EDI in SAP: this post is an overview of SAP EDI.
It answers the most questions about EDI and IDoc in SAP: Acronym, Architecture, IDOC in SAP …
EDI stands for Electronic Document Interchange.
SAP support EDI with the SAP IDOC ( intermediate Documents ).
EDI allows business documents exchange between different electronic systems of different business partners.
The EDI uses a standard format in the communication between SAP parties and none SAP Parties.
The objective of EDI use is to have paperless business process and reduce the human defect by reducing the human interference in the process.
Each EDI has a corresponding Message Type. Check the following links for more information on EDI in SAP:
IDOC stands for Intermediate DOCuments.
SAP IDocs are the container SAP uses to exchange Data between two systems or even two parties.
EDI in SAP is based on IDoc
Up to wikipedia,
IDoc, short for Intermediate Document, is an SAP document format for business transaction data transfers.
Alternatively, IDoc can also refer to an IRise document. Non SAP-systems can use IDocs as the standard interface (computing) for data transfer.
For each SAP IDOC, it should define:
Check more information about IDoc : SAP IDoc tables, SAP
Find here a collection of posts dealing with Idoc Processing in SAP:
More details can be found about the difference between EDI and IDOC in this article.
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