
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.
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.
Explore idoc basics, including idoc structure, segments, and version, and how documentation, control data, and record types define outbound and inbound communication.
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.
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.
X-reference tables enable SAP EDI analysts to translate and align partner data for reliable B2B document exchange (EDPAR, EDSDC).
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.
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.