When our mem­bers (and their board mem­bers) con­sid­er strate­gies for dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion, tech­nol­o­gy is always top of mind. From suc­cess­ful­ly exe­cut­ing enter­prise resource plan­ning (ERP) roll­outs to con­sum­ing inno­va­tions in gen­er­a­tive arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence (AI), tech­nol­o­gy exec­u­tives in all indus­tries are tasked with over­see­ing com­plex busi­ness evo­lu­tions, help­ing their com­pa­nies adapt to an accel­er­at­ing rate of change. 

Out­side of the tech­nol­o­gy, today’s busi­ness­es face anoth­er chal­lenge: devel­op­ing a skilled tech­ni­cal work­force that can keep pace with all the strate­gic plan­ning, data analy­sis, prob­lem-solv­ing savvy, and con­tin­u­ous learn­ing and devel­op­ment this emerg­ing tech requires. Hav­ing the right peo­ple in the right place and the right time is increas­ing­ly half the bat­tle. Accord­ing to Deloitte, staffing chal­lenges top the list of issues CEOs expect to dis­rupt busi­ness in 2023 and beyond. And yet trans­for­ma­tion of tech­nol­o­gy skills is crit­i­cal to main­tain­ing a com­pet­i­tive edge, even as the added com­plex­i­ty of those skills — amid dig­i­tal and AI inno­va­tions, as well as cloud migra­tion — has nev­er been more read­i­ly apparent. 

While tal­ent short­ages have impact­ed IT for years, the skills gap has been keen­ly felt across the SAP ecosys­tem as the com­pa­ny dri­ves its cus­tomers’ jour­neys to the cloud. In ASUG’s annu­al Pulse of the SAP Cus­tomer research study, main­tain­ing knowl­edge­able staff — and retain­ing them, amid high turnover rates — has reg­u­lar­ly ranked as one of the top three chal­lenges orga­ni­za­tions say they face. Last year, 37% of study respon­dents not­ed that they specif­i­cal­ly strug­gle to find staff equipped to nav­i­gate SAP S/4HANA, while 30% report­ed that their orga­ni­za­tions lacked the inter­nal skills need­ed to man­age new prod­ucts, hin­der­ing their tech­nol­o­gy and busi­ness progress. 

As our SAP staffing part­ners (and ASUG Part­ner Mem­bers) work to pro­vide our mem­bers with qual­i­fied job can­di­dates or take on the tasks them­selves as resources to cus­tomers, it’s clear to all of us at ASUG that con­nect­ing our com­mu­ni­ty to SAP-skilled inde­pen­dent con­trac­tors is anoth­er way we can quick­ly and cost-effec­tive­ly dri­ve crit­i­cal val­ue for our members. 

It’s in that spir­it that we launched the ASUG Tal­ent Hub, the first and only SAP-cen­tric con­tract tal­ent plat­form, com­bin­ing the exper­tise and resources of mul­ti­ple staffing firms that spe­cial­ize in SAP into one, easy-to-use tal­ent pro­cure­ment pipeline. Whether you’re look­ing for con­trac­tors spe­cial­ized in data infra­struc­ture to nav­i­gate SAP Busi­ness Ware­house, for short-term SAP tal­ent that knows SAP Finance and Con­trol­ling (FICO) inside and out, or for addi­tion­al resources to staff SAP S/4HANA trans­for­ma­tion projects, ASUG Tal­ent Hub is a resource for you. 

Pro­vid­ing mem­bers with access to thou­sands of high­ly skilled inde­pen­dent con­trac­tors, ASUG Tal­ent Hub deliv­ers can­di­dates’ resumes to your inbox with­in 48 hours of you sub­mit­ting role require­ments, infor­ma­tion, and expec­ta­tions. Col­lab­o­rat­ing with top firms that are high­ly skilled in iden­ti­fy­ing what their clients want out of their con­sul­tants, ASUG Tal­ent Hub min­i­mizes turnover and accel­er­ates the pro­cure­ment process. 

While oth­er com­pa­nies pro­vide staff aug­men­ta­tion ser­vices for all IT areas, ASUG Tal­ent Hub focus­es on deliv­er­ing SAP pro­fes­sion­al con­trac­tors; our spe­cial­ized part­ner firms tap into net­works of SAP pro­fes­sion­als, rather than gen­er­al IT pro­fes­sion­als. We under­stand the bal­ance of tech­ni­cal and busi­ness acu­men required for con­sul­tants to suc­ceed in sup­port­ing SAP projects, and so ASUG seeks to pro­vide our mem­bers with a lev­el of con­sis­ten­cy in qual­i­ty, speed, adapt­abil­i­ty, and fair rates for short-term SAP talent. 

ASUG Tal­ent Hub is pur­pose-built to con­nect our mem­bers with the best SAP con­sul­tants in the busi­ness, with action-ori­ent­ed thought lead­ers with an estab­lished track record of dri­ving effi­cien­cies and lead­ing the charge for suc­cess­ful trans­for­ma­tion. When it comes to secur­ing sup­port for your teams with SAP con­tract work­ers, we know agili­ty and pro­duc­tiv­i­ty are both non-negotiable. 

Beyond their knowl­edge of SAP peo­ple, prod­ucts, ser­vices, and trans­for­ma­tion ini­tia­tives, the high-qual­i­ty pro­fes­sion­als you’ll find through ASUG Tal­ent Hub are care­ful­ly curat­ed best-fit can­di­dates, all well-versed in read­ing between the lines, antic­i­pat­ing future busi­ness needs, and prob­lem-solv­ing effi­cient­ly. These are true SAP ​“super­stars” who can hit the ground run­ning and get to work on your most crit­i­cal projects. 

We expect noth­ing less from our con­sul­tants than the stan­dard of excel­lence we know is required to keep our mem­bers one step ahead. With ASUG Tal­ent Hub, we’re rais­ing that stan­dard even fur­ther, so that you can max­i­mize the val­ue of your ASUG mem­ber­ship and get the most out of your invest­ment in SAP technology.

Vis­it tal​ent​.asug​.com for more infor­ma­tion; or con­tact talenthub@​asug.​com.

Jonathan Lal­la is ASUG­’s Direc­tor of Marketing.