Mastering IDoc Business Scenarios with SAP XI

Michal Krawczyk received his degree in computer science and econometrics and since then has been working as an SAP integration consultant. His work focuses mainly on message exchange between SAP systems through the use of technologies such as ALE, IDocs, and SAP NetWeaver Process Integration (formerly SAP Exchange Infrastructure). Thanks to his contributions to the SAP Developer Network, he was awarded the No. 1 Contributor Award in the PI/XI area twice in 2004/2005 and 2005/2006, and once No. 2 in 2006/2007. He has also been acting as an SAP Mentor for SDN since 2007 and is an SDN moderator. In addition, he has written articles for industry magazines such as SAP Professional Journal, SAP CRMExpert, SAP SCMExpert, SAP HRExpert, and SAP Solution Manager Expert. Michal Kowalczewski is a project manager and e-business team leader in the Business Consulting Center (Poland). The team he leads works on SAP NetWeaver corporate integration solutions, specializing in designing and implementing processes for Sales and Distribution and Customer Relationship Management. His professional interests also include mobile systems and Enterprise SOA. He graduated from Poznan University of Economics with a degree in computer science and econometrics. His master's thesis concerns semantic Web services and SOA architecture.

Preface ... 3 1. IDocs Basics and Elemental Technical Configuration ... 5 ... 1.1 Creating Connections Between Different Systems ... 6 ... 1.2 Port Definition ... 9 ... 1.3 Partner Profile Maintenance ... 11 ... 1.4 Summary ... 14 2. Business Scenario Configuration ... 15 ... 2.1 Purchase Orders and PO Changes in the MM Module ... 16 ... 2.2 Receiving of Purchase Order Confirmations ... 27 ... 2.3 Logistic Invoice Verification ... 30 ... 2.4 Processing Inbound Orders in Sales and Distribution ... 33 ... 2.5 Outbound Order Confirmation ... 36 ... 2.6 Outbound Delivery ... 40 ... 2.7 Outbound Invoice ... 43 ... 2.8 Extension of Condition Tables ... 47 ... 2.9 Summary ... 51 3. IDoc Monitoring ... 53 ... 3.1 Searching for IDocs ... 53 ... 3.2 IDocs Reprocessing ... 55 ... 3.3 IDoc Editing ... 56 ... 3.4 Summary ... 56 4. SAP XI in IDoc Scenarios ... 59 ... 4.1 SAP XI Introduction ... 59 ... 4.2 IDoc Exchange Basis with the Use of SAP XI ... 61 ... 4.3 Sending IDocs to SAP XI ... 64 ... 4.4 Sending IDocs from SAP XI ... 68 ... 4.5 Monitoring IDocs Inside SAP XI ... 73 ... 4.6 IDoc Control Record ... 73 ... 4.7 IDoc Packages and Event-Driven Messages ... 75 ... 4.8 IDoc Tunneling ... 77 ... 4.9 IDoc Acknowledgments ... 78 ... 4.10 IDoc Serialization ... 81 ... 4.11 IDoc Bundling ... 84 ... 4.12 Turning Off IDoc Processing Within the Integration Engine ... 85 ... 4.13 IDoc Message Mappings ... 85 ... 4.14 Summary ... 93 5. Summary ... 95 A Appendix ... 97 Index ... 101