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Roles in Quality Management 

Use

A role is a collection of business-related activities that a user can use to interact with the business processes in a company. It is important to distinguish between composite roles and single roles.

• The composite roles specify the business activities and areas of responsibility in QM.

• The single roles in QM serve as a business and function-related source for the composite roles. The single roles therefore define the activities that the owner of a composite role can execute.

You access the functions for the single roles by means of user menus.

The mySAP.com Workplace provides the user with a role-based portal over a web browser, with which he or she can carry out his or her job tasks. The following QM composite roles are available in the mySAP.com Workplace (Build 6):

• Quality Manager

• Quality Planner

• Inspection Planner

• Quality Inspector

• Notification Processor

• Test equipment Manager

A single role contains an authorization profile. All single role names in QM begin with 'SAP_QM'. For example, the single role 'SAP_QM_IM_RES_REC' contains the basic functions for results recording. This role as well as other single roles are assigned to the composite role "Quality Inspector."

In addition to the single roles for grouping the activities for the specified composite roles, the following roles also exist:

• A single role for adminstrating the QM system

• A single role for the Quality Manager in goods receipt

• A single role for the Quality Manager in production

• A single role for quality evaluations (QMIS)

The single roles for evaluations in the Business Information Warehouse have been created in the corresponding BW System.

You can copy and/or change the SAP-supplied composite and single roles, and adapt them to your own special needs.

Effects on Existing Data

The term "role" replaces the previously used designation "activity group." The previously existing composite activity groups in QM have partially been integrated into the above-mentioned composite roles:

SAP_QM_CERTIFICATE: A person responsible for the quality certificates.

• The activities in this activity group have been integrated in the single roles SAP_QM_CA_INCOMING_CERT (certificate receipt processing), SAP_QM_CA_OUTCERT_MAINT (administration of certificate master data), and SAP_QM_CA_OUTGOINT_CERT (certificate creation in SD) and assigned to the composite roles "Inspection Planner" and "Quality Inspector."

SAP_QM_EQUIPMENTMANAGER

• The activities in this activity group have been integrated in the single roles beginning with SAP_ QM_IT (for example, SAP_QM_IT_CALIB_PLANNING) and assigned to the composite role "Test Equipment Manager."

SAP_QM_INSPECTIONMANAGER

• These activities have been integrated in the single roles for "Quality Manager."

SAP_QM_INSPECTIONPLANNER

• These activities have been integrated in the single roles for "Inspection Planner."

SAP_QM_PROBLEMAUTHOR

• The activities for creating quality notifications have been integrated in various single roles beginning with SAP_QM_QN and assigned to the "Notification Processor."

SAP_QM_PROBLEMPROCESSOR

• The activities for processing quality notifications have been integrated in various single roles beginning with SAP_QM_QN (for example, SAP_QM_QN_NOTIF_DISPLAY - Display quality notifications) and assigned to the "Notification Processor."

SAP_QM_QUALITYANALYST

• The composite activity group "Quality Analyst" has been divided into single roles and assigned to those composite roles, where analyses are a part of an owner's job tasks (for example, as with the Quality Manager).

SAP_QM_QUALITYENGINEER

• This composite activity group has been integrated into the single roles of the composite role "Quality Planner."

SAP_QM_QUALITYINSPECTOR

• This composite activity group has been integrated into the single roles of the composite role "Quality Inspector."

SAP_QM_SUPPORT_LINE_LEVEL1

• This composite activity group has been integrated into the single role SAP_SV_FDB_SUPPORT_LINE_LEVEL1.

SAP_QM_SUPPORT_LINE_LEVEL2

• This composite activity group has been integrated into the single role SAP_SV_FDB_SUPPORT_LINE_LEVEL2.

Effects on System Administration

You use transaction PFCG to maintain the various roles.

See also

Key figures and other relevant information for a role are displayed in Miniapps contained in the Workplace. Roles are also assigned to MiniApps. The description of the MiniApps in QM (for example, a notification monitor) are contained in the release note Mini Apps in Quality Management.