Transfer and Distribution of Assortment and Assortment Module Data
Use
If your SAP Retail system is a distributed system, data will have to be exchanged among the various systems involved. Other scenarios where assortment data distribution is necessary are:
Integration
SAP Retail uses Application Link Enabling (ALE) to transfer and distribute data. This technique is the same for all SAP applications and is used in SAP Retail to distribute different kinds of master data and transaction data via IDocs (SAP intermediate documents). For a detailed description of ALE, the functions supported, and how to proceed, see
Application Link Enabling (CA-ALE).