ale master data

[Former Member]

Hi to all ,

i did practice all the configurations to send material , master and vendor.

but , i am unable to understand why to send.if we send master data from

one system to sales system in business, what they will do with that data.

my question is what is the use to recieve the master data.

what reciver will do with that data.

can anyone explain me in business terminalogy.

Regards ,

Kiran.

[Former Member]

This needs understanding of business scenarios in which master data needs to be distributed and shared among business processes.

Business systems have a need to be decentralized to an extent for example SAP R/3 system is mainly used for integrating sales, inventory, finance etc processes but it cannot track the day to day process of several warehouses that a medium to large scale company has. Moreover warehouses are located faraway from corporate IT centers where core R/3 applications reside. So warehouses typically use their own Warehouse Management Systems (WMS). But data which is crucial for warehouse activities like materials, EAN codes, unit of measures etc are maintained in the central R/3 system. All the material data maintained in WMS should always be in sync with the parent R/3 system.

So you would need a regular interface which between warehouses and central R/3 system, so that all changes to materials relevant to WMS are sent in a timely fashion to WMS via Idocs. ALE is event driven - i.e., you can set the idocs triggered by changes made to material master and these idocs can be transferred in real time to WMS.

This is just one example. Others can ALE interfaces between R/3 and pricing cataloging systems, systems requiring customer info like CRM and so on