EDI - Sales Orders

[AdamHorne]

Hello 

How do others do EDI for SO? 

Our current setup is orders from customers go to middle ware company and then get posted into SAP. 

If there are any issues with SO (material # incorrect etc) the SO wont be posed into SAP and remains in the middle ware company until date matches. 

Is there a way that SO, even with incorrect data, can go into SAP and be held for review before being created as a SO? 

Wondering how others deal with this issue?

Adam

[rob_ariaans]

Whether data is correct or not should not matter - your middleware company should always send the data to SAP and not keep anything behind. The idoc should be send to your SAP system and in case sales order cannot be created due to, for example, non-existing material number in the idoc, the idoc will be in error - status 51. 

You can use transaction WE02 to have visibility on these failed idocs and then take necessary actions.

[Ryan-Crosby]

To add to this answer you can configure it so failed IDocs trigger workflow for appropriate business users too in order to correct data issues, which is what we do here.

[jignesh_mehta3]

You have mentioned - If there are any issues e.g. incorrect Material number, the EDI Order stays at the Middleware company. 

How is the Middleware company able to validate the Master Data of receiving system? 

As mentioned earlier, normally we receive all the EDI orders from Middleware and those with incorrect details end up in error. The Users then review each one with error and undertakes necessary corrective measures.