SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) 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 … Continue reading New SAP Fieldglass Assignment Management Solution Simplifies External Workforce Management for Asset-Intensive Industries