Tracking ID 

Definition

An identification with which to address an event handler so that an external or internal message can be sent to it.

Examples of tracking IDs are a container number or a shipment number.

Use

●      SAP Event Management (SAP EM) uses the tracking ID (together with the tracking ID code set) to identify event handlers. In this way, you can send external or internal messages to this object.

SAP EM uses tracking IDs and tracking ID code sets to find the corresponding event handler(s). The combination of the tracking ID and tracking ID code set does not have to be unique.

The tracking ID code set allows you to classify the tracking IDs.

For example, it is possible to have both a pallet with tracking ID 1234 and a container with tracking ID 1234. However, you assign the pallet to the tracking ID code set PAL for pallet and the container to tracking ID code set CON for container. Each object has its own event handler.

There are two deliveries for a shipment, for example, and each delivery has its own event handler in SAP EM. Both have the same tracking ID (for example, shipment number 1234) and the same tracking ID code set (for example, HU40). SAP EM processes an event message that is sent to this tracking ID and tracking ID code set for both event handlers.

●      When events are reported, SAP EM uses the tracking ID that is provided in the event message to find the corresponding event handler.

The application system determines the tracking IDs.

If you define the function for the tracking ID in the application object type, you define the different tracking IDs for this application object type.

●      You use tracking IDs as search criteria when making queries in SAP EM.

For example, you can specify the tracking ID or the tracking ID code set as search criteria when searching for the last reported events or for the status of event messages (see Reports for Internal Monitoring and Evaluation of Processes).

Examples

Multiple tracking IDs linked to one event handler

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       1.      You report an event.

○       You report an event as a carrier using the shipment number.

○       You report an event as a sales representative using the sales order number.

○       You report an event as a production employee using the manufacturing order number.

       2.      SAP EM finds the appropriate event handler using the combination of tracking ID and tracking ID code set.

The following figure shows the connection between several tracking IDs belonging to one event handler:

Multiple tracking IDs linked to different event handlers

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       1.      You report events for a pallet, a manufacturing order, and a shipment order for three different event handlers. These event handlers have the same tracking ID but different tracking ID code sets.

       2.      SAP EM can only find the event handler that matches the event message by using the tracking ID code set.

The following figure shows the connection between multiple tracking IDs belonging to different event handlers: