Integrating SNC with SAP PI ( PO and ASN

COLLABORATION IN A BROADER VIEW)

Now dealing with the Transactional data Transfer from customer ERP to Supplier Web UI.
Scenario:
For Instance: Purchase Order (PO) Collaboration .A Purchase order is initiated from a Sender
ECC System (say Customer ERP System) to a Receiver SNC system (supplier system) and in turn
it’s connected to a web UI (supplier Portal).
PO Collaboration;

ECC 6.0 ——- SAP PI ——SNC 7.0

The communication between ECC and SAP PI happens through IDOCS. Here ORDERS.ORDERS5
Idocs are taken for Example. For that ALE settings need to be maintained. (Logical systems, RFC
Destinations, Port, Partner profile) between SAP ECC and SAP PI.

Idocs are Intermediate docs which carries the Business data between SAP to SAP systems .In
ECC Side, Under T-code: WE02 we can able to view the IDocs list. In PI side, we can able to view
in SXMB_MONI and the PO content (IDOC’s) is converted into xml message by PI and
transferred to SNC via a PROXY call.
Proxy communication used in this Interface is not explained briefly, as its complete PI
Technicality

There are lot of connectivity settings has to maintain between PI and SNC to transfer the data.
Also the SNC objects can be directly imported into PI and BASIS team will perform this activity
and now we can able to view the SNC component with version in PI too.
SXMB_MONI T-CODE IN PI:
And you can able to view the Idocs name and RON sequence. The below SS shows the SNC ( PO
Processing) component in PI.
 Purchase order will be created in the Sender ECC system (Functionally customer ERP) as
from PI point of view. The customer creates a purchase order in the ERP system. The
ERP system transfers the ORDERS.ORDERS05 IDocs (which we had used in our Interface)
to the customer’s SAP PI System. The SAP PI converts the IDocs into an IDOC XML
message of type ReplenishmentOrderNotification (RON), an Outbound Service
Interface (SI) in the name RON will be imported in PI and that (SI) transfers it to SAP
SNC.

 The next step is Display purchase order (SAP SNC).

 Again is there any PO change ,then Create or change purchase order (customer’s ERP
system)
 The customer creates another purchase order in the ERP system, or changes an existing
purchase order. The ERP system transfers theORDCHG.ORDERS05 IDocs to the SAP PI
system. The SAP PI system converts the IDocs into an XML message of
typeReplenishmentOrderNotification (RON), and transfers it to SAP SNC.
 Display updated purchase order (SAP SNC)
  And our SNC system is connected to a web UI and suppliers will have the login to view
the Purchase order and once the confirmation made it has to send back as response
back to PI via SNC.
 The Web UI transfers an XML message of type ReplenishmentOrderConfirmation to
the SAP SNC system.
 The SAP SNC system transfers an XML message of
typeReplenishmentOrderConfirmation (ROC) to the SAP PI system, (Inbound Service
Interface is imported in PI in the name “ROC” )which converts the message into the
IDocORDRSP.ORDERS05 and transfers it to the (Sender ECC) customer’s ERP system.

Advanced shipping Notification Process:

The below SS is the imported SNC component in PI , which shows the ASN process
workflow cycle.

ASN Overview:
 When the material or goods is ready for delivery, the supplier can publish an Advanced
Shipping Notification (ASN) in his ERP system. In our Interface, we didn’t used an ERP
system to send advanced shipping notifications, so we had created them in the Web
UI. The Web UI transfers an XML message of
type DespatchedDeliveryNotification (DDN) to the customer’s SAP PI System, via
SAP SNC.

 Now the (ASN) Advanced Shipping Notification is published in Web UI ( Our Supplier’s
Portal)

As like in the below SS , In Web UI.

 Received ASN and update the purchase order in SAP SNC.

  The SAP SNC system transfers an XML message of type DespatchedDeliveryNotification (DDN)
to the SAP PI system ( DDN Service Interface ), which converts the message into the
IDocDESADV.DELVRY03 and transfers it to the customer’s ERP system.

 Received the (ASN) advanced shipping notification in the customer’s ERP system via SAP
PI.
 Then once it got received ASN and then post goods receipt in the customer’s ERP
system.
 Then the similar process which we had seen in the previous steps, SAP PI system
converts the IDocs into an XML message of
type ReceivedDeliveryNotification (RDN Service Interface in PI) transfers it to SAP
SNC.
 That’s the completion of full cycle, to display goods receipt information in SAP SNC.

So by this I had completed the End to end ECC — PI –SNC Integration of Purchase Order
collaboration and Advanced shipping Notification (ASN) with PI as Middleware component