Inbound Message Processing (SD) (SAP Library - Electronic Data Interchange / IDoc Interface (SD-EDI))

Inbound Message Processing (SD)

Purpose

If you receive external EDI messages in your SAP System, you need this component to convert these messages, so that your system can understand them. In inbound processing, IDocs are transferred to the IDoc interface and stored in the SAP System. The document data is generated in a second step.

Features

The following inbound EDI message types are available in Sales and Distribution:

inquiries
sales orders
order changes
forecast delivery schedules
JIT delivery schedules
credit memos
pick-up sheets
external agent delivery notes

The system carries out the following tasks:

performs technical and application-specific checks on the data transferred in the IDoc

automatically determines the information which is not present in the IDoc and which is essential for processing in the SAP System

Example

determination of the SAP material number on the basis of the customer material number
determination of organizational data

assigns a status record to the IDoc

For more information on inbound processing in general, see Inbound Processing in the cross-application documentation The IDoc Interface (CA-EDI).