SAP Fieldglass Training (External Workforce Management)
SAP Fieldglass training teaches you to manage the external workforce, which in most large organisations is a significant and poorly controlled share of spend.
- 30 hours
- Beginner
- Live online
What is SAP Fieldglass Training (External Workforce Management)?
SAP Fieldglass training teaches you to manage the external workforce, which in most large organisations is a significant and poorly controlled share of spend. You cover the vendor management system model, contingent worker requisitions and the sourcing process, supplier onboarding and tiering, statement of work and services procurement, worker onboarding and offboarding with security compliance, time sheet and expense capture, invoicing and accruals, rate cards and rules, and the integration points with Ariba, S/4HANA and SuccessFactors.
What you get
- Explain the vendor management system model and where Fieldglass fits
- Configure company structures, rate cards and approval workflow
- Run a contingent worker requisition through to work order
- Create and manage a statement of work with milestones
Who this course is for
New to the field
- Procurement and HR staff owning contingent labour
- MSP and staffing operations professionals
- Consultants adding external workforce to their profile
Working professionals
- Ariba or SuccessFactors consultants extending scope
- Programme managers running a contingent workforce programme
- Anyone implementing or administering Fieldglass
Prerequisites
- None strictly.
- Procurement, HR or contingent workforce experience is a strong advantage.
What you will be able to do
- Explain the vendor management system model and where Fieldglass fits
- Configure company structures, rate cards and approval workflow
- Run a contingent worker requisition through to work order
- Create and manage a statement of work with milestones
- Configure onboarding, compliance and offboarding workflows
- Process time sheets, expenses and invoices
- Report on external workforce spend and supplier performance
Salary range
- India
- 8-26 LPA
- United States
- 105k-150k
Market ranges for SAP Fieldglass Consultant, not a guarantee. Actual pay depends on experience, location and employer.
Curriculum
External workforce foundations
Understand the spend category and why it needs its own system.
- Contingent labour versus services procurement
- Why external workforce spend escapes normal controls
- Vendor management system concepts
- Managed service provider models
- SAP Fieldglass in the SAP portfolio
- Company, business unit and site hierarchy
- Roles and user administration
- Building a business case for a Fieldglass programme
Configuration foundations
Set up the structures every process runs on.
- Company setup and configuration manager
- Business units, cost centres and sites
- Job posting templates and job families
- Rate cards and rate structures
- Approval groups and workflow
- Custom fields and configurable text
- Document templates and terms
- Configuration governance and change control
Contingent worker sourcing
Fill a role through a controlled competitive process.
- Job posting creation and distribution
- Supplier distribution and tiering rules
- Candidate submission and review
- Interview scheduling and feedback
- Rate negotiation within rate card limits
- Work order creation and approval
- Work order revisions and extensions
- Common sourcing bottlenecks
Statement of work and services procurement
Control project based spend, not just hourly labour.
- SOW types: fixed price, time and materials
- SOW creation and negotiation
- Deliverables and milestone definition
- SOW response and supplier selection
- SOW revisions and change orders
- Fees, events and milestone approval
- Services procurement versus contingent labour
- Governance for high value SOWs
Worker lifecycle and compliance
Onboard, manage and offboard external workers safely.
- Onboarding workflows and checklists
- Background checks and credential tracking
- Security and system access requests
- Tenure limits and co-employment risk
- Worker profile and assignment data
- Assignment changes and transfers
- Offboarding and access revocation
- Audit evidence for compliance teams
Time, expense and invoicing
Pay accurately and see committed spend.
- Time sheet configuration and submission
- Approval routing and escalation
- Expense sheet handling and policy
- Rate application and overtime rules
- Invoice generation and consolidation
- Credit and debit memos
- Accruals and committed spend reporting
- Dispute handling with suppliers
Analytics and integration
Report on external workforce spend and connect the system.
- Standard reports and analytics
- Spend and rate benchmarking views
- Supplier scorecards and performance
- Integration with SAP Ariba
- Integration with S/4HANA for purchase orders and invoices
- Integration with SuccessFactors for worker data
- Integration patterns and middleware options
- Data quality and reconciliation
Projects you will build
Sourcing cycle
Configure a job posting template and rate card, post a role to tiered suppliers, review submissions and issue a work order with approvals.
Statement of work
Build a fixed price SOW with milestones and deliverables, run supplier response and selection, then approve a milestone and process the resulting invoice.
Compliance and reporting
Configure an onboarding checklist with credential tracking, run a tenure report and build a spend analysis by business unit and supplier.
Tools you will use
- Configuration manager
- Where company structures, templates, rules and workflow are maintained.
- Job posting and work order
- The contingent labour documents that drive sourcing and engagement.
- Statement of work module
- Project based services procurement with milestones and deliverables.
- Time and expense sheets
- Worker submission and approval, the volume transactions of the system.
- Invoicing and accruals
- Consolidated invoicing and committed spend visibility.
- Analytics and reports
- Spend, rate and supplier performance reporting for programme owners.
Certification
- Exam
- SAP Fieldglass certification is delivered through SAP's partner and product learning tracks rather than a public associate exam code. We prepare you against the current SAP Fieldglass learning journey.
What learners say
The SOW module is what wins projects. Most people only know the contingent labour side and clients want both.
Tenure and co-employment risk were treated seriously here, which is the part our legal team cares about most.
The integration section was practical. Knowing how invoices reach S/4HANA is what our finance team always asks.
Fees and training modes
Choose how you want to learn. No-cost EMI is available on the live and 1-to-1 modes.
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Live Online Training
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Interactive live batches, weekday or weekend, with the full cohort and lifetime recordings.
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1-to-1 Training
₹49,000
Fixed for every course, no-cost EMI
Private one-on-one coaching at a pace and schedule you set.
Affordable
Self-paced Training
₹9,000
One-time fee, lowest-cost option
Learn on your own time with recorded sessions and the same materials.
Refunds and cancellations are covered in our refund policy.
What a day looks like
- Requisition chasing
- Roles that are not attracting submissions, usually a rate card or a supplier distribution problem.
- Approval queues
- Work orders, time sheets and invoices waiting on approvers, which is most of the operational load.
- Compliance checks
- Tenure limits approaching, expired credentials and access that should have been revoked.
- Supplier conversations
- Rate disputes, performance issues and onboarding of new suppliers.
- Integration monitoring
- Confirming worker and invoice data flowed to S/4HANA or Ariba and fixing failures.
Training a team?
We run this course as private corporate training, tailored to your systems and scheduled around your team. Tell us your group size and what you need to cover.
Request a corporate quoteFrequently asked questions
Is there a Fieldglass certification exam?
Do I need Ariba knowledge?
Is Fieldglass HR or procurement?
Do I get system access?
Who hires for this?
Is this useful without SAP experience?
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