AII with R/3

Hi,
We are planning to implement AII. We have ECC5 with us and in the IMG settings we see few nodes of configurations for Auto-Id Infrastructure. What are those and how significant they are??
Can we use AII directly with R/3 instead of having XI system interfacing between them or is it must to have XI system??
Also I'm not clear whether AII is a seperate system or is a part of ECC5. Help me understanding it.
Regards,
Babu

This question comes up with every AII implementation project. we too asked this.
as you said, technically, R/3 and AII can be "connected" via RFC. but the trouble you'll have is the translation between R/3 and AII. you'll have to define custom messages and develop new idocs (if you have WebAS640, XML is also possible) and data flow in order to use functionality such as ASN, case labeling, and many other feature AII provides. if you use XI, these are already defined - we have defined few number of those as we were pilot project for AII. also, if you require new functionality, XI will reduce development time. for example, when e-pedigree wasn't even in scope, we had total 1.5 month of project and most of time were spent on design. development took less than 2 weeks. I believe that is a standard functionality in XI now.

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I found only for SCM:
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Hi Mustata,
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Hello Mukesh,
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> Our current goal is more to test the R/3 -
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can any one help me out in integrating RFID technology with XI without using AII component.
waiting for the earlist reply
Thanks in advance
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Hi Vijay,
Actually According to me these are the various implementations of interfacing RFID System with SAP,
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2.You can interface the RFID system with SAP R/3 without using SAP AII but can use XI as the middleware.
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https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/c444f8e8-0d01-0010-4d9b-c6ff68e64519.
The case study which I have mentioned in this approach is a demo application.
I should say if you got to implement any of the RFID-SAP application with this approach , you have to do the feasibility study in all aspects both cost and time wise.
I hope this should help you.
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With flexible delivery processing, we have tight control over the goods statuses across customer and supplier. For example, EM would let the customer know that the goods left the warehouse and are on their way.
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