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Welcome to Hollywood! Follow the saga of the Acme Pictures movie studio as it exchanges information with its vendor and its primary customer to put low-budget sci-fi movies on shelves. This entertaining case study showcases the requirements, standards, and capabilities for building an SAP EDI system and optimizing electronic information exchange via IDocs. From configuring IDocs, to generating purchase orders and goods receipts, to processing invoices, this script teaches you how to make your EDI system a star.
1. Cross-Industry Standard
See what makes IDocs in SAP and EDI the heart, bones, arteries, and brains of modern businesses and government organizations.
2. The Full Picture
Build the EDI system step by step, from generating the purchase order, to building outbound order confirmation, to processing the inbound payment advice using IDocs.
3. Custom IDocs
Using ABAP, ALE, and XML, explore custom utilities that extend standard SAP functionality.
4. Test Your System
Learn how to achieve success and diagnose failure by using monitoring tools to troubleshoot.
5. Updated and Expanded
In this second edition, find new custom tools and utilities, a renewed focus on the business context, and new interfaces from the purchasing cycle.
Highlights include:
Business process integration
IDoc architecture and configuration
Custom IDocs and extensions
Mapping specifications
Message control
Customer purchase orders
Replication services
Inbound goods receipts and invoices
Outbound advance shipments and invoices
Custom IDoc tools
EDI and IDocs troubleshooting and recovery

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Emmanuel Hadzipetros is an ABAP developer and IDoc and EDI specialist who has been fascinated with data flows and systems integration throughout his 15 years of SAP project experience. As a consultant and independent contractor in four countries and three continents he served a large number of small, mid-size, and Fortune 500 clients in a variety of industries.
Emmanuel prides himself on a practical approach to building and integrating systems. Throughout his career he´s worked with a wide range of tools to integrate SAP with internal and legacy systems and external trading partners including flat file FTP transfers, ALE, XI/PI, and third-party EDI integration systems.
Emmanuel has been happily playing with the IDoc interface for more than 10 years and believes that it´s one of SAP´s hidden jewels.

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