TM-EM Integration issue

[Former Member]

Hi Expert ,

I am just wondering why TM - EM integration scenario is designed in such a way , that if event is reported in carrier collaboration portal then event should be reported in TM and then in EM .

SAP could have designed the standard functionality so that although event is reported through carrier collaboration portal , still event should be received/posted in EM and then it should be reported back in TM through standard functionality .

In this way , we could take advantage of EM design concept before processing event message for example buffering event message and processing through batch job .

In current design , if carrier report event through collaboration portal , event is posted in TM and then received in EM . So even if we buffer in EM but till the time it is posted in TM and execution status is updated .

Is there any BADI in TM which can bypass posting event message in TM and directly send the data to EM and EM posting will update TM back .

Regards,

Rajesh

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Rajesh,

CCP is nothing but TM Portal. If you are reporting in CCP, it's like reporting in TM itself ( like reporting from execution tab ) and it follows the path of TM to EM.

Can you explore the option of building EM UI and let the events be posted from EM UI?

Thanks,

Vishnu

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Vishnu ,

That is what my question is . Is there any BADI which can avoid posting event in TM and it received in EM and then it should flow from EM to TM .

We can not provide them EM Webui option when TM UI is already in place .

Regards,

Rajesh

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

I am not sure but Daniel or Steffen might be able to help here but if you have any badi and if you implement it, I am guessing it will impact your regular TM->EM events ( from execution tab ) as well.

Let's see what SAP says.

Thanks,

Vishnu

[Former Member]

Hi Vishnu ,

Since there is no BADI available which can by pass event posting to TM , I am planning to design a  validation check in TM which will provide a error message to carrier in the portal itself and it will not post event to TM /EM if validation failed .

Regards,

Rajesh

[Former Member]

Hi Rajesh,

This sounds like a better solution instead of bypassing SAP TM in CCP.

Regards

GGOPII

[former_member189718]

Hi Rajesh,

The question is why you want to offer the event notification to the carriers at all then? If they always would get error messages, I would rather hide the event notification area from the collaboration portal.

Best regards,

Jan

[former_member189718]

Hi Rajesh,

I am working on the SAP TM collaboration portal. Some things were already mentioned before. As indicated by the name, the collaboration portal is designed to be a collaboration tool for SAP TM. Thus, all transaction use TM functionality.

There is no BAdI that allows you to bypass the posting in TM. It is also not planned to provide something.

Thanks and best regards,

Jan

[Former Member]

Hi Rajesh,

In light of SAP's confirmation, I am curious about your decision on how you are planning to approach this.

If it was me and if there is no other option and if you have to have the control parameter check before posting the event, I would try to negotiated with the client to somehow post to EM first instead of CCP.

Let me know your approach, maybe helpful for us in the future.

Thanks,

Vishnu

[Former Member]

Hi Rajesh,

This is standard way when SAP works with multiple company and they would have designed to post in SAP TM and SAP EM.

SAP EM is independent system or add on and it is integrated to SAP TM, however Collaboration tool is inside SAP TM.

If you would like to achieve, then you can directly integrate Shipper system to post an event to SAP EM directly and report to SAP TM.

Regards

GGOPII

[former_member190756]

Hi Rajesh,

main reason is that you can use TM also without EM or with an external tracking system.

But it should be possible to buffer the messages coming from TM to EM. It is a normal Event Message that is sent from TM to EM.

But i will ask Collaboration Portal colleagues if they have an idea.

Best regards,

Steffen