The NLINK® ADC to SAP® Solution is a pre-built out-of-the-box solution that integrates Automated Data Collection (ADC) applications, such as bar coding, to SAP R/3 or mySAP systems. The SAP Certified NLINK ADC Solution supports a wide variety of data collection devices and comes with a comprehensive list of pre-built data collection transactions. The NLINK ADC Solution provides freedom from being locked into predefined or pre-configured transactions that can not be changed.

THE PROBLEM
Connecting Automatic Data Collection (ADC) devices to your SAP system can be a difficult, intimidating and expensive prospect. How do you do this without hiring expensive SAP consultants and without writing custom code or modifying your SAP system?

THE SOLUTION
For a fixed price, we deploy an ADC to SAP solution that provides real-time, bi-directional connectivity between your data collection devices and your SAP system.

• No Coding - The NLINK ADC to SAP Solution is a configuration-based system. It comes with a rich set of pre-built SAP Automatic Data Collection transactions that can be extended, modified and managed without writing any code.

• Non-Invasive - Absolutely nothing is installed into the SAP landscape and no additional SAP components or modules are needed to make it work.

• No Flashing - No need to re-flash or re-program your data collection hardware when a change is made to a Data Collection screen or the underlying transaction business logic. In fact, nothing is installed onto the mobile device - completely eliminating the need to maintain and manage the barcode scanners.

• User Profiles - User Profiles allow data collection users to be presented with specific menu options that provide access only to certain data collection screens and transactions depending on their role or work assignment.

• User Management - The NLINK ADC to SAP Solution supports a variety of user management modes. Users logon to the mobile devices using their domain user-id and password. The NLINK ADC to SAP Solution can then support connecting to SAP with a single centralized SAP user-id, or it can simply pass-through the user’s ADC logon user-id directly to SAP, or it can fully support SAP’s Single Sign On (SSO) methods. It’s completely your choice.

• Store and Forward - Useful when bar code transactions are critical and connectivity to the SAP system is not always reliable or for use with unmanned data collection equipment (e.g. raster scanners).

• Transaction Scheduler - In addition to processing transactions in an event driven manner (like when a bar code is scanned), transactions can also be batched or scheduled to be posted to the SAP system periodically.

• Combination Transaction Support - Use data collection transactions that meet the need of the users. One logical data collection activity can be made to trigger multiple transactions in the SAP system.

• Management Module - The NLINK ADC to SAP Solution comes with a built-in sophisticated management console, centralizing and greatly simplifying maintenance and administration for the IT department.