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.
Functions in the Source System
Starting distribution
ALE administration
Functions in the Target System
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
Data distribution from the EH&S information system back to the data entry system is not possible.
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