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Use

You use this function to manage the data of your employees across different SAP systems, such as SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM) and SAP ERP Human Capital Management (SAP HCM), by using SAP Identity Management 7.1.

In SAP EWM, you can distinguish between the following use cases:

  • SAP ERP Human Capital Management (SAP HCM) is part of your system landscape and you have activated labor management in SAP EWM.

  • SAP HCM is part of your system landscape and you have not activated labor management in SAP EWM.

If SAP HCM is part of your system landscape, you can transfer the data of your employees to SAP NetWeaver Identity Management. SAP NetWeaver Identity Management creates an identity for each employee that can be provisioned to SAP EWM.

If you have activated labor management and you provision identities to SAP EWM, the system creates a user with a respective SAP EWM role, a business partner (BP) with the Processor BP role, and a Central Person for the BP that manages the user ID, the personnel number, and the BP data.

If you have not activated labor management and you provision identities to SAP EWM, the system only creates a user with the respective SAP EWM role.

Prerequisites

  • The following prerequisites apply to both use cases:

    • You can use this function only when the following applies:

      • You have installed and connected SAP NetWeaver Identity Management 7.1 or higher.

      • You have installed SAP EWM 7.0 or higher.

      • You have installed an Personnel Administration component of the SAP ERP HCM solution (as of enhancement package 4 for SAP ERP 6.0).

    • An identity has been created in SAP NetWeaver Identity Management.

    • To start the identity data exchange the role /SCWM/IDM_EWM_INTEGRATION is required.

  • The following prerequisites apply only to the use case where you have activated labor management in SAP EWM:

    • The system administrator must have assigned SAP EWM roles that are used for labor management to the business roles in SAP NetWeaver Identity Management. The system administrator must have assigned the identities to the business roles before he or she provisioned the identities to SAP EWM.

      Note

      For this use case, the system administrator should only use SAP EWM roles that have been assigned a warehouse number at an organizational level that is relevant for labor management.

      When the system administrator provisions the identities to SAP EWM, the system creates a user with the respective SAP EWM role, a business partner (BP) with a Processor BP role, and a Central Person that manages the user ID, the personnel number, and the BP data.

  • The following prerequisites apply only to the use case where you have not activated labor management in SAP EWM:

    • The system administrator must have assigned SAP EWM roles to the business roles in SAP NetWeaver Identity Management. The system administrator must have assigned the identities to the business roles before he or she provisioned the identities to SAP EWM.

      Note

      For this use case, the system administrator can use any SAP EWM roles.

      When the system administrator provisions the identities to SAP EWM, the system only creates a user with the respective SAP EWM role.

  • If you have activated labor management in SAP EWM, you must have made the following Customizing settings:

    • You have checked that a logical system exists for SAP ERP HCM. For more information, see Customizing for SCM Extended Warehouse Management under Start of the navigation path Extended Warehouse Management Next navigation step SCM Basis Next navigation step Master Data Next navigation step Resource Next navigation step Processor Next navigation step Make Settings for the HR System End of the navigation path.

    • You have set up an RFC connection to SAP ERP HCM. For more information, see Customizing for SCM Extended Warehouse Management under Start of the navigation path Extended Warehouse Management Next navigation step SCM Basis Next navigation step Master Data Next navigation step Resource Next navigation step Processor Next navigation step Make Settings for the HR System End of the navigation path.

    • You have checked that a warehouse number exists that has labor management activated. For more information, see Customizing for SCM Extended Warehouse Management under Start of the navigation path Extended Warehouse Management Next navigation step Labor Management Next navigation step Activate Labor Management End of the navigation path.

    • You have checked that a role exists, for example LM0001, that it has the LM0001 BP role category and that the Std Assignment BP Role -> BP Role Cat. (Standard Assignment BP Role -> BP Role Category) checkbox has been selected. For more information, see Customizing for Cross-Application Components under Start of the navigation path SAP Business Partner Next navigation step Business Partner Next navigation step Basic Settings Next navigation step Business Partner Roles Next navigation step Define BP Roles End of the navigation path.

    • You have checked that a grouping exists for which you have set the standard grouping for external number ranges.

      • You have verified that this number range is appropriately defined, so that the ID of the new business partner (BP) fits this number range. For more information, see Customizing for Cross-Application Components under Start of the navigation path SAP Business Partner Next navigation step Business Partner Next navigation step Basic Settings Next navigation step Number Ranges and Groupings Next navigation step Define Groupings and Assign Number Ranges End of the navigation path.

    • You have checked that an appropriate title for the BP of the type person exists. For more information, see Customizing for Cross-Application Components under Start of the navigation path SAP Business Partner Next navigation step Business Partner Next navigation step Basic Settings Next navigation step Forms of Address Next navigation step Maintain Forms of Address End of the navigation path.

      • In transaction SM30, in view V_TSAD3HR_NEW, you have checked, that the appropriate mapping between the BP title and the title of the identity exists.

    • You have checked that a warehouse number exists that has labor management activated. For more information, see Customizing for SCM Extended Warehouse Management under Start of the navigation path Extended Warehouse Management Next navigation step Labor Management Next navigation step Activate Labor Management End of the navigation path.

Features

  • If you have activated labor management in SAP EWM, the system creates a user and a BP. It assigns the respective SAP EWM role to the user and assigns the Processor BP role, the user ID, and the personnel number to the BP.

  • If you have not activated labor management in SAP EWM, the system creates a user and assigns the respective SAP EWM role to the user. It does not create a BP for the user.

More Information

  • The system uses the /SCWM/EI_IDM_EWM Business Add-In (BAdI) implementation of the BADI_EXTEND_IDENTITY BAdI definition in the background to create or update BPs with a Processor BP role.

  • The system uses the /SCMB/MDL_PARTNER BAdI implementation of the /SCMB/MDL_PARTNER_GEN_ID BAdI definition to influence the ID of the BP with a Processor BP role. For more information, see Customizing for SCM Extended Warehouse Management under Start of the navigation path SCM Basis Next navigation step Master Data Layer Next navigation step BAdI: Modify Generated Partner ID End of the navigation path.

  • For more information about SAP EWM, see SAP Help Portal at http://help.sap.com Start of the navigation path SAP Business Suite Next navigation step SAP Extended Warehouse Management End of the navigation path.