Event Capture Notification for Sending EPCIS Events

Technical Data

Inbound Message Interface

Field	Value
Technical Name in Enterprise Services Repository	EPCIS_EPCISDocument_In
Namespace in ESR	http://sap.com/xi/AIN
Software Component Version in ESR	AUTO-ID 7.1
Category	Inbound
Mode	Asynchronous

Outbound Message Interface

Field	Value
Technical Name in Enterprise Services Repository	EventCaptureNotificationOut
Namespace in ESR	http://sap.com/xi/AIN
Software Component Version in ESR	AUTO-ID 7.1
Category	Outbound
Mode	Asynchronous

Use

The outbound message interface sends an event capture notification message to SAP object event repository (the repository) or via the inbound message interface to a third-party EPC Information Service (EPCIS) repository. The message contains information about events such as tag commissioning or packing that have occurred in SAP Auto-ID Infrastructure, or goods issue in your back-end ERP system.

Note Note

Only the inbound message interface enables you to comply with the EPC Information Services (EPCIS) Version 1.0 Specification provided by EPCglobal Inc. Therefore, you can use this interface to send messages to a third-party repository that complies with the EPCIS specification.

For more information about EPCIS and EPCIS capture interfaces, refer to version 1.0 of the EPCIS specification.

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Features

This interface processes the message type EPCISDocument, which consists of the following two sections:

EPCISHeader
This optional section contains information about the sending and receiving parties as well as general information about the business background of the event.
EPCISBody
This contains an event list structured according to the following event types:
- Object event
  An event that relates to one or more physical objects that have unique IDs.
- Aggregation event
  An event that relates to the physical aggregation of objects, such as packing of cases onto pallets.
- Transaction event
  An event that relates to the association or disassociation of an object with a business transaction, for example, the assignment of an object to a delivery document during packing.
Note
Events of type quantity event are not supported in SAP Auto-ID Infrastructure. They are only supported in SAP object event repository. As a consequence, SAP Auto-ID Infrastructure does not send information about untagged objects to SAP object event repository.

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Each event received contains the IDs of the objects captured during the event and additional information about the circumstances during which the event occurred. The event types are also extensible to enable you to send and receive customer-specific information. For more information, see Event Capture Notification Extensions.

Example
You want to record all events that occur during RFID-enabled outbound delivery processing. You have configured rules to send event capture notifications to the repository after each step. For more information about configuring rules in SAP Auto-ID Infrastructure to send event capture notifications, see Rules for Event Capture Notification Messages and the configuration documentation for the Secure Tracking and Tracing scenario in SAP Solution Manager.

The following information is sent as standard after a tag commissioning event for a case:

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- EPC urn:epc:id:sgtin:0092942.062002.52
- action ADD
- bizStep urn:epcglobal:hls:bizstep:commission
- disposition urn:epcglobal:hls:disp:active
- readPoint urn:epcglobal:fmcg:loc:0000000000007.AA3-DG-PRINT
- bizLocation urn:epcglobal:fmcg:loc:0000000000007.PRINT

More Information

For more information about Event Capture Notification in SAP object event repository, see Event Capture Notification for Receiving EPCIS Events.