ECC MES integration

[Former Member]

Hi,

I am learning ECC MES integration and have a powerpoint with me as a starting point. There I see the following objects being sent over to MES from ECC.

Planned orders

BOMs

Production orders

Process orders

Material Inventory Levels

Inspection Lots data

Master Recipes

Material Details

Batch Details

Maintanence work orders

Notification details

Material and order costs

Then MES sends back the following details

Production Confimrations

Process messages

Material Consumptions

Material Transfers

Inspection Lot result recording

Quality notifications

Batch Char recording

Work order results recording

Maintanence Notifications

My question is how do we send some many objects back and forth. Is it all IDOCS or some other technology ? I know what will be sent will depend upon the scope of the integration.

Thanks

[Former Member]

Hi,

I'm doing ECC to MES integrations over MII.

MES side supplies web services to be called by MII to map to ECC supplied RFC.

MII transactions treat as web service , MES side can call MII transaction to send data to ECC side.

[agentry_src]

There are several choices for passing the data back and forth.

BAPI/RFC can be used to download and upload from ECC.

IDOCs can also be used though most folks use them with Change Pointers to automatically push documents down to the MES level.

There are Enterprise Services now available for some of the functions you list, but performance is not as good as with either of the first two options.

If configured, XI can be used as the transport mechanism, but that can add overhead to the processing complexity, but also comes with a guaranteed delivery capability.

I would also suggest you look at some of the downloadable templates in SDN for MII. Most are based upon BAPI/RFC.

Regards,

Mike