What is the best way of converting material master IDOC to Article master IDOC?

[former_member282968]

Please suggest me how a material which gets created in the sender system and distrubuted as an IDoc can be converted into an article in the recieving system?.If it is required to be done only in receiving system what is the best option?.And standard programs or t-code used to do the inbound processing of an article ( single as well as mass processing).

with thanks & regards

[AnjaneyaBhardwaj]

Dear ,

Did you look for ARTMAS message type and ARTMAS05 basic type .You can generate the article  master Retail from your ECC and then Configure the ALE to send it to your SAP Retail. I have never done this but that should be the way forward.

Thanks,

Anjaneya

[former_member282968]

The message type I get from the sender server is matmas03 basic type and the basic type for article is artmas05 but i neeed to convert it from matmas03 to artmas05 in the reciver side while doing the inbound idoc processing.The segments are different in these two, so mapping has to be made and then need to be processed.

I want to know the best way to handle this.

With thanks & regards

[AnjaneyaBhardwaj]

well i would say sender should send you the ARTMAS05 basic type from sender and youher  can just update your article master by running that Idoc.This is the best solution not much effort besides minor mapping as everything is pretty standard...Reproducing another Idoc from another idoc type is not a good idea . Better you create a custom Inbound FM once the matmas reaches SAP Retail and you can process this idoc with your own code which will create the Article master...

[former_member282968]

Thanks for the reply...

For some parametric reasons it must be done only at the receiver server.

Creating custom function module and changing the data segments while passing into the standard function module is one way.

There is a scheduler standard program which will do the inbound processing , for instance how it will help if we create a custom program which will convert MATMAS to ARTMAS and schedule this before inbound processing standard program? In this case, what is the best way to go about converting the message type? Is there any standard inbound processing program for article master?