Outbound
- The selection of the desired catalog is done in ONVENTIS. (OCI catalogs are stored externally with the respective vendor).
- After selecting an OCI catalog, you can punch out to the vendor catalog/shop via the OCI interface.
- The article selection and transfer to the shopping cart takes place here.
- The supplier’s shopping cart offers the option of transferring the shopping cart back to ONVENTIS in the case of an OCI connection.
- The shopping cart is successfully transferred back to ONVENTIS, where the actual ordering process takes place.
Inbound
- The customer jumps from his ERP system to the catalogue hosted by ONVENTIS via a URL previously stored there.
- In ONVENTIS, the articles are then selected and added to the shopping cart.
- The shopping cart in ONVENTIS is finally transferred back to the external, calling system.
- The actual order is then placed in the customer’s ERP system.
Listing of all ONVENTIS supported OCI 4.0 standard fields
Green = Official OCI 4.0 field
Blue = ONVENTIS own OCI field, not part of the official OCI 4.0 specification
Purple = Official OCI 4.0 field, with ONVENTIS own definition
Field name |
OCI element |
Data type (field length) |
Description |
Example |
Part number |
NEW_ITEM-VENDORMAT |
CHAR1 (22) |
The article number at the supplier |
CFGE- 0503438 |
Description |
NEW_ITEM-LONGTEXT_n:132[] |
CHAR (1000) |
Description / long text of the article NEW_ITEM-LONGTEXT_n:132[] is an exception as far as the syntax of index n is concerned. The index must be appended with an underscore followed by 132 and an empty bracket |
Pentium Dual Core |
Unit price |
NEW_ITEM-PRICE |
DECIMAL2 (15) |
unit price 11 digits before the decimal point, 3 digits after. Do not use commas for 1000s representation |
11.73 |
Internal article no. (material number) |
NEW_ITEM-MATNR |
CHAR (18) |
The internal number of the article |
1884084 |
Cost type / G/L account |
NEW_ITEM-CUST_FIELD1 |
CHAR (35) |
One of the five possible custom fields, usedhere for cost element / G/L account OCI outbound only |
Books / CDs |
Cost center (account assignment category cost center) |
NEW_ITEM-CUST_FIELD2 |
CHAR (35) |
One of the five possible custom fields, usedhere for cost centers OCI outbound only |
Apportionment (110) |
Supplier number |
NEW_ITEM-VENDOR |
CHAR (10) |
Number under which the supplier is managed |
123456 |
Delivery date (days from transmission) |
NEW_ITEM-LEADTIME |
INTEGER3 (5) |
Delivery time of an article in whole days |
14 |
Material group (material group) |
NEW_ITEM-MATGROUP |
CHAR (10) |
Material group number of the article |
43171803 |
Quantity |
NEW_ITEM-QUANTITY |
DECIMAL (15) |
Quantity of the article 11 digits before the decimal point, 3 digits after. Do not use commas for 1000s representation |
10.357 |
Unit of measure |
NEW_ITEM-UNIT |
CHAR (10) |
Must be kept as standard ISO code in the application |
PCE |
Position title |
NEW_ITEM-DESCRIPTION |
CHAR (100) |
– |
Keyboard DC10 |
Price unit |
NEW_ITEM-PRICEUNIT |
DECIMAL (5) |
Price unit of the article, if not filled in “1” is set automatically |
1 |
Contract number (from the condition) |
NEW_ITEM-CUST_FIELD4 |
CHAR (20) |
User defined field, contains here the contract number OCI outbound only |
89541ABX |
Currency |
NEW_ITEM-CURRENCY |
CHAR (5) |
Currency of the article as ISO code |
EUR |
Eclass number |
NEW_ITEM-MATKL |
CHAR (35) |
Contains the E-Class number OCI outbound only |
20-41-03-02 |
Eclass number |
NEW_ITEM-CUST_FIELD3 |
CHAR (35) |
One of the five possible custom fields, contains here the E-Class number OCI outbound only |
20-41-03-02 |
VAT -(rate) |
NEW_ITEM-TAXRATE_1 |
NUMBER (3) |
VAT rate Values from 1-99 permissible |
19 |
External comment field |
NEW_ITEM-ONV_RemarkExternal |
CHAR (5000) |
Field for transfer of external comments |
Please in red |
UNSPSC Codes |
EXT_CATEGORY_ID |
CHAR (35) |
Transfer of UNSPSC numbers from catalogues OCI outbound only |
10101605 |
¹ CHAR = alphanumeric characters permitted
² DECIMAL = decimal numbers permitted
³ INTEGER = only integers allowed
Notes
- For a complete overview of all generally possible OCI fields, please refer to the official SAP OCI 4.0 specification .
- The actual field length in ONVENTIS may differ from the official OCI field length.