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[Former Member]

what are the different kinds of interfaces

[Former Member]

HI JEYA

THE FOLLOWING ARE DIFFERENT TYPES OF INTERFACES

Generally interfaces are of file ,EDI-ALE or rfc object types.

File interfaces are used when data is transferred from non-sap system into sap-system required format.

EDI interfaces are used when data is transferred from legacy system in non-readable format(for SAP) & which is converted to EDI format by middleware & then brought into SAP.

ALE is used when data is tranferred between 2 SAP systems.

There are rfc related interfaces where some connectors can call RFC in SAP & load or extract data out of SAP.

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NAVJOT

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[Former Member]

Hi,

Interface is the one which is used to link SAP to Non SAP .

In SAP you can use EDI/IDOC , BAPI and RFC as interfaces

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Anji

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bharat.

[Former Member]

Hi Jeya,

There are different type of interfaces. Two systems can communicate using an interface. As example,ALE can interface SAP with non-SAP systems.If you want to implement an interface between SAP and legacy for material master, you could use the existing ALE functionality to extract the material master data based on changes made by the user, put the data into an IDoc, and dispatch the IDoc to the target legacy system.The same works for inbound interfaces.

Also there is file based interface where instead of EDI or IDOC , files are sent from 1 system to another.