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The SAP R/3® Guide to EDI and Interfaces

Cut your Implementation Cost with IDocs®, ALE® and SapScript®

  • Professional IT-Cookbook for R/3 Interfacing

Part of the book series: XBusiness Computing (XBC)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
  2. Where Has the Money Gone?

    • Axeö Angeli, Ulrich Streit, Robi Gonfalonieri
    Pages 1-6
  3. What Are SAP R/3 IDocs?

    • Axeö Angeli, Ulrich Streit, Robi Gonfalonieri
    Pages 7-10
  4. Get a Feeling for IDocs

    • Axeö Angeli, Ulrich Streit, Robi Gonfalonieri
    Pages 11-17
  5. Exercise: Setting Up IDocs

    • Axeö Angeli, Ulrich Streit, Robi Gonfalonieri
    Pages 18-22
  6. Monitoring IDocs

    • Axeö Angeli, Ulrich Streit, Robi Gonfalonieri
    Pages 23-24
  7. Sample Processing Routines

    • Axeö Angeli, Ulrich Streit, Robi Gonfalonieri
    Pages 25-30
  8. IDocs Terminology

    • Axeö Angeli, Ulrich Streit, Robi Gonfalonieri
    Pages 31-35
  9. IDocs Customizing

    • Axeö Angeli, Ulrich Streit, Robi Gonfalonieri
    Pages 37-49
  10. IDoc Outbound Triggers

    • Axeö Angeli, Ulrich Streit, Robi Gonfalonieri
    Pages 51-64
  11. IDoc Recipes

    • Axeö Angeli, Ulrich Streit, Robi Gonfalonieri
    Pages 65-72
  12. Partner Profiles and Ports

    • Axeö Angeli, Ulrich Streit, Robi Gonfalonieri
    Pages 73-77
  13. RFC Remote Function Call

    • Axeö Angeli, Ulrich Streit, Robi Gonfalonieri
    Pages 79-85
  14. Calling R/3 Via OLE/JavaScript

    • Axeö Angeli, Ulrich Streit, Robi Gonfalonieri
    Pages 87-93
  15. ALE — Application Link Enabling

    • Axeö Angeli, Ulrich Streit, Robi Gonfalonieri
    Pages 95-114
  16. Workflow Technology

    • Axeö Angeli, Ulrich Streit, Robi Gonfalonieri
    Pages 115-123
  17. Batch Input Recording

    • Axeö Angeli, Ulrich Streit, Robi Gonfalonieri
    Pages 125-136
  18. EDI and International Standards

    • Axeö Angeli, Ulrich Streit, Robi Gonfalonieri
    Pages 137-142
  19. EDI Converter

    • Axeö Angeli, Ulrich Streit, Robi Gonfalonieri
    Pages 143-146
  20. Appendix

    • Axeö Angeli, Ulrich Streit, Robi Gonfalonieri
    Pages 147-151

About this book

Read in this book, why
· EDI projects with R/3 would often cost five to ten times as much as necessary
· IDocs and ALE are the ideal bridge between R/3 and legacy systems
· IDocs are the framework for a fully automated business workflow
In the technical part of the book you will learn, how to
· customise the R/3 IDoc engine
· interface IDocs with standard converters for X.12, EDIFACT, VDA etc.
· design your own IDoc structures
· write IDoc handler programs in an hour
· trigger IDocs from any R/3 application via messages or workflow
· set up automated workflow based on IDocs
· set up ALE scenarios for automated data replications
This book is for whole R/3 teams to teach a common knowledge when it comes to interface design.
· R/3 project managers to learn about the benefits of IDocs and ALE
· R/3 steering committees to estimate the true costs of EDI and interface development
· R/3 developers to learn how interface can be designed "in the minute"
· R/3 coaches to use as teaching and presentation material for interface designs
SAP R/3 made an old dream come true: enter your business data once in your computer and trigger all the following activities automatically, send the data to another computer without typing them in again.


About the authors

The authors work as top-level consultants and trouble shooters for SAP R/3 and large database systems.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The SAP R/3® Guide to EDI and Interfaces

  • Book Subtitle: Cut your Implementation Cost with IDocs®, ALE® and SapScript®

  • Authors: Axeö Angeli, Ulrich Streit, Robi Gonfalonieri

  • Series Title: XBusiness Computing

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-01091-3

  • Publisher: Vieweg+Teubner Verlag Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 2000

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-663-01091-3Published: 29 June 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 158

  • Number of Illustrations: 350 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Engineering, general

  • Industry Sectors: Aerospace, IT & Software

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eBook USD 74.99
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