Integrating EDI with XI

[Former Member]

Hi All

I am a starter. Could you pls explain me how EDI can be integrated with XI. (Business process point of view )

I had gone thro some links but I did not understand

Thanks

dushanth

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Can you please tell us your requirement first???

Regards

Seshagiri

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

any other inputs pls. My customer has EDI and I need to integrate EDI with XI.

thanks

dushanth

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Generally all the SAP EDI integration projects are executed with the seeburgur adapters.

other options are there like using converstion agent you can convert the edi files formats to xml formats.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

What iam asking is What is your Sender Appication and Receiver Appication ???

From your Question i understood that u have EDi at one end

what is the other application at other end????

Any how to deal with EDi data u need to use Seeburger adapter

First u need to install the Seeburger adapter on XI server.

You willl have the BIC mapping designer with that seeburger Installation to find out the Standard mappings

Please follow this BLOG

/people/nithiyanandam.au2/blog/2008/02/20/handling-edi-interfaces-using-seeburger-bic-modules

Regards

Seshagiri

[Former Member]

Develop EDI adapter in XI

Third party adapters are provided by Seeburger which is used to integrate EDI scenarios. Adapters are AS2,VAN,OFTPS,X400.

U need to purchase a license for the same.

The SEEBURGER Business Integration Converter (BIC) is an any-to-any format converter, used to translate EDI data and legacy data formats into XML and vice versa. It can also be used for complex, high performance XML-to-XML mappings or to interface to existing JDBC data sources.

Supported EDI formats include:

• ANSI

• EDIFACT

• INHOUSE

• IDOC

• XML Schema

• XML DTD

• CSV

• Delimited Data

• positional data

• SWIFT

• EANCOM

and many more.

See for converting the EDI XML to EDI and XML-EDI you need to have a seeburger mapping program at the adapter module which does the conversion. For this module you need a BIC tool of seeburger which provides the different module program for EDI to XML and XML-EDI. This program needs to be deployed on XI and through adapter it has to be called for conversion.

EDI Adapter by SeeBurger

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/206e2b65-2ca8-2a10-edad-f2d13916...

B2B(EDI) Integration using SAP Netweaver XI and Seeburger AS2 Adapter

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/00f9cdf5-d812-2a10-03b4-aff3bbf7...

Integrating XI with SeeBurger

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/6dc02f5d-0601-0010-cd9d-f4ff9a7e...

If SAP XI can manage to develope EDI adapters then SAP XI dont require third party adapters for EDI conversion.

We have other options as well for EDI message conversion.

here are the few links which u can refer.

1) Using stylus studio

2) conversion agent

http://www.stylusstudio.com/edi/EDIFACT_translate.html

The steps to convert EDI to XML / XSD can be found at the following link:

http://www.stylusstudio.com/edifact_to_xml.html

Stylus studio download link: http://www.stylusstudio.com/xml_download.html

Or

Using the Conversion agent

/people/william.li/blog/2006/03/17/how-to-get-started-using-conversion-agent-from-itemfield

/people/paul.medaille/blog/2005/11/18/conversion-agent-a-free-lunch

/people/alexander.bundschuh/blog/2006/03/14/integrate-sap-conversion-agent-by-itemfield-with-sap-xi

/people/paul.medaille/blog/2005/11/17/more-on-the-sap-conversion-agent-by-itemfield

Thanks

Swarup