon in your personal life, companies don’t need to worry about integrating with their trading partners… Businesses don’t need to worry about how to conduct their business processes.
Business Networks extend the value of the existing SAP footprint by giving companies a new and scalable way to collaborate and automate interactions with all their customers and suppliers -- all through a single, standardized integration point.
But the Business Network is not just an integration hub…it is a thriving business community where millions of business are connected and collaborating around key transactions like purchases, invoices, plans, change orders, and payments. In fact, that Oil & Gas company I was talking about connected its SAP systems to the Ariba Network, by SAP. They now transact with >4,000 suppliers globally through a single integration point – with more than 90% of those transactions being totally touchless form the time they emanate from an SAP systems until they are settle out in payment. They have sped order processing by more than 75%. Save hundreds of millions per year in better compliance and efficiencies. And they’ve leaned inventory and virtually eliminated over buying habit.
But connecting companies and automating transaction is only What gets really exciting are the new insights and services you can enable once you have millions of companies transacting at scale.
For example, with more 15 years of transactional and relationship information, and member-contributed content on the Ariba Network, we have the penultimate Big Data opportunity. We are now converting this network intelligence into information services to help all members of the Network – buyers, sellers, banks, etc. –make more informed business decisions in real-time. For buyers we now recommend potential suppliers based on their personal requirements as well as the buying patterns and performance scores provided by other buyers on the Network. Think how Amazon recommends a new book. Or Netflix a movie based on your activity and what others are reading or viewing.
And all these connections, automated transactions, and network intelligence, enable us to introduce new Services that would be impossible without a Network at scale. Services like new business discovery, alerting sellers to opportunities with the world’s largest community of business buyers with budget in the buying cycle. Or Dynamic Discounting, allowing buyers and sellers to use real-time information on OK2Pay invoices to capture early payment discounts or get paid faster. Banks can use this same information to remove risk from receivables financing, offering highly competitive rates to Network members.
To introduce clients to Fieldglass ask four basic questions about their total workforce. Who is working for you? Where are they located? What are they doing? And how much are they costing you?
In many instances, organizations can answer those questions for their full-time workforce. But the real challenge is answering those questions about their flexible, external workforce. The total workforce should be looked at in two dimensions: The first segment are those direct workers that companies use have a dedicated payroll system or an HRIS to track and manage them. For the most part, many organizations already have that problem solved.
The second segment of workers are external workers. Managing them is the challenge. Let’s dig into the various types of contract workers. We have contract workers, outsourced workers, Statement of Work, or SOW, engagements and Independent Contractors. From a hiring manager’s perspective there are a lot of steps involved in engaging an external worker or service: requesting a resource, to onboarding a worker, to tracking them, to reporting on them. It’s easy for them to get lost along the way.
Now let’s take a look at the size of this potential problem for clients. From a workforce perspective, commonly the external workers represents between 20 and 50 percent of the total direct workforce. And from a finance and procurement perspective, the external workforce can represent between one and five percent of revenue. This are is a massive numbers.
Fieldglass’ market-leading cloud Vendor Management System (VMS) automates the complete contingent and SOW labor lifecycle -- from initial discovery and qualification through performance management and complex invoicing and payment.
Fieldglass is a recognized leader for managing all categories of non-payroll labor spend:
Contingent labor in numerous categories
Statement of Work (SOW) projects and services
Independent contractors
Specialized talent pools, such as retirees and alumni
Scope of market:
Contingent $400 Billion
Statement of Work: $1,400 Billion
Varied Landscape For Services Procurement Categories
All transactions originate and are managed within Fieldglass
Requisitions are imported into Ariba based on an event driven push from Fieldglass.
While approvals would be leveraged within Ariba additional approvals or reviews can be set up in Fieldglass to support additional business requirements such as worker council (Germany) or program office reviews.
Transactions originating in Fieldglass are identified (flagged) for reporting purposes as well as to trigger the automated return of the created PO to Fieldglass and is assigned to the SOW or WO transaction. The created PO is also sent to the Ariba Network but is earmarked to not allow vendor processing of against the PO via the Ariba Network.
Approved time sheets, deliverables, service entry sheets or other transactions are approved and reconciled within Fieldglass and associated Invoices are uploaded against the existing PO in the Ariba Network before being sent to P2P.
The invoices are posted to the PO in P2P and can support dynamic assignment of the cost accounting details as part of the invoice posing before being processed into the Ok2Pay file.
PO revisions and changes are also supported.
Stand Alone Services Invoicing – Fieldglass and the Ariba Network
All transactions originate and are managed within Fieldglass (including all Approvals)
Once approved the Fieldglass SOW or WO details as sent to the AN as a PO following the same format as if the transactions came from P2P
Transactions originating in Fieldglass are identified (flagged) for reporting purposes but are earmarked to not allow vendor processing of against the PO via the Ariba Network.
Approved time sheets, deliverables, service entry sheets or other transactions are approved and reconciled within Fieldglass and associated Invoices are uploaded against the existing PO in the Ariba Network.
Posted invoice data is then sent on to the customers ERP.
PO’s posted from Fieldglass can exist alongside POs posted from the Customer’s ERP to create one channel for invoice processing.