
Define electronic data interchange (edi), its three network types—van interconnect, direct connect, and related protocols—along with envelopes, documents, segments, fields, and industry standards such as ansi x12 and edifact.
Define business and explore how industries and company size influence the selection of business applications and ERP. Understand how ERP integrates accounting, logistics, and human resources to drive profit.
Explore SAP as an ERP solution with integrated logistics, financials, HR, and industry-specific modules, delivered through a three-tier architecture and unified SAP GUI interfaces.
Explore how to navigate the SAP environment, log on via SAP GUI, and use WDI and SFP transaction groups across logistics, finance, and development with practical shortcuts and help features.
Explore the SAP EDI architecture and applications, detailing the three major systems—applications, subsystem, and van—and how inbound and outbound documents flow via the Alben process using IDoc interfaces.
Discover how the EDI subsystem and VAN route, translate, and deliver messages between trading partners and applications. Understand envelopes, maps, and mailbox routing for inbound and outbound flows.
Examine the order to cash process from sales order to payment, detailing parties, shipments, invoicing, bank payments, and edi messages like 850, 856, 810, and 820, including automation benefits.
Explore the procure-to-pay process and its interaction with electronic data interchange, from purchase orders to supplier payments, and compare it to the order-to-cash flow.
Examine the vendor direct ship order in a two-tier third-party process, where a first-tier company and supplier ship to the customer, from sales orders to payments.
Explore application documents in SAP, including header and line item structures, inbound and outbound deliveries, sales orders, packing units, and the field mapping document linking IDoc inputs to outputs.
Learn IDoc basics by examining doctype structure, segments, and versioning. Explore header and line-item data, basic vs extension types, and releases shaping outbound and inbound documents.
Explore idoc basics, including idoc structure, segments, and version, and how documentation, control data, and record types define outbound and inbound communication.
Analyze the EDI document structure, including envelope, segments, and functional groups, with emphasis on inbound and outbound 850 and 856 messages, test files, and IGY review.
Demystify the IGY structure in EDI and guide mapping and test file analysis from shipment-level BSN and DTM through item-level HL hierarchies, packaging, and serial-number details.
Design an FMD data map for SAP EDI 850 orders, detailing input and output, and envelope, header, detail, and summary segments.
Master outbound desadv 856 data mapping, enabling envelope and header–detail mapping, segment logic, cross-references, and packaging and line-item controls for shipments, dates, and times.
Explore the partner profile setup for SAP EDI, detailing outbound and inbound trading partner data, header and bottom profile structures, status processing, and required SOP codes for reliable messaging.
Learn how output types and condition records control SAP EDI document delivery to trading partners via print, email, or fax, using access sequences and processing options.
X-reference tables enable SAP EDI analysts to translate and align partner data for reliable B2B document exchange (EDPAR, EDSDC).
Learn to use the IDoc test tool to configure, simulate, and validate inbound IDOCs, build templates, map data, populate segments, and post to a sales order via standard inbound processing.
Learn how outbound process and message control drive delivery creation, goods issue, packing, and idoc mapping with fmd validation, partner profiles, and ship-to data in SAP.
Learn how SAP EDI reports use status groups and variants to track idoc lifecycles, with audit tools, batch processing, archiving, and active monitoring for outbound and inbound documents.
Examine the outbound IDoc status process, testing status scenarios, triggering subsystems via file or interface, and validating translation OK and interchange handling, with inbound status processing and logical system setup.
Learn how to define organizational units, positions, and jobs in SAP, configure inbound and outbound interfaces, manage technical and functional errors, and assign users to positions.
Explore how SAP office workflow handles notifications and work items, resolves IDOC errors, and uses foreground or background processing to post and reprocess documents within the office integration.
Explore six EDI project types—from new implementation to migration and supplier enablement—along with roles and responsibilities of project managers and business analysts across design, mapping, testing, and deployment.
Explore FMD design and development tasks, objects, configurations, and tests across SMP and SFP environments, and validate with unit, integration, and user acceptance testing before production deployment.
Analyze the SAP EDI analyst course basics, including system architecture, business processes, and document mapping. Review inbound and outbound messages, interface details, and practical self-study guidance for future study.
"SAP EDI Analyst" course is built on 15 years of SAP, SAP EDI integration experience from development to project management. This course addresses business aspects of EDI integration with SAP modules with sales and distribution being the primary area. It is divided into 8 sections with bottom-up approach. This course starts with EDI basics then dive into defining and integrating EDI with SAP.
Each session has required materials, such as, power point presentation, sample IGs, sample files, Field Mapping Documents, etc. Outcomes from sessions can be used in professional carriers with little change based on project or support requirement.
Depending on your commitment, this course will take 30 days to complete. Most of the session should be followed with SAP analysis, practice and dummy FMD design. It will provide a solid foundation in EDI documents and SAP integration. To build on top of it, you should at least spend 30-60 days on future study materials provided in the summary session. All these will give you a good competency on the subject.
If you are new to SAP, or supporting SAP applications, or a team member in tactical projects, or you are a functional consultant or a project manager, this course will provide in depth understanding of SAP EDI integration. If you want to excel in SAP B2B integration and understand how high-volume business are executed this may be the course, you want to attend.