SAP Event Management
Infrastructure 
Purpose
SAP Event Management (SAP EM) allows you to track goods movements and to query the process status of the movement flows at any time, for example.
SAP EM 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 EM can send a warning as an e-mail, or trigger processes in other application systems.
Introductory Notes
To map your processes that are relevant to supply chain event management (SCEM-relevant) in SAP EM, set up the appropriate Customizing.
Integration
SAP EM can work in principle with all SAP components and non-SAP components.
For example:
· SAP R/3
· SAP Business Information Warehouse
The scope of integration varies depending on the SAP EM release and the individual SAP application component release.
For more information about installing and integrating SAP EM, see the SAP Service Marketplace under service.sap.com/SCM ® mySAP SCM Technology ® Installation, Upgrade, Migration.
Features
SAP EM 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 EM automatically monitors events that occur and those that have not been reported (for example, goods issue, purchase order transfer, production end, or unreported proof of delivery).
¡ SAP EM 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 EM checks the objects that are relevant to supply chain event management as soon as the application system saves them.
¡ SAP EM can automatically inform the decision maker in critical situations that action is required (for example, automatic re-scheduling of the subsequent process step when a delay has occurred).
· Exchange and query information between partners (for example, e-mail or Internet)
Data Transfer to SAP Event Management
SAP EM receives SCEM-relevant data from various sources such as service providers, GPS systems, scanners for wagon and container labels, on-board computers in vehicles, and service suppliers.
You can send data in the following formats:
· EDI
An EDI converter prepares the EDI data entry to be converted into IDoc format for the SAP EM BAPI interface.
· IDoc
You can use a separate IDoc for creating event handlers and one for sending event messages.
· XML
You make the setting in SAP EM 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 EM uses the following interfaces:
· An interface to exchange data with the application system
This interface allows SAP EM 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 EM.
· An interface to connect internal and external systems and devices, which send event messages and queries to SAP EM (for example, Web access using an Internet browser or PDA), to SAP EM
· An interface to transfer data to a data warehouse system
This interface allows SAP EM to send its information to a data warehouse system (for example, SAP Business Information Warehouse) for evaluation purposes.
The following figure provides an overview of the interfaces and participants with which SAP EM communicates:
For more information, see:
· Connection of External Systems
· Interfaces in SAP Event Management