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Turning shop-floor events into business records in SAP and other ERP systems: interface choice, duplicate handling and error management.
Moving data from the plant floor to ERP is not just about opening a connection; the transaction must respect the ERP’s business logic. The choice of interface (BAPI/RFC, IDoc or an approved API), prevention of duplicate postings and handling of business errors must be settled up front.
The content in this hub brings together the decisions to make before connecting, the difference in roles between ERP and shop-floor systems and the SAP solution scenario.
Implementation guides
Design the interface, business transaction, access rights and retry behaviour together for an SAP ECC or S/4HANA project.
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The jobs of SCADA, MES and ERP, the data each one owns and the mistakes commonly made in the data flows between them.
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