Have you ever implemented an outbound EDI process from SAP for a single customer number where the customer has multiple EDI trading by Sales Organization or Division? It can be done. In order to accomplish this you will need to create separate output types for each Sales Organization/Division and then set up the Access Sequence/Output Determination in order to create the IDOC for each partnership. You can then use the Message Variant and/or Message Function fields of the Partner Profile to differentiate between the two Sales Organizations/Divisions. Finally, you would set up your EDI Mapping to look at the Partner Profile fields in order to route it to the correct partnership. Let’s take a closer look at this process.
Let’s say that Customer 15 in your SAP system buys products from your company. It sends inbound EDI Orders to you using three different partner IDs because they have 3 internal divisions and they want all transactions to be separate. You want to keep all sales data for this customer under one customer number in your SAP system and just separate them by a different division. You are required to send out EDI invoices to this customer, but they must go to the correct EDI Partner ID. Let’s say you would normally use the Standard SAP Output Type RD00 and Access Sequence 0003 (Sales Org, Distribution Channel, Division, Customer Number) for producing your INVOIC IDOCs. [Read more...]
