2 tier ERP implementation (HO and subsidiaries)

[Former Member]

Hi All,

We have to implement 2 tier ERP between Head office and its subsidiary.

HO at US (using SAP R/3) and its subsidiary in India (will use SAP B1).

Can anyone please let me know as a functional what would be the integration between two products and what communication will be there in between.

Means stage wise what information (Master level and transaction level) would flow from one product to another..

Your advice will help me to initiate it.

Thanks..

Seeking your valuable suggestions.

[KennedyT21 · Accepted solution]

Hi Saurabh Malhotra ...

B1if is an integration tool delivered with SAP Business One. The tool is based in the SAP Integration platform B1iP, that was developed some years ago using Java. B1iP supplies the integration blocks used by all of the integration products, including B1iSN and B1iF.

Functional Perspective

From the business stand point, B1if takes business objects from one system, transforms them and creates or modifies object in another system. System is not necessarily SAP system, it could be any system such as ecommerce web site, shipping carrier, or legacy system within the organization.

Business Object could be almost anything the business deals with. For example – an invoice, a journal entry, Credit Card transaction, or even an email.

That provides solutions for integration with high flexibility.

Typical scenarios are:

• Connecting branches and HQ
• Inter-company transactions
• Web Integration
• Mobile solutions
• More…

B1if is delivered with pre-developed scenarios for mobile integration, Dashboards, and in some areas Payroll processing.

Technical Perspective

As noted earlier, B1if uses services from B1ip in order to perform the integration tasks. The transformation between all the various components of b1if tool is done via xml messages and being transformed using xslt.

Messages are delivered in queues between Input-Process-Output point (ipo) and the various systems. After the message is retrieved from the sender system, it is going through one or more transformations as defined by the developer, and finally delivered to the target system. In order to deliver the xml message to the specific external system, B1if provides a set of adapters that communicates with the specific technology.

The main adapters are

• Business One
• R/3 and NetWeaver
• Database (using JDBC)
• File System
• Web Services and http calls

Hope Helpful

Regards

Kennedy

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Kennedy,

Your answer is very helpful..Thank you..This explains about Functional and technical integration.

But at this stage as functional I would only like to know what (daily/one time) communication in customer business cycle would be there from SAP at Head office to SAP at subsidiary and visaversa.

Eg: Masters would be shared from HO and Subsidiary, PO from subsidiary to HO, what info would flow from one product to another..etc.

I hope I made it more clear.

[kothandaraman_nagarajan]

Hi,

This forum for SAP Business one forum.

Please post your discussion at correct forum to get quick response.

Thanks & Regards,

Nagarajan

[Former Member]

Hi Nagarajan,

As my question was related to integration with SAP Business One so I posted in this forum.

Can you please advice the correct forum in which i could post the same.

Thanks in advance..

[kothandaraman_nagarajan]

Hi,

Please post in SAP Business one integration Technology.

Please check similar threads

http://scn.sap.com/thread/1361317

http://scn.sap.com/thread/1146378

Thanks & Regards,

Nagarajan