New documentation available: Extend your SAP S/4HANA Processes with SAP Build Process Automation

[Manuel_Namyslo]

"Intelligent Processes Are Integrated Processes"

If you're already automating and extending business processes on the SAP Business Technology Platform, you're likely thinking about the best way to connect your new process extensions to the relevant systems of record. This also includes SAP Build Process Automation, which serves as our central development environment for creating intelligent automations and orchestrating end-to-end business processes across complex IT landscapes.

The good news is that there is now a comprehensive new guide available on the SAP Help Portal to help with this process:

• Extend and Integrate Your SAP S/4HANA Processes with SAP Build Process Automation

This guide walks you through the integration setup and management of SAP Build Process Automation with SAP S/4HANA or SAP S/4HANA Cloud. It is primarily aimed at system administrators and technical consultants who support customers using SAP S/4HANA or SAP S/4HANA Cloud and wish to extend their ERP capabilities by integrating with SAP Build Process Automation.

Covering the most crucial activities for successful integration, this guide is your go-to resource for connecting SAP Build Process Automation with SAP S/4HANA or SAP S/4HANA Cloud.

But first of all what is SAP Build Process Automation?

SAP Build Process Automation is a solution designed for citizen developers to adapt, enhance, and innovate business processes through no-code workflow management and robotic process automation.

It empowers both business users and technologists to take on the role of citizen developers. With its powerful, yet user-friendly low-code and no-code features, SAP Build Process Automation allows you to drive automation by leveraging the expertise of your citizen developer community. It allows you to:

• Digitalize, extend, or adapt existing processes and orchestrate new end-to-end processes
• Seamlessly leverage UiPath capabilities with SAP Build Process Automation add-on by UiPath
• Build RPA bots to handle repetitive tasks so users can focus on higher-value goals
• Accelerate document-heavy processes with intelligent document processing
• Connect process and task automations to any SAP or non-SAP application

 What can you learn in this new documentation?

You should certainly bookmark this documentation to learn how to integrate your custom processes and automations with SAP S/4HANA, and extend standardized workflows to meet specific business requirements.

The runtime setup involves several configurations that must be executed in both the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) cockpit and the SAP Build Lobby. In this guide, we’ll walk through a common use case: pushing and retrieving business partner master data into an SAP S/4HANA system, whether on-premise or in the cloud.

Below, you can review the final architectures that you can achieve once you’ve completed the documentation. First, here’s the technical architecture for integrating SAP Build Process Automation with SAP S/4HANA on-premise:

Next, here’s the technical architecture for integrating SAP Build Process Automation with SAP S/4HANA Cloud:

Conclusion

It’s important to note that this documentation focuses on the integration between SAP Build Process Automation and SAP S/4HANA. However, the same approach can be applied to integrate with other SAP applications, such as SAP SuccessFactors, SAP Ariba, or SAP Customer Experience, as well as third-party systems. The setup can also be reused for processing various types of transactional or master data within a system of record. I hope this new asset will help you to simplify and standardize the connectivity o custom processes and automations to your existing backend applications.