Preserving Legacy B2B Investments in SAP Integration Suite with B2B Integration Factory

A finance expert with experience at Bloomberg provides an abstract summary of the article, focusing on the principal points. The summary ranges between 30 and 90 words. The article discusses the challenge of reusing SAP PI/PO B2B mapping content in Cloud Integration and introduces the B2B Integration Factory solution, which enables seamless reuse of PI/PO mappings. The solution addresses challenges such as EDI schema incompatibility, the overhead of building custom integration flows, and the gap in utilizing native B2B capabilities. The B2B Integration Factory bridges the gap between legacy SAP PI/PO B2B mappings and SAP Integration Suite, enabling reuse, scalability, and compatibility with cloud-native B2B features.

Organizations shifting from on-premise solutions to cloud-based platforms like SAP Integration Suite face significant challenges in reusing B2B mapping content developed over years in SAP PI/PO. This transition is particularly critical for companies heavily reliant on B2B integrations, as it requires leveraging legacy SAP PI/PO mapping artifacts in SAP Cloud Integration, especially with Trading Partner Management (TPM).

The B2B Integration Factory offers a solution that addresses key challenges, including EDI schema incompatibility, the overhead of building and maintaining custom integration flows, and the gap in utilizing native B2B capabilities. This factory bridges the gap between legacy SAP PI/PO B2B mappings and SAP Integration Suite, enabling seamless reuse, scalability, and compatibility with cloud-native B2B features like TPM and B2B Monitoring.

The solution dynamically handles all processing and removes the need to build custom flows for each partner and message type. It decouples mapping artifacts from the flow and maintains the sequence as activity parameters in the respective Trading Partner Agreement (TPA)/Business Transaction Activity (BTA). The generic flow, called via custom mapping from each BTA, dynamically reads the configured sequence from TPM, locates relevant mapping artifacts, and executes defined transformation steps, including resolving EDI schema incompatibilities.

By simplifying the onboarding of trading partners and utilizing a repeatable configuration model compatible with TPM, the B2B Integration Factory ensures that organizations can fully leverage their existing investments in B2B mapping content while transitioning to the cloud.

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[1] https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blog-posts-by-sap/reusing-sap-pi-po-b2b-mapping-content-in-cloud-integration-trading-partner/ba-p/14147241