B2B Add On - EDIFACT to IDOC using AS2

[former_member198445]

Hello there,

I have a B2B scenario where I recieve an EANCOM EDIFACT message for Purchase Orders from our vendor which would have to mapped to the ORDERS05 IDOC.

I have used these links for reference:  http://scn.sap.com/thread/3528910

I have reached a stage where the EDIFACT message is failing at the IDOC receiver (IDOC_AAE) because the Sender and receiver paramters of the IDOC control record are missing. I am using XSLT mapping to get the EDIFACT XML mapped to the IDOC, including the header.

I am also using TPM to maintain the partner details.

My question is how would I map the Sender party details to the IDOC control record in XSLT?

Regards,

Amith

[engswee · Accepted solution]

Hi Amith

Just curious, any particular reason to use XSLT for the mapping?

I haven't used TPM before myself but it looks like there are UDF provided to access it. This will have to be called from message mapping though.

Rgds

Eng Swee

[former_member198445 · Accepted solution]

Thanks Eng Swee..

There isn't any particular reason for using XSLT. It is just my preference.

I wanted to use the Sender Partner name to fetch the Customer Number of the partner in SAP. Ideally, I would use Party identifiers itself but since the sender here is EDI Separator, I am not really sure how I would receive the ALE#KU (partner type) identifier.

I was wondering if I could maintain this is TPM as an identity and fetch it from there? Would this be the best practice? If so, then what would be the agency code?

If I could, then it would make more sense to use message mapping and these UDFs that you have pointed to.

Regards,

Amith

[engswee · Accepted solution]

Hi Amith

To be honest, I haven't used TPM before so I can't really comment further From my reading of the TPM series, there is a module that you can configure which will retrieve the TPM values. Maybe you can try it out and see how it goes. All the best!

Rgds

Eng Swee

[former_member198445 · Accepted solution]

Hi Eng Swee,

I have already used thoise modules to fetch the partner details that are relevant for EDI(GLNs etc).

It is the control record details for the IDOC that are troublesome. I really don't want to hardcode the system details. I guess I will get the Customer number from TPM and the logical system details sender(PI) and receiver(ECC) usinng value mapping in XSLT.

Rgds,

Amith