Inbound EDI Message for a Quality Certificate as a PDF File (QM- (SAP Library

Inbound EDI Message for a Quality Certificate as a PDF File (QM-CA)

Use

In this EDI scenario, you receive and process a quality certificate as a PDF file that has been sent to you by a vendor using an R/3 System. The system checks the document that has been sent against the digital signature to make sure that the certificate is authentic. The incoming certificate is then stored using SAP ArchiveLink.

Note

If no purchase order item could be assigned to the document data, or if the material does not require a certificate, the certificate is stored centrally and forwarded to the person responsible for its processing using the Business Workflow.

Prerequisites

Application

There are the following prerequisites for processing the inbound quality certificate:

The delivery material, for which the quality certificate is sent, requires a certificate.
The document data (material number, purchase order item, batch) allows the unique assignment to the purchase order.

Note

If the purchase order item is not given in the IDoc, you can assign the item using the customer enhancement QCE10001.

The following prerequisites must be fulfilled for the system to check the digital signature:

The SSF-ID is created in the master data for the creditor under Other communication.
The public key for the creditor is stored in your external security product under the SSF-ID.

To forward an inbound certificate to the department responsible using the SAP Business Workflow for assignment, the following prerequisite must be met:

You assign one or more persons responsible for processing to the document type QMICERTPDF and make the required settings.

Note

To assign processors to the document type QMICERTPDF and to make the required settings, choose Tools ® Business Documents ® Miscellaneous ® Default settings.

IDoc Interface

The following values are maintained in the partner profiles (inbound):

Field	Value
Message type	QCERT
Partner type	LI (vendor)
Partner function	LF
Recipient port	e.g. SUBSYSTEM
Basic type	QALITY01
Process code	QCERT_IN

Activities

The IDoc is received either over the Internet port as an attachment to an e-mail, or via the subsystem. The system uses the administrative data to find an existing certificate record and stores the related certificate in SAP ArchiveLink. If no certificate record exists, the system creates a new certificate record and then stores the related certificate.