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INT204 – Run Your B2B Integration

Business Better

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Las Vegas, Oct 19 – 23

Gunther Stuhec

Barcelona, Nov 10 - 12

Gunther Stuhec


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Overview


B2B add-on for SAP Process Orchestration One component for EDI based B2B communication

A single component for all of your EDI based integration

needs

Out of the box support for more than 8,000 EDI message

types

Ability to process custom B2B formats

Support for wide range of technical connectors

Drummond certification for AS2

B2B specific monitoring enhancements

Full support of B2B acknowledgements

Number range objects for interchange number generation

Message level encryption mechanisms and digital signature

Batch/bulk message handling

Archiving of B2B messages at various levels

Integrated with PI’s alert framework

Secure Connectivity Add-On

Technical Adapter

Adapter Module SFTP

PGP encryption

Business-to-Business Add-on

B2B Infrastructure Services

B2B Technical Adapters

Converter Modules

Security

EDI Splitting

Numbering

Acknowledge-

ments

Archiving

Mapping

functions

AS2

X.400

OFTP

ANSI ASC X12

EDIFACT

EANCOM

TRADACOMS

Odette

VDA

Plain Text


B2B add-on for SAP Process Orchestration Single repository for managing, storing & browsing all your trading partners

Trading partner management solution

Dynamic look up of trading partner information at runtime

Governed approach for accessing, maintaining, approving

and activating trading partner information

Automatic certificate rollover mechanism for renewing

certificates

Define custom value maps for test and production and reuse

them in message mapping

Maintain partner support information (contacts, document

references) along with partner profile

Define partner and message specific EDI parameters, e.g.,

encoding, number range object

Activate and deactivate partner profiles

SLA definition for functional acknowledgments

Partner specific number range for functional

acknowledgments interchange number generation

Mass maintenance of trading partner information

Access points

Web based user interface APIs

SAP Process Orchestration with

B2B add-on

Trading partner management solution

Application

Trading partner repository

• Unique identifiers

• Partner classification

• Functional profiles

• EDI profiles

• Support related information

• Certificate profiles with

automatic certificate rollover

• Document profiles

• Custom settings

Trading partner

agreements

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Solution Details


Configure B2B integration scenarios

Same approach and tooling as used for A2A integration

Support of Integration Builder and Eclipse based tools

Access EDI specific configurations from the same framework

Monitor B2B scenarios with the same context of existing monitoring mechanism


Connectivity options

Security: Encryption, signing and compression

support (as per specifications)

Protocols: HTTP(S), ISDN, TCP/IP, P7 (as per

specifications)

Different levels of channel archiving for incoming &

outbound message content

Technical acknowledgment support (MDN,

EERP/NERP, Delivery Reports)

Option to create XI message for technical

acknowledgements

SHA-1 & SHA-2 signature support

Encoding support

Duplicate check

Bulk message support

SAP Process Orchestration

B2B Add-on

AS2

OFTP

X.400

Co

nvert

er

Mo

du

les

HTTP(S)

Proxy

OFTP

Socks

Proxy*

OFTP

HTTP

TCP

P7

ISDN


B2B Integration Cockpit Central access to all B2B configuration tools

Trading Partner Management

Maintain Partner Specific Data (IDs, profiles, etc.)

Automatic certificate roll-over

Trading partner agreements

Runtime access

B2B Log Viewer

For viewing technical logs generated by OFTP and AS2 adapter

Displays log data such as incoming requests and errors

EDI Content Manager

Easy-to-use web based user interface for defining,

customizing, and testing EDI conversion rules

Generation of XSDs which can be imported into the

Enterprise Services Repository

Test features for validating EDI messages and

generating sample EDI messages

Version control for EDI conversion rules

Number Range Object Maintenance

For automatically inserting continuous counters into

outgoing EDI messages

Configure minimum & maximum, format, and warn level

API for mass configuration or migration

PGP Secure Store

Provides a secure way to store and access PGP keys

Maintain PGP public and private keys in the store


EDI Content Manager Customize, view and test

Single entry point for viewing, editing

and maintaining EDI definitions

Test UI for testing your

incoming/outgoing EDI message

conversions to simulate real time

scenarios

Easy Export/Import of content data

XSD generator

Versioning of customized EDI messages

Role based access


EDI Content Manager Message comparison

Compare two message definitions

Different colors represent similarities and

differences

– Green: All values are identical

– Red: The values in all columns differ

– Blue: In case of a red entry, if the

corresponding row contains no values

– Yellow: The values in second, third or both

columns differ

Optionally include detailed segment level

comparison

Currently available for EDIFACT, ANSI X12,

and EANCOM


How the EDI Separator works Splitting of Electronic Data Interchanges into single messages

Application SAP Process Orchestration

with B2B Add On

EDI Separator

Business

Partner

EDI Message

1. Purchase Order

2. Purchase Order

2

3

4

EDI Separator

EDI Separator

AS2 adapter

AS2 adapter

EDI Separator

1

Purchase Order

Purchase Order

Acknowledgement

Receives Electronic Data Interchange comprising multiple B2B documents from partner

Splits and routes messages based on various sender, partner, and EDI syntax rules

One Integration Flow for receiving different EDI formats from different partners (e.g., via VAN provider)

Extended support for VDA, TRADACOMS, Odette XML, customized, and default messages

Sends functional acknowledgement for ANSI ASC X12 (997), and EDIFACT/EANCOM (CONTRL) to partner

Supports XML routing and splitting


Monitor B2B message exchange Using standard message monitoring

Enhanced local message monitoring with B2B view

to support monitoring of B2B message exchange

Monitoring of sent and received technical (MDN,

ERP, Delivery Reports) and functional

acknowledgments (CONTRL, 997)

Search based on

– trading partner IDs, message types, partner names,

region, industry, etc.

– payload values (e.g., order number, etc.)

View all related messages, e.g., incoming bulk,

split single transactions, and acknowledgments

Audit and Compliance: Retrieve and view raw EDI

payloads along with converted XML messages

View acknowledgement report

View B2B related parameters defined in Trading

Partner Management

Acknowledgement

status

Show all related

messages

Information

from TPM

EDI specific

attributes


Archiving Multiple Options

Standard PI Archiving

– EDI messages can be archived as attachments with XI

messages

– Can be accessed via standard PI monitor

Adapter Archiving

– Available via AS2, OFTP, X400 adapters

– Flexibility to archive messages at many stages (e.g.,

enrypted/decrypted, with or without signature,

encoded/decoded, etc.)

– Messages get stored at specified file system location

Archiving Module

– Archiving of multiple files at different module chain stages

– Correlate IDoc No/XI message ID with EDI message ID

– Realized via archiver module and operational mappings

– Enables low-scale archiving to the file system

– Messages get stored at specified file system location


Automatic Certificate Rollover

Define once and no further manual intervention required for certificate roll-over

Maintain partner specific view in Trading Partner Management

Increases productivity

Alerts on certificate roll-over and approaching expiry time

Define roll-over certificate

Define active certificate for a partner

Automatic roll-over of certificate according to expiry/custom defined time

Move existing certificate to backup view


Improved file transfer Enhancements with latest patch for SP04

Content conversion

Flat file to xml conversion and vice versa

Same functionality like in file adapter

Using SFTP adapter for large file transfer

Two options are supported

Chunking

Bypassing PI runtime

SAP Process Orchestration SFTP server

SF

TP

adapte

r

SF

TP

adapte

r

SFTP server

Large file

Payload split

into chunks Aggregated

payload

Large file transfer via chunking

SAP Process Orchestration File share

SF

TP

adapte

r

File

adapte

r

SFTP server

Large file

Metadata of

file transfer

Large file transfer bypassing PI runtime


B2B Add-On for SAP Process Orchestration SP2 Summary

Trading Partner Management (Profiles and

Agreement)

Automatic Certificate Rollover

EANCOM standard Support (Content, Customization

UI, converter modules, Acknowledgment support)

Local Monitoring Enhancements

– Acknowledgment Monitoring*

– Validation Report

– Attach and View original EDI Payload**

– View related messages together*

EDI Separator enhanced to process VDA,

TRADACOMS, PLAIN, XML and Default messages

Generic Module for conversion of different EDI

messages in Inbound/Outbound direction

Enhanced channel archiving support for AS2 and

OFTP Adapter

EDI Content Manager

– EDI Definitions Message Comparison

– New Message Creation*

– Where Used List

– EDI Message Editor Enhancements

Archiving File Name enhancements

Enhanced Dynamic parameters configuration for

technical adapters

Overall Logging, Tracing and usability improvements

* Downported to SP1

** Partially available with SP1



AS2 Adapter

– Client Based certificate authentication

– New AS2 Log Viewer

– Attachment Support

– Alerts on Negative MDNs

PGP Module: Secure Storage for PGP keys

EDI Separator Adapter

– Supports Group Segment based splitting for X12 messages

– Supports partner specific character encoding for incoming EDI message types

as configured in TPM

– NRO usage generating interchange number for functional acknowledgments

EDI Content

– Easy way to test conversion of messages based on Control Key instead of

Control Key association table.

– Renaming option for EDIFACT, EANCOM and ANSI X12 message. You can

easily create/copy a new message by using the renaming option.

– Supported new message types for TRADACOMS and Odette

Archiver Module

– File Path and Directory name can be set from environmental variables

– File Name and Directory name can include variables present in message

headers.

Trading Partner Management

– Activate/Deactivate Partner

– VDA messages configuration

– SLAs definition for functional acknowledgments

– Partner specific NRO usage for functional acknowledgments interchange no.

generation.

– Encoding defined in TPM agreements can also be used by EDI Separator

adapter during runtime for message processing.

Operations

– AcknowledgementReportModule also displays Sender and Receiver Partner

Name from TPM in human readable report

– Search enabled for VDA messages based on sender, receiver and

transmission number

– Alerts can be generated for SLA violation for functional acknowledgment

– Alerts can be generated for “rejected” or Partially accepted functional

acknowledgments or Negative acknowledgments

SFTP Adapter

– The B2B SFTP adapter now supports polling from multiple directories (Same

as File adapter)

– Exclusion mask feature for advance source file selection (Same as File

adapter)



AUTACK Support for EDIFACT and EANCOM (EDIFACT Syntax 4)

PLAIN Converter UI and XSD generator

ODETTE new content: ORDERR, PRILST, and REPORD

Duplicate Interchange check for EDI messages

OFTP: Send multiple files on one session, and proxy support

EDI dashboard in local message monitor

TPM mass maintenance

Alerts for Certificate expiry and roll-over

B2B Acknowledgement table data archiving

SFTP Adapter: Dual Authentication

See release notes for SP4

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw-b2b-addon104/helpdata/en/87/a4421d524045648c560ec83f574b07/content.htm

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Outlook


Integration Advisor Service at a Glance

Smart design time tool for creation and sharing of

integration guidelines

Fully documented B2B standard messages

Provides all major B2B standards across different industry verticals

Enables easy and simple creation of your own integration guidelines

– Message Implementation Guidelines (MIGs) for interfaces

– Mapping Guidelines (MAGs) for message mappings

Allows to share guidelines with trading partners

Assists on the collaborative finalization of guidelines with trading

partners

Automatic generation of runtime artefacts of mappings

Intelligent Proposal Service

Provides suggestions of guidelines according to your business needs

Crowd Sourcing

– Learns by contributions from users

– Quality of proposals increases by number of contributions

SAP HCI

Cloud / on premise

applications, for e.g.

Integration

Advisor

Customer or

Partners

Runtime

Store and share

MIGs and MAGs Get proposals

and statistics

Integrate

Updates +

Runtime Statistics

Creates, modifies

and provides

MIGs & MAGs

PDF File

SAP PRO

Other / non SAP

applications

Negotiate via

Integration

Advisor

Get proposals

and statistics

Integrate &

Update


Planned innovations at a glance

OFTP restart

Export/import of NRO

Connection with Integration Advisor INT205 - Simplify Your B2B Integration with the Integration Advisor Tool

Trading Partner Management System in the Cloud INT205 - Simplify Your B2B Integration with the Integration

Advisor Tool

This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.

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Further Information

Related SAP TechEd sessions:

INT100 - Integration and Orchestration: Overview and Outlook

INT101 - What is new in SAP Process Orchestration

INT205 - Simplify Your B2B Integration with the Integration Advisor Tool

INT360 - B2B Add-On Solution for SAP Process Orchestration

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