The spend under management fee, the supplier funded versus customer funded split, the services procurement module scope, the managed service provider integration, the alternative platform leverage, the RISE with SAP commitment posture, and the buyer side moves that recover seventeen to thirty four percent against the SAP account team's opening Fieldglass proposal.
A working framework for CIOs, CFOs, chief procurement officers, and contingent workforce leaders running the SAP Fieldglass commitment at the upper customer scale, with the seven buyer side moves that recover seventeen to thirty four percent against the SAP account team's opening Fieldglass proposal across the contracted three year commitment cycle.
SAP Fieldglass is the SAP vendor management system that runs the contingent workforce program, the services procurement program, the statement of work program, and the broader external workforce program at the upper customer scale enterprise. The platform processes contingent worker requisitions, time and expense capture, supplier onboarding, statement of work tracking, and the broader contingent spend control inside a single workflow. The Fieldglass commercial model prices the platform on a percentage of the spend under management with tiered supplier funding rates against the contracted annual contingent spend volume. The contracted Fieldglass footprint at the upper customer scale enterprise typically reaches the contracted seven hundred fifty thousand to four million dollar annual platform fee against the contracted fifty million to two hundred fifty million dollar annual contingent spend under management.
This paper sets out the Redress Compliance SAP Fieldglass negotiation framework, refined across more than five hundred enterprise software engagements at Industry recognized scale, with over two billion dollars under advisory across the broader buyer side practice. The framework coordinates seven commercial moves across a single Fieldglass commitment cycle: the spend under management percentage tiering, the supplier funded versus customer funded model split, the module scope at the contingent worker and services procurement layer, the managed service provider integration posture, the alternative platform leverage covering Beeline and Workday VNDLY, the RISE with SAP line item posture, and the implementation and integration fee discipline. Read the related SAP services practice, the SAP RISE negotiation, the SAP Ariba procurement cloud negotiation, the SAP contract negotiation fundamentals, the SAP knowledge hub, and the multi vendor negotiation scorecard. Run against the practice corpus, the coordinated framework typically delivers seventeen to thirty four percent recovery against the SAP account team's opening Fieldglass commitment proposal across the contracted three year term, plus measurable reductions in the embedded supplier funding overhead and the contracted implementation fee exposure across the commitment.
SAP acquired Fieldglass in 2014 at a reported one billion dollar transaction value and folded the platform into the SAP cloud commercial portfolio alongside Ariba, Concur, SuccessFactors, and the broader SAP intelligent spend group. The Fieldglass platform at the time of the acquisition was the leading vendor management system in the broader contingent workforce market, processing an estimated thirty plus billion dollars in annual contingent spend under management across the upper customer scale enterprise. The acquisition restructured the SAP services procurement go to market into a single cloud platform combining the contingent worker module, the services procurement module, the assignment management module, the profile management module, and the broader external workforce orchestration layer, and positioned the platform as the structural core of the intelligent enterprise external workforce strategy.
The SAP account team operates a documented commercial framework on the Fieldglass line item inside each enterprise account at the contracted upper customer scale. The framework anchors the Fieldglass commitment against the contracted annual spend under management volume rather than against the discrete platform feature catalog. The framework also anchors the commercial model against the supplier funded default that loads the platform fee onto the supplier invoice and surfaces the cost to the customer through the contractor bill rate. The framework also anchors the contracted percentage at the upper band of the volume tier ladder on the assumption that the contracted contingent spend forecast supports the upper percentage. Each of these defaults sits inside the buyer side leverage at the Fieldglass negotiation.
The Fieldglass commercial model prices the platform across two dimensions. The first dimension is the spend under management percentage that runs at one and a quarter to two and a half percent of the contracted annual contingent spend volume, with the contracted percentage dropping at the higher spend tier. The percentage covers the contingent worker module, the services procurement module, the assignment management module, and the broader Fieldglass platform across the contracted term. The second dimension is the funding model split between the supplier funded model that loads the platform fee onto the supplier invoice and the customer funded model that prices the contracted platform fee directly against the customer at the contracted percentage of the contingent spend volume. The funding model split is the structural commercial choice that determines whether the contracted Fieldglass platform fee surfaces transparently against the customer or sits embedded inside the supplier contractor bill rate.
The financial stakes scale with the contingent workforce footprint at the upper enterprise scale. A mid market enterprise running the contingent workforce program at the contracted fifty to one hundred million dollar annual contingent spend faces a six hundred thousand to two million dollar annual Fieldglass platform fee at the contracted commitment. A large enterprise running the contingent workforce program at the contracted one hundred to three hundred million dollar annual contingent spend faces a one and a half to six million dollar annual Fieldglass platform fee. An upper customer scale enterprise running the multi region contingent workforce program at the contracted three hundred to seven hundred fifty million dollar annual contingent spend faces a four to fifteen million dollar annual Fieldglass platform fee. The contracted three year commitment at the upper customer scale therefore reaches the contracted twelve to forty five million dollar band, which means the buyer side discipline at the Fieldglass negotiation is one of the higher leverage commercial activities the CIO, chief procurement officer, and contingent workforce leader run on the broader SAP account. Read the SAP knowledge hub and the SAP services practice.
The market context also includes the broader vendor management system competitive position. Beeline runs an estimated seventy five to eighty five billion dollar annual contingent spend under management against Fieldglass at the comparable seventy to ninety billion dollar annual spend under management. Beeline carries the documented broader contingent workforce catalog, the broader services procurement catalog, the broader managed service provider catalog, and the broader configurable workflow at the upper customer scale enterprise. The Workday VNDLY platform integrates with the broader Workday human capital management platform at the contracted enterprise scale and runs an estimated thirty five to forty five billion dollar annual contingent spend under management. The Coupa contingent workforce platform integrates with the broader Coupa source to pay platform and runs an estimated twenty to twenty five billion dollar annual contingent spend under management. The buyer side response credibly opens the alternative platform conversation at the Fieldglass negotiation to recover the documented premium against the comparable contingent workforce commitment.
The market context also includes the RISE with SAP commitment cycle. RISE with SAP is the SAP managed cloud commercial bundle that wraps S/4HANA Cloud, the SAP Business Technology Platform, the application managed services, the contracted hosting infrastructure, and the contracted intelligent spend catalog inside a single contracted commitment. SAP increasingly positions Fieldglass as a line item inside the broader RISE commitment alongside Ariba and Concur rather than as a standalone Fieldglass commitment. The RISE line item posture changes the structural negotiation dynamic at the Fieldglass commitment and lifts the leverage that the SAP account team holds at the renewal cycle. Read the SAP RISE negotiation download and the SAP Ariba procurement cloud negotiation.
The competitive pressure on the Fieldglass commitment at the upper customer scale is real and documented. SAP account teams will move on the contracted percentage by fifteen to thirty basis points, on the volume tier breakpoint by ten to twenty percent, on the supplier funded versus customer funded split by surfacing the customer funded option at the contracted line item rate, on the module scope by removing the services procurement module from the contracted commitment when the customer does not run a documented statement of work program, on the implementation fee by twenty to forty percent, and on the contracted price protection clause when the buyer credibly anchors the Beeline or Workday VNDLY alternative narrative at the Fieldglass negotiation. The competitive narrative does not need to be fully implemented. The competitive narrative needs to be credibly framed at the Fieldglass negotiation. Read the SAP contract negotiation fundamentals.
The buyer side Fieldglass negotiation framework therefore runs against five structural realities. First, the contracted percentage on the spend under management runs at one and a quarter to two and a half percent across the contracted volume tier, and the tier breakpoint placement carries documented leverage at the percentage dimension. Second, the supplier funded versus customer funded model split is the structural commercial choice that determines whether the contracted Fieldglass platform fee surfaces transparently against the customer. Third, the module scope at the contingent worker and services procurement layer carries the documented commercial leverage at the contracted commitment. Fourth, the managed service provider integration posture changes the contracted Fieldglass commercial dynamic and needs explicit treatment at the original Fieldglass commitment. Fifth, the timing of the Fieldglass preparation needs to coordinate with the broader RISE with SAP commitment cycle to preserve the leverage at the staged renewal. Read the SAP S/4HANA migration negotiation.
The first commercial move is the spend under management fee tiering. The fee tier is the structural commercial dimension that determines the contracted percentage of the annual contingent spend volume that the customer or the supplier pays to SAP under the contracted Fieldglass commitment.
The Fieldglass contracted percentage band runs at one and a quarter to two and a half percent of the contracted annual contingent spend volume across the contracted three year term. The contracted percentage drops at the higher spend tier, with the contracted band typically running at two and a quarter to two and a half percent at the fifty million dollar annual spend tier, at two to two and a quarter percent at the one hundred million dollar annual spend tier, at one and three quarters to two percent at the two hundred million dollar annual spend tier, at one and a half to one and three quarters percent at the four hundred million dollar annual spend tier, and at one and a quarter to one and a half percent at the seven hundred fifty million dollar annual spend tier and above.
The tier breakpoint placement is the structural commercial dimension that determines where the contracted percentage drops to the next lower band across the contracted volume curve. The standard SAP account team framework places the tier breakpoints at fifty, one hundred, two hundred, four hundred, and seven hundred fifty million dollar annual contingent spend marks. The buyer side response shifts the tier breakpoint placement against the actual measured contingent spend forecast across the contracted three year term to surface the next lower band at the contracted base year commitment rather than at the contracted year three forecast. The tier breakpoint placement typically recovers fifteen to twenty five basis points against the standard breakpoint placement.
The blended rate clause structures the contracted percentage at the blended rate across the full contracted spend rather than at the marginal tier rate above the breakpoint. The blended rate clause typically delivers a three to six percent recovery against the contracted Fieldglass platform fee across the contracted annual term through the structural blending mechanism alone. The blended rate clause is one of the structural commercial dimensions inside the Fieldglass commitment and one of the buyer side moves at the Fieldglass negotiation.
The forecast based tier commitment structures the contracted percentage against the contracted contingent spend forecast across the contracted three year term rather than against the contracted base year commitment. The forecast based tier commitment typically delivers an additional ten to twenty basis points against the contracted Fieldglass platform fee when the contracted contingent spend forecast supports the tier breakpoint at the contracted base year. The forecast based tier commitment also includes the explicit treatment of the contracted forecast variance across the contracted three year term to prevent the contracted percentage from inflating against the actual contingent spend trajectory.
The second commercial move is the funding model split between the supplier funded model and the customer funded model. The funding model split is the structural commercial choice that determines whether the contracted Fieldglass platform fee surfaces transparently against the customer or sits embedded inside the supplier contractor bill rate.
The supplier funded model is the SAP account team default at the original Fieldglass commitment. The supplier funded model loads the platform fee onto the supplier invoice at the contracted percentage, with the supplier passing the cost through to the customer in the contractor bill rate. The supplier funded model typically hides the contracted Fieldglass platform fee inside the supplier rate and prevents the contracted commitment from surfacing transparently against the customer's contingent workforce budget. The supplier funded default is the structural commercial dimension that the SAP account team protects at the original commitment because the supplier funded default also raises the structural cost of the contracted supplier rate by the contracted percentage across the contracted contingent workforce portfolio.
The customer funded model prices the contracted platform fee directly against the customer at the contracted percentage of the contingent spend volume. The customer funded model surfaces the contracted Fieldglass platform fee transparently against the customer's contingent workforce budget and removes the platform fee from the contracted supplier rate. The customer funded model typically delivers an additional commercial advantage at the supplier rate negotiation by removing the structural pass through cost from the contracted contractor bill rate. The practice has documented engagements where the customer funded model recovered an additional three to seven percent against the contracted contingent workforce spend through the structural supplier rate compression alone.
The hybrid funding split structures the contracted Fieldglass commitment across a defined split between the supplier funded and customer funded models. The hybrid split typically allocates the contingent worker module to the supplier funded model and the services procurement module to the customer funded model, or allocates the strategic supplier portfolio to the customer funded model and the broader supplier portfolio to the supplier funded model. The hybrid funding split preserves the structural commercial advantage at the strategic supplier rate negotiation while maintaining the standard supplier funded posture across the broader supplier portfolio.
The supplier rate transparency clause inside the contracted Fieldglass commitment requires each supplier to report the contractor bill rate decomposition across the underlying contractor pay rate, the supplier margin, the Fieldglass pass through fee, and the broader supplier overhead. The supplier rate transparency clause is the structural protection against the supplier rate inflation that the supplier funded model otherwise carries and the structural mechanism that surfaces the contracted Fieldglass platform fee at the contracted contractor bill rate. The clause is required at the original Fieldglass commitment rather than at the operational supplier onboarding level.
The third commercial move is the module scope at the contingent worker and services procurement layer. The module scope is the structural commercial dimension that determines which Fieldglass modules sit inside the contracted commitment and which modules sit as an optional add against the contracted percentage.
The contingent worker module is the core Fieldglass module that runs the contracted contingent workforce program covering the contingent worker requisition, the supplier sourcing workflow, the candidate selection workflow, the time and expense capture, the assignment management, and the broader contingent worker lifecycle. The contingent worker module typically supports between sixty and eighty percent of the contracted contingent spend at the upper customer scale enterprise and sits as the structural core of the contracted Fieldglass commitment.
The services procurement module runs the contracted statement of work program covering the statement of work creation, the statement of work tracking, the deliverable milestone management, the statement of work invoice management, and the broader services procurement lifecycle. The services procurement module typically supports between twenty and forty percent of the contracted contingent spend at the upper customer scale enterprise and sits as the discrete commercial dimension inside the contracted Fieldglass commitment. The services procurement module is typically priced at the contracted percentage rate against the services procurement spend volume rather than at a discrete platform fee.
The assignment management module runs the contracted assignment lifecycle covering the assignment creation, the assignment update, the assignment extension, and the broader assignment governance. The profile management module runs the contracted worker profile catalog covering the worker profile creation, the worker profile update, the worker profile compliance, and the broader worker profile governance. Both modules typically sit inside the aggregate contingent worker module commitment at the contracted percentage rate and do not carry discrete commercial dimensions inside the contracted Fieldglass commitment.
The module scope rationalization catalogs the actual measured module utilization across the contracted contingent worker, services procurement, assignment management, profile management, and broader module portfolio to identify the module scope that drives the contracted commitment. The discipline typically reveals that the contracted commitment includes modules that do not drive the measured contingent spend, business units that do not participate in the services procurement program, and process categories outside the contracted contingent workforce priority. The scope rationalization typically recovers eight to fifteen percent of the contracted Fieldglass commitment through the structural scope reduction alone.
The fourth commercial move is the managed service provider integration posture. The managed service provider integration posture is the structural commercial dimension that determines how the contracted managed service provider commitment interacts with the contracted Fieldglass platform commitment at the upper customer scale enterprise.
The managed service provider model layers the contracted contingent workforce program management against the contracted Fieldglass platform. The contracted managed service provider runs the contingent worker requisition workflow, the supplier portfolio management, the supplier rate negotiation, the broader contingent program governance, and the broader contingent workforce strategy against the contracted Fieldglass platform. The contracted managed service provider commitment typically prices at the contracted three to five percent of the contracted contingent spend volume against the contracted Fieldglass platform fee at the contracted one and a quarter to two and a half percent of the same contingent spend volume.
The vendor neutral managed service provider is the structural commercial posture that runs the contracted managed service provider independently of the contracted vendor management system platform. The vendor neutral managed service provider does not own the contracted contingent workforce supplier portfolio and does not carry the supplier rate inflation that the supplier owned managed service provider model otherwise carries. The vendor neutral managed service provider is the documented preference of the buyer side practice at the upper customer scale enterprise and the structural commercial dimension that preserves the contracted Fieldglass leverage at the contracted managed service provider conversation.
The contracted managed service provider rebate clause structures the contracted managed service provider commitment to deliver a defined rebate on the contracted contingent workforce spend back to the customer at the contracted annual reconciliation cycle. The contracted rebate typically runs at twenty five to fifty basis points against the contracted contingent workforce spend volume and offsets the contracted managed service provider fee at the contracted commitment. The contracted managed service provider rebate is the structural commercial dimension that protects the contracted customer commitment against the broader supplier rate inflation that the managed service provider model otherwise carries.
The managed service provider versus internal program decision is the structural commercial choice between the contracted managed service provider commitment and the internally managed contingent workforce program at the upper customer scale enterprise. The internally managed contingent workforce program runs the contracted contingent workforce program directly against the contracted Fieldglass platform without the contracted managed service provider commitment. The internally managed program typically delivers an additional one to three percent recovery against the contracted contingent workforce spend through the structural removal of the contracted managed service provider fee, at the cost of the additional internal contingent workforce program operational overhead.
The fifth commercial move is the alternative platform leverage at the Fieldglass negotiation. The alternative platform leverage is the structural competitive mechanism that lifts the leverage at the Fieldglass negotiation and recovers the documented premium against the comparable vendor management system commitment.
Beeline is the documented broader vendor management system at the comparable spend under management volume against Fieldglass at the upper customer scale enterprise. Beeline runs an estimated seventy five to eighty five billion dollar annual contingent spend under management against Fieldglass at the comparable seventy to ninety billion dollar annual spend under management. Beeline carries the documented broader contingent workforce catalog, the broader services procurement catalog, the broader managed service provider catalog, and the broader configurable workflow at the upper customer scale enterprise. The Beeline commercial benchmark typically prices the comparable contingent workforce platform commitment at a five to twelve percent discount against the comparable Fieldglass commitment at the comparable spend under management volume.
The Workday VNDLY platform integrates with the broader Workday human capital management platform at the contracted enterprise scale and runs an estimated thirty five to forty five billion dollar annual contingent spend under management. The Workday VNDLY platform carries the structural commercial advantage at the contracted Workday human capital management enterprise where the contingent workforce program needs to integrate against the contracted Workday human capital management worker catalog, the contracted Workday financial management chart of accounts, and the broader Workday application catalog. The Workday VNDLY commercial benchmark typically prices the comparable contingent workforce platform commitment at a three to nine percent discount against the comparable Fieldglass commitment at the comparable spend under management volume.
The credibly framed alternative platform narrative at the Fieldglass negotiation does not require the customer to fully implement the Beeline or Workday VNDLY migration. The narrative requires the customer to demonstrate the credible alternative platform evaluation, the credible alternative platform commercial benchmark, and the credible alternative platform migration path. The credibly framed narrative typically recovers the documented five to twelve percent premium against the contracted Fieldglass commitment through the structural competitive pressure alone, plus an additional structural concession on the contracted percentage tier, the contracted module scope, and the contracted implementation fee.
The alternative platform migration path scaffolding sits underneath the credibly framed alternative platform narrative. The scaffolding catalogs the Fieldglass supplier portfolio migration, the Fieldglass contingent worker data migration, the Fieldglass statement of work data migration, and the Fieldglass workflow configuration migration against the Beeline or Workday VNDLY target platform. The migration path scaffolding preserves the structural ability to migrate the contracted Fieldglass estate to the alternative platform across the contracted term, which preserves the buyer side leverage at the broader Fieldglass renewal cycle. The migration path scaffolding does not require account team agreement and sits as the structural protection against the contractual lock inside the broader Fieldglass commitment.
The sixth commercial move is the RISE with SAP line item posture on the contracted Fieldglass commitment. The RISE line item posture determines whether the Fieldglass commitment sits inside the broader RISE commitment as a distinct line item or as a standalone commitment outside the RISE agreement.
RISE with SAP is the SAP managed cloud commercial bundle that wraps S/4HANA Cloud, the SAP Business Technology Platform, the application managed services, the contracted hosting infrastructure, and the contracted intelligent spend catalog inside a single contracted commitment. The RISE commercial bundle prices the contracted commitment at the aggregate RISE discount band against the published SAP catalog and includes the contracted Fieldglass commitment at the contracted aggregate RISE discount band by default when the customer carries the contracted Ariba and Concur commitments alongside the contracted Fieldglass commitment.
The Fieldglass commitment sits inside the RISE with SAP commercial bundle as a distinct line item at the contracted RISE aggregate discount band. The distinct line item posture surfaces the Fieldglass specific discount layer above the aggregate RISE discount band, which typically adds three to seven percent on the Fieldglass rolled up spend. The distinct line item also exposes the contracted percentage tier, the contracted module scope, the contracted funding model split, and the contracted implementation fee to the explicit negotiation conversation rather than allowing the dimensions to settle at the aggregate RISE default. Read the SAP RISE negotiation download.
The Fieldglass standalone commitment outside the RISE with SAP commercial bundle preserves the structural ability to migrate Fieldglass away from SAP across the contracted term. The standalone commitment carries the higher contracted percentage rate and the higher contracted implementation fee against the RISE bundled commitment, but the standalone commitment preserves the contractual flexibility against the broader SAP commitment cycle. The buyer side response coordinates the Fieldglass commitment posture against the broader RISE with SAP commitment cycle at the SAP account level.
The Fieldglass exit and conversion right at the contracted Fieldglass commitment defines the customer's ability to migrate the contracted Fieldglass commitment to Beeline, Workday VNDLY, or an alternative vendor management system at a defined notice window without forfeiting the contracted prepaid balance. The exit and conversion right is the structural protection against the contractual lock that the multi year Fieldglass commitment otherwise carries. The clause typically includes the explicit treatment of the contracted prepaid balance at the conversion point, the explicit treatment of the contracted supplier portfolio at the conversion point, and the explicit migration assistance provisions that SAP commits to provide at the conversion notice.
The seventh commercial move is the implementation and integration fee discipline at the original Fieldglass commitment. The implementation fee is the largest one time commercial dimension at the original Fieldglass commitment and the dimension where the SAP account team typically holds the most pricing latitude.
The Fieldglass implementation fee typically runs at the contracted six hundred thousand to three million dollar one time fee at the upper customer scale enterprise depending on the scope of the contracted module portfolio, the contracted supplier portfolio, the contracted business unit footprint, and the broader integration scope against the contracted enterprise resource planning platform. The implementation fee covers the contracted platform configuration, the contracted supplier onboarding, the contracted business unit onboarding, the contracted workflow configuration, the contracted reporting configuration, and the broader integration build against the contracted enterprise resource planning, human capital management, and broader application catalog.
The fixed price implementation commitment structures the contracted implementation fee at the fixed one time fee against the defined scope rather than at the time and materials rate against the open ended scope. The fixed price commitment is the structural protection against the implementation fee inflation that the time and materials commitment otherwise carries and the structural mechanism that aligns the contracted implementation deliverable against the contracted fee. The fixed price implementation commitment typically requires the explicit treatment of the scope change order rate and the explicit treatment of the contracted implementation timeline.
The integration fee against the broader application catalog covers the contracted integration build against the SAP enterprise resource planning platform, the broader SAP S/4HANA application, the broader SAP Ariba procurement cloud, the broader SAP SuccessFactors human capital management platform, the broader Workday human capital management platform, the broader Oracle enterprise resource planning catalog, and the broader bespoke application catalog. The integration fee typically runs at the contracted seventy five thousand to four hundred thousand dollar one time fee per integration depending on the integration complexity, the integration scope, and the broader integration depth requirement.
The implementation acceleration credit clause inside the contracted Fieldglass commitment delivers a defined credit on the contracted implementation fee against the contracted accelerated implementation timeline. The implementation acceleration credit typically runs at the contracted fifteen to twenty five percent credit against the contracted implementation fee when the contracted accelerated timeline meets the contracted acceleration window. The implementation acceleration credit is the structural commercial dimension that aligns the contracted implementation timeline against the contracted commercial commitment and surfaces the contracted implementation fee leverage at the original Fieldglass commitment.
SAP Fieldglass is the SAP vendor management system that runs the contingent workforce program, the services procurement program, the statement of work program, and the broader external workforce program at the upper customer scale enterprise. The platform processes contingent worker requisitions, time and expense capture, supplier onboarding, statement of work tracking, and the broader contingent spend control inside a single workflow. The Fieldglass commercial model prices the platform on a percentage of the spend under management with tiered supplier funding rates against the contracted annual contingent spend volume.
The SAP Fieldglass commercial model prices the platform on a percentage of the spend under management. The supplier funding model loads the platform fee onto the supplier invoice at the contracted percentage, which the supplier then passes through to the customer in the contractor bill rate. The customer funded model prices the contracted platform fee directly against the customer at the contracted percentage of the contingent spend volume. The contracted percentage typically runs at the contracted one and a quarter to two and a half percent band across the contracted spend tier.
The practice has documented engagements where the coordinated SAP Fieldglass negotiation delivered seventeen to thirty four percent recovery against the SAP account team's opening commitment proposal. The upper end is available when the buyer credibly anchors the Beeline and Workday VNDLY alternatives, sizes the contracted percentage against the actual measured spend under management volume, splits the supplier funded and customer funded models at the right tier, contracts the services procurement scope at the explicit module level, and stages the Fieldglass commitment against the broader RISE with SAP commitment cycle.
The Fieldglass spend under management fee is the percentage of the contracted annual contingent spend volume that the customer or the supplier pays to SAP under the contracted Fieldglass commitment. The fee typically runs at one and a quarter to two and a half percent of the contracted annual spend under management, with the contracted percentage dropping at the higher spend tier. The fee covers the contingent worker module, the services procurement module, the assignment management module, and the broader Fieldglass platform across the contracted term.
The supplier funded Fieldglass model loads the platform fee onto the supplier invoice at the contracted percentage, with the supplier passing the cost through to the customer in the contractor bill rate. The customer funded Fieldglass model prices the contracted platform fee directly against the customer at the contracted percentage of the contingent spend volume. The supplier funded model is the SAP account team default. The customer funded model typically delivers a transparent contracted total cost view against the contracted spend under management and surfaces the contracted negotiation leverage at the supplier rate conversation.
The managed service provider model layers the contracted contingent workforce program management against the contracted Fieldglass platform. The contracted managed service provider runs the contingent worker requisition workflow, the supplier portfolio management, the supplier rate negotiation, and the broader contingent program governance against the contracted Fieldglass platform. The contracted Fieldglass commitment and the contracted managed service provider commitment carry distinct commercial dimensions that need explicit treatment at the original Fieldglass commitment to preserve the buyer side leverage at the managed service provider conversation.
The principal Fieldglass alternatives at the upper customer scale enterprise are Beeline, the Workday VNDLY platform, the Coupa contingent workforce platform, and the broader Workforce Logiq and Magnit platforms. Beeline carries the documented broader contingent workforce catalog at the comparable spend under management volume. Workday VNDLY integrates with the broader Workday human capital management platform at the contracted enterprise scale. The buyer side response credibly opens the alternative platform conversation at the Fieldglass negotiation to recover the documented premium against the comparable contingent workforce commitment.
Fieldglass can sit inside the RISE with SAP commitment as a distinct line item or as a standalone commitment outside the RISE agreement. The distinct line item inside RISE typically delivers a three to seven percent discount layer above the aggregate RISE discount band on the Fieldglass rolled up spend. The standalone commitment preserves the structural ability to migrate Fieldglass away from SAP across the contracted term. The buyer side response coordinates the Fieldglass commitment posture against the broader RISE with SAP commitment cycle.
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