User Roles

As with most applications, user permissions within the Rural Sourcing Management application are based on the user role assigned to the person logged into the system.

There are some basic user roles within the Rural Sourcing Management system:
  • Regional Center Manager - The Regional Center Manager is a person working at a central warehouse who captures loading and offloading transactions that take place at his or her central warehouse.
  • Warehouse Manager - The Warehouse Manager is similar to the Regional Center Manager, but works out of a single warehouse rather than a central warehouse. The warehouse manager captures loading and offloading transactions that take place at his or her single warehouse.
  • Buying Station Manager - The Buying Station Manager works at a buying station and is responsible for buying agricultural products from the farmers.
  • Organizer - The organizer is the person responsible for conducting surveys with the smallholder farmers.

The farmer or producer is also a part of the process but is not a user role as the farmer does not interact with the Rural Sourcing Management application.


    Initial User Setup and Modifications
    User roles are defined by your system administrator in conjunction with SAP personnel. User roles must be set up in the system before users can use the Rural Sourcing Management application.
    Tables of Permissions
    User roles within the Rural Sourcing Management system determine which transactions the user can view and which transactions that the user can record. In addition, specific permissions have been created to address and protect data privacy.