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B2B Integration Strategy
Applies to:
SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration
SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration, business-to-business add-on
SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration, secure connectivity add-on
SAP Information Interchange OnDemand
Summary
This technology paper provides insight into the diverse B2B integration requirements and familiarizesreaders with the different B2B integration solutions available from SAP (On-Premise, On-Demand and
Hybrid)
Authors: Piyush Gakhar, Sindhu Gangadharan, Frank Ruland
Company: SAP AG
Created on: August 2012
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Table of Contents
B2B and EDI ....................................................................................................................................................... 3
What organizations have to say? ....................................................................................................................... 4
Cross-industry requirement ............................................................................................................................. 4
Enterprises Expectation: Lower Total Cost of Ownership and Gain Real Time Business Visibility ............... 4
SAPs B2B integration strategy........................................................................................................................... 6
Brief Introduction ............................................................................................................................................. 6
B2B On Premise .............................................................................................................................................. 7
What is it? ....................................................................................................................................................... 7
Why this model? .............................................................................................................................................. 7
SAPs Solution ................................................................................................................................................ 7
Solution Details ............................................................................................................................................... 7
B2B- Managed Services ................................................................................................................................... 10
What is it? ..................................................................................................................................................... 10
Why this model? ............................................................................................................................................ 10
SAPs Solution .............................................................................................................................................. 11Solution Details ............................................................................................................................................. 11
B2B- Hybrid Solution ........................................................................................................................................ 13
What is it? ..................................................................................................................................................... 13
Why this model? ............................................................................................................................................ 13
SAPs Solution .............................................................................................................................................. 13
Solution Details ............................................................................................................................................. 14
SAP B2B Integration Solutions Benefits ........................................................................................................... 14
Future- Business Networks ............................................................................................................................... 16
Glossary ............................................................................................................................................................ 17
Related Content ................................................................................................................................................ 19
Copyright........................................................................................................................................................... 20
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Why EDI is needed
Business expansion via automated
connectivity with trading partners
Reduced manual data entry
Reduced postage and handling costs
Reduced labor processing costs
Reduced order cycle
Increased customer service
Improved accuracy of data
Reduced lead times
Reduced paper handling
Reduced inventory carrying costs
Efficient auditing mechanisms
B2B and EDI
Organizations have been communicating across their company boundries for many years. Procure to pay
and Order to cash among trading partners, financial (tax , wages and so on) information exchange with
government, customs and shipment
information with the logistics provider are
widely used business transactions. This is
a chain of processes across industry
verticals, for example manufacturing,
retail, telecom and so on. Bulk Business
transactions across organization
boundaries are defined as businessto-
business transactions (B2B). B2B
integration is costly and time-consuming.
Only large companies have the expertise
and the transactional volume to justify
the investment in improving operational costs. This becomes more challenging when the connecting
business partners are enormous. It is very tedious to execute, maintain and audit these bulk transactions
using manual mechanisms such as paper, which results in lot of time being spent on communication. It also
delays the execution of business processes affecting procurement, sales cycle, shipping, payments, invoices
and revenue. Adherence to generic standards is necessary in order to reduce the complexity caused by
different message exchange formats and communication mechanisms used by different trading partners. At
the same time, enforced standards increase the entry barriers for business partners and add to the level of
complexity.
EDI stands for Electronic Data Interchange and is
particularly used in B2B communication. There are
many standard defining bodies and non-profitorganizations (for example, GS1, OASIS, ISO, DISA,
UN/EDIFACT, WCO, Rosettanet and so on) that focus on
improving electronic business capabilities. The
specifications published by these organizations include
technical and functional protocols. These protocols are
developed with inbuilt flexibility to ensure fast and
accurate integration between trading partners, to drive
an easy way for business collabrations and to describe
new eBusiness capabilities which can be used globally
or for a specific industry vertical. These protocols are
complex and practically very diffcult to implement if
processed manually. As there is a variety of EDI formats
available for different regions and industries, designing an automated tool itself becomes quite complex.
Solution is not limited to EDI and requires a good platform for catering to a customers end -to-end needs
for adhering to both syntax and semantics, thereby harmonizing the complete business process.
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What organizations have to say?
SAP did market surveys, discussed in detail with customers globally and considered feedback from research
analysts before defining SAPs B2B strategy and vision. Let us look at some of the points that helped SAP in
deriving the results:
Cross-industry requirement
Almost all industry verticals (70%-80%) have urgent requirements to exchange information with theirbusiness partners. Organizations want
to automate their business processes
(currently manual or semi-automated)
to adhere to globally accepted
standards for making them fast,
efficient and going beyond organization
boundaries. There is a huge volume and
various types of transactions that are
executed between trading partners and
it is not possible to keep track of them
manually.
Enterprises Expectation: Lower Total Cost of Ownership and Gain Real Time Business Visibility
Cost (voted by 82%) is an important factor that companies want to reduce by replacing manual processes
with automated EDI tools. Another most challenging task is to make partners adhere to the organizations
internal processes (voted by 82% customers) which may be different from partners processes. EDI
standards help to ensure this interoperability, yet limit the flexibility in the business processes. 81 % of
organizations want to have real time process visibility for sales, inventory, logistics, procurement and
production. This would help organizations take quick business decisions, ensure valid forecasts, set up aneffective supply chain and solve inefficiencies in their business processes. 69% of the organizations
questioned want
to reduce the
complexity of
bulk transactions
by integrating
with their trading
partners and
sharing business
information in afast and accurate
way. 74% of the
customers stated
that they need to have transparency in business communication, which is also required from legal and
compliance perspective.
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Accurate and fast
execution of transactional
data like orders, inventory
status, demand forecast
and other metrics allow for
better inventory
management and supports
production critical
processes like just-in-time
delivery. Considering such
business requirements, 77%-78% of the organizations want to have support for integrating with multiple
business partners and quick on-boarding mechanisms. Organizations have already invested a lot in their
hardware infrastructure and business software solutions like Enterprise Resource Planning and Customer
Relationship Management to enhance efficiency and productivity throughout their shared network. While
planning B2B integration, 80% of the customers say that they look forward to extending and leveraging the
existing technology landscape for utilizing their existing skillset, minimizing the need of training for their IT
and business users and avoiding adding a new system to their landscape. 77% of the customers stated that
they would like to have a single platform in their landscape for defining, managing and monitoring business
processes (A2A and B2B). This will help them to enhance business efficiency and reduce the overall TCO of
the complex integration requirements.
B2B Technology Requirement: Support for different techincal protocols and message formats
File transfer (FTP, SFTP) remains
the popular choice among
technical protocols for
exchanging messages. Other
protocols include AS2, OFTP(ISDN and TCP/IP), X400, VAN
Connectivity, SOAP and Web
Services and RNIF (Hi-tech
industries Rosettanet messages). There are many B2B message exchange formats available that are popular
among organizations according to
the business requirements and
industry verticals. These standards
allow organizations to interact using
generic data exchange formats and
provide the solution to the problemof diverse formats followed by
different organizations. The most
frequently used and common
standards are EDIFACT voted by 67% of the customers followed by Flat File (52%) and ANSIX.12 (45%).
Other standards (TRADACOMS, VDA, ODETTE and so on) are also important and are widely used within
different industry segments and regions.
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SAPs B2B integration strategy
Brief Introduction
SAPs B2B integration strategy is based on the customers feedback on how a scalable and reliable B2B
solution should look like. There are different organizations (small, mid-size, large) that have different
strategies, business drivers and ecosystem setup. This diversity results in different B2B integration and
interaction models (On Premise, Managed Service and Hybrid) with their trading partners. Let us try to
understand the meaning of these models below followed by the solution details in the subsequent section.
B2B On-Premise (Software Only)
B2B Managed Services
B2B Hybrid Solution
Note: SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration is the new name of combined offering (SAP NetWeaver PI, SAPNetWeaver BPM and SAP NetWeaver BRM) from SAP under one license suite. From SAP NetWeaver 7.31onwards, these products can also be installed together (with one system ID) with tight integration to each other.Both the terms (SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration and SAP NetWeaver Process Integration) are usedinterchangeably in this document.
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B2B On Premise
What is it?
This approach focuses on On-Premise (software only) use of B2B Integration tools where the software is
installed, implemented and maintained within the organization boundaries.
Why this model?
There can be many reasons for organizations to adapt this model, such as:
IT strategy to have everything on premise
Business reasons for not sharing data outside (hosted environment) the internal community
Sufficient budgets to set up an end-to-end integration landscape within the organization.
Requires one time investment instead of recurring monthly/annual subscription
Frequent customizations and in house availability of skilled resources to maintain the internal
landscape
Implement and maintain business critical scenarios in-house (eg. JIT calls)
SAPs Solution
For many years, SAP has been providing an On-Premise B2B integration solution (Partner Adapters) which
runs on SAP NetWeaver Process Integration. Looking at the market requirements and feedback, SAP has
decided to provide the mainstream EDI capabilities and technical adapters that are tightly integrated
with SAP NetWeaver Process Integration (and SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration). SAPs Self-Owned
on-premise B2B integration solutions SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration, business to business add -
on and SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration, secure connectivity add -on have been available since
March 2012.
Solution Details
As we can see in the survey results (page-5), many organizations want to have a complete on-premiseoffering to tackle their needs in the B2B integration space. These are mainly customers who have the need
for frequent customization to their
business processes. More than 50%
customers (Source: DSAG Survey,
Response Count: 85 participants) using
SAP NetWeaver Process Integration
responded that they were already using
PI (with partner adapters) to process
their EDI messages. This gives a clear
indication for SAP to extend the B2Bcapabilities in the current stack.
Considering the requirements of customers for lower TCO and a single solution in their landscape which can
cater to their end to end needs, SAP now provides mainstream EDI capabilities including technical B2B
adapters as a separate Add-On which can be installed on top of SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration.
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Available Releases
PI 7.11
PI 7.3x (Single and Double Stack)
PI 7.31 (Single Stack, Double Stack,
Process Orchestration)
De-Central (Advance) Adapter Engine
Enterprise Service Bus
Single stack ESB capabilities by AAE, (dual
stack also available). BPM and BRMcapabilities available with JAVA only stack
Performance optimizations
Standard adherence (SOAP 1.2, WS Policy
1.2, WS Trust 1.3, Java SE 6 )
Technical protocols support (JDBC, FTP,
JMS, SOAP, RNIF and so on)
Reliable message deliveries
Auditing & Logging
Message and Transport Level security
High Availability
Clustering and scalability
Decentralized architecture (no single
point of failure)
Central Repository for Content
ESR (Enterprise Services Repository) provides
design time governence
Eclipse-based design time for serviceprovisioning and publishing
Unified WS-RM compliant event provisioning
and subscription
Auditing and Logging
Unified Lifecycle Management
Central monitoring by SAP Solution Manager
User Level Defined Search
Upgrade support and fault tolerance
Root Cause Anlysis
Message, Component and End-to-End
monitoring
On Premise B2B Solutions
SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration, secure
connectivity add-on (SFTP PGP Add-On)
SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration,
business to business add-on (B2B Add-On)
Business Process and Rules Management
Define and Design Business Processes
BPMN based modelling
Business Rules Management
Human and system centric processes
Tight integration with technical routing
protocols
SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration stack provides a 360 degree solution for defining and executing
business processes, business rules, monitoring, governance and security mechanisms. SAP enhanced this
platform to provide B2B capabilities.
All B2B components listed below will run on existing
containers of SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration.
SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration along with
B2B Extensions will provide the complete on-
Premise solution for B2B integration
The different solution components for On-Premise B2B Add-On includes:
B2B Adapters
Technical adapters include OFTP (including OFTP 2), AS2, SFTP, and X400 to carry out technical routing of
EDI messages and support for technical acknowledgments (MDN, EERP, Delivery Reports). RNIF, CIDX , FTP,
SOAP, JMS and other adapters are already part of SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration
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EDI Modules
Set of modules that convert EDI formats like EDIFACT, ANSI X12, ODETTE, TRADACOMS, VDA, PLAIN to XML
and vice-versa. These modules can be integrated with SAP PI adapters providing usability to numerous
customers who want to have business conversations with different partners.
EDI XML Converter
It provides GUI for maintaining runtime schema information of EDI standards and generating XSDs for ESR.
It also provides testing of EDI-XML message conversions.
Splitting of EDI Messages (EDI Separator Adapter)
The EDI Separator Adapter is used to split incoming bulk EDI messages into separate single messages based
on the content of the message (e.g. 810-Invoice, 850-Purchase Order for ANSI X.12 format) and the Partner
type. This offers the possibility to use content based routing (message identification) and split up messages
according to the interfaces based on message type and partner. It also provides the functional
acknowledgment capabilities (997 and CONTROL) based on different EDI formats
Archiving Module
Archiving Module and Java Archiver Mapping helps to archive the outcome of module chain processing
steps and different mapping steps to debug/record the messages
PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) Module
PGP is an adapter module that can be used with any technical adapter. PGP module integrates smoothly in
the SAP NetWeaver PI environment and provides encryption, signing and compression capabilities.
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B2B Mapping Functions
B2B Mapping Functions are the pre-defined functions (for example, Arithmetic, Date Time, Global, Node
and Utils) that can be used in ESR to reduce the mapping time and efforts.
B2B Mapping Templates
Generic mapping templates for different EDI formats provide a quick setup of the whole on-premise B2B
solution. RDS (Rapid Deployment Solution) will ensure the detailed mapping templates for complex
requirements.
Number Range Object (NRO)
NRO is required to provide the option to insert automatic and continuous counters to check the sequence
of the messages and restrict the outgoing messages to a certain limit
Rapid Deployment Solution
On-Premise Rapid Deployment solutions will have a bucket of mappings for business scenarios and industry
verticals (Order-to-Cash, Procure to-Pay) including services, which will ensure fast implementation and
hence quick ROI.
B2B- Managed Services
What is it?
B2B integration managed services describe a collaborative model between a service provider and the
enterprise bound by Service Level Agreements. Managed Services can also be termed as Outsourcing,
Cloud or On-Demand models. In this model, the B2B integration services offered are a combination of
integration as a service, monitoring, support, maintenance as well as infrastructure set up including
mapping, forwarding and managing B2B documents.
Why this model?
There can be many reasons for organizations to adapt this model, such as:
Organizations do not want to invest in buying and maintaining infrastructure, hardware, software
and configuring a complete solution on premise
Want to have a trusted service provider who can manage all tasks related to the B2B integration
(on boarding of partners, changes in partner profiles, business transactions, monitoring and so on).
To get the solution as an operational expense in a hosted environment and thereby avoiding capital
expenditure.
Limited time to integrate with partners that can affect business revenue
Limited in-house skillsets available to maintain complex landscape.
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SAPs Solution
SAP has acquired Crossgate in 2011, who is a leader in the area of B2B Managed Services and helps a
number of customers to securely exchange information with more than 45,000 business partners across
multiple industries. With the full integration of Crossgate into SAP, the SAP Information Interchange
OnDemand solution provides a simpler, more affordable way to connect with customers, suppliers, logistics
service providers and other business partners for B2B e-commerce and facilitate successful business
network transformation.
Solution Details
The expansion and growth of a business increase the interactions with the ecosystem or business network
that results in increased business transactions and connections with their business partners. It becomes
challenging and complex when enterprises have to maintain huge point to point connections with different
EDI formats (EDIFACT, ANSI, VDA and so on), business transactions (orders, invoices, ASN, forecast,
payments and so on) and communication protocols (FTP, OFTP, X400 and so on). Managing change in
specifications and co-ordinates from business partners becomes a pain area hence increasing costs,
timeframe and requirements for complex monitoring capabilities. Companies have a difficult time finding
staff to keep up with the requests from the various lines of business.
The SAP Information Interchange OnDemand solution enables enterprises to connect, transact, and
collaborate with their collaborative business network of suppliers, customers, logistics service providers
and other relevant business partners. Combined with SAP Business Suite and other SAP applications,
organizations can extend
business processes into
their network without the
need for expensive point-
to-point integration, which
is difficult to maintain and
does not have the
flexibility to adapt to the
speed of business.
Leveraging pre-delivered
content for mission-critical
processes, organizations
gain instant access to a global business network that will continue to grow as more organizations and their
business partners will join. It provides a complete message exchange chain that starts at the sending or
receiving SAP application and ends at the business partners sending or receiving application. It comprises
both service and support for the operation. This relates in particular to the maintenance and support of the
licensed business partner profiles.
SAP Information Interchange OnDemand provides a central content repository with an enormous message
format storage, rules definition, and technical routing capabilities. It is an effective means of
communication for an enterprise without any in-house maintenance and effort requirement.
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SAP Information Interchange OnDemand
A full B2B message mapping system
Partner Profiles based transaction
engine
Various communication protocols
support for receiving and delivering
data (X.400, AS/2, (s)FTP(s), HTTP(s),
OFTP & OFTP2 (TCP/IP, ISDN), SMTP,
WebServices, Rosettanet and so on)
Tools and modules to support
monitoring, accounting, reporting tasks
Message standard support (EDIFACT,
ANSI X.12, TRADACOMS, VDA, CSV and
ASCII Structured Data, IDOCs, XML,Rosettanet and so on)
Runtime module providing all workflow
and mapping capabilities
Repository of relevant profiles needed
by the customer to support the
addressed business processes
The solution alignment of this unique strategy
provides end users with faster partner deployments
with less integration effort. SAP helps companies
connect with any trading partner by joining the
network once and linking with prebuilt business
partner profiles. This full-service alternative
eliminates the need for costly point-to-point
integration. It lowers costs and enables further
partner participation in B2B initiatives
SAP Information Interchange OnDemand becomes
an accelerator for entire business processes.
Enterprises need to establish connections with their
business partner once for each process, for
example, by utilizing SAP NetWeaver as the EAI
middleware and instantly staring to exchange
electronic documents, such as purchase orders,forecasts, invoices, and delivery notes using their
existing SAP applications. There is no need for an
enterprise to get involved in the complexity of
execution and change management processes. End-
to-end information exchange can be configured
using SAP Information Interchange OnDemand and
it acts as a central hub, which provides a one-stop
solution to implement connections with business
partners.
Partner Profiles define the names
and identities of trading partners,
technical protocols, business
transaction(s), and EDI message
format to be used for the
communication. Depending on
particular needs, a customer can
have multiple partner profiles for
one or more partners. It also
provides the design and runtimecapabilities to define runtime
mapping rules. The monitoring
component Satellite keeps track
of the message routing within
different components. With all content being centrally located, it ensures speedy onboarding of the
business partners, which results in a reduced TCO and quick ROI.
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B2B- Hybrid Solution
What is it?
As indicated by market research and customer feedback, many customers want to have certain segments of
integration data on their landscape and the rest is managed by B2B managed services. A Hybrid B2B
approach such as this is a blend of the On-Premise and Managed Services offerings. Depending on the
organizations requirements (considering factors like control of business data, critical business scenarios,
SLA requirements, resources, and skills), certain B2B integration scenarios or business processes are
managed in-house while others as managed services. Other factors, which contribute towards deciding for
this approach, include the amount of business transactions to be exchanged, number of trading partners to
be connected and standardization of business processes.
Why this model?
Apart from the factors, which are mentioned in previous two approaches above, the reasons to follow this
approach are that integration requires frequent changes and organizations do not want to spend huge
amounts on change requests. Another motive can be that organizations do not want to share confidential
business data in a proprietary format with the outsourcing partner and outsource only the technical routing
capabilities.
SAPs Solution
SAP models this requirement by providing SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration as an On-Premise solution
and SAP Information Interchange OnDemand as a Managed Service, which together makes the Hybrid
Approach. SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration is used to map interfaces for specific targets that are
generic and reusable. SAP Information Interchange ensures rules, run time conversion, and technical
communication.
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Solution Details
All features, capabilities and future enhancements of the Hybrid approach can be derived from the
description of On Premise and Managed Service approaches mentioned in the previous sections. The
major effort for developing and maintaining content gets reduced, as it is used from the central repository
of SAP Information Interchange which will hence ensure faster on-boarding of partners along with routing
of messages to the destinations supporting different technical protocols (AS2, X400, OFTP, FTP).
SAPs Rapid Deployment Solutions for the Hybrid Model will provide ready-to-use templates for quicklysetting up the solution and ensuring fast communication. It encapsulates
Best practices for a secure and reliable connectivity set up between SAP NetWeaver Process
Orchestration and SAP Information Interchange OnDemand)
Pre-integrated (standardized) interfaces from SAP Business Suite to SAP Information Interchange
(Mappings from IDOC into SAP II XML Format)
Efficient business partner on-boarding processes based on existing SAP Information Interchange
repository that allows out of the box B2B connectivity to these partners.
SAP B2B Integration Solutions Benefits
According to the customers requirements and market feedback, there are many capabilities needed in an
effective B2B solution. Let us have a look at how SAPs B2B solutions cater to different requirements from
the customers.
Reduced TCO and 360-degree solution catering end-to-end need: Enterprises always prefer to have
one system in their landscape, which can cater their end-to-end needs including technical integration
(including B2B), process flows, auditing, security, monitoring of business/technical data and business
visibility.SAP addresses this customer need by encapsulating PI, BPM and BRM into a bundled solution
known as SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration and providing tightly integrated B2B Solution (along
with A2A) for on-premise customers. SAP Information Interchange OnDemand provides a bundled
solution with all the required capabilities to carry out B2B integration in a hosted environment. Both
these solutions help customers with reduced TCO (infrastructure set up, implementation cost and
maintenance).
Templates for quick deployment: Predefined sets of best practices documents help customers to save
implementation costs and get quick benefits. SAP is delivering out of the box content via Rapid
Deployment Solutions (RDS). RDS provides efficient business partner on boarding, reliable and secure
connectivity, and pre-integrated mappings based on best practices. All B2B Solutions from SAP will becomprised of categorized templates to ensure fast implementation.
Support different delivery models and priorities: Customers should have the flexibility to go with a
completely on premise solution for B2B, or address their B2B solution needs using a managed services
offering but more importantly go also with a hybrid approach for B2B. SAP will provide different
solutions for different customers need. SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration with B2B Add-On for
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On-Premise customers, SAP Information Interchange OnDemand for Managed Services and
combination of both as Hybrid Approach.
Leverage existing investments: This is always a key point involved in customers demand. Enterprises
would not like to start from scratch if they have already invested in their landscape and would like to
leverage the existing landscape, skillset and resources to carry out further extensions. There are 45000+
ERP customers and around 4300+ NetWeaver PI customers who have invested in these products. New
B2B solutions from SAP are based on the same SAP NetWeaver platform to ensure reuse of existingcontent and come along with enriched functionalities that confirm tight and easy integration. The SAP
Information Interchange OnDemand solution provides secure and reliable mechanism to connect to
SAP ERP, the SAP Business Suite and the SAP SME portfolio along with the integration content in a
hosted environment. No intermediary solution is required for these B2B solutions to connect to trading
partners.
Support different protocols and message formats: EDI formats and communication protocols are
diversified according to the regions and different industries. SAPs B2B solutions (on-premise, managed
service and hybrid) covers all major and relevant EDI formats (EDIFACT, ANSI X12, TRADACOMS and
VDA and so on) and technical protocols (AS2, OFTP, FTP and so on).
Accomplish business requirements: Interface with an ecosystem or business network is quite
challenging as interactions happen outside the organizational boundaries. There should be an effective
tracking and monitoring mechanisms available to adhere to legal, compliance, and SLAs of the trading
partner. All B2B tools and content are extended with the business expertise of the SAP Business Suite to
provide excellent business values to comply with the need for EDI business processes,
acknowledgements, auditing and monitoring.
Provide secure and reliable communication: Data need to be exchanged between trading partners in a
secured, encrypted and reliable way. This is one of the critical requirements due to business risks.B2B
solutions from SAP ensure this fundamental need of integration by providing encryption, signing,security (Transport Level, Message Level, and Network Level) and reliable quality of service.
Provide quick ROI: Organizations want to go productive as soon as possible after procuring the solution
and spending a lot of time for implementation hampers their growth plans. The solution should provide
a productized approach along with the templates to finish the project implementation with minimal
efforts and timeframe. Predefined templates delivered using SAPs Rapid Deployment Solutions, a
central content repository and automated reports by business intelligence ensure a quick ROI on the
B2B integration investments. SAP Information Interchange OnDemand provides the underlying
infrastructure ready in a hosted environment along with quick partner on boarding mechanisms.
Need no/less-human intervention: The business process should be automated as much as possible to
save cost (labor and paper), limit/reduce business risks due to typing errors and ensure efficiency with
no human intervention. SAP provides B2B tools (BPM, BRM, Alerts, Events, SAP II Workflow Engine) to
automate the whole business process. These tools are flexible enough to be configured according to
the enterprise needs with automated and semi-automated processes.
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Collaborate
Extending Business Network
into people to people centric
business social collaboration
Future- Business Networks
Business trends are changing rapidly and companies do not innovate, manufacture, market, or sell alone. Every
organization works closely with other partners in the business network of design partners, suppliers, channel
partners, outsourced vendors, co-innovators, customers and even competitors.
The solution strategy towards business network will have a set of interlinked enterprise-centric business
networks enabled by SAP applications on-demand and on-premise. It will enable more and more connectivity
to the network, for example: supplier integration, carrier integration, transportation tendering, and invoicing. It
will provide an added value for the customers and the connected business partners through seamless network
management functionality, such as visibility and monitoring, partner and process orchestration, as well as
innovative collaborative applications.
Process data will be leveraged for easy consumption into dashboards and other usability applications. An
insight into single and multi-step process transactions across systems and domains will also be offered to
understand the conversation relationships between partners and business transactions (which partners are
involved in the make-to-order logistics processing). Business Networks will form a community of partners with
quick-boarding mechanisms, platform to collaborate, expand business, and exchange real time information
with the community ensuring reliable and secure connectivity.
TransactDeploy Standardized, pre-
packaged best practices for
multiple lines of business and
functions that integrate to
business process
Connect
On-board and off board
partners quickly without
worrying about future
changes in networks
Real-Time Content &
Insights
High quality, real-time
information delivered at
right time and right context
to effectively drive business
change
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Glossary
UN/EDIFACT United Nations/Electronic Data Interchange For Administration, Commerce and Transport (Message
Exchange Format)
ANSI X12 The US standard ANSI (American National Standards Institute) ASC (Accredited Standards Committee)
X12 is predominantly used in North America. (Message Exchange Format)
TRADACOMS TRADACOMS standard is majorly used in UK retail industry (Message Exchange Format)
ODETTE Used within the European automotive industry (Message Exchange Format)
VDA Widely used among German Automotive Industry (Message Exchange Format)
EANCOM Subset of EDI messages for commercial transactions (Message Exchange Format)
SWIFT SWIFT operates a worldwide financial messaging network, which exchanges messages between banks
and financial institutions. (Message Exchange Format)
FLAT FILE,
CSV
One of the most popular formats for exchanging information via home grown standards. (Message
Exchange Format)
RosettanetThis consists of a consortium of high tech industries (electronic, telecommunications and logistics)
working together to create and implement industry wide electronic business standards.
AS2 AS2 (Applicability Statement 2) is used to transport data securely and reliably over the Internet.
(Communication Standard/Protocol)
X400 Messaging Standard specified by the ITU-TS (International Telecommunications Union -
Telecommunication Standard Sector) (Communication Standard/Protocol)
OFTP Odette File Transfer Protocol (OFTP) is used for EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) between two
communications business partners. (Communication Standard/Protocol)
FTP File Transfer Protocol (Communication Standard/Protocol)
SFTP Secure File Transfer protocol (Communication Standard/Protocol)
JDBC Java DataBase Connectivity (Communication Standard/Protocol)
JMS Java Messaging Service (Communication Standard/Protocol)
SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol (Communication Standard/Protocol)
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (Communication Standard/Protocol)
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ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network, an international communication standard for sending voice,
video, and data over digital telephone lines or normal telephone wires.
TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
EDI Electronic Data Interchange
A2A Application to Application Integration
B2B Business to Business Integration
PI SAP NetWeaver Process Integration
PO SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration
SAP II SAP Information Interchange
VAN Value Added Networks
XML Extensible Markup language
ESR Enterprise Services Repository
TCO Total Cost Of Ownership
ROI Return On Investment
WCO World Custom Organization
OASIS Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards driving the development and
adoption of e-business and web services standards
DISA Data Interchange Standards Association: Responsible for developing cross industry message exchange
formats
DSAG Deutsche SAP Anwendungs Gruppe (SAP German Speaking User Group)
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