1、Orange County Convention CenterOrlando, Florida | May 15-18, 2011Third Party Logistics and EDISession 2511Susan Delaney, OSI Group, LLCCorey Herchenroder, CONTAXReal Experience. Real Advantage.2CONTAX Corporate Bio Privately Owned, Founded in 1991 100 Employees SAP fluency for 20 years SAP Business
2、Objects Partner SAP Channel Partner Awarded 2010 Pinnacle Award Some Active Clients Include:Real Experience. Real Advantage.3OSI Group Background The OSI Group, headquartered in Aurora IL, is a global leader in food processing. The company has 47 processing facilities located in 17 countries and hav
3、e over 10,000 employees dedicated to providing food solutions for some of the worlds leading food companies. Core products include beef, pork, poultry, pizza and produce OSI is a world-class food manufacturer offering global solutions for product innovation, product development, and custom process e
4、ngineering with a strong and proven focus on food safety and operational excellence. 9 US plants on SAP 2 more US facilities projected to start SAP implementation project in 2012 - multiple 3PL possibilitiesReal Experience. Real Advantage.4Learning PointsHow OSI set up EDI with its Third Party Logis
5、tics Providers Introduction to EDI EDI from a Logistics Viewpoint EDI from an EDI ViewpointReal Experience. Real Advantage.5EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) EDI means to exchange information between a sender and a receiver. Both communication partners need to speak the same language to understand e
6、ach other. The language for EDI is comprised of the file formats and description languages used in the EDI data files. In the simple case of exchanging plain data files, the partners need to agree on a common file format. From SAP IDoc BookReal Experience. Real Advantage.63PL Reasoning Third Party L
7、ogistics (3PL) is using an outside party to take care of all or part of your product distribution. If you are a small or medium company, you may not want to develop a logistics function. You may not want to invest in the facilities or the systems needed for logistics. Or your customers may require y
8、ou to use a 3PL to save them transportation costs and allow them to mix products from multiple vendors at one location. A 3PL can perform the management function of warehousing, order fulfillment, distribution, customs and inbound/outbound transportation.Real Experience. Real Advantage.7OSI 3PL Envi
9、ronment OSI has a batch-managed environment. Every pallet has an ID that is a combination of the year, day, and time the pallet cameoff the production line. OSI has three 3PLs we currently exchange EDI with: Large foodservice customer wanted one pick-up point for multiple vendors products. Grocery c
10、hain wanted two pick-up points (East, Midwest) for multiple vendors products. Major quick service restaurant wanted a single pick-up point in the Midwest for multiple vendors products.Real Experience. Real Advantage.8Software/Consulting Environment SAP ECC 6.0 Sterling Gentran for Windows EDI Mappin
11、g/Translation Software Sterling R/3 Extension for SAP Sterling AS2 Software (B2B) Sterling VAN Mailbox Consulting: CONTAX CONTAX has vast knowledge of both SAP and Gentran softwareReal Experience. Real Advantage.9Document Flow Outbound.Stock Transport OrderOutbound DeliveryIDocGentran Map Conversion
12、 to 943AS2 or EDI VanSales OrderOutbound DeliveryIDocGentran Map Conversion to 940AS2 or EDI VanReal Experience. Real Advantage.10Document Flow InboundSTO Delivery - MIGOIDocGentran Map Conversion from 944 to IDocAS2 or EDI VanDelivery - PGIIDocGentran Map Conversion from 945 to IDocAS2 or EDI VanRe
13、al Experience. Real Advantage.11Transactions Current OSI EDI transactions used for the 3PL businesses: Outbound: 943 Outbound stock transfer delivery of product to 3PL to create warehouse inventory. 940 Outbound delivery information for customer shipment info to ship directly from 3PL. Inbound: 944
14、Inbound confirmation of stock receipt from 943. Automatically creates a MIGO transaction in SAP. 945 Inbound confirmation of customer shipment details Automatically PGIs the customer delivery Each customers file format is different in our environment.Real Experience. Real Advantage.12SAP IDocs An ID
15、oc (interchange or intermediate document) is an SAP data container for one business object (delivery, order, etc) which determines the IDoc type. IDocs are an ASCII file format to exchange data between computers. Outbound IDoc DELVRY02 + extension ZLIVRY02 for both 943 and 940 Message Type SHPORD Us
16、ed SP partner for 943 and SH for the 940 Inbound IDoc WMMBID02 for 944 Message Type WMMBXY IDoc DELVRY03 for 945 Message Type SHPCONReal Experience. Real Advantage.13943 IDoc to EDI Map Example Example of 943 STO deliveryReal Experience. Real Advantage.14Starting Point Transaction WEDI Provides EDI
17、Menu PathReal Experience. Real Advantage.15Master Data There is a great deal of communication with your EDI partner on master data, EDI standards, and field definition. You need to agree on what data gets populated in every field and what sequence that data follows. Your terminology may mean somethi
18、ng different to your partner.Real Experience. Real Advantage.16Material Master Data We have provided our material master data and the customer-material information record for our end customer to the 3PL so they can translate the EDI and distribute correct shipping paperwork that the customer can und
19、erstand. We relay this master data information via email since there are less than 15 material numbers involved for each location. You can send this master data information via an EDI message if your material master environment is different. Real Experience. Real Advantage.17OSI LE Structure We have
20、 identified each of our 3PLs as storage locations attached to the manufacturing plant from which product is being supplied. When we do an STO, we identify the manufacturing plant as the header plant and the 3PL at the item level with the same plant number but the 3PL storage location. We do get cust
21、omer order changes after a delivery is created for one of our 3PLs, so we need to be able to change our deliveries. If the product has not been received at the 3PL, any further shipment of the product gets an error and cannot be processed. Other companies identify their 3PL as a warehouse. Once a WH
22、SE is set up as “External” then no goods movements are allowed without the third party confirmation.Real Experience. Real Advantage.18Storage Location Two of the plants using these transactions are not WM plants so have no warehouse identified. Storage location configuration is done at OX09. Be sure
23、 to fill out the address of the 3PL in config so it appears on the STO and also on the delivery documents.Real Experience. Real Advantage.19WE20 Transaction Partner Profile set-up is required for communicating messages. Bank Customer Vendor Logical System Identify IDoc types, message types, RFC vs.
24、file transfer ALE. Identify EDI standard and version.Real Experience. Real Advantage.20Customer Set-up WE20 requires set-up for each vendor, customer, bank, and logical systemReal Experience. Real Advantage.21WE60 IDoc TypeReal Experience. Real Advantage.22WE21 Port Definition is used to define a fi
25、le port to pass information back and forth from EDI to SAP.Real Experience. Real Advantage.23OMKY ALE is used to define a direct application link between EDI and SAP.Real Experience. Real Advantage.24Output Master Data - EDI Trigger for Deliveries Output determination triggers this EDI. LAVA deliver
26、y output can be copied to create new EDI outputs. Can trigger at the same time as your B/L Requirement of PGI to trigger - or - Without requirement of PGI Multiple EDI partners in one delivery is possible with multiple outputs. Output medium is 6 for EDI with a dispatch time of 4 if triggering neede
27、d immediately.Real Experience. Real Advantage.25Daily MonitoringWE02 We all want green lightsReal Experience. Real Advantage.26WE02 Error Correction You can use WE02 to do error correction. Double click on the paper icon on the left of the segment with the error. Menu path Data Record Display Change
28、Real Experience. Real Advantage.27WE19 Error correction can also be done here by drilling into the header or each line and correcting the data.Real Experience. Real Advantage.28Status Monitor For ALE BD87 Reprocess Without Correction Select red light item and hit process button - no data correction
29、can be done here. If successful, turns yellow/red lights into green lights in WE02.Real Experience. Real Advantage.29Inbound IDoc Example Item of a 944 inbound receipt of stockReal Experience. Real Advantage.30EDI Confirmations When we send a document outbound to the partner from our mapper, we alwa
30、ys get an EDI message type 997 confirmation back into our mapper. When we receive a new document from the 3PL, we always send a 997 back to them. The 997 EDI transaction verifies you received a specific EDI message. It does not confirm any specific details from within the original message. There are other types of EDI messages that require a detailed confirmation back but that is not applicable with these transactions.
