Connection of Systems in a Side-by-Side Scenario
To use the advantages of SAP QIM to the full, a typical scenario is the installation of SAP QIM as a separate solution to which you can connect various existing systems, such as SAP ERP systems, via RFC connections or services. You can integrate objects from other systems by including them in the worklists for issues and activities or by assigning them as reference objects to a QIM quality issue or a QIM quality activity.
Features
You can integrate the following SAP ERP objects as of the specified releases:
Object | As of SAP ERP 4.6C | As of enhancement package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0 | As of enhancement package 6 for SAP ERP 6.0 |
|---|---|---|---|
General notification | X |
|
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General notification item |
| X |
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General notification task | X |
|
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Service notification | X |
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Service notification item |
| X |
|
Service notification task | X |
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Quality notification | X |
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Quality notification item |
| X |
|
Quality notification task | X |
|
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Maintenance notification | X |
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Maintenance notification item |
| X |
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Maintenance notification task | X |
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Claim | X |
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Claim task | X |
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Action-relevant audit question |
|
| X |
Audit action |
|
| X |
FMEA defect item |
|
| X |
FMEA action |
|
| X |
Note
For more information about the integration of the objects in the worklists (for example, about constraints and the remote POWLs that are used for access), see Customizing for object access under 
Worklists for Quality Issues and Activities
, then under the settings for object categories using the 
(Implementation Information
) pushbutton.
Object | As of SAP ERP 4.6C | As of enhancement package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0 | As of enhancement package 6 for SAP ERP 6.0 |
|---|---|---|---|
General notification | X |
|
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Service notification | X |
|
|
Quality notification | X |
|
|
Maintenance notification | X |
|
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Maintenance order |
| X |
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Claim | X |
|
|
Action-relevant audit question |
|
| X |
FMEA defect item |
|
| X |
Batch | X |
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Customer | X |
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Outbound delivery |
| X |
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Outbound delivery item |
| X |
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Document | X |
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Equipment | X |
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Functional location | X |
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Storage location | X |
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Plant | X |
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Purchase order | X |
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Purchase order item | X |
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Material in ERP | X |
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Material in NW (product) |
| X |
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Vendor | X |
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Internal order | X |
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Note
For more information about the integration of the objects (for example, about constraints and the BAPIs that are used for access), see Customizing for object access under Basic Settings
Generic Settings for Reference Objects
Define Object Access
, then under the settings for categories using the (Implementation Information
) pushbutton. If you want to connect to an object from a system with different release level, you can check whether the function modules listed are available in your system.
For more information about how you add additional reference objects yourself, see SAP Note 1820834
.