SAP Event Management Infrastructure 

Purpose

SAP Event Management allows you to track goods movements and to query the process status of the movement flows, for example, at any time.

SAP Event Management enables you to coordinate your planning and activities with your partners by exchanging information across systems.

You can specify reactions to critical situations. For example, SAP Event Management can send a warning as an e-mail, or trigger processes in other systems.

Introductory Notes

To map your processes that are relevant to supply chain event management (SCEM-relevant) in SAP Event Management, set up the appropriate Customizing.

Integration

SAP Event Management can work in principle with all SAPcomponents and non-SAPcomponents, for example SAP ERP or SAPNetWeaver Business Intelligence.

The scope of integration varies depending on the SAP Event Management release and the individual SAPapplication component release that you use. For more information about installing and integrating SAP Event Management, see SAP Service Marketplace at http://service.sap.com/SCM ® SAP Supply Chain Management ® Technology  ® Installation and Upgrade overview.

SAP Event Management is also integrated into the SAP object event repository landscape. For more information, see SAP Library for SAP solutions for auto-ID and item serialization on SAP Help Portal at http://help.sap.com.

Features

SAP Event Management can link, update, and evaluate the event messages with the application data from the supply chain network.

It enables you to:

●      Monitor, measure, and evaluate business processes:

○       SAP Event Management automatically monitors event that occur and those that have not been reported.

For example:

■       Goods issue

■       Purchase order transfer

■       Production end

■       Unreported proof of delivery

○       SAP Event Management can automatically transfer data to a data warehouse system. This system uses key figures to create performance data for the quality of execution and notification.

●      Employ checking processes and notify persons responsible to control events:

○       SAP Event Management checks the SCEM-relevant objects as soon as the application system saves them.

○       SAP Event Management can automatically inform the decision maker when action is required in critical situations (for example, automatic re-scheduling of the subsequent process step when a delay has occurred).

●      Exchange and query information between partners, for example, via e-mail or Internet

Data Transfer to SAP Event Management

SAP Event Management receives data from various external data sources, for example:

●      Service providers

●      Global positioning systems

●      Scanners for wagon and container labels

●      On-board computers in vehicles

●      Service suppliers

You can send data in the following formats:

●      Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)

An EDI converter prepares the EDI data entry to be converted into IDoc format for the SAP Event Management BAPI interface.

●      IDoc

You can use a separate IDoc for creating event handlers and one for sending event messages.

●      eXtensible Markup Language (XML)

You make the setting in SAP Event Management to determine whether the SCEM-relevant data is sent directly from a data source to a recipient or whether it is first sent to a service provider. The service provider processes the raw data and sends it to the end recipient in a standard format.

SAP Event Management Interfaces

To receive SCEM-relevant data from those involved in the supply chain and to report the results of event processing, SAP Event Management uses the following interfaces:

●      An interface to exchange data with the application system

This interface allows SAP Event Management to receive SCEM-relevant data from the application system and to confirm information itself (for example, updating a status or sending overdue event messages).

For connections to an SAP system, SAP delivers an application interface in the application system. For connections to external systems, a standardized interface exists in SAP Event Management.

●      An interface to connect internal and external systems and devices to SAP Event Management, which send event messages and queries to SAP Event Management.

For example, you can work with a Web browser or with a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA).

●      An interface to transfer data to a data warehouse system

This interface allows SAP Event Management to send its information to a data warehouse system such as SAPNetWeaver Business Intelligence for evaluation purposes, for example, to check whether standards have been fulfilled and to check the quality of the execution.

The following figure provides an overview of the interfaces and participants with which SAP Event Management communicates:

See also:

●      Connection of SAP Systems

●      Connection of External Systems

●      Interfaces in SAP Event Management