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IDoc
MODULE IDoc

IDoc, ALE and EDI

A company exchanges thousands of documents every day: orders, shipping notifications, invoices, master data. SAP uses a standard format, the IDoc (Intermediate Document), to receive and send them automatically, with partners (EDI) or between systems (ALE).

Audience
MM, SD, WM functional consultants; technical consultants; support teams (AMS); EDI integrators.
Prerequisites
Level 1: none. Levels 2 and 3: basics of a logistics module (MM or SD).
Duration
3 days (0.5 + 1.5 + 1)
21 h · day-by-day schedule
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Understanding electronic exchanges

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Chapters in this level

  1. Why IDocs? · Entering 2,000 orders a day by hand: slow, costly, full of errors.
  2. ALE and EDI · Two uses of the same container.
  3. The anatomy of an IDoc · Three parts, three tables.
  4. Reading a status · The two-digit code that says it all.
  5. An IDoc on its journey · Outbound and inbound, in pictures.
  6. First steps: displaying an IDoc · WE02, the screen you will open most often.
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Intermediate — Configuring, monitoring and reprocessing
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