Welcome to Hollywood! Follow the saga of the Acme Pictures movie studio as it exchanges information with its vendor and its primary customer to put low-budget sci-fi movies on shelves. This entertaining case study showcases the requirements, standards, and capabilities for building an SAP EDI system and optimizing electronic information exchange via IDocs. From configuring IDocs, to customizing IDocs with ALE, to generating purchase orders and goods receipts, to processing invoices, this script teaches you how to make your EDI system a star.
Highlights include:
Business process integration
IDoc architecture and configuration
Custom IDocs and extensions
Mapping specifications
Message control
Customer purchase orders
Replication services
Inbound goods receipts and invoices
Outbound advance shipments and invoices
Custom IDoc tools
EDI and IDocs troubleshooting and recovery
Master the concepts and principles behind EDI and IDocs
Explore EDI business processes, architecture, and administration
Configure IDocs for B2B integration and information exchange
2nd edition, updated and expanded
Emmanuel Hadzipetros
Emmanuel Hadzipetros is an ABAP developer and IDoc and EDI specialist who has been fascinated with data flows and systems integration throughout his 15 years of SAP project experience. As a consultant and independent contractor in four countries and three continents he served a large number of small, mid-size, and Fortune 500 clients in a variety of industries.
Emmanuel prides himself on a practical approach to building and integrating systems. Throughout his career he’s worked with a wide range of tools to integrate SAP with internal and legacy systems and external trading partners including flat file FTP transfers, ALE, XI/PI, and third-party EDI integration systems.
Emmanuel has been happily playing with the IDoc interface for more than 10 years and believes that it’s one of SAP’s hidden jewels.
SAP EDI system architecture Business process integration ASUG BITI SIG Custom IDocs Mapping Message control purchase orders Replication services Inbound processing Outbound processing