The processing (workflow or application function module) which reads the IDoc data and generates the corresponding documents is found via the inbound process code.

You must edit the inbound process codes in the following cases:

• You want to use a new process and need a new process code for it
• You want to assign different processing to process code X
• You want to switch the ALE services on or off (this is only possible if the processing is a workflow!). Switching off the ALE services can improve performance (lower memory requirement)

The inbound process codes are application-specific. IDoc Basis includes the process code ED08, which forwards inbound IDocs to distributed R/3 Systems ("Forward inbound" function). This processing is defined by the workflow template WS30000483.