Connect SAP ECC-R/3 and Edifact

Connecting SAP ECC-R/3 and Edifact for a company could enable the automated exchange of business documents such as orders, invoices, or shipping notices in a standardized electronic format. This could reduce manual data entry, help ensure data consistency between systems, and support compliance with trading partner requirements for electronic document transmission.

You can build this integration on the System2System platform. We design the connection between SAP ECC-R/3 and Edifact around the way you work — not as an off-the-shelf connector, but to fit your systems.

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Why connect SAP ECC-R/3 and Edifact?

A company operating both SAP ECC-R/3 and Edifact could benefit from connecting these systems by enabling direct data exchange between its internal enterprise resource planning processes and its electronic data interchange (EDI) communications with external partners. Without such a connection, staff might need to enter the same information, such as purchase orders or invoices, into both systems separately. This manual duplication increases the risk of errors, inconsistencies, and delays, as records in one system could diverge from those in the other. Decision-makers might then rely on outdated or incomplete data, which could affect procurement, sales, or financial reporting. If a connection were established, data such as orders, shipment notifications, invoices, and inventory updates could be exchanged between SAP ECC-R/3 and Edifact. This could help ensure that business transactions processed in SAP are reflected accurately in EDI documents sent to or received from partners, and vice versa. The specific data that can be exchanged would depend on what each system exposes through its API and would need to be determined for 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 SAP ECC-R/3 and Edifact 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.