Bolders Consulting Group (BCG) offers expertise in area of Integration of ERP with Supply Chain solutions like APO through technologies like Core Interface (CIF). This enables transfer of master data from ERP system to APO and also ensures that transactional data is integrated between the 2 systems. However, Companies today face the old devil called Integration in a new avatar. Business expansion, consolidation and acquisition bring a plethora of heterogeneous IT systems. A typical IT landscape consists of a web of technologies. HCI or HANA Cloud Integration is SAP’s cloud based integration platform that tries to solve these problems plus provides a starting point for Integration Projects by offering pre-packaged Integration Content.
Lösungsmöglichkeiten:
SAP Core Interface (CIF)
SAP HANA Cloud Integration (HCI)
SAP Core Interface (CIF)
SAP CIF establishes link between ERP system and Supply Chain planning system like APO thereby ensuring that the master data and transactional data is seamlessly integrated between the two systems. Master data like Plants, Materials, Bill of materials, Production Versions, Vendors, Customers are sent from ERP to APO thereby ensuring that major chunk of master data is still maintained at one place in ERP. Once Planning relevant data is enriched, the planning run in APO ensures that the Planning results from APO are sent back to ERP.
Specific Customer requirements related to master data integration / transactional data integration are addressed through tools like User Exits, BADI enhancements for which BCG has fully proven technical expertise.
SAP HANA Cloud Integration (HCI)
SAP HANA Cloud Integration (HCI) comprises design-time and runtime environments for integration spanning on-premises SAP landscapes and SAP in the cloud, as well as other types of software. It’s built with open source technologies. The design-time environment is based on the Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (IDE). It enables an integration developer to construct integration flows by configuring, defining and monitoring their creations.
Key benefits:
Automatic upgrades to higher version without even interrupting messaging processing
Flexible platform for accomplishing integration
Cost savings as SAP HCI runs on Subscription basis, thereby reducing Total Cost of ownership (TCO)
Reliable and Secure as there are no losses due to Server failures
Standard content offered by SAP to connect SAP, ERP, HCM, SRM, APO with on premise and cloud solutions.