Definitions for "Implementation Guide"
Keywords:  edi, explains, img, timeline, igs
Tool for configuring the R/3 System to meet customer requirements. For each business application, the Implementation Guide explains all the steps in the implementation process, tells you the SAP standard (factory) settings, and describes system configuration work (activities). The hierarchical structure of the IMG reflects the structure of the R/3 application components, lists all the documentation to do with implementing the R/3 System, and contains active functions with which you can open Customizing transactions, write project documentation, maintain status information, and support the management of your R/3 System implementation. There are four levels in the IMG: The SAP Reference IMG, containing all Customizing activities in R/3 The Enterprise IMG, containing the subset generated for an enterprise Project IMG: An subset of the Enterprise IMG for a particular implementation project Upgrade Customizing IMG: Based either on the Enterprise IMG or on a Project IMG. For a given release upgrade, it shows all the documents linked to a release note.
A document distributed by a company ready to do EDI. The document should include everything that a trading partner will need to know to do EDI with the company. The document should include a description of the company's EDI strategy, the company's EDI timeline, a list of the EDI transactions being targeted by the company, a technical specification of what segments and elements are being used within a transaction, and a description of how the company wants trading partners to test transmissions with them. A legal contract called a Trading Partner Agreement may also be included.
A publication that identifies and defines the EDI messages that are in use in a particular industry or application. The document indicates how the information in those messages should be presented on a segment by segment and data element by data element basis, as well as identifying which segments and data elements are needed, which ones need not be used and what code values will be expected in the application of that particular message.
a tool that provides additional national and state specific information