SAP MII to SAP ME integration using MEINT component

[Former Member]

Hello Experts,

I am currently studying the integration part between ERP and ME using ME INT component. I am done with configuration necessary for meint in MII. I am quite clear with workflow from ERP to MII using IDoc. But workflow from MII to ME is confusing me a lot. So please help me on this issue.

Target: BOM data has to be transfered from ERP to ME.

Understanding till now:

1. ERP will send a BOM (via IDoc) to MII.

2. MII will send it to a queue in ME INT database.

Queries:

1. After an IDoc is added to MEINT message queue, how will it be passed to ME?

2. Also, if I send BOM data to ME before ITEMs are configured in ME, will ME through an error?

I have gone through "SAP MEINT Overview and data communication between SAP ECC and SAP ME via SAP MEINT" help documentation but I didnt get enough clarity over sending data to ME.

Your reply will be appreciated.

Thanks.

Regards,

Minakshi.

[HariCS23]

Hello Minakshi,  See my comments in blue.

Understanding till now:

1. ERP will send a BOM (via IDoc) to MII.

2. MII will send it to a queue in ME INT database. ( This one is not quite right )

Inbound Integration :

ECC sends IDOC .

MII receives IDOC and process using message processing rule ( not MEINT Database )

Uses WS calls internally to insert data into ME (WIP Databse)

Outbound integration:

ME adds a record in MEINT table with input xml  ( MEINT workflows are used in the background )

MII processes those records from MEINT tables in batches based on the configuration.

Hope this helps.

Thanks

Hari

[salvatore_castro]

All,

With the introduction of Co-location of ME and MII in ME 6.1 and MII 14.0 there is no longer web service calls between ME and MII; this is all done via native/direct PAPIs call from MII to ME.

Regards,
Sam

[HariCS23]

Sure. Thanks Sam for pointing out the change in design with ME 6.1 and above.

Thanks

Hari

[former_member202208]

Hi,

1. It makes a web service call to create objects in ME.

2. Yes.

Thanks,

[Former Member]

Hi Shridhar,

Thanks for your reply.

But can you please provide me more details regarding who makes the webservice calls and do do we need to configure in MII for making this call.

Or is it that ME INT will itself take care of everything?

Regards,

Minakshi.

[former_member202208]

Hi,

For each of the IDOC type/Message type sent from ECC to ME , a workflow needs to be created in MEINT to process idoc.

To call ME web service for each of the message type, workflow has a configuration parameter called Service Transaction to call ME webservice.

For standard IDOCS [LOIPRO03, BOMMAT03, MATMAS. etc], Workflows are already defined and you don’t need to make any changes.

Please check;  http://help.sap.com/saphelp_me61/helpdata/EN/5b/78783268c946a6ae8b20216c40158e/frameset.htm

Thanks,

Shridhar.