When the Blue Harbors team is asked to connect a customer’s SAP system to carriers such as FedEx and UPS, the project often kicks off without much drama. We start working with the carriers to get the accounts established; we customize SAP and load the necessary mapping rules to support web services; and so on. […]
List of Transportation Organizations that Support Web Services or EDI Communication
There is an ever growing list of carriers, transportation companies, freight brokers and forwarders, and even government agencies that facilitate shipping by supporting electronic communication. The depth of services supported varies from carrier to carrier, but most have the following capabilities:
Time-Phased Planning in CBP and MRP
If a vendor always delivers a material on a particular day of the week, it makes sense to plan this material according to the same cycle in which it is delivered. Time-Phased Planning is an ideal solution for this scenario. Materials that are planned using the time-phased planning technique are provided with an MRP date in […]
What Is SAP HANA?
SAP’s High-Performance Analytic Appliance (HANA) exploits the advantages of In-Memory Computing that allows the processing of massive quantities of real time data in the main memory of the server to provide immediate results from analyses and transactions by combining SAP software components optimized on hardware provided and delivered by SAP leading hardware partners. SAP HANA […]
ABAP Code For Sending XML Messages via HTTP / HTTPS
The following ABAP function module source code is for a generic HTTP client. It allows you to send XML messages in any format via HTTP/HTTPS, with just a few mapping table entries. Blue Harbors uses this client with Express Ship Cloud Solution.
How Express Shipping Drives Down Operating Costs
Factors contributing to building a compelling business case for implementing the SAP shipping solution include: (1) fully considering all departments within the business which will benefit from the solution, (2) quantifying the benefits in terms of dollars, and (3) properly communicating this value proposition in your business case.
Stylesheet Generation Errors When Generating Client Proxies
When generating client proxies from certain WSDLs, including UPS web services, stylesheet generation errors can occur when one of the exception classes is instantiated for the first time.
Displaying Outbound Web Services Messages in SAP
Legacy transaction LPCONFIG works well for setting up logical ports for web services. However Solution Manager provides greater functionality for logging errors and tracing. More importantly it provides an easy way to capture and view web service request and response messages. This is especially handy for providing sample messages to web service providers when troubleshooting.
Zebra Printers: INVALID-C error message
Thought I’d mention a common issue we see when attempting to print a FedEx Air Waybill (AWB) label on a Zebra barcode printer.
Scale_for_r3.exe: SAP Gateway prohibits external program registration
Here’s an uncommon problem that we ran into on our current Express Ship project. I included the solution in case others find this useful…