MDM to AFS

[Former Member]

Hello Experts,

Question about receiving Inbound parameters from MDM 5.5 SP5 to AFS 5.0. Can AFS receive the ARTMAS message type from MDM, or can it only receive MATMAS message type for the creation of new materials? When sending ARTMAS, we encounter the following inbound IDoc error:

"Retail materials cannot be maintained in the industry system"

Any idea/suggestions on what is causing this or how to go around this error?

Additionally, can two separate repositories in MDM be synched? So say we have a repository1 and a repository2. Both share some fields. Can updates to one also reflect in the other?

All help would be much appreciated.

Cheers,

Marat

[Former Member]

Hi Marat,

Though I have no experience on your scenario, here´s what I found:

1. ARTMAS error - ARTMAS01 can be created in the AFS system , probably you need to check the ALE configuration -reprocess the Idoc in We19(or the corresponding AFS transaction if it is different) and check the processing ,it will help determine the cause of the error

http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_02/helpdata/en/f4/2dc8a2d56111d29e6700805f8f496c/frameset.htm

2. MDM has a master slave concept , where the slave repository can be synchronised with the master. More information can be found in the console reference guide available at http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_02/helpdata/en/f4/2dc8a2d56111d29e6700805f8f496c/frameset.htm

Hope this helps !

Regards,

Anita

[Former Member]

Anita,

Thank you for your response. The ARTMAS issue was occurring because we were sending that message type to AFS, which is an industry system. Our understanding is that the ARTMAS message type is specific to SAP Retail. We changed our configuration so now when we perform an update from MDM, the ARTMAS message type goes to Retail, and MATMAS goes to AFS.

Regards,

Marat