SAP Standard Sale Area Cross Reference For Inbound IDOC Processing
Cross Reference To SAP Sales Area From External Customer Number – SAP EDSDC Table
If you have ever converted an external file into a SAP Sales Document IDOC (ex: ORDERS05) you may have hard coded the E1EDK14 segments of the IDOC which specify Sales Area and order type for the SAP Sales Document. However, these segments are not required if you populate the E1EDKA1-LIFNR segment of the IDOC with the External Customer Number and populate the EDSDC table with the Sales Area and Order Type for the customer. Your SAP system contains a standard utility that converts the External Customer Number to the Sales Area values and Order Type value contained in this table.
Sales Area Cross Reference From IDOCs ORDERS05 and DELFOR02
This utility is available in the standard SAP package to convert External Customer Number to SAP Sales Area when processing inbound IDOCs (ex: ORDERS05, DELFOR02) from non-SAP systems. It eliminates the need to add E1EDK14 segments to the IDOC as it populates the Sales Organization, Distribution Channel, Division, and Sales Document Type using the entries in the EDSDC table which is populated using transaction VOE2. In order for this process to work, you must have the Customers External number populated in the E1EDKA1-LIFNR field of the IDOC where E1EDKA1-PARVW is ‘AG’ and the EDPAR Customer Conversion table set up to convert the Customer External number to the SAP Customer number. See my blog ‘SAP EDPAR Table – External Customer Number cross reference to SAP Customer Number’ for instructions on the External Customer Conversion. By properly doing this, the standard SAP function module will use the EDSDC table to convert the External Customer Number to the SAP Sales Area and Document Type. The following instructions will explain how to populate the inbound IDOC and the EDSDC table.
SAP Standard Customer Cross Reference For Inbound IDOC Processing
Converting External Customer Number To Internal Customer Number – SAP EDPAR Table
Have you ever had a project where you are converting a customer file into an SAP Sales Document IDOC (ex: ORDERS05) and the customer file contains their Internal Customer Number? So you need to determine what the SAP Customer Number will be on the IDOC. If you are not familiar with the SAP interface process you may hardcode the SAP Customer Number or create external tables in your third party mapping software to accomplish this conversion process. However, this involves customer specific logic or updating the tables with your SAP Customer Numbers and having a process to maintain this table as new SAP Customer Numbers are created. There is a much easier way to perform this conversion with no additional coding as it is a standard SAP utility.
Customer Conversion For IDOCS ORDERS05 and DELFOR02
This utility is available in the standard SAP package to convert External Customer Numbers to SAP Customer numbers (Sold-To, Ship-To, etc.) when processing inbound IDOCs (ex: ORDERS05, DELFOR02) from non-SAP systems. When working with data that will be imported into SAP via IDOC format the data usually contain your customers external sold-to and ship-to numbers and not the associated SAP customer numbers. Therefore, you would need to convert this External Customer Number to your internal SAP Customer Number. Instead of creating cross-reference tables or conversion routines in your third-party translation software you can populate the E1EDKA1-LIFNR field of the inbound IDOC with the External Customer Number and use transaction VOE4 to populate the EDPAR table. By properly doing this, the standard SAP function module will use the EDPAR table values to convert the External Customer Number to the SAP Customer number. The following instructions will explain how to populate the inbound IDOC and the EDPAR table.
