This document detail how we can connect SAP Feeder system to SAP GTS system for Master Data

and
Transaction Data transfer.:

Data Exchange Between SAP Feeder and SAP GTS system

ERP and GTS system are more often separate system with respective software installed onseparate machine, One
Client will be ERP and other Client will be GTS. ERP System which connects to GTS is called Feeder System.

This is the basic GTS architecture how it talk to Feeder System , all the master data like Material ,customer
vendor and all the transaction data like sales order delivery billing doc get pushed to GTS through RFC (
Remote Function Calls) . And any message back to Feeder system flows through RFC call.

For above mentioned Data exchange to happen, RFC connection has to be established in between two systems.

SAP Global Trade Services (SAP GTS) uses a feeder system to provide the logistics data. SAP GTS uses feeder
system data to perform certain activities or start processes within SAP GTS.
You need the following data, for example, to use the services in SAP GTS:
Master data records for
 Customers
 Vendors
 Employees (if integrated SAP HCM is used)
 Materials
 Bank data (if financial and insurance systems are integrated)
Document data
 Sales orders
 Purchase orders
 Billing documents
To transfer data from the feeder system to SAP GTS, you need to set up the system communication between the
feeder system and SAP GTS. You must specify certain communication prerequisites, for example:
 Logical system
 RFC destination
 ALE distribution model

Setting in ERP (Feeder system)

Use Transaction code /n/SAPSLL/MENU_LEGALR3 to go to GTS Area menu of Feeder system ---
>Tab Basic settings--->System Connection to SAP GTS

a. Define Logical System:

Need to define Logical system for both ERP and GTS system. The logical system name uniquely identifies the
client of an SAP system or non-SAP system in the system landscape.

You can also use Tcode BD54 to define the logical

system

Here you have to define both ERP logical system (FED510) as well as GTS logical system (GTS500)

For logical system name to be unique and to simplify the assignment, it is recommended of using the naming
convention <System name><Client key>. Eg. FED (system name) 100(client), GTS500

b. Assign Logical
System:

Here actually when u get in you will see the physical system detail on which you are logged in, suppose you are on
ECC you will find detail of Feeder system with different clients. Some client will come as default like 00 which is
Waldrof client the SAP client and other are those which are created at the time of installation. Here you have to
assign the logical system of Feeder to the physical system client combination on which you logged in. You will find
a field of logical system on the top once you get in detail of the client system combination. Now here you have
assigned the Logical system of Feeder this is required as when GTS will communicate with Feeder it will try to look
for Feeder logical system as for RFC connection you always define logical system to which the system will talk.
Tcode SCC4 can also be used to Assign Logical
System.
 c. Define RFC
Destination:

Here you define the Target host, IP address and logon detail like language, client, user password. You need to
define the detail for GTS for RFC connection and so you need the logical system name of GTS here. Basically it
contains all the Technical Detail for system call. Tcode SM59

d. Maintain RFC Destination for

Method Call:

To enable calls of cross-‐system function modules, you need to define the standard connection for method calls.
You do this by assigning the Remote Function Call (RFC) destination you defined in the preceding step for SAP
GTS .Tcode BD97

If your SAP GTS logical system is GTS500 and RFC Destination is also defined with same name
GTS500, then the assignment happens as follows. (The Detail of this assignment you can find in tableTBLSYSDEST if
for some reason we get an error that RFC destination for GTS is not maintained then first place is to check is this
table to confirm whether for the defined GTS logical system entry has been maintained or not which get populated
from following settings.)

Feeder
System:FED100
SAP
GTS:GTS5
00
 Standard RFC Destination for BAPI
Calls: GTS500

e. Maintain ALE Distribution

Model:

You need to create a model view of an Application Link Enabling (ALE) model. In addition to defining the sender
and recipient for the data exchange information, you also need to select an interface and an object. The object
type contains methods that ensure that all necessary data is transferred. Tcode BD64

Step to create ALE

Model:

 Choose Create Model View to create a new distribution model.

 Select the model view and choose Add BAPI.
 Enter the name of your feeder system (sender).
 Enter the name of SAP GTS (recipient).
 Assign CustomsDocumentIF as the object/interface
 Assign SynchronizeR3 as the method

Suppose you Create Dist model called TEST_LEG. So you will assign CustomsDocumentIF as object/interface
and SynchronizeR3 as method to the sender FED100 and receiver GTS500. Where FED100 and GTS500 are
defined Logical System
 Suppose a sales order is created in the SAP ERP feeder system FEEDER in order to transfer its data to the SAP
GTS system, the application program in FEEDER checks the local distribution model, identifies SAPGTS as the
receiver, and searches for a suitable RFC destination thus the purpose of the BAPI
CustomsDocumentIF.SynchronizefR3 is to use the distribution model for determination of the RFC receiver.

Setting in SAP GTS

Similar steps as of Feeder system has to be repeated in GTS fro RFC connection.

a. Define Logical
System : SPRO
Path:
SAP Global Trade Services-->System Communication--> Define Logical System
You can also use Tcode BD54 to define the logical system.
Feeder system: FED100
GTS system: GTS500
 b. Assign Logical System :

Assign GTS Logical system to GTS Client

SPRO Path: SAP Global Trade Services--> System Communication --> Assign Logical
System

Tcode SCC4 can also be used to Assign Logical System.

c. Define RFC Destination :

Define the Target host, IP address and logon detail like language, client, and user password. You need to define
the detail for Feeder for RFC connection and so you need the logical system name of Feeder here. Basically it
contains all the Technical Detail for system call. Tcode SM59.

You can find the relevant transaction in the SAP GTS menu in the SAP GTS system (transaction
/SAPSLL/MENU_LEGAL). In the System Administration area, choose System
Communication/Workflow and, in the next screen, choose Maintain Target System for RFC Calls

d. Maintain RFC Destination for Method Call:

You do this by assigning the Remote Function Call (RFC) destination you defined in the preceding step for Feeder
System .Tcode BD97.
You can find the relevant transaction in the SAP GTS menu in the SAP GTS system (transaction
/SAPSLL/MENU_LEGAL). In the System Administration area, choose System Communication/Workflow and, in
the next screen, choose Maintain RFC Destination

If you’re SAP Feeder logical system is FED100 and RFC Destination is also defined with same name FED100, then
the assignment happens as follows:

SAP GTS: GTS500

Feeder System: FED100
Standard RFC Destination for BAPI Calls: FED100
 . e. In addition to above mentioned steps you need to define “group of logical systems.” This Group
comprises feeder systems with similar properties, for example, identical material or Partner data. Such
a system group is also required to connect only one feeder system to the SAP GTS system. If you
assign several feeder systems to a system group, you need to transfer a Material or a partner master
record only from one of these feeder systems. The master record in SAP GTS will always be created on
the system group level, for example, one product master per System group.

Define the Logical System Group

SPRO Path: SAP Global Trade Services--> System Communication-> Define Group of Logical
System

GTSFEDGRP for Feeder System and GTSGTSGRP for GTS system.

 Assign the Logical System to Group of Logical System
SPRO Path: SAP Global Trade Services-->System Communication -->Assign the Logical System to
Group of Logical System

N
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Here you have to assign logical systems to a group of logical systems. You have to assign each logical system
to a group of logical systems, regardless of whether you want to connect one or more feeder systems to your
SAP GTS. A logical system group can contain only your feeder systems or the SAP GTS system.

Both Feeder and GTS logical system has to be assigned to Logical system group even if there are only one
Feeder and one GTS system. And it is advisable to assign them to separate Logical System group.