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Integration with SAP

Hi,

I have a situation, we need to integrate MS Dynamics AX 2012 R3 with SAP at transaction level. But we do not want to integrate master data.

e.g, The Sales order is created in SAP but packing slip and Invoicing will be done in AX. But client do not want to integrate or replicate all customer master data in AX so is it possible to create a sales order, generate packing slip and invoice in AX by getting data of customers and transactions from SAP?

Any help or guidance in this regards is appreciable. If it is not possible what are the best ways to integrate SAP with AX are there any out of the box tools available to do so etc.

Thanks and Regards,

Jahan Zaib

So you are saying I want to have only the end result of a full Supply Chain process, but skip the rest? I am afraid it does not work that way.

An Invoice could be a free text invoice where you put up whatever you want, but since you do require a Packing slip as well, then that would assume you have a Sales order in AX with all the details required to be filled in from AX's own dataset including customers and items with stock. Now obviously your Invoice must comply with legal formatting, for which you typically need to provide your customer's details as well, unless it was some sort of cash-and-carry retail purchase. But even there the customer might ask for a VAT invoice, for which the retail endpoints do capture customer details (name, address, tax registration number).

Now that would require customer data to be present and maintained in AX. Whether that is a manual or automated process is up to the customer's preferences and budget.

Also if a tax auditor comes they typically want to see the invoices and the transactions which have produced those, and you would reply that half of it is in my other ERP system disjointed, I am sure you would be facing a very thorough investigation on where your financials are going.

But since AX is an Integrated ERP system, that means in order to be able to post an invoice, you need to set up chart of accounts, posting profiles, master data for customers/items/address information etc. anyway! but skip t, then why bother having an SAP system, when the ERP could already do this for you?! If you need ot have customer data, financials data, inventory already in AX, then SAP does become obsolete, doesn't it?

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