ALE Usage

[Former Member]

How ALE will be useful in delivering data to the receier? cant we do that using EDI ? thanks in advance

[Former Member]

Hi Lakshman,

Whenever reciever system can process IDoc, we can use ALE. Receiver system can be non-SAP system like PROVIA.

Sunil Shingte

[gajendra_bhakuni]

Hi Lakshman,

I the basic difference between ALE and EDI will make things clear:

If we send data to an external partner, we generally speak of EDI, while ALE is a mechanism to reliable replicate data between trusting systems to store a redundant copy of the IDoc data. The difference is made clear, when we think of a purchase order that is sent as an IDoc. If we send the purchase order to a supplier then the supplier will store the purchase order as a sales order. However, if we send the purchase order via ALE to another R/3 system, then the receiving system will store the purchase order also as a purchase order.

Regards,

Gajendra.