The SAP R/3® guide to EDI and Interfaces
Subtitle: cut your implementation cost with IDocs®, ALE® and SapScript®
By: by Axeö Angeli, Ulrich Streit, Robi Gonfalonieri
Contributors: Streit, Ulrich, 1974-; Gonfalonieri, Robi, 1964-
Series: Business Computing
Publisher: Vieweg+Teubner Verlag
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Wiesbaden
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9783663010913; 9783663010937
Subjects: SAP R/3; Electronic data interchange; Business; Computer programs
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Where Has the Money Gone?; title: What Are SAP R/3 IDocs?; title: Get a Feeling for IDocs; title: Exercise: Setting Up IDocs; title: Monitoring IDocs; title: Sample Processing Routines; title: IDocs Terminology; title: IDocs Customizing; title: IDoc Outbound Triggers; title: IDoc Recipes; title: Partner Profiles and Ports; title: RFC Remote Function Call; title: Calling R/3 Via OLE/JavaScript; title: ALE; title: Application Link Enabling; title: Workflow Technology; title: Batch Input Recording; title: EDI and International Standards; title: EDI Converter.