Why iFlow Replicate Sales Order and Sales Quote from SAP S4HANA only allows iDocs

[oliverschultze]

Hi everyone,

I am currently working on a standard integration between SAP S/4HANA On-Premise and SAP Sales Cloud Version 2 for the replication of Sales Orders – from S/4 to Sales Cloud v2.

I have come across something that seems completely inconsistent, and I cannot explain it:

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1. In DRFIMG, the only outbound implementation for Sales Orders is 114_1 (Webservice)

In DRFIMG → Define Outbound Implementations, the object SalesOrder only offers the Webservice outbound implementation 114_1.
There is no IDoc outbound option available.

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2. The SAP standard iFlow for Sales Cloud v2, however, expects an IDoc structure

In the SAP Integration Suite package “SAP Sales Cloud Version 2 Integration for Sales Processes with SAP S/4HANA”, the sender adapter for the iFlow “Replicate Sales Order and Sales Quote from SAP S/4HANA” must be configured as IDoc.
The iFlow clearly expects an IDoc XML payload.

If you send SOAP/Webservice messages instead, errors occur such as:

• HTTP 401

• unsupported xstream in SRT_MONI

Which makes sense, because the iFlow internally seems to process IDoc payloads only, not SOAP.

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My question to the community:

How does this fit together?

• Is this an intentional design?

• Why is the iFlow still using IDoc structures here?

• If DRFIMG does not provide an IDoc outbound implementation, how is this integration supposed to work?

• What are the recommended options or best practices?

• Any guidance or tips from someone who has implemented this scenario successfully would be greatly appreciated.