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Jun 16, 2009 at 04:20 PM

AII - Concept

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Hi Guys,

We have a production order business process which includes production order, production order confirmation, Despatch advice, goods Receipt etc interfaces. There are 60 Sourcing units across Europe and each sourcing unit has 4 different applications which communicate with ECC for these interfaces. Currently the data is sent to / sent by the ECC system using MQ and XI. We are planning to use AII and the data will then be picked up by AII and sent to XI and XI will crete the data in IDocs in ECC for inbound interfaces. for outbound interfaces, the data will be sent from ECC to XI and then XI to AII and AII to the target application. I have few questions regarding AII capabilities.

1. Device manager -> what is the role of device manager in non RFID scenario as most of the source applications are not an RFID systems? where would it be placed? would it sit on AII or source application? how would we get the DC?

2. How the data will be picked by AII from the source applications? currently the data file is picked up by MQ. would AII be able to pick up data from any specified folder?

3. what are the connectivity options(e.g. File/SOAP/HTTP/ JDBC etc)? Do we need to install ABAP as well as JAVA component of AII or only ABAP component will do ? What is the significance of JAVA component?

4. How do we monitor AII? Do we have anything like XI-Runtime work bench/SXMB_MONI?

5. how AII will handle any connectivity failure with either Source application or PI instance?

6. The AII content which we need to import in XI, would it cater to all possible supply chain interfaces? Can we customize it?

Thanks,

Vikas