How to Create EDI Structure

[Former Member]

Hi All,

Anybody know how can we create EDI lets say X12 EDI from XML structure...

I know that with Coversion Agent we can do XML to EDI conversion....and the reverse..

do we any blog for the second part... i have for first part...

any other way of doing xml to EDI conversion.?

[former_member431549 · Accepted solution]

Cost effective and best usually don't go together. Itemfeld conversion agent is significantly less robust that Seeburger, and I believe Itemfeld c/a has an additional volume based license fee for productive use. It's included with XI, but to use it you have to pay.

The answer depends if you really have a need for an EDI infrastructure, or a couple of trading partners are requiring you exchange one or two EDI messages. With the latter, you can get away with Itemfeld or writing an adapter module yourself. Otherwise, IMO, you need Seeburger, Gentran or something of the like.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

prateek and Tim,

thanks for answers..

Actually client is already using Mercator in their landscape.. so we have to option.

1. there is way of integration Dataset (Mercator) and XI .. Mercator has capability to do EDI conversion.

2. Use conversion agent..

So if we mix both approaches...like using mercator for some interfaces and convesion agent for others... i guess it will equal seeburger capability... but i am not sure about that.. i need to do some research of capability of mercator ...

plus i need to find extra functionality that seeburger support but not conversion agent..

is there is ready for comparion between seeburger and conversion agent..

else i have to do R & D :)..

[Former Member]

Ranjeet,

Another option which is available to you (and your company may already have it in-house) is Microsoft BizTalk. Though, personally, I would stick with Seeburger...

I thought I'd throw it out there as another option.

[Former Member]

Hi ranjeet

You can use adapters like <b>GENTRAN</b>, SEEBURGER etc for reading the EDI format & converting to XML or other acceptable format.

have a look at this

http://www.ean.se/EANCOM%202000/iftmin/example.htm

For more help on EDI please refer below links. I hope it will provide plenty of useful information regarding EDI:

Electronic_Data_Interchange

Blog by Srinivas on EDI Basics

Thoughts on EDI in an SAP XI Environments

Blog by Lionel Biennier on SAP XI Supports EDI X12

Also refer this recently discussed thread on EDI:

/people/srinivas.vanamala2/blog/2006/12/11/edi-basics

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/dc/6b7dbd43d711d1893e0000e8323c4f/frameset.htm

check the link for more on EDI

http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/scedi/faq.htm

http://www.erpgenie.com/saptech/transactions.htm

http://www.erpgenie.com/sapedi/index.htm

Thanks !

Pls reward if useful

[Former Member]

actually i wanted to know what would the cost effective approach yet best approach...

see burger is costly i guess... anybody has price for that.. or other adapters..

conversion agent comes with XI .. no issue there...

i have read the functionality wise seeburger adapters have efficient..

but how is conversion agent... is conversion agent far behind the seeburger adapter or both are equally good but seeburger having some extra functionality..

[prateek]

Seeburger is pretty much robust as compared to Conversion Agent.There are some formats of EDI that r supported by Seebuger but not by conversion agent.

To decide on which o use:

If ur landscape have many type of EDI documents, then conversion agent might not prove out to be an effective solution. But in case very few docs needs tobe converted, it would be easy and cost effective to use conversion agent.

Creatin a module would be the cheapest iption but it would be a bit time consuming.

Regards,

Prateek

[prateek]

Write an adapter module. Or use Seeburger's EDI adapter

No other way

Regards,

Prateek