If you want to send or receive the quality data of a certificate using EDI, and the inspection characteristics to be sent have different descriptions in the vendor and the customer system, this function enables a partner-specific identification and assignment of the respective characteristics (characteristic mapping). Characteristic mapping is a prerequisite for the successful transfer of the quality data on a certificate.

For the mapping of inspection characteristics, the following requirement must be met:

• In Customizing for Quality certificates, the communication partners for IDoc processing are defined by Partner type and Partner number.

When mapping inspection characteristics, you determine the reference of the characteristic description on the electronic certificate to the characteristic fields maintained in the SAP system.

• For outgoing certificates you determine, for example, whether the characteristic description on the electronic certificate is the:

• Internal characteristic ID of the certificate profile or characteristic mapping table
• Characteristic name (master inspection characteristic name or class characteristic name)
• Short text for the characteristic

• For incoming certificates you determine, for example, which characteristic fields in the SAP system should be used to find the characteristics on the electronic certificate:

• Internal characteristic ID of the task list (or material specification), or the characteristic mapping table
• Name of the master inspection characteristic
• Short text for the characteristic

2. In the Partner-Related Settings for Quality Data Exchange, define the Partner type, the Partner number, and the mapping criteria.
3. In the characteristic mapping table, you assign the internal characteristic ID of the certificate profile to the partner-related characteristic ID.