Interface SRS_PDC_GM_OUTBOUND 

Use

This provides PDC units with information on vendors, stores and business transactions.

RFC module SRS_PDC_GM_DATA_OUT is used as an RFC outbound interface.  The module is called up and provided with data by program R_SRS_PDC_GM_CUST_OUT.

Integration

Using RFC module SRS_PDC_GM_OUTBOUND, related stores, vendors and business transactions are transferred to the PDC units for the goods movement.  

If you are using the SAP Business Connector to transfer data, there are specially developed help programs that use field FILE_NAME to generate files in XML format.

You can find a precise description of the data structure of the interface in SAP’s Interface Repository.

Prerequisites

To be able to use the module, you have to define an RFC destination in SAP R/3 that is assigned to your target system. The target system may be an SAP Business Connector or a non-SAP system (for example, a PDC server). You must maintain partner and port profiles for the RFC destination.

With the Customizing settings in SAP R/3 it must be possible to post data from SAP Retail Store and from the MM transactions. 

Features

This RFC module is used as the interface to transfer the data described before to the PDC infrastructure (PDC download). The function module itself contains no processing logic, but is rather used simply to define the interface.  It is called by modules SRS_GM_PDC_CUSTOMIZING_GET (preparation of business transactions), SRS_GM_PDC_VENDOR_GET (preparation of vendors), SRS_GM_PDC_PLANT_GET (preparation of stores).

Using the information specified in the reports this function module can be called synchronously or asynchronously. However, parallel processing is only possible if the parameter is set and the server group makes free processes available.

Errors that arise in outbound processing are logged in the application log (transaction SLG1) under object W_SRS and subobject PDC_GM.

Activities

Interface SRS_PDC_GM_OUTBOUND is executed with the help of programs SRS_PDC_GM_DATA_OUT and R_SRS_PDC_GM_CUST_OUT. The program only needs to be called once and when changes have taken place in the store/vendor master or in business transactions (Customizing).