Connect SAP and LinnWorks

Connecting SAP and LinnWorks for a company would involve developing a solution to exchange data such as inventory levels, orders, and financial transactions between the two platforms. This could enable more accurate stock management, streamlined order processing, and improved financial reporting by ensuring that relevant information is consistently updated across both systems.

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

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Why connect SAP and LinnWorks?

A company that runs both SAP and LinnWorks could benefit from connecting these systems to enable the exchange of data between their core business operations and e-commerce or order management activities. Without such a connection, staff may need to enter the same data in both systems, which could result in duplicate work, increased risk of errors, and wasted time. Over time, records in SAP and LinnWorks could drift apart, leading to inconsistencies in product availability, order status, or customer information. This can cause confusion, delays in fulfilling orders, and decisions based on outdated or incomplete figures. If these systems were connected, the types of data that could be exchanged include inventory levels, sales orders, customer details, product information, and shipment tracking. The actual data that can be exchanged depends on what each system makes available through its API and needs to be determined for each specific 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 and LinnWorks 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.