The Sap R/3 Guide to Edi and Interfaces: Cut Your Implementation Cost With Idocs, Ale, and Sapscript

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 oncein your computer and trigger all the following activitiesautomatically, send the data to another computer without typingthem in again.

By Axel Angeli, Ulrich Streit and Robi Gonfalonieri