The possibility to connect a file server to S4HC system

[singern]

Dear colleagues, our customer would like to establish a scenario where billing documents are saved as PDF on a file server connected to their S4HC system. I am wondering whether this scenario is supported and if yes, how it can be implemented. Thank you in advance for your feedback!

[MartyMcCormick · Accepted solution]

Hi Natalia

I dont think this is technically possible (others can chime in). Furthermore, S/4HANA Cloud, essentials is public cloud and in order to place a file on a network share this would require the customer to expose the share to the IP addresses of S/4HC--which typically is not acceptable for security teams.

One approach (albeit not ideal) could be to use the EMAIL output channel and send the billing documents to an email inbox. Then use polling receiver email adapter on CPI (https://blogs.sap.com/2018/03/19/sender-and-receiver-mail-adapter-in-sap-cloud-platform-integration/) to poll the inbox and take the PDFs and SFTP them to a server in your customer DMZ. Then from here they can be copied to the share via script.

Thanks,

Marty

[singern · Accepted solution]

Thank you marty.mccormick !

[Mathias_R_u_p]

One could potentially automate that using SAP Intelligent RPA. Such a software robot could (on a regular schedule or triggered by S/4HANA events) take billing documents and store them on a file share. That'd even work in case the file share share is located within a corporate network (since the RPA robots can act from within the corp network).

General info on RPA can found at https://sap.com/rpa and/or email frontrunner@sap.com for further support!

[singern]

Interesting idea, thank you m !