Connect EDI Broker and SAP Business by Design

Connecting EDI Broker and SAP Business by Design for a company could enable the transfer of structured business documents, such as purchase orders and invoices, between trading partners and internal business processes. Such an integration could help automate data exchange, reduce manual entry, and support compliance with electronic data interchange standards.

You can build this integration on the System2System platform. We design the connection between EDI Broker and SAP Business by Design around the way you work — not as an off-the-shelf connector, but to fit your systems.

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Why connect EDI Broker and SAP Business by Design?

A company operating both an EDI Broker and SAP Business by Design could benefit from connecting these systems to enable direct data exchange between them. Such a connection could reduce the need for manual data entry, which often leads to duplicate records and increases the risk of errors. Without integration, there is a risk that records in each system could drift apart over time, making it difficult to maintain a single source of truth. This can result in business decisions being made based on outdated or inconsistent information. If a connection were established, it could allow for the automatic transfer of data such as purchase orders, invoices, shipment notifications, and other transaction documents that are commonly handled via EDI. This could help ensure that business processes managed in SAP Business by Design are always up to date with the latest documents received or sent through the EDI Broker. The actual data that can be exchanged, however, depends on what each system makes available through its API and must be determined for each specific case.

How System2System builds an integration

Connectors

We connect to each system through the interface it offers — an API, a database, a file exchange or a webhook — and handle authentication, rate limits and retries.

Mapping

Fields rarely line up one to one. We map and transform the data so both systems receive it in the shape they expect.

Workflow

We define what triggers an exchange, in which direction data flows and which system takes precedence when the two disagree.

Monitoring

Every exchange is logged. Failures are flagged and can be replayed, so nothing disappears without anyone noticing.

What can actually be exchanged?

That depends on what EDI Broker and SAP Business by Design make available through their APIs, on the licences and modules in use, and on the version each system runs. Which records are synchronised, in which direction and how often, is something we determine together before any work starts.

We are happy to look at your specific situation and tell you what is feasible — including when the answer is that it is not.