Challenges and Requirements

One of the greatest challenges is gaining quick and consistent access to conflict minerals data through the whole supply chain. This requires an efficient integration process:

• Requests for suppliers’ conflict minerals declarations need to be triggered automatically by certain operational changes (e.g. purchase of new material)
• Conflict Minerals analyses and reports need to be run periodically
• Conflict Minerals information must be actual and immediately accessible in SAP

Conflict minerals data is required for many process steps, whereby the following processes and entities are of special interest:

• Master Data Management
• Supplier Data Management
• Purchase Order creation
• Bill of Materials

iPoint Solution Overview: Conflict Minerals Cockpit for SAP

• Generate Conflict Minerals request worklists dependent on pre-defined triggers
• Deliver conflict minerals data within SAP exactly where needed
• Support subsequent steps in decision-making process:
  
  • Monitor request queues and interface activities
  • Overview and search tools for conflict minerals requests
  • Support initial conflict minerals process setup within SAP via approved tools 
• Out-of-the-box solution and modification-free SAP add-on
• Easily install and simple to adjust via parameters
• No additional info-user in the conflict minerals platform necessary because information is available in SAP

Basic Structure Conflict Minerals Cockpit for SAP

• The iPoint Conflict Minerals Cockpit for SAP is a fully integrated SAP add-on
• Delivered via transports in iPoint's own SAP-namespace
• Comes with own Z-tables to store generated request worklists
• Provides additional functionality in a control panel which monitors all conflict minerals activities
• SAP as the leading system controls the interface at any time
• Data exchange with iPoint‘s Conflict Minerals Platform via a Java Connector
• Server or offline via exchange files are common and stable standards
• Display of conflict minerals status within
• SAP standard processes is implemented via capsulated functions.