SAP ERP integration is the backbone of the Manufacturing X Sales Platform. It is used to leverage the existing data in SAP ERP. Customers can bring a variety of data points from SAP ERP into the MX. These data points include Materials, Material Classification data, Characteristics, Classes, Unit of Measures, Sales Texts, Material substitution data, etc.
The integration is built on a standard SAP BAPI for information exchange and supported on the SAP Cloud platform by Connectivity Service. More on this in the Integration Set Up section.
The integration is bidirectional. MX not only consumes data from ERP but also creates data in it. The creations include creating Sales Quote, Sales Orders. For made to order processes, MX also creates materials and its bill of material into ERP. In addition to this, the integration supports custom features and a few examples of this are: credit limit check, custom field selection, etc.
From a process point of view, the SAP ERP integration covers everything from consuming master data, synchronizing products, to simulating sales order pricing to sales order creation, and more.
As a general flow to build up to a sales process in MX this can be visualized as follows:
The following figure below shows the breakdown of various components touched in the MX SAP Integration
Abbreviations
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Abbreviation |
Description |
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BOM |
Bill of Material |
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MX |
Manufacturing X |
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SAP SSC |
SAP Sales Solution Configurator |
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Cstic/Characteristic |
Characteristic in SAP ERP, Dynamic Attribute in MX |
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DDA |
Dynamic Data Attribute |
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DSA |
Dynamic Symbolic Attribute |
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PP |
Pricing Procedure |
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SCC |
SAP Cloud Connector |
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CFC |
Cloud for Customer |
Glossary
The following terms and phrases are commonly used in the context of MX. Each of them is followed by a brief description and it may include a link to more in-depth documentation of that subject.
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Term / Phrase |
Description |
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Product/Material |
Product is MX equivalent of Material in ERP. A product is also any entity that can be quoted. |
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Object ERP ID |
The ID of the object in ERP as recorded in MX. Example: Material ID in ERP will become the Object ERP ID of that product in MX. |
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Object Name |
The name of the object in MX. For materials in ERP its object name in MX is the same as object ERP ID. |
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Account/Customer |
Account is the MX equivalent of customer in ERP. |
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SettingProductSyncDownloadClassification |
Setting to enable sync of classification data of the products. Should be enabled before the start of product sync. |
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SettingClassificationToLoad |
Setting to override which class type to load the classification data for. The default class type is 001. |
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SettingProductSyncDownloadProducts |
Setting to enable sync of products in background system tasks. |
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SettingProductSyncBatchSize |
Setting to set up a batch size for product sync. |
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SettingProductSyncBatchSyncInactive |
Setting to also sync mark for deleted products in ERP |
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SettingProductSyncBatchMarkAsExportToCRM |
Setting to enable the flag export to the CRM on products synced from ERP |
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SettingUseDisplayMatNoFromBAPIForObjectName |
If this is set to true it would remove the prefix zeros from the 18 digit numeric material number that is coming from the ERP. For example if a 18 digit numeric material number coming from the ERP is "000000001234567800" it would become 1234567800 and this would be the object name of the product. |
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SettingEnableProductSubstitution |
Enable product substitution at line item creation and manual checking. |
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SettingEnableProductSubstitutionAtQuoteSubmit |
Enable product substitution at quote submit. |
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SettingERPAccountSyncWithSalesAreaFromView |
Enable sync of account from ERP with sales area information. |
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