SAP Construct Course of Automation Integration for Enterprise Orchestration

When SAP launched SAP Construct on the SAP TechEd convention in 2022, the message was deliberate: automation shouldn’t require a developer. Enterprise customers, those that perceive the processes, ought to have the instruments to design workflows, automate choices and take away handbook effort from on a regular basis duties with out writing code.

SAP Construct brings collectively numerous capabilities on SAP Enterprise Expertise Platform (BTP): SAP Construct Apps and Code for software growth, SAP Construct Work Zone as a portal service and SAP Construct Course of Automation (SAP BPA) for workflows and robotic course of automation (RPA). SAP BPA merges the earlier SAP Workflow Service and SAP Clever Robotic Course of Automation (iRPA) right into a single, low-code providing for workflow administration — and it’s the place automation turns into extra accessible, extra contextual and extra aligned with how enterprise groups truly work.

However accessibility on the process stage creates a brand new operational query. As soon as SAP BPA is working at scale, the dialog shifts from “What can it automate?” to “How dependable, safe and environment friendly is the automation?” Workflows must be sequenced, ruled and run reliably throughout a number of programs, groups and dependencies. That’s the place the design of particular person automations meets the fact of enterprise course of orchestration. With Redwood Software program’s new SAP BPA connector and RunMyJobs by Redwood REST API actions now accessible within the SAP Enterprise Accelerator Hub, that connection is now bi-directional and extra accessible than ever.

Separate by design, related by objective

SAP BPA is designed to construct customized task-level automation for frequent and repetitive duties. Consider processes like:

• Extracting bill information and posting it into SAP
• Importing journal entries from spreadsheets
• Parsing contract phrases and triggering follow-up actions

These steps are targeted on a particular operate or interplay. It’s vital to take a look at how they function inside broader enterprise processes.

For instance, order-to-cash doesn’t begin and cease with a single workflow. A monetary shut isn’t only a sequence of approvals. Provide chain execution is determined by exact timing, cross-system dependencies and circumstances being met upstream earlier than the following step can start.

SAP BPA is well-suited to automating the duties and user-driven workflows inside these processes. RunMyJobs enhances this by orchestrating the end-to-end course of these duties belong to — coordinating execution throughout programs, managing dependencies and making certain each step runs on the proper time, in the correct sequence, with full course of visibility and management.

Extending SAP BTP with out fragmenting your processes

This relationship turns into particularly related as SAP clients transfer deeper into cloud transformations by means of RISE with SAP and SAP BTP adoption. SAP’s clear core precept encourages organizations to maneuver extensions, integrations and customized logic out of the ERP core and onto SAP BTP, the place they are often maintained with out disrupting the core system. SAP BPA matches naturally into this mannequin, because it lives on SAP BTP and permits course of logic to be constructed and maintained there fairly than embedded contained in the ERP.

However shifting logic to SAP BTP doesn’t routinely talk it to the end-to-end processes that logic belongs to. An SAP BPA workflow working on SAP BTP nonetheless must be triggered on the proper second, handed off appropriately to downstream steps and ruled as half of a bigger orchestrated stream.

RunMyJobs supplies that orchestration layer. As the one orchestration platform that’s each an SAP Endorsed App and included within the RISE with SAP reference structure, RunMyJobs coordinates execution throughout SAP and non-SAP programs with out requiring customized code within the core or native set up of third-party software program contained in the ERP. It maximizes the return in your SAP funding.

The SAP Construct Course of Automation connector for RunMyJobs

The SAP BPA connector for RunMyJobs makes this integration concrete and operational. With the connector put in, you possibly can incorporate SAP BPA workflows straight into bigger orchestrated enterprise processes.

In follow, throughout a spread of use instances, which means you possibly can:

• Set off SAP BPA workflows as a step inside a broader RunMyJobs course of chain
• Use the end result of an SAP BPA workflow to drive downstream dependencies throughout programs
• Coordinate SAP BPA automations alongside SAP ERP jobs, file transfers, information pipeline steps and non-SAP workloads
• Monitor SAP BPA workflow execution alongside each different step within the course of from a single platform
• Leverage pre-built, enterprise-grade automation actions that embrace the safety, governance and guardrails required for mission-critical processes
• Lengthen these workflows into SAP Joule eventualities by invoking RunMyJobs as a part of Joule abilities and brokers

Reasonably than treating SAP BPA as a standalone automation software, you embed it into the processes it helps. As an alternative of constructing workarounds to attach SAP BPA to the remainder of your automation panorama, you possibly can let the connector deal with that.

Out there within the SAP Enterprise Accelerator Hub

The combination goes additional than a single connector. RunMyJobs’ REST API and pre-built SAP Construct actions at the moment are printed within the SAP Enterprise Accelerator Hub, making it simpler for groups constructing on SAP BTP to include RunMyJobs orchestration capabilities straight into their SAP Construct functions, workflows and extensions.

This has a couple of sensible implications:

1. It lowers the barrier for SAP BTP growth groups and citizen builders. As an alternative of constructing customized integrations from scratch, you possibly can invoke RunMyJobs capabilities straight as no-code parts inside SAP Construct and Joule Studio. Pre-configured actions can be found instantly, and the total REST API is accessible as low-code parts for extra superior eventualities.
2. It displays a shared imaginative and prescient and aligned roadmap with SAP. Inclusion within the SAP Enterprise Accelerator Hub means these integrations are designed to work inside SAP’s extension framework, according to clear core ideas and SAP BTP growth requirements.
3. It permits true bi-directional integration:
   1. RunMyJobs can set off and orchestrate SAP BPA workflows as a part of bigger enterprise processes
   2. SAP Construct functions and workflows can name RunMyJobs capabilities — elevating and clearing occasions, responding to alerts, managing queues and extra — straight from throughout the SAP BTP ecosystem
   3. SAP’s Joule can incorporate RunMyJobs into AI-driven eventualities, permitting growth groups to embed confirmed, enterprise-grade orchestration into Joule brokers and abilities with out further coding or customization

Configuring the connector

Setup is designed to be simple and aligned with how SAP and RunMyJobs environments are usually managed.

From the RunMyJobs facet, configuration consists of:

1. Putting in the SAP BPA connector from the RunMyJobs Connector Catalog
2. Configuring the connection utilizing SAP BPA endpoints and authentication
3. Incorporating SAP BPA workflows as steps inside orchestrated course of definitions in RunMyJobs

As soon as configured, SAP BPA workflows change into absolutely ruled individuals in your broader automation panorama. They are often scheduled, triggered by occasions, monitored for achievement or failure and coordinated with each upstream and downstream dependency throughout your programs.

Distributed automation wants a management aircraft

As SAP clients transfer to SAP Cloud ERP, RISE with SAP and SAP BTP, course of logic is changing into extra distributed throughout providers, extensions and functions. This brings flexibility but in addition a brand new requirement: these processes nonetheless have to run as one.

RunMyJobs addresses this by connecting SAP BPA workflows with the broader processes they belong to, orchestrating execution throughout programs, managing dependencies and making certain that distributed automations function as a single, dependable stream. It means that you can prolong on SAP BTP with out fragmenting how processes are executed or ruled.

Automation on the process stage is just a part of the equation. Confirmed and environment friendly orchestration is what makes it enterprise-grade.

See the RunMyJobs integration package deal within the SAP Enterprise Accelerator Hub.

Discover the SAP BPA connector for RunMyJobs, or browse all SAP connectors.