 EDI is nothing but Electronic data interchange.

SAP will support EDI through

Intermediate documents (IDOCS).
EDI (Electronic Document interchange) - EDI is the electronic exchange of business
documents between the computer systems of business partners, using a standard format
over a communication network.
EDI is also called paperless exchange.
Advantages:
Reduced Data entry errors
Reduced processing time
Availabilty of data in electonic form
Reduced paperwork
Reduced Cost
Reduced inventories and better planning
Standard means of communications
Better business process
EDI has two process
1. Outbound process
2. Inbound process
OP:
1.Application document is created.
2.IDOC is generated
3.IDoc is transferred from SAP to Operating system layer
4.Idoc is converted into EDI standards
5.Edi document is transmitted to the business partner
6.The Edi Subsystem report status to SAP
IP:
1.EDI transmission received
2.EDI document is converted into an IDOC
3.IDOC is transferred to the SAP layer
4.The application document is created
5.The application document can be viewed.
Regards
Mahesh Naik.

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Feb 16, 2011 at 10:00 AM
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Hi there
The basic concept of EDI is to convert data from one format to another.
There are several standards that are used with the most used being ANSI X12 (American
Standard) and EDIFACT (European Standard). Most conversion work is done with
canned EDI software. An example of this is Sterling Commerceu2019s Gentran and GIS
packages. The packages can be used to convert a flat file format into an EDI standard
file which removes all blank spaces and uses standard codes and qualifiers to distinguish
field values.
The packages also includes utilities to pull the files from server locations or adapters that
link up with customer systems (ex: SAP adapter to pull/push IDOCs from SAP). These
packages can also link to customers/vendors through a VAN (Value Added Networks) or
direct connections (ex: FTP).
EDI is also used to communicate data between different logical systems. For ex., sending
out invoices, or order acknowledgements to customers is a perfect example to use EDI.
Similarly, we could use EDI to receive inbound orders from customers.
There is a general confusion that ALE is a technology to be used between different SAP
systems and EDI is the technology to be used between SAP and non-SAP systems.
While this is true statistically, in principle the difference is much more subtle.
EDI is used to communicate with Partner Systems, while ALE is used to communicate
between Logical Systems. Please do however observe that a Partner System could also
be a logical system

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