ALE & BAPI communication

[Former Member]

Hello,

When coming to ALE is it preferable to have an intercompany ALE communication...I know its normally Intra company....?

SAme with BAPI is intercompany BAPI communication preferrable...?

What might be the issues...?

Can any one help...

Thanks..

LArry

[Former Member]

Hi,

Whether it is ALE / BAPI it is most of the times with in the company. If you have to deal with your business partner, its B2B communicatin and you usually will have a middleware in place to do the same.

Regards,

Ravi

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[vinod_gunaware2]

Hi

check out these links

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/2a1dd5d3-0801-0010-ed8d-bd7...

www.sapgenie.com/links/ale.htm

help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/ en/43/b46c4b53c111d395fa00a0c94260a5/content.htm

help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/ en/18/22b800773211d396b20004ac96334b/content.htm

regards

vinod

[Former Member]

Thanks for the replies..

But...What might be the issues...?

Thanks

[Former Member]

Hello,

Whether ALE or BAPI , is not a question of intracompany or B2B, but whether you need a sychronous (BAPI) or asynchronous (ALE) communication.

E.g. : there is more than one SAP-System in your company. You want to transfer changes of material master data form one system to the other. If you would do it synchronous, nobody could change a material master if the connection between the two systems is broken ( or the other system is down ) . A bad idea.. . So, you would do it via ALE.

Other case: you build a list on system 1 and need to read some data from system 2. There you could act with a bapi.

Regards Wolfgang

[Former Member]

Thanks for the reply Wolfgang,

Iam not asking the preference of BAPI or ALE iam asking about the security issues while establishing RFC connections with totally a different company system(inter company) ie a third party SAP system...

Thanks,

LArry