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4. SAPWAS DB2 SAP SAP Portal Single sign on SAP GUI 10 11 12 17 18 19 Standard Reports 14 Custom ABAP LSMW 13 Standard SAP Component Custom Reports 15 16 Custom SAP In the following charts the various components within the SAP stack depicted here including all custom and standard SAP components will be referred to as simply ‘SAP’ and given the component number of ‘1’ Web browser External Component No development Core SAP Architecture Overview Diagram

5. SAP 1 Spreadsheet 8 4 Lotus Notes Database 9 5 Other SAP Box 7 3 Data Warehouse 6 Suppliers System 1 5 Batch Manager 2 MQ WMB 4 3 6a 6b 2 Integration Architecture Overview

6. #Component Description 1SAP (abstraction of the full SAP stack) 2Batch Manager (CRON) sends batch files as triggered by Custom ABAP (component 16) 3MQ Server, receives and forwards modified IDOCs created for specific events 4Websphere Message Broker – ESB to send data from SAP to various consumers in different formats and protocols 5External Vendor Hosted System, we make requests for supplies on a daily basis 6Enterprise Data Warehouse for reporting 7Another important SAP system 8Spreadsheet used for updating Lotus Notes database (component 9) 9Lotus Notes database used for something important 10SAP 11SAP Web Application Server (WAS, formally Basis) 12DB2 – the underlying database used by SAP 13LSMW – Legacy System Migration Workbench (loads spreadsheets), this is used to import the data migration files produced by Datastage 14Standard reports within SAP – within the SAP GUI this is referred to as Information System 15Custom reports, custom built reports in SAP 16Custom ABAP mainly for building batch interfaces 17SAP GUI – Thick client for accessing SAP functions 18SAP Portal – SAP Portal Solution 19Single Sign On to our directory (LDAP) High Level Component Descriptions

7. High Level Interface Descriptions #DescriptionFromToMethodFrequency 1Daily request of parts to our external supplierBatch Manager System ASFTPDaily 2Daily update of sales to the Data WarehouseBatch Manager Data Warehous e FTPDaily 3Daily send of master data from SAP to Other SAP systemSAPOther SAPALEDaily 4Export of data to a spreadsheet (this is used to update Lotus Notes database, component 9) SAPFlat file-Daily (manual) 5Import of spreadsheet (component 8) data using LN agent (manually triggered)Flat FileLotus notes -Daily (manual) 6aIDOC with MM wrapper, this data is sent whenever supply data changesSAPMQMQ ClientRealtime 6bIDOC with MQ Wrapper, same data as 6aMQWMBMQRelatime

8. y x Unique component number Unique interface number Initiating system Component outside firewall Component developed within the project scope External component no development External component requiring development Pulls the data Pushes the data Real-time and/or direct access Indirect interface, typically reads a file on the file system Diagram Notation