Provides electronic data interchange functions embedded in SAP NetWeaver
Atlanta — November 21, 2005 — B2B integration specialist SEEBURGER has upgraded its electronic data interchange (EDI) adapter for the SAP Exchange Infrastructure (SAP XI) to equip users with new tools for mapping, tracking and archiving EDI messages, the enabler announced recently.
The new version 1.5 of the adapter is currently the only "comprehensive EDI solution" embedded in the SAP NetWeaver technology stack, according to SEEBURGER.
New features of SEEBURGER's EDI adapter include:
The SEEBURGER adapter utilizes the XI toolsets to handle the EDI configuration, workflow, mapping and communications necessary to convert business documents from industry standards into the XML/SOAP-based format used by SAP NetWeaver.
Like the SEEBURGER B2B Gateway on which it is based, the new solution accommodates various industry and regional-specific data standards and communications protocols to automate business processes with customers, partners and suppliers for organizations in different industry sector and global geographic location.
Version 1.5 of the SEEBURGER SAP XI adapter is available immediately from both SAP and SEEBURGER sales and services organizations.
Additional Articles of Interest
— Looking to outsource your supply chain? For five success factors for your outsourcing project Read "Rising to the Challenge of the Outsourced Supply Chain," cover story in the October/November 2005 issue of Supply and Demand Chain Executive.
— Electronic invoice presentment and payment failed to meet its initial predictions. However, recent studies have uncovered a renaissance of interest in Web Invoicing & Electronic Payments solutions as organizations shift their emphasis toward cost containment and productivity enhancement. Read more in "The Analyst Corner: Payment," in the October/November 2005 issue of Supply and Demand Chain Executive.
— For insights into how the top procurement organizations align with their company's broader business to make themselves invaluable, read "Getting to World-class by Getting a Seat at the Table," the Executive Memo column the October/November 2005 issue of Supply and Demand Chain Executive.
Atlanta — November 21, 2005 — B2B integration specialist SEEBURGER has upgraded its electronic data interchange (EDI) adapter for the SAP Exchange Infrastructure (SAP XI) to equip users with new tools for mapping, tracking and archiving EDI messages, the enabler announced recently.
The new version 1.5 of the adapter is currently the only "comprehensive EDI solution" embedded in the SAP NetWeaver technology stack, according to SEEBURGER.
New features of SEEBURGER's EDI adapter include:
- Message tracking tools enabling business and/or IT users to instantly determine whether purchase orders, invoices and other trading documents have been sent or delivered to external business partners. Users can search by different criteria, including a specific message as well as groups of messages (e.g. all shipment notices that left the company between 8 and 10 am). Results are viewable from a portal framework built into the adapter.
- An expanded library of default messages that can help reduce implementation time and expense by allowing more EDI processes to be set up without creating messages and their corresponding syntax definitions from scratch. The new version provides a six-fold increase in the number of general and industry-specific ANSI, EDIFACT, ODETTE and VDA messages supplied with the adapter.
- Message archiving support allowing users to maintain a complete audit trail to meet international tax regulations and other information or compliance requirements. Messages transmitted through the SEEBURGER adapter can now be forwarded to any third-party archiving system through a file share. Each document is indexed for retrieval through the search function of the organization's archiving system.
The SEEBURGER adapter utilizes the XI toolsets to handle the EDI configuration, workflow, mapping and communications necessary to convert business documents from industry standards into the XML/SOAP-based format used by SAP NetWeaver.
Like the SEEBURGER B2B Gateway on which it is based, the new solution accommodates various industry and regional-specific data standards and communications protocols to automate business processes with customers, partners and suppliers for organizations in different industry sector and global geographic location.
Version 1.5 of the SEEBURGER SAP XI adapter is available immediately from both SAP and SEEBURGER sales and services organizations.
Additional Articles of Interest
— Looking to outsource your supply chain? For five success factors for your outsourcing project Read "Rising to the Challenge of the Outsourced Supply Chain," cover story in the October/November 2005 issue of Supply and Demand Chain Executive.
— Electronic invoice presentment and payment failed to meet its initial predictions. However, recent studies have uncovered a renaissance of interest in Web Invoicing & Electronic Payments solutions as organizations shift their emphasis toward cost containment and productivity enhancement. Read more in "The Analyst Corner: Payment," in the October/November 2005 issue of Supply and Demand Chain Executive.
— For insights into how the top procurement organizations align with their company's broader business to make themselves invaluable, read "Getting to World-class by Getting a Seat at the Table," the Executive Memo column the October/November 2005 issue of Supply and Demand Chain Executive.
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