Administering Maximo Connector for SAP Applications

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Integration framework architecture
Anyone involved in the implementation or day-to-day administration of the integration framework applications must be familiarized with the integration framework architecture.
SAP integration processing
The Maximo® Connector for SAP Applications has a number of key features.
Organizational structure
Before you can configure the integration between Maximo Manage and SAP, you must understand the relationships between organization levels in Maximo Manage and SAP.
Customization with user exits
Every publish channel and enterprise service has corresponding Java™ user exit procedures where you can override or otherwise customize the predefined integration processing.
Interface controls
Interface controls help you to configure the behavior of the integration processing according to the requirements of individual organizations and sites.
Multiple language support
Both Maximo Manage and SAP support multiple languages.
Error handling
This topic contains information on errors you can encounter when data transfer is being done between Maximo Manage and SAP Applications. It describes strategies and procedures for error handling in SAP.
Integration transactions
This section describes SAP transaction codes that are used for the integration of the Maximo Connector for SAP Applications.
Configuring the Maximo Connector for SAP Applications
The Maximo Connector for SAP Applications allows you to exchange and process data between Maximo Manage and SAP Applications.
Financial integration
Maximo Manage and SAP can exchange the following types of financial data: general ledger components / cost objects, charts of accounts, and general ledger journals.
Craft and labor integration
The integration can transfer labor data from Maximo Manage to SAP and from SAP to Maximo Manage.
Purchasing integration
Maximo Manage and SAP can exchange different types of purchasing data by using enterprise services or publish channels.
Vendor integration
The vendor interface transfers new and updated vendors from SAP to Maximo Manage.
Contract integration
The contract interface transfers contracts from SAP to Maximo Manage.
Purchase requisition integration
The purchase requisition (PR) interface transfers purchase requisitions from Maximo Manage to SAP.
Purchase requisition status update integration
Purchase requisitions are created in Maximo Manage and sent to SAP. After the PR is sent to SAP, the SAP system owns the PR. The Maximo Connector for SAP Applications integration allows PR Status updates be sent to Maximo Manage based on status changes to the SAP PR lines.
Purchase order integration
The Maximo Connector for SAP Applications can be configured to handle purchase orders inbound to Maximo Manage or outbound from Maximo Manage. Whether you use the inbound or outbound, interface depends on the system that manages purchasing functions.
Invoice and credit memo integration
The invoice and credit memo integration transfers invoices between Maximo Manage and SAP Material Management Logistics Invoice Verification or SAP FI modules.
Invoice variance integration
The invoice variance integration transfers invoice variances from the MM Logistics Invoice Verification module to Maximo Manage. The Invoice Variance is a separate batch program that you schedule to run to synchronize the correct invoices into Maximo Manage.
Domain integration
Our standard Domain inbound interface transfers SAP Material Groups, SAP Purchase Groups, and SAP FI GL Accounts information from SAP to Maximo Manage. SAP ABAP reports update or insert these accounting values to the Maximo ALNDOMAIN table. These values populate value lists in the Purchase Requisition and Purchase Order applications in Maximo Manage.
Item and inventory integration overview
SAP material master hierarchy
SAP creates multiple views of a material master record.
Relationship between the SAP and Maximo Manage item and inventory hierarchies
Maximo Manage stores material data at the ITEMSETID and SITEIDLOCATION levels. The ITEMSETID level contains general data about the item, while the SITEID-LOCATION level contains plant and storeroom-specific data.
Units of measure
Maximo Manage stores the issue and order units of measure of an item in the ITEM record and uses them as defaults in the INVENTORY records for the item.
Item integration
The creation or update of client-level material master data triggers an insert or update of the Maximo ITEM record and all INVENTORY locations that are associated with the item.
Inventory and inventory balances integration
The creation or update of plant-level material master data triggers an insert or update to the Maximo INVENTORY and INVCOST tables. The creation or update of storage location-level material master data triggers an insert or update to the Maximo INVBALANCE table.
Inventory vendor integration
The inventory vendor interface transfers new, updated, and deleted standard purchase info data from the SAP Purchasing application to Maximo Manage. You initiate these actions by using an ABAP program.
Issues and receipts overview
The Maximo Connector for SAP Applications can send real-time goods issues (inventory movement category GI) and goods receipts (movement category GR) from SAP to Maximo Manage and real-time receipts from Maximo Manage to SAP.
Movement types
The integration supports some movement types for issues and receipts.
Receipts integration
The integration can transfer purchasing receipts against SAP-generated purchase orders that exist in Maximo Manage and Maximo-generated POs that exist in SAP.
Inbound receipts
The inbound receipt integration sends receipts from SAP to Maximo Manage when a receipt is created or updated in SAP and inspection, if necessary, is complete.
Related controls for receipts integration
Maximo Connector for SAP Applications uses an enterprise service, publish channel, object structure, and SAP tables to exchange data with Maximo Manage.
Issues integration
The integration can transfer issues from Maximo Manage to SAP and from SAP to Maximo Manage.
Work orders and reservations
Maximo Manage and SAP can exchange work orders and reservations.
Work order integration
The integration can send work orders, work order status changes, and work order deletions to SAP. The status of the work order controls the type of data that is sent to SAP.
Reservations integration
Reservations can be sent for stock items and direct issue items from Maximo Manage to the SAP Inventory Management (IM) module.
Mapping message fields to Maximo Manage
You can map fields from SAP source messages map to fields in Maximo target messages.
Mapping message fields from Maximo Manage
You can map fields from Maximo source messages to fields in SAP target messages.
SAP ABAP reports
SAP ABAP reports and their descriptions.
SAP function modules
Maximo Connector for SAP Applications uses SAP function modules.
SAP ABAP structures for filtering IDOC transactions
SAP ABAP structures are used for the filtering table, ZBC_FILTERS. Not all SAP ABAP structures are included.
BDC transaction codes and BAPI programs
SAP Applications transaction codes and BAPI programs are used when transactions are sent from Maximo Manage. This integration supports BDC process modes (that use transaction codes), and also supports BAPI calls. You select BDC or BAPI process modes in the ZBC_INBPROGRAMS table.
Collaboration switches