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Technical Data

Technical Name of Business Function

EA_ICM_CRD_CORE_02

Type of Business Function

Industry Business Function &

Enterprise Business Function

Available as of

SAP Enhancement Package 4 for SAP ERP 6.0

Technical Usage

Central Applications – ICM

Application Component

Incentive and Commission Management (ICM)

JAVA Software Component

ISFSICMAPP_1

Portal Content

As of business packages BPIS7CRDM_1 6.04, BPIS7FSCM_1 6.04

Directly Dependent Business Function Requiring Activation in Addition

Not relevant

Sales activities in the area of, say, financial service industries often require the parties involved to have a valid license or qualification to conduct their business. Credentialing supports companies in complying with legal requirements as well as defining their own credentials to ensure high quality standards. The Credentialing business function allows system administrators and credentials managers to set up and manage licenses, appointments and other qualifications for business partners. It provides services to interact with credential-granting authorities and other elements of your solution portfolio to enforce credential checks. You can implement credential checks during processes such as policy issuing or commission calculation.

The technology of the user interface for Credentialing has been switched from Web Dynpro Java to Web Dynpro for ABAP to provide you with a homogenous technology base and reduced TCO for implementation and maintenance when operating the credentials system.

Integration

Credentialing is integrated with Incentive and Commission Management (ICM), but is a separate component. Credentialing has the following features:

  • It can be connected to any external system (DOI, FSA, and others).

  • It manages credential assignments for business partners.

  • It provides services to perform credential checks for any other system.

Prerequisites

You have installed the following components as of the version mentioned:

  • EA_ICM_CRD_CORE_01

  • EA_ICM_CRD_CORE_02

Note Note

The business function EA_ICM_CRD_CORE_01 must already be activated to use Credentialing.

End of the note.

Type of Component

Component

Java Software Component

ISFSICMAPP_1

Portal Content

As of business packages:

BPIS7CRDM_1 6.04

BPIS7FSCM_1 6.04

  • Documentation for Related Business Functions

  • Events or system settings (Customizing)

    •   Incentive and Sales Force Management   General Application Modeling and Administration   Installation of Application  

  •   Incentive and Sales Force Management   Credentialing  

Features

Credentialing

Credentialing supports automatic update processes for credential assignments to business partners and checking functions. Credentialing also offers support for two roles that are linked to the administration of credentials:

  • Credentials catalog manager (role in the back end)

  • Credentials manager (portal role)

Credentials Catalog

The credentials catalog manager can define one or more credential type within the credentials catalog. It is possible to include customer-specific attributes and to manage the life cycle of the credential types within the credentials catalog.

Checking Rules

Rules can be implemented to determine the credentials that are to be checked for a given constellation. These rules are used in the credentials check.

Credential Assignments

The credentials manager assigns credentials in the credentials catalog to business partners. The assignments have a validity period that is subject to period and version management. Assignment information may be provided by official authorities and this can also be imported and automatically updated.

Checking Credentials

Credentialing can be called by any system to perform a credentials check on the basis of specific information on a business transaction. The credentials catalog manager defines the rules for the checking of credentials. The results of the credentials check are returned to the calling system for further processing.

Assignment Information

Credentialing offers a service to pass on credential assignment information to any other system. The receiving systems may be official authorities or any other area within your organization.

Example