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Intelligent Integration: Seamlessly Connect SAP ECC & BNG

Automate Core Business Processes, Harmonize Data, and Drive Real-time Operational Excellence with AI-Powered iPaaS

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The Challenge

The Challenge: Bridging the Gap Between Enterprise ERP and Operational Agility

In today's fast-paced business environment, organizations often grapple with disconnected systems. SAP ECC, while a robust ERP and accounting powerhouse, can operate in silos from specialized operational platforms like BNG. This disconnect leads to inefficient workflows, data inconsistencies, and delayed insights, hindering agility and impacting the bottom line.

  • **Manual Data Entry:** Tedious and error-prone manual transfer of sales orders, invoices, and master data between BNG and SAP ECC.
  • **Delayed Financial Close:** Slow reconciliation of payments and GL entries from BNG into SAP ECC, prolonging reporting cycles.
  • **Inconsistent Master Data:** Customer, vendor, and product data discrepancies across systems, leading to operational errors and compliance risks.
  • **Lack of Real-time Visibility:** Inability to track orders, inventory, or financial status across the entire business lifecycle in real-time.
  • **Operational Bottlenecks:** Manual processes for order fulfillment, procurement, and inventory management slowing down operations.
  • **High Integration Costs:** Traditional point-to-point integrations are expensive to build, brittle, and difficult to maintain.
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The Solution

The Intelligent Solution: Unifying SAP ECC and BNG with an AI-Powered iPaaS

Our advanced Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) provides the intelligent bridge between SAP ECC's powerful ERP capabilities and BNG's agile operational functions. It's not just about connecting systems; it's about orchestrating intelligent, automated workflows that drive efficiency, ensure data accuracy, and accelerate your business processes.

  • **Pre-built Connectors:** Robust, optimized connectors for SAP ECC (BAPIs, RFCs, IDocs, OData) and BNG (REST APIs, Webhooks).
  • **Event-Driven Architecture:** Real-time data synchronization triggered by business events, eliminating latency and batch processing.
  • **Low-Code/No-Code Design:** Visual workflow builder empowers business users and citizen integrators to create and manage integrations.
  • **AI-Powered Data Mapping & Validation:** Intelligent assistance for complex transformations, anomaly detection, and auto-resolution of data issues.
  • **Centralized Monitoring & Governance:** End-to-end visibility, error handling, and security management from a single pane of glass.
Implementation Timeline

Go live with SAP ECC + BNG in as little as 2–4 weeks.

A proven, repeatable implementation approach that minimizes risk while getting your team to value quickly.

1

Access Enabled

Secure connections established to both SAP ECC and BNG, with credentials and environments confirmed.

2

Configuration & Mapping

Field mappings, business rules, and workflows configured using visual tools and pre-built templates.

3

Go Live

Launch production-ready integration with monitoring, alerting, and support in place—typically within 2–4 weeks.

Time to Value

2–4 weeks

Typical implementation window from access granted to production go-live for most SAP ECC + BNG deployments.

Project Phases

Discovery
Configure & Map
Validate
Launch

Engagement Model

Guided by Clarity experts with your team involved at key milestones.

Comprehensive Solution Details

  • **Pre-built Connectors:** Robust, optimized connectors for SAP ECC (BAPIs, RFCs, IDocs, OData) and BNG (REST APIs, Webhooks).
  • **Event-Driven Architecture:** Real-time data synchronization triggered by business events, eliminating latency and batch processing.
  • **Low-Code/No-Code Design:** Visual workflow builder empowers business users and citizen integrators to create and manage integrations.
  • **AI-Powered Data Mapping & Validation:** Intelligent assistance for complex transformations, anomaly detection, and auto-resolution of data issues.
  • **Centralized Monitoring & Governance:** End-to-end visibility, error handling, and security management from a single pane of glass.
  • **Scalable & Resilient:** Cloud-native architecture designed for high-volume transactions and fault tolerance.
  • **Bi-directional Data Synchronization:** Ensures a single source of truth for critical master data across both systems.

Technical Integration Details: Connecting SAP ECC and BNG

Our iPaaS solution provides a robust, secure, and scalable framework for integrating SAP ECC and BNG. It handles the complexities of disparate systems, enabling seamless data flow and process automation through a flexible, API-first approach.

Data Flow Steps

**Secure Connectivity:** Establish encrypted connections to SAP ECC (on-premise via SAProuter/VPN or cloud-based via SAP Gateway) and BNG (HTTPS/TLS 1.2+).

**Authentication & Authorization:** Configure dedicated service accounts with least privilege in SAP ECC (RFC/BAPI credentials, X.509 certificates) and OAuth 2.0/API keys for BNG.

**Event Listener Setup:** Configure iPaaS to listen for events from BNG (webhooks) and SAP ECC (Change Pointers, custom ABAP events, OData notifications).

**Data Model Harmonization:** Define canonical data models within the iPaaS to abstract the differences between SAP ECC's complex structures (e.g., VBAK/VBAP) and BNG's simpler API schemas.

**Visual Mapping & Transformation:** Use the low-code visual mapper to define field-level mappings and apply business-specific transformations (e.g., value lookups, conditional logic, aggregations).

**Workflow Orchestration:** Design multi-step workflows to handle complex business processes (e.g., order splitting, backorder processing, 3-way matching) involving both systems.

**Error Handling & Monitoring:** Implement robust error handling, retry logic, and centralized monitoring dashboards to ensure data integrity and operational resilience.

**Deployment & Governance:** Utilize CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment across Dev, QA, and Production environments, with strict version control and audit trails.

Data Touchpoints

SAP ECC: Sales Order (VBAK/VBAP), Customer Master (KNA1/KNB1), Material Master (MARA/MARC/MARD), Invoice (VBRK/VBRP), Vendor Master (LFA1/LFB1), Purchase Order (EKKO/EKPO), Goods Movement (MKPF/MSEG), Financial Document (BKPF/BSEG), Pricing Conditions (KONV/KONP).
BNG: Customer, Product, Sales Order, Invoice, Payment, Inventory Item, Vendor, Purchase Order, General Ledger Entry, Employee.

"The integration architecture centers around a cloud-native iPaaS. On one side, it connects to SAP ECC via SAP Gateway (for OData) or direct RFC/IDoc connections (secured via SAProuter/VPN). On the other, it connects to BNG via RESTful APIs and webhooks. The iPaaS orchestrates data extraction, transformation, validation (AI-assisted), and loading, with bi-directional data flows for master data and event-driven triggers for transactional data. All communication is encrypted (TLS), and a centralized monitoring dashboard provides end-to-end visibility."

Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing for SAP ECC + BNG.

Start with a single integration pair and scale as your business grows—without surprise fees or transaction penalties.

Connect™ Plan

Clarity Connect

$595 /mo

Billed annually • Includes one production integration pair

  • Unlimited transactions and API calls within fair-use limits.
  • Visual workflow designer and reusable mapping templates.
  • Monitoring, alerting, and access to Clarity’s support team.
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Innovative & Robust

How Middleware Integration Works

Benefits of Integrating SAP ECC

Integrating SAP ECC fosters greater efficiency and data accuracy. Automate your critical business processes to deliver consistently outstanding results.

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Data Mapping

Key Entities & Intelligent Mapping for SAP ECC and BNG

Seamless data flow between SAP ECC and BNG relies on precise mapping and transformation of core business entities. Our iPaaS provides the tools and intelligence to handle these complexities, ensuring data consistency and accuracy.

Sales Order

Represents a customer's request for goods or services, critical for order-to-cash. BNG typically originates orders from eCommerce; SAP ECC manages their fulfillment and financial implications.

SAP ECC Fields

VBAK-VBELN VBAK-AUART VBAK-VKORG VBAP-MATNR VBAP-KWMENG VBAP-NETWR VBAK-KUNNR VBAK-BSTNK

BNG Fields

SalesOrderID ExternalOrderRef CustomerID OrderDate OrderStatus TotalAmount LineItems (Product, Quantity, Price)

Mapping Notes

Map BNG CustomerID to SAP ECC Sold-to Party (KUNNR) and Ship-to Party. BNG Product SKUs must map to SAP ECC Material Numbers (MATNR). Order status requires careful translation. Pricing conditions (e.g., discounts) from BNG need to be applied correctly in SAP ECC.

Next Steps

See SAP ECC + BNG integration in action.

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Real-World Applications

Integration Use Cases

Explore how the integration behaves in real business scenarios, with clearly defined steps, outcomes, and execution patterns.

End-to-End Order-to-Cash Automation

Orchestrate the entire order lifecycle from an eCommerce platform to BNG for operational management, and finally to SAP ECC for financial posting. This ensures rapid order fulfillment, accurate invoicing, and timely cash application.

Integration Steps:

  1. 0 eCommerce order captured and created in BNG via webhook.
  2. 1 BNG Sales Order (ExternalOrderRef) mapped and posted to SAP ECC as Sales Order (BAPI_SALESORDER_CREATEFROMDAT2).
  3. 2 Real-time inventory levels (Material Master, Goods Movement) from SAP ECC update BNG and eCommerce (BAPI_MATERIAL_AVAILABILITY).
  4. 3 Shipment confirmation from BNG triggers invoice generation in SAP ECC (Invoice VBRK/VBRP).
  5. 4 Payments from external gateways applied to BNG, then posted to SAP ECC (BAPI_ACC_DOCUMENT_POST) for reconciliation.

Business Outcome

Reduced order processing time, minimized manual errors, improved inventory accuracy, and faster revenue recognition.

Frequency

Real-time, Event-driven

Business Value

Key Integration Benefits

Discover the strategic advantages and business value of seamless integration between your systems.

Accelerate Order-to-Cash Cycles
Automate the flow of sales orders from BNG to SAP ECC, enabling faster fulfillment, accurate invoicing, and quicker cash realization.
Ensure Real-time Data Accuracy
Harmonize customer, vendor, material, and inventory data bi-directionally, eliminating silos and ensuring a single source of truth across SAP ECC and BNG.
Reduce Manual Effort & Errors
Automate repetitive tasks like data entry, reconciliation, and validation, freeing up your teams and minimizing costly human errors.
Gain End-to-End Visibility
Access real-time insights into your financial, operational, and supply chain data, empowering better, faster decision-making.
Enhance Financial Control & Compliance
Streamline payment reconciliation and GL postings, ensuring accurate financial reporting and adherence to regulatory standards like SOX and GDPR.
Achieve Faster Time to Value
Leverage low-code tools and AI-assisted development to build and deploy new integrations in days, not months, accelerating your digital transformation.
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Accelerate Order-to-Cash Cycles

60% Faster Order Processing

📋 What You Get

Automate the flow of sales orders from BNG to SAP ECC, enabling faster fulfillment, accurate invoicing, and quicker cash realization.

💼 Business Impact

This benefit directly contributes to 60% improvement in Faster Order Processing, enabling your team to focus on high-value strategic initiatives.

Implementation Timeline

Go live with SAP ECC + BNG in as little as 2–4 weeks.

A proven, repeatable implementation approach that minimizes risk while getting your team to value quickly.

1

Access Enabled

Secure connections established to both SAP ECC and BNG, with credentials and environments confirmed.

2

Configuration & Mapping

Field mappings, business rules, and workflows configured using visual tools and pre-built templates.

3

Go Live

Launch production-ready integration with monitoring, alerting, and support in place—typically within 2–4 weeks.

Time to Value

2–4 weeks

Typical implementation window from access granted to production go-live for most SAP ECC + BNG deployments.

Project Phases

Discovery
Configure & Map
Validate
Launch

Engagement Model

Guided by Clarity experts with your team involved at key milestones.

Technical Documentation

API Endpoints & Data Logic

Technical details for developers and architects.

Method Endpoint Purpose
POST /sap/opu/odata/sap/SD_SALESDOCUMENT_SRV/SalesOrderCollection Create new sales orders from external systems (e.g., eCommerce) using OData services via SAP Gateway. Facilitates modern, RESTful integration patterns for sales order ingestion.
RFC BAPI_SALESORDER_CREATEFROMDAT2 Programmatically create sales orders in SAP ECC, widely used for robust, high-volume order ingestion from BNG, offering extensive field support and integration with SAP business logic.
RFC BAPI_MATERIAL_AVAILABILITY Check real-time stock availability for materials in specific plants within SAP ECC, crucial for synchronizing inventory levels to BNG and eCommerce platforms.
RFC BAPI_ACC_DOCUMENT_POST Post financial accounting documents directly to the General Ledger, used for payment reconciliation, general journal entries, and financial data from BNG into SAP ECC.
RFC BAPI_CUSTOMER_CREATEFROMDATA1 Create new customer master data records in SAP ECC from BNG or external CRM/eCommerce systems, supporting master data harmonization.
RFC BAPI_PO_CREATE1 Create purchase orders in SAP ECC, often triggered by procurement processes originating or managed in BNG. Supports complex PO structures and integration with SAP's purchasing module.

⚡ Transformation Logic

  • **Data Type Conversion:** Convert BNG string fields to SAP ECC numeric/date formats (e.g., BNG 'OrderDate' to SAP ECC 'VBAK-AUDAT' date format).
  • **Value Mapping:** Translate BNG status codes (e.g., 'Pending') to SAP ECC internal keys (e.g., 'A' for open sales order).
  • **Concatenation/Splitting:** Combine BNG first/last names into a single SAP ECC name field or split BNG address lines into street, house number, etc.
  • **Default Values:** Assign default SAP ECC values (e.g., Sales Org, Company Code, Plant) if not provided by BNG.
  • **Conditional Logic:** Apply different mappings or transformations based on specific data values (e.g., different tax codes based on BNG product category, or different SAP ECC document types based on BNG order type).
  • **Currency Conversion:** Handle multi-currency transactions, applying real-time or stored exchange rates where necessary for SAP ECC financial postings.
  • **Unit of Measure Conversion:** Ensure consistency between BNG and SAP ECC UoMs (e.g., converting 'EA' to 'PC', or 'KG' to 'LB' with appropriate factors).
  • **Data Enrichment:** Augment BNG data with SAP ECC master data lookups (e.g., fetching material group from SAP ECC based on BNG SKU).

🛡️ Error Handling

  • **SAP ECC Material Not Found:** BNG sends an order with an unknown product SKU. iPaaS flags the error, logs it, and routes the order to a dead-letter queue for manual review, preventing SAP ECC from rejecting the entire order.
  • **BNG Customer ID Mismatch:** An attempt to update an SAP ECC customer with an incorrect BNG CustomerID. iPaaS prevents the update, alerts the master data team, and provides context for correction.
  • **SAP ECC Pricing Condition Error:** BNG order pricing fails SAP ECC validation due to missing condition records. iPaaS captures the specific SAP ECC error, notifies the finance team, and holds the order for correction.
  • **BNG API Rate Limit Exceeded:** The iPaaS automatically detects the 429 error, backs off, retries the request with an increasing delay, and intelligently queues subsequent requests to prevent overwhelming BNG.
  • **Network Interruption:** Temporary connectivity loss between iPaaS and SAP ECC. The iPaaS automatically retries the transaction with exponential backoff until connectivity is restored, ensuring no data loss.
  • **Data Transformation Failure:** Custom logic in iPaaS fails due to an unexpected BNG data format (e.g., a new mandatory field added to BNG not accounted for). Alerts the integration developer with detailed logs for quick resolution.
Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing for SAP ECC + BNG.

Start with a single integration pair and scale as your business grows—without surprise fees or transaction penalties.

Connect™ Plan

Clarity Connect

$595 /mo

Billed annually • Includes one production integration pair

  • Unlimited transactions and API calls within fair-use limits.
  • Visual workflow designer and reusable mapping templates.
  • Monitoring, alerting, and access to Clarity’s support team.
View full pricing & options
Support & Information

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about integration implementation, security, and best practices.

General Integration FAQs

▸ What is the best way to integrate SAP ECC with BNG?
The most effective approach is to use a modern Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS). An iPaaS provides pre-built connectors for SAP ECC (BAPIs, RFCs, IDocs, OData) and BNG (REST APIs, webhooks), facilitating API-first, event-driven integrations with robust data mapping, orchestration, and monitoring capabilities. This approach is more scalable, secure, and easier to maintain than custom-coded solutions or traditional point-to-point integrations.

Low-Code/No-Code FAQs

▸ Can I use low-code/no-code tools to automate workflows involving SAP ECC and BNG?
Absolutely. Modern iPaaS platforms offer low-code/no-code environments that empower business users and citizen integrators to design and deploy complex workflows involving both SAP ECC and BNG. This allows for rapid automation of tasks like order processing, invoice reconciliation, or master data synchronization without requiring deep coding expertise, significantly accelerating digital transformation initiatives and reducing IT backlog.

AI Enhancement FAQs

▸ How can AI enhance my existing SAP ECC and BNG integrations?
AI can significantly augment SAP ECC and BNG integrations by providing capabilities like intelligent data mapping suggestions, automated validation and anomaly detection for transactions (e.g., invoices, payments, orders), predictive insights for operational efficiency, and autonomous exception handling. This reduces manual effort, improves data quality, and makes your SAP ECC and BNG workflows more resilient and intelligent.

Technical Challenges FAQs

▸ What are the common technical challenges when integrating SAP ECC and BNG, and how are they addressed?
Common technical challenges include navigating SAP ECC's complex data model and various integration interfaces (BAPIs, RFCs, IDocs, OData), managing BNG API rate limits, ensuring real-time performance for high-volume transactions, implementing robust error handling and reconciliation, and maintaining security for on-premise SAP ECC systems. A robust iPaaS helps abstract much of this complexity through pre-built connectors, intelligent batching, queuing, event-driven architecture, and comprehensive security features.

Data Management FAQs

▸ How do I ensure data consistency between SAP ECC and BNG, especially for master data?
Achieving data consistency requires an event-driven iPaaS integration with robust data harmonization. When a customer or vendor record is created or updated in one system (e.g., BNG), an event triggers its immediate synchronization to SAP ECC. Similarly, updates in SAP ECC (e.g., credit limit) propagate to BNG. Comprehensive data mapping, transformation, deduplication logic (often AI-assisted), and conflict resolution rules within the iPaaS are crucial for maintaining a 'single source of truth'.

Security & Compliance FAQs

▸ What security best practices are implemented for connecting an iPaaS to SAP ECC and BNG?
Best practices include using secure communication protocols (HTTPS, VPN, SAProuter), implementing least-privilege access for dedicated service accounts in both SAP ECC and BNG, encrypting sensitive data in transit and at rest, implementing robust input validation and sanitization, conducting regular security audits, and adherence to compliance standards (e.g., GDPR, SOX). Utilizing an iPaaS with strong security certifications (ISO 27001, SOC 2) is also critical.

Performance FAQs

▸ How does an iPaaS help with SAP ECC's performance during integrations?
An iPaaS optimizes SAP ECC performance by offloading complex data transformations, managing message queues to prevent system overload, implementing intelligent batching for high-volume transactions, and enabling asynchronous processing (e.g., using IDocs or background RFCs). It also provides robust monitoring to identify and address performance bottlenecks proactively, ensuring SAP ECC stability and responsiveness.

Customization FAQs

▸ Can this integration handle my specific custom fields in SAP ECC (Z-fields) and BNG?
Yes, our iPaaS is designed for extensibility. It allows you to easily map and synchronize custom fields (e.g., Z-fields in SAP ECC, custom properties in BNG) alongside standard data. The visual mapping canvas makes it straightforward to include these fields in your integration flows, ensuring all relevant business data is captured and synchronized.
Next Steps

See SAP ECC + BNG integration in action.

Explore a guided demo, start a sandbox integration, or speak directly with our solution architects about your specific use cases.

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Implementation Timeline

Go live with SAP ECC + BNG in as little as 2–4 weeks.

A proven, repeatable implementation approach that minimizes risk while getting your team to value quickly.

1

Access Enabled

Secure connections established to both SAP ECC and BNG, with credentials and environments confirmed.

2

Configuration & Mapping

Field mappings, business rules, and workflows configured using visual tools and pre-built templates.

3

Go Live

Launch production-ready integration with monitoring, alerting, and support in place—typically within 2–4 weeks.

Time to Value

2–4 weeks

Typical implementation window from access granted to production go-live for most SAP ECC + BNG deployments.

Project Phases

Discovery
Configure & Map
Validate
Launch

Engagement Model

Guided by Clarity experts with your team involved at key milestones.

Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing for SAP ECC + BNG.

Start with a single integration pair and scale as your business grows—without surprise fees or transaction penalties.

Connect™ Plan

Clarity Connect

$595 /mo

Billed annually • Includes one production integration pair

  • Unlimited transactions and API calls within fair-use limits.
  • Visual workflow designer and reusable mapping templates.
  • Monitoring, alerting, and access to Clarity’s support team.
View full pricing & options
Next Steps

See SAP ECC + BNG integration in action.

Explore a guided demo, start a sandbox integration, or speak directly with our solution architects about your specific use cases.

Start Free Trial Request Live Demo