SAP Event Management - Still SAP's best-kept secret ...

by Kevin J Wilson, Kinjal Rathod (Contribution by), Renier Walters (Contribution by)

Overview

SAP EM is SAP’s standard solution for monitoring business process status and providing proactive exception management. Five years after the first edition, we now unveil far more details than before.

In particular, we now include new chapters covering SAP Transportation Management and SAP Global Trade Services and their use of SAP EM and Operational Management.

In addition, we also cover the new SAP EM releases all the way up to Release 9.2, which is in ramp up at the time of publication. We discuss SAP EM with HANA and even bring Fiori in to the discussion. Many tips, tricks and sample code are found throughout the book. We have also greatly spruced up the additional information chapter, which is now a “must have” for any SAP EM consultant or developer to use as a reference guide. The complete IMG, together with verified transactions, are listed in this chapter. If you want to see how to call the SAP EM web service using an ABAP proxy, then check out the section under “development stuff.”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780984235032
Publisher:	GenieHoldings.COM
Publication date:	09/26/2016
Series:	SAP Event Management , #2
Pages:	826
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.69(d)

About the Author

Kevin Wilson is a partner at Reveal (www.revealvalue.com). He is consumed by a drive to facilitate solutions for companies experiencing SAP process problems and technical pains in the supply chain arena. His passion for creating innovative solutions to complex supply chain issues is what drives him and also fits with the overall vision of Reveal to "transform what matters."
One of the tools Kevin leverages to solve some of the more common supply chain issues is SAP Event Management (EM). Kevin is a recognized world-wide leader in this space. Since he first started with SAP EM in 2006, he has been an avid proponent of this solution for resolving constraints in the supply chain.
Kevin founded, and continues to moderate, the online SAP EM communities on SCN, LinkedIn and Facebook. A renowned speaker, he has contributed his expertise at many user group meetings and conferences around the world.
In addition, Kevin monitors several SAP-related online communities, including ERPGenie.com (www.erpgenie.com) and EDIGenie.com (www.edigenie.com). Kevin holds a bachelor's degree in computer science and mathematics and a diploma in project management (Cum Laude). The website http://kevin.wilson.erpgenie.com contains more links and information on Kevin.

Kinjal Rathod is a senior SAP solution engineer at Reveal (www.revealvalue.com) with a primary focus on SAP EM and SAP Global Batch Traceability. He has actively executed in all phases of SAP EM projects from architecting the solution through design sessions, configuring and development, to go-live and support of the solution. His peers recognize him as a leader in the field of SAP EM. Kinjal has received many letters of appreciation and recommendation for his efforts from clients where he has led them to successful SAP EM implementations.
He is SAP ABAP-certified with an in-depth knowledge of SAP OER, AII, GBT and EDI. He is actively involved on the SCN SAP EM and Track and Trace forums. Kinjal holds a bachelor's degree in in-formation technology.

Renier Walters is an independent SAP techno-functional consultant who began his SAP ABAP career in California back in 1999. His primary focus is on SAP Event Management, SAP EDI and SAP Business Workflow.
He has over 16 years of extensive technical and functional SAP experience, and possesses a broad knowledge of various SAP components including SCM, ECC, CRM, SRM and SAP NetWeaver PI / PO.
He has spent the last several years implementing SAP Event Management at various clients per-forming configuration, development and project management duties. Renier currently resides in Colorado and holds a bachelor's degree in Production Management.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1. EXECUTIVE OVERVIEW 23
1.1 What is SAP Event Management? 25
1.2 What is Supply Chain Event Management? 30
1.3 Where does SAP EM fit in to SAP's overall solution landscape 34
1.4 SAP EM Concepts 35
1.5 The Components of SAP EM 36
1.6 Events 44
1.7 How does SAP EM work? 50
1.8 What are the benefits of SAP EM? 64
1.9 What is the history of SAP EM? 75
1.10 Where can I find the SAP EM functionality? 76
1.11 Conclusion 77
CHAPTER 2. THE ARCHITECTURE 79
2.1 Technical Overview 80
2.2 Core Services of SAP EM 83
2.3 Deployment Options 86
2.4 Sizing 89
2.5 SAP EM Releases 90
2.6 Integration with Other SAP components 105
2.7 SAP Smart Business for SAP EM 109
2.8 SAP EM Rapid Deployment Solutions (RDS) 114
CHAPTER 3. APPLICATION SYSTEM 119
3.1 SAP EM Application Interface (AI) 121
3.2 Non-SAP Application Systems 160
3.3 Summary 162
CHAPTER 4. SAP EM SYSTEM 163
4.1 Communicating with an application system 164
4.2 Sizing 165
4.3 Event Handler 166
4.4 Events 201
4.5 Other Codes 213
4.6 Rule Sets 217
4.7 Parameters 228
4.8 SAP Visual Business Geo-Maps 235
4.9 SAP EM Reports 241
4.10 Status Retrieval 252
4.11 Visibility Processes 267
4.12 SAP EM Web services 297
4.13 SAP EM OData Service 308
4.14 General 309
CHAPTER 5. INTEGRATION WITH SAP GLOBAL TRADE SERVICES 345
5.1 A quick overview of SAP GTS 346
5.2 Why integrate SAP GTS with SAP EM? 349
5.3 Benefits of integrating SAP EM and SAP GTS 351
5.4 SAP EM Application Interface with SAP GTS 352
5.5 SAP EM Configuration for SAP GTS 373
5.6 Demonstrating the Solution 393
5.7 Potential SAP EM Integration Points 395
CHAPTER 6. INTEGRATION WITH SAP TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT 397
6.1 Related SAP Transportation Management Business Documents 402
6.2 Related SAP EM Event Handlers and Event Messages 403
6.3 Roles available in SAP Event Management 406
6.4 SAP Transportation Management Visibility Processes 407
6.5 How Events Are Updated Between SAP TM and SAP EM 417
6.6 Example scenario delivered with SAP Transportation Management 420
6.7 SAP EM Application Interface in SAP TM 424
6.8 Alerting 468
6.9 SAP TM Operations 468
6.10 SAP TM Development 469
6.11 Summary 472
CHAPTER 7. SERIALIZED TRACK AND TRACE 473
7.1 Describing Track and Trace 474
7.2 SAP Track and Trace solutions 480
7.3 Wrap-up 508
CHAPTER 8. IMPLEMENTATION METHODOLOGY 509
8.1 Phase 1: Project Preparation 511
8.2 Phase 2: Analysis and Design 518
8.3 Phase 3: Configuration and Development 523
8.4 Phase 4 - Education and Go-Live preparation 526
8.5 Phase 5: Operational support 529
8.6 Sustain: Ongoing optimization and Support 529
8.7 Wrap-Up 530
CHAPTER 9. OPERATIONS 533
9.1 Security 534
9.2 Production Operations Guideline 551
9.3 Troubleshooting tips 595
9.4 Summary 598
CHAPTER 10. USEFUL INFORMATION 601
10.1 Useful transactions 602
10.2 SAP Event Management Development Stuff 606
10.3 Useful SAP Event Management Configuration Stuff 677
10.4 Tips and Tricks 756
10.5 Useful SAP Event Management Blogs 766
10.6 Useful OSS notes 773
10.7 Useful SAP Event Management Links 778
10.8 Sample SAP Event Management Scenarios 781
10.9 Things you won't find elsewhere! 800
10.10 Abbreviations 802
REVEAL USA AND SAP EM 807
BIBLIOGRAPHY 811
INDEX 812