GIS Data in SAP

[Former Member]

Greetings,

We are in process of integrating SAP PM and GIS. We are thinking of storing GIS spatial data into SAP tables.We are not using HANA.

Can anyone please advise how to achieve this.

Any idea, whether  we can run spatial analysis in SAP, without relying on GIS?

Regards,

Ahmed

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[Former Member · Accepted solution]

If you are integrating the SAP PM with GIS, then please use SAP Liniar Asset Management. For more details for SAP LAM, please refer to this doc.

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-55656

Moreover, SAP has standard product like

SAP GEO.e (GEOgraphical Enablement) which can be used.

SAP LAM will have relevant mapping to GIS data and extra features can be stored in Class characteristics.

Shiba

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Shiba Mishra,

If I have ArGIS server with Map & feature services ( REST).. I think I can feed maps & data in SAP PM.   In this case, do I need again GEO.e seperately? By using ESRI ArcGIS SErver REST services I can create custom menus in SAP?  Please reply. Thanks, Aduri

[S0022314014]

Ahmed

Another good option which we used is using NWBC instead of SAP GUI and switch on its side panel functionality. With a small ABAP, the side panel can extract the corresponding GIS Objects. You don't need to save the geo data in SAP as what you need to link is corresponding GIS Object address. This can be easily done by programming and for each SAP object, the code can easily find the corresponding GIS Object if the addressing is done in a smart way.

Regards

Savas

[Former Member]

Hi Guys,

Thanks for your inputs.

Its been a long time now.

Actually my query was regarding saving of the geo  data ( coordinates, polygon coordinates, geometry etc) in SAP database.

Your inputs helped me in arriving at a design. Thanks..

[marc_marco]

Hello,

We have recently implemented such solution recently , in my experience redundant SAP PM  and GIS data  Should be minimized  and should be limited to only data required for the maintenance planning in SAP    any other data required for SAP analysis can be provided by implementing embedded GIS MAP in the SAP functional location/equipment search help ( via web service )

The address data was stored in the regular functional location address fields, this was required since it was inherited to the generated notifications.

We also stored the additional GIS data in the Floc standard classification ,coordinates were not required SAP since  we kept the same key for the technical object in SAP the same as GIS , this has help to simplify the interfaces development

Regards,

Mark

[Former Member]

Hi Ahmed,

SAP can be use for work planning and execution. On other hand GIS to locate exact location of object. Through GIS we can locate and trigger notification creation in SAP. Coordinate can be save in technical object address data to link GIS and SAP object.

Thanks

Harsh

[peter_atkin]

Ahmed

The simplest option we've used before is via equipment classification, and customer-specific report to display the data as required.

We've also mapped the ZIP/Post Codes Sectors into standard equipment master fields.

You could also use the Address info to store this data.

However, the characterisitics are limited to 30 characters which may be too small.

PeteA