Electronic Data

Interchange in R/3
 Basics of EDI

• What
 The technology of transmitting documents
electronically
• Why
 For Electronic Data Interchange between a
company and trading partners
• How
 By means of an electronic document - the Idoc

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 EDI in SAP R/3

• What is an Idoc
 Intermediate DOCument
• Structure of an Idoc
 Segments
– Control Records
– Data Records
– Status Records
 Qualifiers

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 Technical Overview

SAP R/3

Message Control Workflow

R/3
LEVEL

EDI/ALE Interface EDI/ALE Interface

Intermediate Intermediate
Document Document

Remote Function Call Remote Function Call

O/S
LEVEL
EDI Subsystem

Communication layer

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 Business Flow

PO

Order
Party A Party B
Conf
7210 4012
Desp
Advice

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 Configuring EDI

• Port definition
 File port
 T-RFC port
 Internet port
• Partner profiles
 Inbound
 Outbound
 Message control

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 Configuring EDI …

• Account at partner
 Vendor
 Customer
• Output condition records
 Purchasing
 Sales

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 Conversion of data

• Purchase Order  Sales Order

 Change qualifier values
 User exits
– Includes in transaction program

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 Related info

• RFC / Remote log-in

• Idoc standards
• Subsystems
• SAPConnect
• SAPExConn

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