Replicating Packaging Fees

The approach using SAP Integration Suite is described in detail in the RDP User Guide.

To be able to extract the calculated fees, you need to get the credentials and access the API. Make sure the setup is done according to the instructions and a service instance is created with the scope packaging-fees-read. See Initial Setup.

To access the API documentation, go to the SAP Business Accelerator Hub: Replication of Packaging Fees to External Systems.

If you are already familiar with the basics and are looking for instructions, see: Integration Package.

1. Calculation:

   Packaging fees are calculated based on a reference quantity of a product, without including transactional data. This way the data can be used as a reference to calculate the price the packaging of a product would have. The calculated packaging fees are aggregated on product level. Packaging fees are calculated for active and historic report configurations. For more information about fee calculation, see Packaging Fees.

2. API:

   An Open REST API provides access to the packaging fee data. The API provides options to configure data filtering, volume, and frequency of replications. It also supports full and delta extraction since last successful replication. The same API can be used for both SD or MM pricing conditions, or material classification. The consuming client can decide into which type of condition records the data is filled.

   Filters can be used to define the scope of the data that is extracted in more detail. You can define broad filters for entire countries or identify individual report configurations. For example, you want to feed different data to two different ERP systems. ERP 1 requires the data in pricing conditions for Germany. ERP 2 requires data for pricing conditions for Spain. For ERP 1 you would extract data for report category DE_EPR_PACK_2021. For ERP 2 you would extract data for report category ES_TAX_PACK_2023. Then ERP 1 receive fee data for all report configurations for Germany. ERP 2 receives data for all report configurations for Spain.

   The following filter options are provided:

   • Report category (ReportCategory)
   • Country (ReportCategoryCountry)
   • Report configuration (ReportConfiguration)
   • System group (Context)
   • Business process direction (BusinessProcessDirection)

3. SAP Cloud Integration:

   SAP Cloud Integration is a middleware, a standard solution that allows to customize the fee data so that it can be shared with receiver systems that have different interfaces. The data can be split, spliced and mapped according to the requirements of the receiving system. The feature used for this purpose is called Integration Flows (IFlows). For more information, see Elements of an Integration Flow. SAP Responsible Design and Production provides an integration package with IFlow templates.

4. Integration Flow (IFlow)

   The IFlow calls the API with the filter settings and maps or splices the fee data to make it suitable for receiving systems and their APIs.

5. Intermediate Document (IDoc):

   For SAP ERP systems, IDoc messages are used to receive the data and to distribute it to the pricing conditions.

6. Pricing Conditions:

   When the packaging fee data is available in the pricing conditions and you create a sales order, the sales order can access the SD pricing conditions to determine the packaging fee of a product. Similarly, when you create a purchase order, the purchase order can access the MM pricing conditions. The use cases for the data on the side of the purchase or sales orders can be determined by you. Common use cases are statistics, verification, accounting, or simply information.

SAP provides template content in an integration package for SAP Cloud Integration. It contains template integration flows, value mappings, and instructions. The integration package can be accessed through SAP Cloud Integration in section Discovery or through SAP Business Accelerator Hub: SAP Responsible Design and Production Integration with SAP ERP.

The integration package provides one main flow for data replication that is extended by mapping flows:

• Create Pricing Conditions and Material Classifications in SAP ERP.

• This integration flow provides the main replication logic. The flow contains sub-processes to support pulling data from SAP Responsible Design and Production, delta and pagination handling, storing next and delta links.

• Map Packaging Fees to Pricing Conditions for Extended Producer Responsibility Reports.

• This mapping integration flow extends the main flow and provides a template for replication of calculated fees and converting the data into Sales and Distribution (SD) or Materials Management (MM) pricing condition records. Data that cannot be mapped can be filtered out of the process. After the successful mapping, a standard IDOC message (COND_A01) is sent to the SAP ERP system.

• Map Packaging Fees to Pricing Conditions and Material Classifications for Spain Plastic Tax.

• This mapping integration flow extends the main flow and provides a template for replication of calculated fees and converting the data into Sales and Distribution (SD) pricing condition records for the purposes of the Spanish plastic packaging tax.

• The flow also provides capabilities to replicate data required for invoice printing. It contains also mapping to Material Classification based on predefined characteristics in the SAP ERP system. After the successful mapping, a standard IDOC message (CLFMAS02) is sent to the SAP ERP system.

Extensions in the integration package allow you to extend the capabilities of the predefined integration content. They allow you to implement specific integration scenarios relevant to your business use case without changing the content provided by SAP. For more information, see  Integration Flow Extension.

• Additional logic to split the process to several pricing condition tables: The predefined SD and MM sub-processes of the integration flow send the data into single pricing condition table. In case the data needs to be split into several tables, a logic containing the required criteria for splitting the data can be added to the processes.

• Additional logic to split the data to SD and MM modules: The predefined SD and MM sub-processes send the received packaging fees data to both SD and MM pricing sequentially. In case the data needs to be filtered to the respective module, a logic containing the required criteria for splitting the data can be added to the processes.

• Additional logic to route the data to multiple SAP ERP systems: The predefined integration flows send the data to a single SAP ERP system. This can be changed to send data to multiple SAP ERP systems.

The current RDP Integration Accelerator version provides functionality to transfer packaging fees from SAP RDP into the SAP ERP system.

The RDP Packaging Fees integration within the RDP Integration Accelerator package contains:

• A report to retrieve packaging fees from RDP. The Packaging Fee retrieval report is handling the retrieval of the entity data provided by the RDP Packaging Fee API.

• A report for converting transferred packaging fees into pricing condition records. This report has to be executed manually or scheduled by customers. The Packaging Fee posting report is responsible to use the entities retrieved from the RDP API to generate Pricing Conditions and post them.

• Sample BAdI implementation for converting transferred packaging fees into pricing condition records. When converting transferred packaging fees into pricing condition records, a BAdI implementation is used for the mapping. Due to the high degree of flexibility of pricing configurations, SAP does not deliver a default implementation for this.