ALE business processes are integrated business processes that run across distributed systems. This can be two different SAP systems, links between SAP and non-SAP systems, SAP and Web-servers (Internet Application Components) or SAP and desktop applications. The links between the systems may be loosely (asynchronous) or tightly (synchronous) coupled.
These business processes are release independent and can run between different release levels of the systems.
Many SAP applications offer ALE distribution processes. The following list gives some examples:
- Master data replication:
- Material
- Customer
- Vendor
- General Ledger accounts
- Bill of materials
- ... - Accounting:
- Links to logistic systems
- Distributed financial accounting
- Distributed cost center accounting
- Distributed special ledger
- Profitability analysis
- Distributed profit center accounting
- Consolidation
- Treasury
- ... - Logistics:
- Reallocation of materials
- Distribution of sales and shipping
- Product data management
- Purchasing contracts
- Sales and operations planning
- Warehouse management
- Links to warehouse control systems
- Links to production optimization systems
- Links to transport planning systems
- ... - Information systems:
- SAP Business Information Warehouse (BW)
- Exchange of data between information systems
- Web reporting
- ... - Human resources:
- Human resources as a single component
- Payroll results
- Travel expense accounting
- Links to time collecting systems
- ...
However, these standard solutions may not fit 100% for a company. There may be differentiation in the business process or a required distributed business process is not supported in the standard.
If this happens, ALE provides tools that can be used to adapt a standard ALE business process or to create a new distributed business process.
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