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