Introduction

This document provides Data protection and Privacy information for SAP Rural Sourcing Management.

Data protection is associated with numerous legal requirements and privacy concerns. In addition to compliance with general data protection and privacy acts, it is necessary to consider compliance with industry-specific legislation in different countries. SAP provides specific features and functions to support compliance with regard to relevant legal requirements, including data protection, which are documented in these templates along with the assumptions that have been guiding the implementation in the software. By nature of legal requirements the conclusion whether these features are covering customer specific demands as well as the conclusion whether additional measures have to be taken is solely with the customer.

Generic Fields

To comply with the principle of "data minimization," SAP Rural Sourcing Management is only making use of the following personal data by default:
  • First Name
  • Last Name
  • Gender
  • Date of Birth
  • Phone Number
  • Address
  • Truck License Plate
  • Farmer Cooperative Membership Number
  • Mobile Money Account Number
  • Android_ID of the Smart phone
  • GPS Position of the Smart phone
  • Facial imagery of farmers

You need to make sure that no personal data enters the system in an uncontrolled or non-purpose related way, for example, in free-text fields, through APIs, or customer extensions. Note that these are not subject to the read access logging (RAL) example configuration.