FMS External Workforce Management
FMS External Workforce Management
Consultport Freelance Management
System for External Workforce
Freelance Management System to manage the lifecycle for contractors from request and
engagement to offboarding and evaluation - simple, compliant, efficient.
engagement to offboarding and evaluation - simple, compliant, efficient.
Consultport is trusted by 1000+ businesses worldwide
What is Consultport FMS External Workforce Management?
External consultants and experts on demand help build a strong, scalable workforce. Consultport FMS External Workforce Management is an application that helps you to manage the whole lifecycle of your external workforce: find, select and onboard consultants, manage approvals and payments, perform analysis and reportings, and ensure compliance at all times.
End-to-End: External Workforce Process Management
Request & Approval: Submit project needs and streamline internal approvals.
Sourcing & Invitation: Distribute to vendors and receive the best candidate offers.
Comparison & Selection: Compare profiles, prices, and availability at a glance.
Onboarding & Compliance: Ready-made contracts and integrated compliance checks.
Tracking & Reporting: Monitor hours, costs, and project status in real time.
Evaluation & Offboarding: Give feedback, finalize payments, and close assignments.
Key Benefits
Centralized Management of External Workforce
A single platform to source, engage, and manage external consultants and experts, and streamline communication across all departments.
Faster and More Efficient Process
Save hours with standardized workflows, distribute to preferred vendors and compare candidates side-by-side.
Full Cost and Compliance Control
24/7 customizable access and visibility rights into spend and compliance data - avoid risks and control your costs.
Key Features
Centralized
Workforce Hub
All information about your external consultants and experts, suppliers, and projects in one place for full visibility.
End-to-End
Integration
Standardized onboarding and approval workflows, automatically generated timesheets and invoices.
Smart Sourcing &
Vendor Management
Easily search, manage and evaluate all vendors and external candidates.
Compliance
Management
Audit-ready documentation, digital signatures, and integrated worker classification tool.
Advanced Analytics &
Reporting
Clear dashboards to monitor spend, hiring cycle time, and workforce efficiency.
Highest Security
Standards
We comply with international security standards, incl. ISO 27001, SOC 2, and GDPR.
Connect your FMS to the Worldβs Leading Platform for Freelance Consultants
10K+ Pre-vetted Consultants
Get instant access to a global pool of pre-vetted freelance consultants and consulting firms
Offers within 48h
Get highly qualified and matching proposals of vendors within hours and days, not weeks.
Save Up to 70% of Costs
Get top-tier consulting quality at a fraction of traditional firm rates.
Simple, Fast, Smart - The Next Generation FMS
Bring your external workforce management to the next level with our cutting-edge FMS.
No FMS
- No central visibility
- Long and complex processes
- Slow hiring cycles
- Compliance risks
- Hard to measure performance or costs
Traditional FMS
- Complex and over-engineered
- Slow implementation
- Expensive
- Weeks/months to onboard contractors and users
Consultport FMS Advantage
- Intuitive easy to use UI
- Fast and lean setup
- Integrated talent and vendor pool
- AI-powered consultant matching
- Comparison and quotes within 48h
- Most cost-effective solution
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Freelance Management System?
A Freelance Management System is a platform that digitalizes the management of external workforce. It streamlines processes such as:
- Sourcing and reviewing candidates
- Onboarding
- Compliance
- Offboarding
- Evaluation
- Full visibility and control over your external workforce.
What advantages does a Freelance Management System offer?
A FMS consolidates the whole process of engaging and managing your freelancer, making workflows simpler, smoother and faster. Particularly, a Freelance Management System helps you with:
- Having all your freelancers incl. their data all in one place
- Business, procurement, HR, Legal and other involved stakeholders can complete their responsibilities in this tool, leading to better alignment and less bottlenecks
- Getting or staying compliant with integrated compliance checks and all documents at one place
- Getting better and standardized candidate offers
- Staffing your projects faster
When does a Freelance Management System make sense?
A Freelance Management System makes sense when one or more of the following criteria are met:
- Your company regularly works with a freelancer basis of 10+ workers
- You lose time with manual approvals and following up with involved stakeholders
- You are not sure who in your company works as a freelancer and if all compliance criteria are met
- You have to look through different tools and emails to understand which freelancers is working for which project for which rates
- You are not sure if your organization uses freelancers offering similar services for different rates and which would be the lowest rate
- You are not sure about the exact spend for your freelancers
What is Consultport doing?
Consultport is a platform offering on-demand access to top-tier Management Consultants, Digital Experts and Interim Managers. More than 1000 companies hire from Consultportβs pool of consultants to help on their most critical projects.
As more and more clients reported their pain points and inconveniences with managing their freelancers to us, we have built our own Freelance Management System. Coming from a technology perspective, we have built a lean and easy-to-use tool which helps you to start managing your freelancers in one place.
What makes the Consultport FMS unique?
Consultport FMS is unique because it offers you:
- A talent pool of 15k+ pre-vetted freelance consultants and digital experts can be plugged in
- Lean and intuitive user interface, easy to adopt across multiple users.
- Integrated set-up and implementation support by dedicated project manager.
How fast can ConsultportΒ΄s FMS be implemented?
Our FMS solutions can be set up within 2 - 3 weeks. We have designed it to make the set-up lean and uncomplicated without making it a heavy IT project.
Does a Freelance Management System integrate with existing systems?
Yes. Most FMS tools integrate with ERP, finance, and procurement systems for approvals, cost centers, and invoicing.
How much does ConsultportΒ΄s FMS cost?
ConsultportΒ΄s Freelance Management System is the most cost-efficient in the market. The pricing is usually based on the freelancer spend which is managed in the platform, however, the pricing model can be customized to the individual client.
Is it safe to process our freelancer data through Consultport's Freelance Management System?
Yes. ConsultportΒ΄s Freelance Management System complies with the highest security standards: the system is built with GDPR, ISO 27001, and SOC 2 requirements in mind.
Γ
Consultport is trusted by 1000+ businesses worldwide
Γ