SAP EDI OutBound Process

SAP EDI OutBound Process

The EDI Out Bound Process comprises of the following.

• Selection Program
• Message Control
• The Port Definition
• The RFC Destination
• The Partner Profile

The important SAP IDOC (EDI) Transactions are as follows.

WEDI is the main transaction for IDOCs. This has a sub-menu that lists all other transactions.

I will list the transactions related to the above mentioned topics.

1) Message Control:

The transaction NACE will list all the applications that use Message Control. For example

V1 Sales
V2 Shipping

from the NACE transaction you can view the following for the various applications

Condition Records
Procedures
OutPut Types
Access Sequence

Message control is responsible to process various outputs fro example EDI, FAX, Printing and Mail.

2) Port Definition:

Transaction WE21

Port definition is used to determine the following

• Path and name of the IDOC file at the operating system level
• EDI subsystem subprogram
• RFC Destination

3) RFC Destination:

Transaction SM59

RFC destination is basically the Remote Function Call Destination. RFC destination is used to define access to the EDI subsystem.

Basically it is used to define the following types of connections
                                    

• R/2 connections                     
• R/3 connections                     
• Internal connections                
• Logical destinations                
• TCP/IP connections                  
• Connections via ABAP/4 driver    

4) Partner Profile 

Transaction WE20

Basically partner profiles are used to define the following

• IDOC Type
• Partner Number
• Port
• Message Type
• Process Code
• Mode of communication with Sub-System
• Person to be notified

For establishing EDI process with the business Partners (ex Vendors, Customers) A partner Profile is created for each partner.