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EDI BASICS

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EDI is a standardized format which companies use to exchange information electronically rather than with paper & the business entities who are involved are called as Trading Partners. Before EDI, a typical Order-to-Cash scenario used to be like below - Now, this is a typical EDI flow. Major advantages of EDI were speed- faster data transfer, reduction in human failure. Major B2B transactions used are RFQ- Request For Quotation, PO- Purchase Order, Sales order, Advance shipping notice, Invoice, etc. Here is an example of O2C/P2P cycle -  EDI STANDARDS -  These standards are formats for the EDI documents. It specifies where what information goes in an EDI document.  EDIFACT, ANSIX12 are some of the EDI standards most commonly used. Below is a sample ANSI X12 File - ST/SE ( Transaction Sets ) - It is the smallest meaningful set of information exchanged by trading partners such as a purchase order or...

Proxy Configuration between PO & ECC

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A) First, we need to create a Logical System in ECC which will point to PO system. Go to tcode - BD54   & create a logical system. B) Then, depending on whether your system is single/dual stack, create a RFC destination from SM59  which will point to PO system. If its a Single stack - create Type G connection            Dual stack - create Type H connection while creating we should follow a standard Path Prefix for both Type H & Type G connection Connection Test should result in Status 200 ex: Type H Target Host : Hostname of PO system Path Prefix : /sap/xi/engine/?type=entry Type G Target Host : Hostname of PO system Path Prefix :   /XISOAPAdapter/MessageServlet?ximessage=true C) Go to SXMB_ADM - Configuration -  Select Category as Runtime  select parameter -  IS_URL Value =  dest://<your_rfc_destination> D) We will create o...