System Administrator for Transportation

Role: /SCMTMS/SYSTEM_ADMIN

You can use this role to perform all the activities you require as a system administrator for transportation.

Activities in SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM)

As a system administrator you monitor and adjust all day-to-day activities to keep the system up-and-running. For example, you can carry out activities in the following areas:

  • User Management

  • Authorizations

  • Computing Center Management System

  • Software Logistics

Transportation Service Provider

Role: /SCMTMS/SERVICE_PROVIDER

You can use this role to perform all the activities you require as a transportation service provider.

Activities in SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM)

You can display and edit data on the following screens in SAP TM:

Screens in Subcontracting

Mode

Subcontracting Worklist

Display

Supplier Shipment Quotes

Edit

Supplier Freight Quotes

Edit

Requests for Supplier Shipment Quote

Display

Requests for Supplier Freight Quote

Display

Respond to Request for Quote

Edit

Transportation Network Administrator

Role: /SCMTMS/NETWORK_ADMIN

You can use this role to perform all the activities you require as a transportation network administrator.

Activities in SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM)

You can display and edit data on the following screens in SAP TM:

Screens in Master Data

Mode

Direct Master Data Access

Edit

Define Business Partner

Edit

Define TSP Profile

Edit

Define Product

Edit

Where-Used Framework

Display

Mass Maintenance

Edit

Define Location

Edit

Define Transportation Zone

Edit

Define Transportation Lane

Edit

Define Schedule

Edit

Define Departure Calendar

Edit

Define Hierarchy

Edit

Assign Transshipment Location

Edit

Resources Worklist

Display

Define Resource

Edit

Display Calendar Resource

Display

Copy Resource

Edit

Transportation Manager

Role: /SCMTMS/MANAGER

You can use this role to perform all the activities you require as a transportation manager.

Activities in SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM)

You can display and edit data on the following screens in SAP TM:

Screens in Order Management

Mode

Order Management Worklist

Display

Direct Order Access

Edit

Create Shipment Request

Edit

Create Freight Request

Edit

Create Quotation

Edit

Create Template

Edit

Create Customer Freight Invoice

Edit

Screens in Dispatching

Mode

Dispatching Worklist

Display

Direct Dispatching Access

Edit

Transportation Planning

Edit

Selection Settings Worklist

Display

Create Requirements Profile

Edit

Create Time-Related Selection Attributes

Edit

Create Geographical Selection Attributes

Edit

Create Additional Selection Attributes

Edit

Planning Settings Worklist

Display

Create Planning Profile

Edit

Create Optimizer Settings

Edit

Create Capacity Selection

Edit

Create Time Constraints

Edit

Create Planning Costs

Edit

Create Cost Functions

Edit

Create Pick-Up/Delivery Windows

Edit

Create Decreasing Capacities

Edit

Create Settings for TSP Selection

Edit

Create Settings for SFT Builder

Edit

General Settings Worklist

Display

Create Freight Unit Building Rules

Edit

Create Condition

Edit

Create Incompatibility

Edit

Screens in Subcontracting

Mode

Subcontracting Worklist

Display

Direct Subcontracting Access

Edit

Create Booking Order for Freight Space

Edit

Create Booking Order for Resource

Edit

Create Shipment Order

Edit

Create Supplier Freight Invoice

Edit

Transport Service Provider Selection

Edit

Define Waybill Number Stocks

Edit

Create Transportation Allocation

Edit

Change Transportation Allocation

Edit

Screens in Charge Management

Mode

Charge Management Worklist

Display

Direct Charges Access

Edit

Create Customer Freight Invoice

Edit

Create Supplier Freight Invoice

Edit

Create Freight Agreement

Edit

Create Definition of Conditions

Edit

Screens in Master Data

Mode

Direct Master Data Access

Edit

Create Organization and Staffing

Edit

Change Organization and Staffing

Edit

Define Business Partner

Edit

Define TSP Profile

Edit

Define Product

Edit

Where-Used Framework

Display

Mass Maintenance

Edit

Transportation Charge Worklist

Edit

Create Freight Agreement

Edit

Create Tariff

Edit

Create Transportation Charges Calculation Sheet

Edit

Create Rate

Edit

Create Scale

Edit

Create Definition of Conditions

Edit

Maintain Charge Calculation Rules

Edit

Define Location

Edit

Define Transportation Zone

Edit

Define Transportation Lane

Edit

Define Schedule

Edit

Define Departure Calendar

Edit

Define Hierarchy

Edit

Assign Transshipment Location

Edit

Resources Worklist

Display

Define Resource

Edit

Copy Resource

Edit

Worklist for Waybill Number Ranges

Display

Assign Waybill Number Ranges to Shipment Types

Edit

Create Waybill Number Range

Edit

Transportation Execution Clerk

Role: /SCMTMS/EXECUTION_CLERK

You can use this role to perform all the activities you require as a transportation execution clerk.

Activities in SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM)

You can display and edit data on the following screens in SAP TM:

Screens in Dispatching

Mode

Dispatching Worklist

Display

Direct Dispatching Access

Edit

Transportation Dispatcher


Role: /SCMTMS/DISPATCHER

You can use this role to perform all the activities you require as a transportation dispatcher.

Activities in SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM)

You can display and edit data on the following screens in SAP TM:

Screens in Order Management

Mode

Order Management Worklist

Display

Direct Order Access

Edit

Create Shipment Request

Edit

Create Freight Request

Edit

Create Quotation

Edit

Create Template

Edit

Create Customer Freight Invoice

Edit

Screens in Dispatching

Mode

Dispatching Worklist

Display

Direct Dispatching Access

Edit

Transportation Planning

Edit

Selection Settings Worklist

Display

Create Requirements Profile

Edit

Create Time-Related Selection Attributes

Edit

Create Geographical Selection Attributes

Edit

Create Additional Selection Attributes

Edit

Planning Settings Worklist

Display

Create Planning Profile

Edit

Create Optimizer Settings

Edit

Create Capacity Selection

Edit

Create Time Constraints

Edit

Create Planning Costs

Edit

Create Cost Functions

Edit

Create Pick-Up/Delivery Windows

Edit

Create Decreasing Capacities

Edit

Create Settings for TSP Selection

Edit

Create Settings for SFT Builder

Edit

General Settings Worklist

Display

Create Freight Unit Building Rule

Edit

Create Condition

Edit

Create Incompatibility

Edit

Screens in Subcontracting

Mode

Subcontracting Worklist

Display

Direct Subcontracting Access

Edit

Create Booking Order for Freight Space

Edit

Create Booking Order for Resource

Edit

Create Shipment Order

Edit

Create Supplier Freight Invoice

Edit

Transportation Service Provider Selection

Edit

Define Waybill Number Stocks

Edit

Create Transportation Allocation

Edit

Change Transportation Allocation

Edit

Screens in Master Data

Mode

Direct Master Data Access

Edit

Define Business Partner

Edit

Define TSP Profile

Edit

Define Product

Edit

Where-Used Framework

Edit

Mass Maintenance

Edit

Define Location

Edit

Define Transportation Zone

Edit

Define Transportation Lane

Edit

Define Schedule

Edit

Define Departure Calendar

Edit

Define Hierarchy

Edit

Assign Transshipment Location

Edit

Resources Worklist

Display

Define Resource

Edit

Display Calendar Resource

Display

Copy Resource

Edit

Worklist for Waybill Number Ranges

Display

Assign Waybill Number Ranges to Shipment Types

Edit

Create Waybill Number Ranges

Edit

Transportation Charge Clerk


Role: /SCMTMS/CHARGE_CLERK

You can use this role to perform all the activities you require as a transportation charge clerk.

Activities in SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM)

You can display and edit data on the following screens in SAP TM:

Screens in Charge Management

Mode

Charge Management Worklist

Display

Direct Charges Access

Edit

Create Customer Freight Invoice

Edit

Create Supplier Freight Invoice

Edit

Create Freight Agreement

Edit

Screens in Master Data

Mode

Direct Master Data Access

Edit

Transportation Charge Worklist

Display

Create Freight Agreement

Edit

Create Tariff

Edit

Create Transportation Charges Calculation Sheet

Edit

Create Rates

Edit

Create Scale

Edit

Create Definition of Conditions

Edit

Maintain Transportation Charge Calculation Rules

Edit

Transportation Charge Administrator

Role: /SCMTMS/CHARGE_ADMIN

You can use this role to perform all the activities you require as a transportation charge administrator.

Activities in SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM)

You can display and edit data on the following screens in SAP TM:

Screens in Charge Management

Mode

Charge Management Worklist

Display

Direct Charges Access

Edit

Create Freight Agreement

Edit

Create Definition of Conditions

Edit

Screens in Master Data

Mode

Transportation Charge Worklist

Display

Create Freight Agreement

Edit

Create Tariff

Edit

Create Transportation Charges Calculation Sheet

Edit

Create Rates

Edit

Create Scale

Edit

Create Definition of Conditions

Edit

Maintain Charge Calculation Rules

Edit

Transportation Booking Agent

Role: /SCMTMS/BOOKING_AGENT

You can use this role to perform all the activities you require as a transportation booking agent.

Activities in SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM)

You can display and edit data on the following screens in SAP TM:

Screens in Order Management

Mode

Order Management Worklist

Display

Direct Order Access

Edit

Create Shipment Request

Edit

Create Freight Request

Edit

Create Quotation

Edit

Create Template

Edit

Create Customer Freight Invoice

Edit

Screens in Master Data

Mode

Direct Master Data Access

Edit

Define Business Partner

Edit

Define Product

Edit

Enabling Users to Reset Their Own Password

Use

When your business users logon on with user ID and password, inevitably some forget their password. To help these users, you can enable a logon help link on the Welcome screen. Business users choose this link, enter their data in the request form, and, assuming they entered their data correctly, receive a new password from the system. The user management engine (UME) generates the password and e-mails it to the business user.

You can determine what data the business users must provide. The following data is required:

· Logon ID

· E-Mail address

The following data is optional:

· First name

· Last name

The business users must enter this data exactly as it appears in their user profile.

You can configure the use of a security question. This provides an additional layer of security. The user must answer the question correctly in addition to entering data in the request form. You can either use a list of five predefined, hard-coded questions or enable users to write their own security question. When entering the answer to the security question, the AS Java ignores case.

Recommendation

Configure self-registration to enable users to choose their own security question and answer in the self-registration form. Enable self-management so users can maintain the question and answer in their user profile.


If you configure the use of a security question and answer, the user must maintain these fields in the user profile, or the user cannot request a new password.

Prerequisites

· You have SAP NetWeaver Application Server (AS) Java 7.0 SPS 12 and higher.

This Web Dynpro application replaces the legacy Java Server Pages (JSP)-based application. The JSP-based application remains available for backward compatibility.


If you upgraded from a release previous to SAP NetWeaver 7.0 SPS 12 and you already configured logon help, you continue to use the legacy JSP-based application as you configured it. To use the Web Dynpro-based logon help application, follow the configuration steps below.

Users of SAP NetWeaver AS Java 7.0 SPS 12–13, see also SAP Note 1082019.

For more information, see Configuring Legacy Logon Help.

· This procedure requires you to restart the AS Java, so you should plan for the required downtime while the AS Java restarts.

· You have configured e-mail notification.

Without e-mail notification, business users cannot receive new passwords.

For more information, see Configuring E-Mail Notification.

· If you configure the security question and answer, you must configure self-management. Without self-management, business users cannot maintain their security question and answer.

For more information, see Configuring Self-Management.

· To enable users to choose a security question and answer when they register, you have configured self-registration.

For more information, see Configuring Self-Registration.

Procedure

...

1. Start user management configuration.

For more information, see Configuring User Management.

2. Choose the User Admin UI tab.

3. Choose Modify Configuration.

4. Determine which optional features you want to configure and save your changes.

¡ To configure what data business users must provide, set the Require First and Last Names in Logon Help indicator.

¡ To configure a security question choose from the following options:

To enable business users to enter their own security question, select Enable Security Question.

To enable business users to select their security question from a list of predefined questions, select Use a Predefined Security Question.

5. Assign the UME action UME.Logon_Help to a role assigned to the group anonymous users.

6. Restart the AS Java.

Result

If you have existing users in your installation and you enable the security question and answer, notify your users that they should log on and maintain their security question and answer. Without a security question and answer, these users cannot reset their own passwords.

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Password Management

Use

Users require a password to be able to log on with user ID and password. As administrator you need to define or generate an initial password for newly created users. If users forget their passwords, you can also define or generate a new password for them. You can provide a link on the logon screen where users can reset their passwords themselves. If you enable self-management, users can view their profile and change their own passwords.

You can also disable a user’s password. A user with a disabled password cannot log on with a password, but can still log on under certain circumstances.

Prerequisites

If you want to change a user’s password or automatically generate a user’s password, you must enable e-mail notification, otherwise the system cannot notify users about their new password. See Configuring E-Mail Notification.

Features

This section describes the feature of password management.

Security Policy

The security policy defines the password rules. For example, you can define how long until a password expires or how many digits a password must contain. For more information, see Configuring the Security Policy for User ID and Passwords.

Defining Initial Passwords or Changing Passwords

You have the following options for defining initial passwords for new users, or changing an existing user’s password:

Caution

When defining or changing passwords, note the following:

If you change the password for the default administrator user, you must also update the password for this user in the secure storage of the AS Java. For more information, see Modifying the Default Administrator User.

You must enable e-mail notification for when you define or change passwords, otherwise the system cannot notify users of their new password.

E-Mail notification sends the logon passwords in plain text.

· Define a user’s password in the user details view

The user receives a notification e-mail containing the new password and is prompted to change his or her password the next time he or she logs on.

· Generate a password for the user in the Details view for the user or for one or more user in the Search view.

The system automatically generates a new password for the user. The user receives a notification e-mail containing the new password and is prompted to change his or her password the next time he or she logs on.

Update the user with the import function

Include the password attribute with a new password in the import. The user receives a notification e-mail containing the new password and is prompted to change his or her password the next time he or she logs on.

Help for Forgotten Passwords

Users inevitably forget their passwords. You can enable users to reset their passwords themselves, by configuring a link for logon help on the Welcome screen. Users enter their logon ID and other data.

If the user enters all this information correctly, the UME generates a new password according to the security policy and e-mails it to the user.

If the user enters the information incorrectly, an error message appears and the user must contact the administrator directly.

For more information, see Enabling Users to Reset Their Own Password.

Disabling Passwords

You can disable a user’s password. The user can no longer log on using a password, but only with Single Sign-On variants (X.509 certificate, logon ticket). This is useful if you do not require password-based logon. Your users logon in other ways, such as using client certificates. In this case, deactivating the password increases security, as passwords that are not used are often still initial. Initial passwords are often well-known or were sent to the user in an e-mail, unencrypted.

Depending on the security policy settings, the UME can lock a password after too many failed logon attempts.

Self-Management

If you want users to manage their own passwords, assign the action UME.Manage_My_Password to a role assigned to the everyone group. If you enable users to manage their own profiles, this action is not necessary. See also User Profile. This function requires you to set the indicator Allow Users to Change Their Own Passwords in the security policy settings.

Activities

Activity

How to Perform the Activity

Define an initial password for a user

...

1. Search for the user.

2. In the search results list, select the user.

The user details view appears.

3. In the Details view, choose Modify.

4. On the General Information tab, select Define Initial Password.

5. Enter the new password in the Define Password field and reenter it in the Confirm Password field.

6. Choose Save.

The system sends the user a notification e-mail containing the new password and prompts him or her to change this password the next time he or she logs on.

Generate a new password for a user

...

1. Search for the user.

2. In the search results list, select the user.

3. Choose Generate New Password.

The system sends the user a notification e-mail containing the new password and prompts him or her to change this password the next time he or she logs on.

Disable a user’s password

...

1. Search for the user.

2. In the search results list, select the user.

The user details view appears.

3. In the user details view, choose Modify.

4. On the General Information tab, select Disable Password.

5. Choose Save.

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Commands for Restoring

The Database Manager supports the restoring of the database instance after hardware errors. The last state of the database is restored. A prerequisite for this is that all the data specified in the backup history is available.

To obtain the highest possible throughput of data, full and incremental data backups can be imported from a number of backup media simultaneously. The number of parallel backup media used for the restore does not depend on the number of parallel backup media used to make the backup originally. Even a backup made to single medium plus continuation media can be imported in parallel.

You define the maximum number of backup media that can be imported concurrently using the parameter MAX_BACKUP_DEVS. The use of up to 32 tape devices allows you to reduce restore times considerably.

Prerequisites

Note the operator authorizations required for the particular DBM commands.

The prerequisite for executing all other restore commands is to execute the command to restore the database instance first.

Syntax

Displaying Current Information About the Database Instance

db_restartinfo

Displaying the Current Restore Status

recover_state

Terminating an Interrupted Restore or Backup Check

recover_cancel

Continuing a Parallel Restore or Backup Check

recover_ignore

Restoring the Database Instance

recover_start

Restoring the Parameter File from a Data Backup

recover_config

Restoring a Database Instance with Initialization

db_activate RECOVER

Recreating a Damaged Index

sql_recreateindex

Restoring with External Backup Tools

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Restoring or Checking a Backup with Succeeding Medium

recover_replace

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Commands for Backup Information

Whatever operational state the database instance is in, you can request the information held on the backup media about backups. You can use various DBM commands to do this.

Prerequisites

You have the operator authorization Backup.

Syntax

Displaying the Backup Information in the Operational State OFFLINE

medium_labeloffline

Displaying the Backup Information in the Operational State ONLINE or ADMIN

medium_label

Displaying the Current Status of a Backup Check

recover_state_check

Checking a Backup

recover_check

Commands for External Backup IDs

Backups created with external backup tools can be identified uniquely by means of an external backup ID. These IDs are logged in the backup history. They can be called up using the commands for the backup history and must be entered when restoring using external backup tools.

To enable restores without a backup history, the external backup IDs of the backups currently in the backup tool can, however, also be determined using the DBM commands.

Prerequisites

You have the DBM operator authorization Backup or DBInfoRead.

Syntax

Displaying External Backup IDs

backup_ext_ids_list

Scrolling in the External Backup IDs

backup_ext_ids_listnext

Releasing the Memory Occupied by the External Backup IDs

backup_ext_ids_forget

Fetching External Backup IDs

backup_ext_ids_get

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