SAP Process Integration without EDI
Until now, customers and suppliers without direct EDI connections have been shut out of automated data exchange with SAP ERP systems. With the help of interactive forms, SAP service provider Mercoline uses SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe to help integrate such companies into the automated flow of information.
These days, logistics requirements include increased interconnectivity with customers and suppliers in order to make processes faster and more effective. Among smaller business partners in particular, direct process integration via EDI had previously been virtually unachievable. SAP Interactive Forms open up new possibilities for working together in an interconnected environment.
Typical applications for interactive forms
One typical application is the ordering process in purchasing. With the help of interactive forms, this process can be completed directly in the SAP system, even without an EDI connection. Once an order has been created in the SAP system, the form is sent directly to the supplier as a PDF attachment. The supplier can then open up the attached file using Adobe Acrobat Reader and enter changes to quantities and dates at the item and schedule line level as needed. The completed form can be returned by clicking on the “Send” button.
Once the form is received by the ordering party’s SAP system, the data in the PDF file is automatically read and entered or posted in the corresponding SAP order. Mercoline’s specially developed Cockpit (Status Monitor) manages all of the sent and received forms, and updates any interactive data. If order confirmations cannot be processed, they can be triggered again in the Cockpit.
Interactive forms can be used for numerous other process applications, from order entry to delivery notifications to complaints processing. Since such applications are often highly specific to the user company, the processes with SAP Interactive Forms are configured for individual customers.
Setting up SAP Interactive Forms
Integrating non-SAP customers and suppliers
SAP Interactive Forms as a communications channel in Mercoline solutions
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Mercoline GmbH
Am Borsigturm 100
13507 Berlin
Germany Phone: +49 (0)30-436589-0
E-Mail: kontakt@mercoline.de
Am Borsigturm 100
13507 Berlin
Germany Phone: +49 (0)30-436589-0
E-Mail: kontakt@mercoline.de