I am new to this forum and to MFG, but was hoping someone could help me get my head around some of the challenges we are facing with this migration project. Any help would be much appreciated, or if someone could even point out the best reference tools where I might find some related content. – Thanks…PV:
We are looking to migrate from SAP to MFG Pro (I believe eB2.1). We have several Warehouse applications written in .Net that are integrated to SAP to extend the receiving, put away, picking, packing, and shipping transactions (most are mobile transactions that utilize Idoc or RFC interfaces into SAP). From what I can tell MFG Pro has a similar integration model using Qxtend. The warehouse system has a SQL back-end and .Net clients.
· Can you use Qxtend to interface with external systems? Or is it just for internal MFG integration?
· What is the best way for MFG to replicate core data elements and/or transaction logic to an external system?
o For example a work-order receipt. Is there a standard QDoc interface that can be used to post a work-order receipt transaction to MFG (by a user performing the receipt in the warehouse on a mobile device)?
· Can you modify standard Qdoc’s to include additional data elements?
· For Picking – is there a standard Qdoc that could send the details for the Pick list to an external system to be picked from a mobile device?
· Is there not a picking confirmation QDoc also? From what I understand once the pick list is run it is automatically sets up as a pre-shipper – Is that correct?
· Is there a standard Qdoc that could be used to confirm a pre-shipper / Confirm Shipper?
· I understand other possible options are to use CIM (a flat-file interface approach), or web services (I assume a real-time interface approach). What are the pros/cons with these 3 approaches – Qxtend, CIM, WebServices?
We are looking to migrate from SAP to MFG Pro (I believe eB2.1). We have several Warehouse applications written in .Net that are integrated to SAP to extend the receiving, put away, picking, packing, and shipping transactions (most are mobile transactions that utilize Idoc or RFC interfaces into SAP). From what I can tell MFG Pro has a similar integration model using Qxtend. The warehouse system has a SQL back-end and .Net clients.
· Can you use Qxtend to interface with external systems? Or is it just for internal MFG integration?
· What is the best way for MFG to replicate core data elements and/or transaction logic to an external system?
o For example a work-order receipt. Is there a standard QDoc interface that can be used to post a work-order receipt transaction to MFG (by a user performing the receipt in the warehouse on a mobile device)?
· Can you modify standard Qdoc’s to include additional data elements?
· For Picking – is there a standard Qdoc that could send the details for the Pick list to an external system to be picked from a mobile device?
· Is there not a picking confirmation QDoc also? From what I understand once the pick list is run it is automatically sets up as a pre-shipper – Is that correct?
· Is there a standard Qdoc that could be used to confirm a pre-shipper / Confirm Shipper?
· I understand other possible options are to use CIM (a flat-file interface approach), or web services (I assume a real-time interface approach). What are the pros/cons with these 3 approaches – Qxtend, CIM, WebServices?
