Mapping a Customers EDI field in to and then out of SAP

Customers that transact Orders to you via an EDI X12 850 often need you to send certain, customer specific, fields back to them on subsequent documents. This is often a requirement at both the header and item levels of the order. A common example of a header field would be the department number. It makes sense for the customer to have the department number returned on subsequent documents but we don't have any use for that number in our SAP system other than to store the details and pass it to subsequent documents.

EDI - IDoc mapping to X12 and EDIFACT

This is an oldie but a goodie!!! A list of the Message Types (an example of the IDoc type) linked to the corresponding EDIFACT and ANSI X12 standard message.

EDI and the IoT (Internet of Things)

I read this great post by Faith Lamprey on how EDI is very suited to connecting to the Internet Of Things...
With devices and gadgets being Internet, RFID and GPS enabled you can imagine there would be enough information to control every aspect of that device.

Real use case: Supply Chain Maturity Whitepaper

Last year I conducted an analysis of a particular business who’s main focus is procuring, storing and supplying general products to large facilities. The focus of my investigation was primarily around the integration of SAP EDI in to the supply chain and in particular the Procure to Pay (PTP) process with a heavy emphasis on the Advanced Ship Notification and the automation thereof.

SAP PI/PO learning survey - By Daniel Graversen

Learning SAP PI/PO is always interesting, just as it is to learn other concepts. 

PICourse.com created a survey to figure out how learning SAP PI/PO can be made easier. The survey also focused on the methods used by current developers to learn SAP PI/PO when they started their careers.

One of the questions was referring to the difficulty of learning SAP PI/PO - I wanted to find out why does it take such a considerable amount of time for people to master the skills associated with SAP PI/PO. An important detail we need to mention here is that during a 2-week course you will learn everything a developer needs to know. However, mastering SAP PI/PO will take much longer - you will probably need years of experience before you can do integration work without anyone else's help.