EMM SAP Error Messages Management Tool OMKAR Solutions

EMM – SAP Error Messages Management Tool OMKAR Solutions Inc. www. omksolutions. com info@omksolutions. com Version 1. 0

Existing process - EDI / IDoc q EDI transmission is standard, mature, and widely used mechanism to transfer data electronically. q During SAP implementation, EDI interfaces are developed. A middleware is used to convert these EDI transmission/messages into a format that SAP can understand interpret. q SAP has its proprietary functionality IDoc (Intermediate document) to temporarily house the data before posting appropriate business transaction. q IDoc can be used for many interfacing mechanism. 2

Existing process - Issues q IDoc could fail due to various reasons like incorrect data in transmission (from source system), incorrect data in SAP, and missing master data etc. q Due to time constraints, customer / vendor relationship, or nature of the data it is not always possible to get another EDI transmission from source for the failed data. q At every organization there is a need to edit and re-process IDoc data within SAP. Error Edit Re-process 3

Existing process - Issues q IDoc error monitoring not in place. q IDoc structure too technical for business users. q Using SAP standard tools, IDoc data correction is very tedious, time consuming, and complex effort. q All or None editing access with SAP standard transaction and authorization. q Need for additional expensive custom development to support SAP IDoc interface. q Very limited IDoc content search capabilities provided by SAP standard transaction. q Mass IDoc update capabilities not available. 4

ERROR MESSAGE MANAGEMENT INTRODUCTION AND CAPABILITIES

Error Message Management - Introduction 6

Error Message Management – Details 1 q Easy to install q User friendly, easy to use, flexible, and easily customizable q Extendible to any number of SAP EDI/IDoc interfaces. q Can be used with ECC, APO, or any other SAP system. q Dynamic validation rules could be defined, updated, and added. q Dynamic selection criteria. 7

Error Message Management – Details 2 q Authorizations can be set to specific process level. q Dynamic summary report for IDoc to be processed. q Business critical IDoc prioritization. q One step process to list the errors, view the errors, fix the errors, edit the data, and finally either post the IDoc. 8

Error Message Management - Details 3 q Requires minimum hand-holding and training to learn and use the tool q All the errors in the IDoc data could be displayed in one go. As error correction is done, error goes away from display. q Provides management reporting / trend analysis. q Delegation of WIP IDocs. q Many other user friendly and business critical functionalities. . 9

Error Message Management – Summary q Efficient error monitoring, error correction, and posting. q Flexible and scalable to any number of interfaces with any number of validation. q User friendly, required minimum hand-holding/ training. q Customized validations and error messages. q Management reporting 10

Enterprise Message Management – Q&A / Contact q We welcome your comments. Please send your comments to info@omksolutions. com q In case you would like to get more information, please send an email to info@omksolutions. com q If you are interested to schedule a demo, please send your contact details including: your name, email-id, company name, and phone number to info@omksolutions. com q Please visit us at www. omksolutions. com 11