topic Re: EDI Interfaces in Application Development and Automation Discussions

EDI Interfaces

Former Member — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:50:47 GMT

HI All,

I have very much experience in SAP EDI,ALE and Idocs as an consultant in my previous company,now i had changed my job and i am client location,here i am working on the same thing but they are not using EDI where it can be used,instead they are keeping the files manualy in the application server and we had written a program which will post the files to the sap database.

now i wants to show the cient that this can be done better by EDI application,i have experience working on this but not the experience to show case the thing.. i mean

how can i show the clent how EDI can be helpful here and i have few questions

in my above scenario how can i use EDI

for using EDI what are the pre-reqisities from the hardware point of view i mean i know we need a subsystem,,,is it some thing like java connector whcih can be downloaded for free.in simple how can i start start an EDI based project what are all the things i need to handle and take into consideration. please help....

Babita

Re: EDI Interfaces

Pawan_Kesari — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:49:33 GMT

Hi,

You can demonstrate the posting of data in SAP using WE19 by creating test IDoc.

However if you want to demonstrate the whole EDI scenario starting from text file to posting of data in system, then you need EDI subsystem.

Usually EDI subsystem connects with SAP using RFC connection which need to be setup in SM59; however this could vary with each EDI system.

Apart from setting in SAP you need setting and mapping in EDI subsystem which will map data from your text file to IDOC data structure (IDoc type) depending on the type of data.

Did you found any reason why your client is using this method. I mean they might have a good reason for that. And if this approach is working fine and if you canu2019t see any bottleneck in future then I think it might be overhead to replace the existing system with EDI.

Re: EDI Interfaces

Former Member — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:54:49 GMT

HI Pawan,

Thanks for the answer what are all you mention i did that too, you are telling in a consultant point of view,now how can set up a EDI subsystem which edi subsystem is to be used, i am asking in the project point of view like setting up the system ,not the technical details....

Babita