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Technical Data

Technical Name of Business Function

ERP_IPM_BACKEND_1

Type of Business Function

Enterprise Business Function

Available As Of

SAP Enhancement Package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0

Technical Usage

Central Applications

Application Component

SAP for Media

Directly Dependent Business Function Requiring Activation in Addition

Not relevant

You can use this business function to integrate Intellectual Property Management (IPM) with SAP Product Sales and Distribution (SD) and Financial Accounting (FI) without a specific back-end industry implementation.

If you have already activated the industry business function set Media, we recommend that you use the industry business function TITLE_LIFECYCLE_MANAGEMENT instead of this enterprise business function. TITLE_LIFECYCLE_MANAGEMENT provides the same functionality that is available with ERP_IPM_BACKEND_1.

Integration

The function of integrating IPM with SD and FI, previously available in the business function set Media, is now enabled without any dependence on an industry-specific back end.

This integration is available for SAP enhancement package 1 for SAP CRM 7.0, business function Intellectual Property Management and for SAP enhancement package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0.

Prerequisites

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

Type of Component

Component

Is Needed Only for the Following Features

Software Component

EA-APPL

SAP_APPL

  • In CRM, you have activated the enterprise business function Intellectual Property Management (CRM_IPM_1)

  • In ERP, you have activated the enterprise business function IPM, Industry-Independent Back End 1 (ERP_IPM_BACKEND_1)

Features

Integration of IPM with SD and FI

Previously, integrating IPM with SD and FI required you to activate the business function set Media. The key aspect of this business function is the enabling of this integration without any dependence on an industry-specific back end.

The integration with SD means that the sales of products that are managed using SD are transferred seamlessly into IPM for the processing of incoming and outgoing royalties.

Some of the benefits of integration with FI are that:

  • Expenses and licensing revenues per product can be rolled up or used in a profitability analysis

  • Royalties can be transferred into Accounts Payable and licensing fees can be transferred to Accounts Receivables

  • Partial cash receipts from licensees can be used in the calculation of remuneration for licensors