Communication between SAP ERP & SAP SNC

[Former Member]

Hello SNC Experts,

I'm trying to implement some business processes within Supplier Collaboration like PO.

I would like to know if it's possible to implement a communication between SAP ERP and SAP SNC without Netweaver PI/XI.

Is there any possibility for direct communication(transfer XML Messages) between backend and SNC without PI or any third system?

Thanks,

Stephan

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

HI Stephen,

Here are my thoughts:

SAP has suggested to use SAP PI/XI as the relevant mapping and the much needed infrastructure is already in place when you use SAP PI 7.X to integrate SAP SNC and SAP ECC.

Do you have any constraint on using SAP PI ?

Here a few thoughts if you would like to try.  You can use any middleware to integrate like webmethods (wM).

The Challenge are many..  you would need to convert a SAP IDOC generated and send to wM them generate a relevant ERPRON orRON XML and send to SNC box.

You need to create a new SIA that meets all the criteria to get your message flow going btw SNC <-->ECC. 

If you refer to the PO collaboration Message flow, you will see many such XML

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_snc70/helpdata/EN/8b/7ed748ee8d4f3b81ba5efc31eaa43c/content.htm

SAP has already given you a Out of the Box config for use.  I would suggest to us the standard

Thx

MJ

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi MJ,

thank you for your answer.

In the meantime we have implemented SAP SNC by using the Netweaver PI.

Regards

Stephan

[Former Member]

Hi Stephan,

SAP SNC is based on XML message and this XML messages can be coming from ECC or PI or any other 3rd party tools.

As of ECC 6.0 Ehp3 SAP ECC was not able to generate XML messages and that's why we used to trigger idocs and converting the idoc to XML we need PI system & mapping these XML messages with SNC.

But with release of ECC 6.0 Ehp 4 ECC can also generate XML message and this can be sent to SNc server directly without intermediate PI server.

For more inof please refer to below link

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_snc70/helpdata/EN/8b/7ed748ee8d4f3b81ba5efc31eaa43c/content.htm

Hope this will help you

Regards

Praty

[Former Member]

Good evening Stephan,

I'm currently working on the same topic.

Did you find an answer ?

Thanks,

Thomas

[Former Member]

Hi Thomas,

as far as I know, the use of the NW PI-server is a basic requirement for SAP SNC.
We did not find any useful way to realize it without PI.
Therefore we have realized our PO-scenario with the NW PI-server.

Regards,

Stephan

[Former Member]

Hi Stephan,

Thanks for your prompt reply.

Have a nice day.

Thomas