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 Distribution (ALE) of Specifications, Phrases, and Reports

Use

You can use this business process if you have entered specifications, phrases, or reports for the SAP component Environment, Health and Safety (EH&S) on a number of systems. Both the source and the target systems must behave as SAP systems. As the data in an SAP system may also be required in one of the other SAP systems, data exchange via Application Link Enabling (ALE) allows data to be distributed between networked systems.

ALE can be used as an alternative means rather than using import and export to exchange data. Data exchange via import and export is preferable if you only want to exchange data between systems occasionally. Data exchange via ALE, however, makes initial distribution and delta matchup that can be automated possible.

Integration

Functions in the Source System

Functions in the Target System

Data Flow

You can enter the data in a number of different source systems. The editing of data can be separated into the following levels, for example:

  • Substance level, meaning that each data entry system processes a specific chemically separate set of substances

  • Subject level, meaning that each data entry system processes specific value assignment types

The data in the data entry systems is collected together in a consolidation system from where it can be distributed to other information systems.

Note Note

Data distribution from the EH&S information system back to the data entry system is not possible.

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The SAP system also supports the distribution of data between systems that use different SAP components. The following reasons may be the decisive factors for companies setting up different SAP components on different systems:

  • Distribution of tasks within the organization

  • Different release versions of the SAP components, where no upgrade of the individual components is required

  • Reduced quantity of data in a system, for example, if data only for specific specifications is required in an EH&S system

  • Improved performance by distributing the data among different hardware installations