The Sap R 3 Guide To Edi And Interfaces

A book for whole R/3 teams including team leaders, customizers and developers to understand the benefits, financial risks and technical backgrounds of IDocs and ALE in interface development. It covers the role of interfaces in an R/3 roll-out and the relationship to common standards like EDIFACT, ANSI X.12 or XML. A large number of recipes deliver templates as a basis of own enhancements. It also works out why many EDI projects are ten times as expensive as they could be.

Read in this book, why · EDI projects with R/3 would often cost five to ten times as much as necessary · IDocs and ALE are the ideal bridge between R/3 and legacy systems · IDocs are the framework for a fully automated business workflow In the technical part of the book you will learn, how to · customise the R/3 IDoc engine · interface IDocs with standard converters for X.12, EDIFACT, VDA etc. · design your own IDoc structures · write IDoc handler programs in an hour · trigger IDocs from any R/3 application via messages or workflow · set up automated workflow based on IDocs · set up ALE scenarios for automated data replications This book is for whole R/3 teams to teach a common knowledge when it comes to interface design. · R/3 project managers to learn about the benefits of IDocs and ALE · R/3 steering committees to estimate the true costs of EDI and interface development · R/3 developers to learn how interface can be designed "in the minute" · R/3 coaches to use as teaching and presentation material for interface designs SAP R/3 made an old dream come true: enter your business data once in your computer and trigger all the following activities automatically, send the data to another computer without typing them in again.

A book for whole R/3 teams including team leaders, customizers and developers to understand the benefits, financial risks and technical backgrounds of IDocs and ALE in interface development. It covers the role of interfaces in an R/3 roll-out and the relationship to common standards like EDIFACT, ANSI X.12 or XML. A large number of recipes deliver templates as a basis of own enhancements. It also works out why many EDI projects are ten times as expensive as they could be.

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 world.

A step-by-step guide to building an ALE/EDI interface, including business case studies and real-world examples. The CD-ROM contains programming code from the book, SAP R/3 table of values, and frequently used ALE/EDI transactions.

This ready-for-action guide shows how ALE and EDI can: Efficiently link two or more SAP systems; Quickly forge vital connections between SAP and legacy systems; Pave the way for high-speed connections between SAP R/3 to other third-party, external systems; Greatly improve business connectivity with trading partners such as customers, banks and vendors; Maximize benefits with custom-tailored messaging, information retrieval, and automatic updating; Allow easy creation of new functionality; Handle both in bound and outbound interfaces smoothly.

This book is a practical guide for managing archiving projects with SAP R/3 efficiently. Hereby it is addressing both R/3 consultants, system administrators and key-users. Detailed solutions for optimal archiving strategies as well as the manual for a comprehensive database analysis are provided in this book. But thereby not only the technical side, but also the business side of data archiving is taken into account. Thus the reader will be able to implement an archiving project.