A person such as a production operator, engineer, supervisor, or system administrator who works with the SAP Manufacturing Execution system
Users can have the following attributes:
Last Name
First Name
E-Mail Address
Status
Employee Number
Badge Number
Hire Date and Termination Date
User Group
Assigned Work Centers
Defined Labor Tracking and Labor rules
Defined Supervisor values
User specific related System Rules
Custom Data (see Custom Data)
For more information, see User Maintenance and Maintaining User Accounts.
You create users using SAP NetWeaver User Management Engine (UME) (see Administration of Users and Roles).
You assign users to at least the SAP_ME_USER role in SAP NetWeaver UME.
Note
Other roles may be required for certain users for other capabilities in SAP ME.
The following figure illustrates the primary flow of user actions when creating a user in SAP NetWeaver UME, to be used in SAP ME:
You then assign users to user groups and modify user attributes in either User Maintenance or User Group Maintenance to define user permissions to SAP ME activities.
The following figure illustrates the primary flow of user and system actions to retrieve and save a user to a site using User Maintenance:
You can assign certifications to users in User Certification Assignment Maintenance (see Certification and User Certification Assignment Maintenance).
You can configure user preferences in User Preference Maintenance (see User Preference Maintenance).
If you use the SAPMEINT component, see Transfer of Personnel Master Data with Qualifications.