"Jenny is a Site Administrator in the company. She is responsible for maintaining master data loaded into the SAP Ariba solution. She wants to sync data between ERP or other source systems and SAP Ariba with little to no manual effort or lag time."
"After reviewing your current business requirement, I recommend building integration flows to sync data between systems. Let's first understand what is integration."
Integration is the transfer of data from one system to another, such as:
- Extracting data from ERP or another backend systems on a scheduled basis and pushing that data into SAP Ariba with limited or no human intervention.
- Exporting/downloading data from SAP Ariba and loading that data into ERP or another backend systems on a scheduled basis with limited or no human intervention.
Integration allows for master data to be synced between ERP or other source systems and SAP Ariba with little to no manual effort or lag time.
- For example, a user is created in the HR system and, via integration, is automatically created in SAP Ariba Procurement shortly afterwards.
Integration allows for the handoff of one business process to another between applications.
- For example, an invoice created and reconciled in SAP Ariba is used to create/issue payment in an ERP system.
The image below shows the integration flow between SAP Ariba and ERP systems.
