SAP writeback service

Beta

The features described in this section are currently in beta testing and are subject to change.

Use the SAP writeback service to create or update records in your SAP S/4HANA system.

Supported SAP entities

The SAP writeback service connects to SAP standard delivered OData V2.0 endpoints available in SAP S/4HANA. It supports the following SAP entities:

• Maintenance notifications
• Attachments

Supported SAP versions

The SAP writeback supports the following SAP S/4HANA versions:

• SAP S/4HANA OnPremise 2021 FPS01, and later
• SAP S/4HANA Cloud

Before you start

• Make sure you register the Cognite API and applications in Microsoft Entra ID and set up Microsoft Entra ID and CDF groups to control access to CDF data.

• To setup and use the SAP writeback service, you need the following CDF capabilities:

  • sapwriteback:READ and sapwriteback:WRITE to setup SAP destinations, endpoints, and mappings
  • sapwritebackrequests:write and sapwritebackrequests:list to send and list writeback requests

• Make sure the SAP destination endpoints are active and accessible from outside your intranet.

• Make sure the SAP user has authorization to call SAP OData services.