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Electronic Document Interchange

Customer

Our customer is a world leader in the production of tires. The company operates more than 100 plants in 29 countries.

Industry

Automotive

Project Overview

The project is designed to improve the integration and exchange of business data that our client uses for communication with external business partners and for internal purposes. The aim of the project is to implement and support scenarios for data exchange between SAP systems, SAP and legacy (non–SAP) systems via ALE/EDI interface and SAP XI.

Project Execution

The project started in September 2005. The project team consists of the customer's EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) team and the IBA experts. IBA responsibilities include:

  • Error monitoring and analysis in SAP, SAP XI, and EDI subsystem
  • ABAP development of new customer transactions and enhancements for standard SAP functionality
  • Customization of ALE/EDI interface in SAP
  • Mapping development from IDOC to an EDI message (UN/EDIFACT, X.12, VDA, ODETTE, EDIWHEEL, XML or customer specific standards) and vice versa
  • Workflow development
  • Customization and implementation of different SAP XI scenarios, namely adapters (JMS, JDBC, FTP, HTTP, IDOC or RFC), mappings (graphical, JAVA or XSLT), and complex scenarios (using BPM).

Environment:

Development environment: SAP 4.6C, 6.20 SAP XI, ACTIS integration manager v3.3

Programming languages: Java, ABAP 4, XSLT, XML

Tools and technologies: SAP ABAP Workbench, SAP XI, Business Object Modeler, EDIform.

Project Results

Started in September 2005, the Electronic Document Interchange is currently underway and is scheduled as a long–term project. The IBA team's involvement allows the customer to organize automatic B2B scenarios while reducing the total cost of software ownership and minimizing HR costs.