We will be working in conjunction with a number of carefully selected partners in order to enable our customers to connect mobile data entry devices, warehouse control systems, fork-lift control systems, carousels etc. both flexibly and reliably. The various responsibilities are allocated as follows:

SAP will supply the technical tools (IDocs, ALE, RFC), that are necessary for interfacing the external computers, as standard from Release 3.0 onwards. Functions (standard IDocs) that map commonly-used business transactions and initiate the appropriate processing steps in the SAP system are also available on the application side.

The partners will assume full responsibility for implementing the processing logic and for the screen layout and communication that takes place between the computers. They will also be the first point of contact for joint customers in the event of communication errors.

A certification procedure has been implemented by SAP for its partners which checks whether the partners fulfill the necessary requirements for successfully interfacing external systems to SAP by means of the technology and techniques described above. No functional check for testing the application software of the partners is available.