Have burning SAP EDI or Integration Questions? Let’s Talk Through Them

When beginning or continuing your EDI and integration journey, it’s common to run into questions that you can’t answer with a quick search. Whether you’re troubleshooting errors, planning a new partner onboarding, or trying to understand how EDI fits into an SAP migration, it’s not always easy to find a clear solution.

If you’d like to talk through your specific EDI or integration questions, you can book a quick, no-commitment chat here. Sometimes a short conversation can help you see options that aren’t obvious from research alone.

Common EDI Topics People Ask About

Here are some of the most common areas where questions arise without a quick and easy solution:

Common EDI Topics People Ask About

EDI onboarding requests and how to get started - Your partner is asking you to exchange EDI documents, and you need to make several key decisions such as what SAP is capable of, whether to use a managed service or an in-house solution and if it’s even worthwhile to comply with their request.

Mapping and data transformation - When to handle logic in EDI vs. in SAP, and how to deal with requirements that require enhancements or customizations.

Status IDocs and acknowledgments - Understanding the flow of acknowledgements, how to monitor the system from both the EDI and SAP perspective, and where errors typically occur.

Handling inbound errors - Techniques for debugging failed inbound IDocs in SAP that go beyond the most common errors.

Migrating EDI connections to SAP S/4HANA or RISE - What changes, what stays the same, and what to plan for.

Finding Reliable Answers

While there’s plenty of information online, EDI can be highly specific to each organization’s setup. The best answers often depend on your SAP configuration, your trading partner requirements, and your integration tools.

I’ve covered several of these topics in past posts, which you can find in our EDI for SAP Section in our knowledge center.

If you’re not sure where to start, we can walk through your scenario together and point you toward the right approach.

Have an EDI or integration question on your mind? Book a short, no-commitment call here to talk it through.

Whether it’s a technical issue or a general “how should this work?” question, I’m happy to help you find some direction.