Fill vs SAP Fieldglass

A modern alternative to SAP Fieldglass.

Faster implementation, dramatically higher adoption, European-first compliance — in a VMS purpose-built for the consultant economy, not retrofitted from enterprise procurement of the 2000s.

Implementation in weeks
Hiring manager adoption
European-first compliance
AI-native sourcing

Where Fill differs from SAP Fieldglass.

  • 01Live in 4–6 weeks. Fieldglass averages 6–12 months.
  • 0298% hiring-manager adoption. Built for self-serve, not admin.
  • 03European compliance native: GDPR, BankID, EU AI Act, CSRD.
  • 04AI inside every workflow — sourcing, scoring, reconciling.

Where Fill leaves SAP Fieldglass behind.

Implementation · Week 4
Site provisioned
Vendors imported
HRIS connected
Live with users

Live in weeks, not quarters

Most Fill customers are live within 4–6 weeks. SAP Fieldglass deployments typically take 6–12 months and require dedicated programme staff.

Hiring manager adoption
Active users this month98%
Self-serve requests92%
Maverick spend2%

Adoption procurement teams notice

Fill is built for the hiring manager, not just the procurement admin. 98% adoption keeps every consultant inside the system — and inside policy.

EU residency & BankID
EU-hosted by default
GDPR & EU AI Act aligned
BankID identity
SCIM provisioning

European-first compliance

Built for European procurement reality — GDPR, EU AI Act, BankID, CSRD-ready. Not retrofitted from a US-first platform.

Fill vs SAP Fieldglass at a glance

Criterion
Fill
SAP Fieldglass
Built for
Consultant and SOW spend specifically — sourcing, engagements, rates and reconciliation on one record.
Broad external-workforce management across temp labor, services and assignments, as part of SAP's HCM and spend suite.
AI approach
AI-native: agents draft briefs, run RFPs, benchmark rates and match invoices — every decision stops with you.
AI assistants (Joule) added to established workflows, focused on entries, submissions and time recording.
Time to live
Designed to go live in weeks, without a program office.
Enterprise implementations typically run through integration and configuration phases measured in months.
Adoption
98% hiring-manager adoption — managers use it rather than route around it.
Depends on program enforcement; a common replacement driver cited by buyers is managers working around the system.
Cost impact
Customers average €2M savings in year one and 14% lower contractor rate cards.
Savings depend on program design and MSP setup; no published averages.
EU fit
EU-native: European data residency posture and no training on your data.
Global platform with EU options through SAP's cloud infrastructure.
Ecosystem
Open integrations to your ERP, HRIS and SSO.
Deepest fit inside an existing SAP landscape (S/4HANA, Ariba, SuccessFactors).
Buying motion
Book a demo and see your own use case; no enterprise sales cycle required to start.
Demo-led enterprise sales through SAP; Fieldglass no longer has a standalone product site.

What you’ll have your first week with Fill.

The deliverables Fill puts in your hands inside a month — not the quarter Fieldglass promises and rarely delivers.

Built for adoption, not implementation.

Your questions answered

"Fill and SAP Fieldglass solve different problems. Fieldglass is the established VMS for very large, global contingent programs inside the SAP ecosystem. Fill is the AI procurement system for your consultant workforce — built specifically for consultant and SOW spend, run by agents you supervise, and designed to go live in weeks rather than quarters."

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Switching VMS,
questions answered.

When should you stay with your current VMS?

If your existing system is deeply wired into finance and procurement processes that work, and your hiring managers use it without being chased, switching is disruption you do not need. The case for moving is strongest when adoption is the problem — when requests still arrive by email because the system is too heavy for the people expected to use it.

What does migrating from one VMS to another actually involve?

Four things: exporting your active consultant and supplier records, re-establishing approval hierarchies and spend policy, reconnecting integrations to your HR and finance systems, and running both systems in parallel until in-flight engagements close out. The data migration is rarely the hard part; agreeing the policy rules again usually is.

Can you keep your suppliers and negotiated rates when you switch?

Yes. Supplier agreements and rate cards are your commercial relationships, not the software's. They are exported and re-loaded like any other master data. Treat a switch as a chance to review rate cards against current market benchmarks rather than porting them across unexamined.

Will a new VMS integrate with our HR and finance systems?

Fill connects to the identity, HR, ERP and e-signature systems most enterprises already run — including Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, BankID, Workday, SAP, Personio, Visma, Fortnox, DocuSign and Scrive. The integration question worth asking any vendor is not whether a connector exists, but who owns it and how quickly it is fixed when the upstream API changes.

How do you know if a VMS rollout will actually be adopted?

Adoption is decided by hiring managers, not by procurement. The test is whether someone who raises two consultant requests a year can complete one without training or a manual. Fill customers see 98% hiring-manager adoption, and that number is the one worth interrogating in any vendor conversation — a VMS nobody uses produces no data, and a VMS with no data produces no savings.

What does an AI-native VMS do differently?

The lifecycle is the same; the manual work inside it is not. Fill's agents draft intake requests from a plain-language brief, run supplier RFPs, benchmark proposed rates against your own history, and match invoices to timesheets — proposing each step rather than executing it. Approvals and spend limits stay with your team.

Switch to Fill in weeks, not years.

Take procurement off the spreadsheet.

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