SAP Kafka Integration Streamline Workflows

Mass order processing

Subscribe to customer transactions (e.g. Ecommerce), generate orders in SAP and publish back order status.

Continuous fulfillment

Publish SAP deliveries and consume with your 3PL or warehouse management software.

Real-time intelligence

Stream events into SAP PI/PO or CPI, transform the data and publish for your BI tools to consume.

Key capabilities for SAP Kafka

Security

• Authenticate with Plain, Kerberos, SCRAM and two-say SSL.

Configuration

• Connect with Kafka APIs: Producer API, Consumer API, KSQL API
• Support multiple data formats with schema registry: free text, Avro, protocol buffers, and Parquet.
• Easily generate schemas to request and test payloads

Monitoring

• Enable enhanced error handling - e.g. Dead-letter topic.

Supported platforms

• All SAP Process Integration/Process Orchestration versions from 7.3 to 7.5.
• Cloud Integration (part of SAP Integration Suite)

Use Cases

• Efficient tracking of vehicle information for automotive retailers
• Dynamic publishing of SAP master data (Customers, Materials, Equipments, etc.)
• Timely dissemination of updates from SAP (Order Status, Deliveries, etc.)
• Prompt updates of status back to SAP (Delivery Tracking Number, etc.)
• Efficient tracking of vehicle information for automotive retailers
• Seamless Broadcasting of SAP work orders to production plants 
• Real-time equipment event monitoring for shipping containers

SAP Kafka Integration Flows

Producer

Publish events from SAP into Kafka topics.

Consumer

Subscribe to Kafka topics and pull data into SAP.

Master data sync

Update Customers, Accounts, Products or Price Books in real-time or via batch process.

Top 5 Features

Security

• Support multiple authentication modes including Kerberos and two-say SSL.

Efficiency & Ease of Use

• Support multiple data formats including free structure to structured formats (Avro, JSON, protocol buffers, and Parquet.
• Content can be easily converted between XML and JSON formats
• Communicate with Schema centralized place to work with specific schema version to serialize data. It is useful with structured data formats as user can easily maintain channel configuration between systems. It reduces effort to store schema in every channel.

Web-Based Workbench

• Provide a easy way to test connection configuration before applying to real scenario.
• Can be used as a connection storage and can be easily accessed to lookup for working connection entry to reduce scenario configuration effort.
• Friendly UI with helpful tools.
• Can be used to verify the data on source/target broker instead of using 3rd-party software.
• Zero effort to deploy and is frequently add features.