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myro
myro

Reputation: 1196

SAP OCI integration without SAP

Our supplier requires us to use SAP Open Catalog Interface to order goods. However we do not have SAP, so I should implement it from scratch.

Has anyone done this and is willing to share his experience / hints on where to start etc.?

This is the OCI doc I follow.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 3232

Answers (1)

knut
knut

Reputation: 27875

I can't help you in implementing your system (too broad and not enough information - and off topic for this site :))

But I can give a process description to give you a start point.

Your supplier has to give you a link to the OCI-Shop (including login credentials). You attach a parameter hookurl with your landing page to this URL.

So you get something like:

https://www.mysupplier.com/OCI/ocilogin?user=yourname&password=yourpassword&hookurl=https://example.net/oci_receive_from_supplier_X

When you call this URL, it directs you to the shop of the supplier, where you can select materials. When you finished, you don't order, but you request the order data and the supplier sends a formula to your hookurl https://example.net/oci_receive_from_supplier_X

The formula data may look like this: 

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<form name="SUBMITFORM" action="https://example.net/oci_receive_from_supplier_X" method="post" id="SUBMITFORM">
<input type="hidden" name="NEW_ITEM-MATNR[1]" value=""> 
<input type="hidden" name="NEW_ITEM-QUANTITY[1]" value="0000000000001"> 
<input type="hidden" name="NEW_ITEM-DESCRIPTION[1]" value="article description"> 
<input type="hidden" name="NEW_ITEM-VENDORMAT[1]" value="4711"> 
<input type="hidden" name="NEW_ITEM-PRICE[1]" value="56.95"> 
<input type="hidden" name="NEW_ITEM-CURRENCY[1]" value="EUR"> 
<input type="hidden" name="NEW_ITEM-UNIT[1]" value="PCE"> 
<input type="hidden" name="NEW_ITEM-LEADTIME[1]" value="5"> 
<input type="hidden" name="NEW_ITEM-LONGTEXT_1:132[]" value="article description"> 
<input type="hidden" name="NEW_ITEM-VENDOR[1]" value="987654"> 
<input type="hidden" name="NEW_ITEM-CONTRACT[1]" value=""> 
<input type="hidden" name="NEW_ITEM-CONTRACT_ITEM[1]" value=""> 
<input type="hidden" name="NEW_ITEM-MATGROUP[1]" value="12345678"> 
<input type="hidden" name="NEW_ITEM-EXT_CATEGORY_ID[1]" value="12345678"> 
<input type="hidden" name="NEW_ITEM-EXT_SCHEMA_TYPE[1]" value=""> 
<input type="hidden" name="NEW_ITEM-CUST_FIELD1[1]" value=""> 
<input type="hidden" name="NEW_ITEM-CUST_FIELD2[1]" value=""> 
<input type="hidden" name="NEW_ITEM-CUST_FIELD3[1]" value=""> 
<input type="hidden" name="NEW_ITEM-CUST_FIELD4[1]" value=""> 
<input type="hidden" name="NEW_ITEM-CUST_FIELD5[1]" value=""> 
<input type="hidden" name="NEW_ITEM-MATNR[2]" value=""> 
<input type="hidden" name="NEW_ITEM-QUANTITY[2]" value="0000000000001"> 
<input type="hidden" name="NEW_ITEM-DESCRIPTION[2]" value="other article description"> 
<input type="hidden" name="NEW_ITEM-VENDORMAT[2]" value="4712"> 
<input type="hidden" name="NEW_ITEM-PRICE[2]" value="65.07"> 
<input type="hidden" name="NEW_ITEM-CURRENCY[2]" value="EUR"> 
<input type="hidden" name="NEW_ITEM-UNIT[2]" value="PCE"> 
<input type="hidden" name="NEW_ITEM-LEADTIME[2]" value="5"> 
<input type="hidden" name="NEW_ITEM-LONGTEXT_2:132[]" value="other article description"> 
<input type="hidden" name="NEW_ITEM-VENDOR[2]" value="987654"> 
<input type="hidden" name="NEW_ITEM-CONTRACT[2]" value=""> 
<input type="hidden" name="NEW_ITEM-CONTRACT_ITEM[2]" value=""> 
<input type="hidden" name="NEW_ITEM-MATGROUP[2]" value="12345678"> 
<input type="hidden" name="NEW_ITEM-EXT_CATEGORY_ID[2]" value="12345678"> 
<input type="hidden" name="NEW_ITEM-EXT_SCHEMA_TYPE[2]" value=""> 
<input type="hidden" name="NEW_ITEM-CUST_FIELD1[2]" value=""> 
<input type="hidden" name="NEW_ITEM-CUST_FIELD2[2]" value=""> 
<input type="hidden" name="NEW_ITEM-CUST_FIELD3[2]" value=""> 
<input type="hidden" name="NEW_ITEM-CUST_FIELD4[2]" value=""> 
<input type="hidden" name="NEW_ITEM-CUST_FIELD5[2]" value="">
</form>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
 document.SUBMITFORM.submit();
</script>
</body>
</html>

Now your script has to extract the order data and you can do with it whatever you want (start an approval workflow, ...) and in the end you can order (however you want. You can start an EDI process, or you send an order fax...) But this order process is outside the OCI itself.

Upvotes: 8

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