Connect Edifact and SAP S/4 HANA

Connecting Edifact and SAP S/4 HANA for a company could enable the exchange of business documents and transactional data between the two platforms. Such integration could support automated processing of orders, invoices, or shipping notifications, helping to reduce manual entry and improve data accuracy across procurement, sales, or logistics operations.

You can build this integration on the System2System platform. We design the connection between Edifact and SAP S/4 HANA around the way you work — not as an off-the-shelf connector, but to fit your systems.

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Why connect Edifact and SAP S/4 HANA?

A company operating both Edifact and SAP S/4 HANA could benefit from enabling the two systems to exchange data. Without such a connection, staff may need to enter the same information into both systems, which increases the risk of errors and consumes additional time. This manual approach can also result in records diverging over time, with each system reflecting different versions of the same data. As a result, business decisions could be made based on outdated or inconsistent figures, potentially affecting efficiency and accuracy across operations. If a connection were established, it could allow for the transfer of business documents and transactional data, as Edifact is a standard for electronic data interchange and SAP S/4 HANA is an enterprise resource planning platform. The types of data that could be exchanged may include purchase orders, invoices, shipment notifications, and inventory updates, depending on the business processes involved. This could help ensure that both systems remain synchronized, reducing the need for duplicate entry and improving data reliability. However, the specific data that can be exchanged depends on what each system exposes through its API and is determined in each situation.

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 Edifact and SAP S/4 HANA 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.