APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INTEGRATING VARIABLE SUBSIDIARY INFORMATION WITH MAIN OFFICE INFORMATION IN AN ENTERPRISE SYSTEM

摘要

The present invention pertains to an enterprise-wide enterprise resource planning (ERP) system (100), and in particular, to methods and systems for interfacing the enterprise-wide ERP system (100) with ERP systems at subsidiary organizations (170). In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a method includes connecting to an enterprise data management system through a data base server (522), a web service (524) and a data interface application programming interface (API) (526) in a remote data system (520) and through a data mapping component (532) and an intermediate documents (IDOC) adapter (538) in a data exchange interface (536) using simple object address protocol (SOAP) messages and extensible markup language (XML) messages.