I am looking for the advantages and disadvantages of IDocs over BAPIs. While designing an interface in SAP, which methodology is best?
We're looking at pulling data from a third party tool and SAP HR into BW for reporting purposes. One limitation that we're experiencing is the third party tool has long character strings (greater than 200). Can BW handle this as an input? How are companies getting around this issue? And is BW the...
We have a big VB5 application and we intend to integrate it with SAP. We do not want to convert the VB app to .NET. This will be a huge task. Since DCOM connector is no longer supported, what is the alternative for connecting to SAP from our VB app.?
I am looking into purchase orders. There are IDOC types ORDERS01, orders02, orders03, orders04 and orders05 ? What are the differences ? To convert a po doc into IDOC, is this through configuration ? A custom Abap program is not needed to create an IDOC, right ? Pls share your thoughts. Am on...
I am working on an SAP project, and I have a text file in XML format that I need to read in SAP. Is there any function module to read a text file in XML format?
Where can I find well-defined and clear-cut descriptions of SAP SRM reconciliation capabilities? Possibly a demo? Or FAQs and pros and cons about the capability?
When an external app creates a SAP business object by calling GetSAPObject - is the instance created in SAP as well (in memory)? Or does the instance exist only in the external application as a proxy handle but no real SAP object instance behind it? I read somewhere that SAP creates a communication...
Hello, I am new to SAP EDI. I like to send purchase orders to vendors via EDI. Can i use BAPI or Function module or BDC to do it ? Would this be like creating a flat file and send to vendor ? Must i use IDOC since i am sending info out to vendors ? What are the requirements to perform an EDI...
Hi, We are implementing an EDI Solution for SD Invoices which would involve sending EDIFACT Messages generated out of mapping the SAP iDOC TYPE INVOIC02 to the EDIFACT fields. We also have to send Credit and Debit Notes generated from SAP in the SD Module in the same path. We are currently...
Hello, We are having a printer which supports printing on both the side of paper. From windows we are using this functionality. Now, we would like to use this from SAP also. How to enable this duplex printing from SAP? Thanks in advance.
Hi, Is there any IDOC type with delivery oubound IDOC (similar to DELVRY01) with Partner Information at Item level. Thanks, Ajay
I'm looking for an alternative solution to having the BASIS team open the client so that I can update table EDSDC for new EDI trading partners. This is time consuming for them and our EDI team. This table is not transportable. How do other customers perform these updates? Any help will be greatly...


