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Component documentationPossible Third Party Integration

 

Agricultural commodity management may require sophisticated risk analytics, portfolio management, and granular relationships with financial instruments. These requirements may be managed outside of the SAP system.

To fulfill such requirements, SAP Agricultural Contract Management offers the functions that enable the possibility of integration with a third party trading system (3PT).

Under the integrated system landscape, position related updates are sent between the 3PT and SAP ERP (ERP) systems. The contract capture and changes are initiated in 3PT, and then sent to ERP via the messages.

Implementation Considerations

To integrate with a 3PT system, the relevant switch must be activated, so that messaging between the SAP Agricultural Contract Management (in SAP ERP) and the 3PT is possible.

You can make this setting under the Customizing for Start of the navigation path Logistics - General Next navigation step Global Trade Management Next navigation step Agricultural Contract Management Next navigation step Basic Settings Next navigation step Activate Switch for Systems Integration End of the navigation path.

The following options are available:

  • ECC Only Solution

    This means that the system is not integrated with a third party trading system.

    Activate the switch /ACCGO/SWITCH_ECC.

  • 3rd Party Integration

    This means that the system is integrated with a third party trading system.

    Activate the switch /ACCGO/SWITCH_3PT.

Caution Caution

Once you have activated an option, it is not possible to change this Customizing setting.

End of the caution.

Integration

SAP NetWeaver Process Integration (SAP PI) is used to link the SAP ERP system and a 3PT system.

Constraints

Depending on the implementation of the SAP Agricultural Contract Management solution and a 3PT system to be integrated, additional development as well as additional master data from SAP ERP, configuration or transactional data and the like may be required. In addition, a 3PT system may impose further restrictions on use of the solution, for example, limits on reference data to be used in contracts, limits on tolerance schedule definition and so on.

These constraints are outside the scope of this solution and should be addressed as an implementation consideration.