The SAP R/3® Guide to EDI and Interfaces (2^nd Ed., 2nd ed. 2001) Cut your Implementation Cost with IDocs®, ALE® and RFC® XBusiness Computing Series

This book is for both developer and decision makers of R/3 implementation teams who need to understand in-depth and practically the benefits, financial risks and technical backgrounds of IDocs and ALE in interface development. It describes the implementation of interfaces in an R/3 roll-out, imporatnt technologies such as RFC, OLE and Workflow and common standards like EDIFACT, ANSI X.12 or XML. A large number of recipes deliver templates as a starting point for own enhancements. It is for everybody who depends on fast and cost-effective solutions for EDI and it also discusses why many EDI projects are ten times as expensive as they could be.
Preparing the reader with the essential knowledge to survive the outrageously fast growing world of data communication and ecommerce via internet and intranet, the book shows in a destilled manner how enterprises using R/3 can efficiently implement Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) both with external partner and with inhouse satellite systems.
This book in the tradition of IT-cookbooks, where the reader will find quick recipes and reliable information to cover all aspects of SAP Interfacing and quickly became a standard work for the R/3 world.

· Where Has the Money Gone-Financial Risks and Chances? · What Are SAP R/3 IDocs? · Get a Feeling for IDocs · Exercise: Setting Up IDocs · Sample Processing Routines · IDocs Terminology And Basic Tools · IDocs Customizing · IDoc Outbound Trigger · IDoc Recipes · Partner Profiles and Ports · Workflow Technology · Calling R/3 Via OLE/JavaScript · ALE - Application Link Enabling · Batch Input Recording · EDI and International Standards · EDI Converter · Overview of Relevant Transactions · Useful Routines for IDoc Handling

The authors work as top-level consultants and trouble shooters for SAP R/3 and state-of-the-art solutions for IP networks and their applications in internet and ecommerce.