Component documentationSAP Credentialing

 

You use SAP Credentialing to define, manage and check credentials. Credentialing is intended for applications where a decision has to be made on the basis of process data as to what type of credentials have to exist to enable the required checks to be carried out on these credentials.

Implementation Considerations

You can use this component for your business processes in order to run checks on specific process data for which the follow-on processes require some kind of authorization, or where certain prerequisites have to be fulfilled for the process to continue. The process data used is irrelevant. The system can check all types of credentials, such as:

  • Qualifications

  • Statements

  • Certificates

  • Authorizations

  • Licenses

  • Participation in seminars

  • References

  • Driver's licenses

With SAP Credentialing, you can easily structure, store, manage and check this data. SAP Credentialing does not support any (weighted) qualifications. The result of a credentials check is either successful or not successful (otherwise an exception is generated).

Integration

You can use SAP Credentialing independently of other ERP components. You must only implement the core package: Credentialing (CRD000). You can also use Credentialing in conjunction with SAP Incentive and Commission Management (ICM). However, note that the CRD000 package and the ICM core package (CACS000) mutually exclude each other. If you want to use Credentialing with ICM, you should use the ICM: Integration Credentialing (CACS71) package and not CRD000.

Note Note

For more information, see the system documentation for the respective package.

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Features

The following functions are provided with SAP Credentialing:

  • Create, change, delete, and display credential assignments

  • Find credentials owner (using the partner ID)

  • Display expiring credential assignments

Note Note

You edit credential assignments in SAP NetWeaver Portal or in SAP NetWeaver Business Client in SAP Business Package for Credentials Manager. For more information on the role of credentials manager, see the documentation of SAP Business Package for Credentials Manager.

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You make the system settings for your credentialing application in Customizing for SAP Credentialing under Start of the navigation path Incentive and Sales Force Management Next navigation step Credentialing End of the navigation path. Here you define the required credential types and descriptions, and also configure the interfaces, master data and requirements catalog.

Example

Examples of different credential types are a driver's license or a license to sign contracts. You can also define country-specific or industry-specific attributes for a credential type. A driver's license, for instance, may be assigned the attribute "vehicle class" for which the driver's license is exclusively valid. A credential type "driver's license" authorizes the owner to drive vehicles. Different descriptions of this credential type (different characteristics of the same attribute) authorize the owner to drive different vehicle classes. Examples:

  • Description 001: Vehicle category: Passenger car, maximum performance 100 kW

  • Description 002: Vehicle category: Passenger car, all engine sizes

  • Description 003: Motorcycle up to 35 kW