How is Data Merged? - Intergraph Smart Materials - Version 10.1 - Administration & Configuration - Hexagon

Intergraph Smart Materials Integration (10.1)

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Smart Materials keeps logging tables for the transfer of Smart Materials idents to SAP and stores in them all the information transferred to the SAP systems.

No information is sent more than once. With a single ident, however, even if only one attribute is changed, all the ident information, that is, all the attributes, must be transferred again. This is necessary because otherwise, SAP would delete the features that are already in SAP and only create the new, modified feature.

Point 2 makes sure that the information in the logging tables corresponds to that in the SAP system. This is essential because Smart Materials CANNOT LOOK IN THE SAP system to see what information is available there. Smart Materials assumes that the SAP data is identical to that which is contained in the logging tables.

When a material is created in SAP (by the interface), it is given all the features and values defined in Smart Materials.

When an ident is deleted in Smart Materials, there is no way of checking whether the corresponding material is still being used in SAP (for example, for a purchase order).

Smart Materials can be totally unaware that a material transferred by Smart Materials to SAP has been deleted, because SAP cannot take the initiative to transfer data. It may be that Smart Materials dialog boxes or reports still show the old SAP material number even after the deletion. This can be particularly critical if the same SAP material number is then reused for other purposes. The system must be organized so that this situation does not happen.