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bapi

Former Member — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:43:32 GMT

How does bapi score over BDC ?

Re: bapi

Former Member — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:47:39 GMT

hi,

BAPI use to transfer data between Sap and non SAP Systems.....

reward if useful...

Re: bapi

Former Member — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:51:32 GMT

Hi,

BAPI is a standard SAP solution for general activities in SAP, like to create sales order, update master data, stock transfer etc. Its a FM and you need to pass values ti parameters in a program to perform the required activity.

BDC helps in running through a transaction the way you want to do it. You can record a transaction and run through that transaction with your data.

regards,

Pankaj

Re: bapi

Former Member — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:28:29 GMT

Hi, According to me, The main difference between BAPI and BDC is :

In BDC we need to specify (while recording) all the standard validation in all the screens, exclusively in program.And a note of all screen data is also to be given in BDC (i.e Dynrpro,fnam,fval etc).

But all these can be avoided in BAPI. BAPI will skip all the screen data and includes all the default validations by itself without any need of Explicit specification.