The SAP R/3® Guide to EDI and Interfaces

The authors work as top-level consultants and trouble shooters for SAP R/3 and state-of-the-art solutions for IP networks and their applications in internet and ecommerce.

Where Has the Money Gone? 1.1 Communication ............................................................................................................... 2 More than 80% of the time of an EDI project is lost in waiting for answers, trying to understand proposals and retrieving data nobody actually needs. 1.2 Psychology of Communication ...................................................................................... 3 Bringing developers together accelerates every project. Especially when both parties are so much dependent on each other as in an EDI project, the partners need to communicate without pause. 1.3 Phantom SAP Standards and a Calculation ................................................................. 4 SAP RI3 delivers a serious of predefined EDI programs. Many project administrators see them as standards which should not be manipulated or modified. The truth is, that these IDoc processing functions are recommendations and example routines, which can be replaced be own routines in customizing. 1.4 Strategy ............................................................................................................................ 5 Do not loose your time in plans. Have prototypes developed and take them as a basis. 1.5 Who Is On Duty? .............................................................................................................. 5 Writing interface programs is much like translating languages. The same rule apply. 1.6 Marcus T. Cicero .............................................................................................................. 6 Some may have learned it in school: the basic rules of rhetoric according to Cicero. You will know the answers, when your program is at its end. Why don't you ask the questions in the beginning?Ask the right question, then you will know. Wltat Are SAP RI3 'Docs? 2.1 What Are IDocs? .............................................................................................................. 8 IDocs are structured ASCII files (or a virtual equivalent). They are the file format used by SAP R/3 to exchange data with foreign systems.

Professional IT-Cookbook for R/3 Interfacing

This book is for both developer and decision makers of R/3 implementation teams who need to understand in-depth and practically the benefits, financial risks and technical backgrounds of IDocs and ALE in interface development. It describes the implementation of interfaces in an R/3 roll-out, imporatnt technologies such as RFC, OLE and Workflow and common standards like EDIFACT, ANSI X.12 or XML. A large number of recipes deliver templates as a starting point for own enhancements. It is for everybody who depends on fast and cost-effective solutions for EDI and it also discusses why many EDI projects are ten times as expensive as they could be.Preparing the reader with the essential knowledge to survive the outrageously fast growing world of data communication and ecommerce via internet and intranet, the book shows in a destilled manner how enterprises using R/3 can efficiently implement Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) both with external partner and with inhouse satellite systems.This book in the tradition of IT-cookbooks, where the reader will find quick recipes and reliable information to cover all aspects of SAP Interfacing and quickly became a standard work for the R/3 worldDas Buch hilft, in Unternehmen, die SAP einsetzen, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) so effizient und optimal wie möglich zu implementieren. Ziel ist es, hierdurch Geschäftsprozesse inhouse, aber auch mit Geschäftspartnern via Intranet/Internet (Beispiel Electronic Commerce) zwischen verschiedenen Rechnern reibungsfrei ablaufen zu lassen. (Stimmt das, kann man auch Intranet, Internet nennen? Für den Verkauf bei der gegenwärtigen Diskussion um SAP wichtig, aber gibt das Buch das inhaltlich her? Bitte beurteilen Sie... Danke.) Das Buch wendet sich sowohl an Entscheidungsträger und Projektleiter, die an einer kosten- und zeitminimierenden Implementierung von SAP R/3 interessiert sind, wie auch an Entwickler und IT-Professionals, die übersichtlich

· Where Has the Money Gone-Financial Risks and Chances?· What Are SAP R/3 IDocs?· Get a Feeling for IDocs· Exercise: Setting Up IDocs· Sample Processing Routines· IDocs Terminology And Basic Tools· IDocs Customizing· IDoc Outbound Trigger· IDoc Recipes· Partner Profiles and Ports· Workflow Technology· Calling R/3 Via OLE/JavaScript· ALE - Application Link Enabling· Batch Input Recording· EDI and International Standards· EDI Converter· Overview of Relevant Transactions· Useful Routines for IDoc Handling