Loading data into SAP ERP
We will not discuss the topic of configuring the SAP system to communicate with the Data Services environment as it would require another few chapters on the subject and, most importantly, it is not the purpose of this book. All this information can be found in detailed SAP documentation available at http://help.sap.com.
We presume that you have exactly the same Data Services and staging environments configured and created in the previous chapters of this book and have also installed and configured the SAP ERP system, which can communicate with the Data Services job server.
In this recipe, we will go through the steps of loading information into the SAP ERP system by using Data Services. In one of our preparation processes, we will be generating data records for insertion right in the dataflow, when usually, you have the data ready to be loaded in the staging area extracted from another system.
We will also review the main SAP transactions involved in the process...