EWM 1909 identification type for business partners

[former_member521188]

Hi,

I'm working curently on the integration S/4 <> EWM 1909 (decentralized scenario). I already established the ALE communication and transferred some customers via DEBMAS Idoc. What I noticed, after the customer has been created in EWM, in the tab identification the identification type is not filled any more (in this particular case CRM002). Did I forget something or is it a standard behavior?

Bests

Bartosz

[former_member230160 · Accepted solution]

Hello Bartosz,

the ID types as you may know from classic EWM (EWM 9.5,...) are not used/filled in EWM in S/4. The information about which "type" a business partner is is stored in the BP role.

So everything is fine and you did not forget anything. Did you just ask out of curiosity or do you require this for any purpose? E.g. for mapping BP to customer/supplier specific EWM APIs exist which do the mapping independent on ID types.

For your convenience I added the latest release information which also contains the latest how to guide for the integration to a decentralized EWM. Are you transferring the complete DEBMAS? This is e.g. not necessary (see how to guide) as a reduced message type is sufficiant.

Best regards

Markus

2840129 - Release information and restrictions of Decentralized EWM on S/4HANA 1909

HTG_Integration_SAP_ERP_with_decEWM_on_S41909_V2_5.pdf

[acossement_ · Accepted solution]

Hi Markus,

Refering to note 2417298, ALE in this case is not recommanded but rather SOAP. Could you please elaborate on potential restrictions using ALE (e.g. 1 BP for 1 customer and 1 vendor?) and/or when (under which conditions) SOAP apply?

Thanks in advance,

Anthony.

[ashishphilip · Accepted solution]

Sorry, I have one question. As part of ZEWMDEBMAS, if we need to send identification type details which is not part of reduced message, how it can be done.

[former_member230160]

@acossement_,

Hi Anthony,

yes you are right, I did not see that the source system was an S/4. Dependent on the scenario it should be checked what is appropriate. If the source system is an S/4 system using CVI it may be better to use DRF. This is also explained in the above mentioned HowToGuide (chapter 6.9). If ALE is used in such a scenario it causes more complex customizing/processing. So yes, Bartosz should check if he wants to use ALE or DRF for business partners.

Nevertheless the ID types are also not created using DRF

Best regards

Markus

[acossement_]

Hi Markus,

Thanks for the update.

Kr,

Anthony.

[christian_jansen]

Seems as if the above given link to the integration guide ain't working.
Try this one:
https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/download/attachments/541821985/HTG_Integration_SAP_ERP_with_decEWM_on_...

[former_member521188]

Hi Markus,

thanks for answering my question. On the one hand I was just wondering, that the id.type is not determined any more (old habits from previous versions) and on the other hand was almost sure that it is probably not required, after I did the whole customizing for SAP business partners on S/4 EWM side.

I used the reduced message type ZEWMDEBMAS with only few segments.

Best regards

Bartosz