EDI

[Former Member]

Hi,

In which cases we require to use EDI Adapter?

Thanks

Seshu

[Former Member]

Hi,

Besides the good answers you've already received: take a look at www.aedaptive.com. <a href="http://www.aedaptive.,com">http://www.aedaptive.,com</a>

It is a new SAP certified solution for EDI.

Best,

Gordon.

[Former Member]

Hi Seshu

We have develop a REdi Adapter, which this you can convert flat edi, vda , ansi and inhouse format to a XML structure. With this structure you can make a mapping to any Format (inhouse, idoc, rfz.) But you must make the mapping. The adapter make only the conversion flat to xml or xml to flat. (Very Simple with any hierarchy)

You some good services in this adapter, he make the counter of segments and messages and more

Regards Tom

[Former Member]

Hi ,

Check this blog also..

/people/bla.suranyi/blog/2006/06/08/sap-xi-supports-edifact

Sekhar

[moorthy]

Hi,

As Michal told, it is used whenever your third party systems uses EDI standards, if they are using XI is for integration, then XI can understand the xml format ( XI std). SO there should be some adapter to convert EDI format into xml format. for this there is no built in adapter from SAP like file, jdbc adapter. Then we are going to EDI adapters from third party vendors, like SeeBurger etc..

Have a look into these with XI integration-

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/b0b355ae-0501-0010-3b83-8f2...

http://www.seeburger.com/fileadmin/com/pdf/SAP_Exchange_Infrastructure_Integratio_Strategy.pdf

Hope this helps,

Regards,

Moorthy

[MichalKrawczyk]

you can read more on EDI and VAN (network) on:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Data_Interchange

to have a better overview of this standard

Regards,

michal

[MichalKrawczyk]

Hi,

in the case our partner (market or any other partner) asks us to use EDI standard

we have a few possiblities:

EDI adapter (seeburger etc)

or sometimes we can use an EDI outsorcing company

(we send SOAP or HTTP) and they transform it to EDI

- available in some countries

Regards,

michal

[Former Member]

Hi,

Another possibility is to use Conversion Agent (CA) from Itemfield. CA can be used with any J2EE adapter. It contains conversion libraries to convert most EDI standards to XML.

CA is resold and supported by SAP. The software can be downloaded from service marketplace.

Regards,

Bill

[MichalKrawczyk]

hi William,

but very often you also need a VAN adapter

to do the EDI scenario and CA is just a

structure converter (more or less)

so sometimes it may not be enough

to do the whole EDI flow right ?

Regards,

michal

[Former Member]

Hi Michael,

Yes, very true. However, there is also situations where the EDI comes in as files. In those situaitons, CA would be ideal.

Also, iWay's EDI adapter does not do any conversions as Seeburger (with additional cost, of course). In this case, CA can supplement it.

Regards,

Bill

[former_member206604]

Hi,

It totally depends on the requirement. If the EDI documents comes in files its better to use File adapter and use Conversion Agent (which will take care of converting into EDI format) and save the EDI file.

Basically conversion agent is just to make work simple as there are lots of EDI libraries. This can be just a work around like saving EDI document as files. As Michal said VAN adapter to do a end to end EDI scenario.

This is something simillar to posting an IDOC and saving an IDOC as a file

Thanks,

Prakash