SAP ERP

 

Product Development & Collaboration -- Document Management



Document Management includes the processes, procedures, and tools focused on creation, maintenance and management of documents and other content. Any file/data type (such as text, graphic, CAD, analysis, and office) can be managed and linked to many business objects (such as material, BOM, sales order, and equipment). Document Management includes providing security and access control for managed content. Associated applications provide authoring, scanning, structuring, rendering, and printing of documents.

 

Document Management
Document ManagementSAP Component or Feature Available

Version Management
Uses automatic or manual document versions to represent different change or delivery statuses of a document. 

Document Vaulting
Secures storage and retrieval of documents. Document search capabilities are based on metadata and the content of documents.

Integrated Viewing
The integrated viewer can display most 2D pixel, vector, and some text formats, as well as 3D model formats. Digital mockup viewing enables all interested areas throughout the organization to display the new or changed product in the development phase, as a graphical 3D model. Redlining functions support digital processing and the change process for original files. You make the remarks and comments that you create for the original files available to all partners of the business process.

Document Distribution
Includes the automatic or manual routing and transmission of documents to internal and external partners. Transfers documents to caching servers or external systems.

Status Management
Presents the processing cycle of a document in a status network.

Document Conversion
Includes the automatic or manual conversion of a CAD drawing into a read-only 2D or 3D viewing format.

SAP Easy Document Management
Enables you to use document management as a virtual drive in the Microsoft® Explorer (e.g., using drag & drop to check documents in and out). You can also check documents in and out directly from all office applications, search for documents and add them to a worklist, maintain classification data, and create objects links.

 

 

Configuration Variants

Document Management
 
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