Exploring Admin Objects in SAP Fieldglass

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to explain how the data structures of an SAP Fieldglass tenant can be accessed and edited.

The Data Structures of a Tenant

An organization’s instance of SAP Fieldglass—called a tenant—is constructed to serve the unique needs of that organization. It is built upon two interrelated types of data:

  • the configuration and
  • the structure.

Watch the video to learn more about how a company’s configuration and structure affect how a company can perform transactions in SAP Fieldglass.

The Admin Menu

The Admin Menu presents the tools that are used to create and maintain the structures that allow transactions to occur: an organization’s administrative information, rules, and processes. It facilitates solutions for an organization’s workforce goals and objectives by defining the data objects that affect visibility, user access, and transactional workflows.

The SAP Fieldglass Admin menu showing all of the admin objects available, organized into fourteen sections which are displayed as white cards. The sections include User, Supplier. Company Structure, Messaging, Workflow, Financial Data, Rate Structure, Worker, Services, Configuration, Past Data, Report, Integration, and System Tools.

Admin Objects

All of the data objects listed in the admin menu are Admin Objects.

Some of the admin objects demonstrably affect transactions, requiring users to make certain choices that are configured through the admin object. Others effectively remove choice and affect a transaction strictly through the associations made to other admin objects.

These admin objects do NOT allow users to edit the underlying functionality that a tenant is configured to use. Instead, the admin objects allow administrators to structure those available functions to suit their worker procurement processes.

Summary

Admin Objects are the underlying data structures that allow transactions to be performed. They indicate who is performing what transaction and how.

Key Points:

  • Company Configuration: Determines the available features and functions for procuring contingent workers and services. Stable throughout the organization's use of SAP Fieldglass.
  • Company Structure: Defines administrative information, rules, and processes, such as users and workflows driving procurement transactions. Can be altered continuously throughout the lifecycle.
  • Admin Menu: Manages all administrative data, providing tools to create and maintain structures that enable transactions, define data objects for visibility, user access, and transactional workflows.
  • Structured Data: Comprised of master data (Business Unit, Cost Center, Site) and transactional items (Users, Job Posting Templates, Job Postings, Invoices), which together allow transactions to occur efficiently.

Learning

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