.Net Consumption of SAP Web Services in Batch Mode

[Former Member]

I have a .net application that consumes a web service provided by an SAP BAPI. Currently I am requesting material inventory from SAP through the web service, but I am only able to return the inventory of one item at a time. Is there any way I can run this in any type of batch mode that will allow me to send multpile items (and multiple plants), and retrieve the inventory for all items at one time?

[Former Member]

Hi Deji,

Most of the inbound BAPIs can be used to send one item at a time. In .Net, you can use a loop send consecutive records,

For getting the details from SAP, yes BAPIs are available, which returns multiple data/rows at a time. try searching with Get_Details or GET_LIST or something similar to this.

Hope this helps,

regards,

Piyush

[Former Member]

Thank you. I appreciate your response to my question. I am aware that I can simply loop in .net, however this is exactly what I am trying to avoid because this involves sending data to the web services several times. Perofrmance would be increased if I could sned all the data once, and then have SAP do the looping and send the data back. Could I simply create a BAPI that excepts many items and then calls the original material availability BAPI for each item?

[Former Member]

Hi Deji,

Definitely performance would be an issue in this case.

Yes, you create a Function Module in ABAP which can accept multiple records at a time and can intern call the required BAPI multiple times. This would take the overhead for performance.

regards,

Piyush