SAP Technical Brief SAP ERP SAP Integration Package for SWIFT
SIMPLIFY CORPORATE-TO-BANK COMMUNICATION
REDUCE COMPLEXITY AND COSTS
From midsize companies to large enterprises, organizations must maintain relationships with many financial institutions. SAP Integration Package for SWIFT lets companies consolidate their multiple communication interfaces to reduce the complexity and cost of electronic bank communication.
The Problem with Bank Communication Today
Companies can seldom rely on a single financial institution. Even midsize corporations must maintain several banking relationships to stay competitive in the global marketplace. Treasury and cash managers are interested in harmonizing and standardizing their payment infrastructure to lower costs, increase compliance, and improve liquidity management.
communication interfaces via the infrastructure of the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT).
Improved Company-Bank Communications
SAP Integration Package for SWIFT is a standardized payment gateway that enables your organization to communicate with your multiple banks more efficiently via SWIFTs highly secure and reliable messaging platform known as SWIFTHowever, electronic connections between Net. Through a single connection point banking partners and companies enter- provided by SAP Integration Package prise resource planning (ERP) systems for SWIFT, SWIFTNet allows you to require a complex environment of com- greatly reduce the number of bank munication interfaces, including expenintegrations you operate and maintain, sive, custom, point-to-point connections. thus lowering your overall total cost of These interfaces are developed using ownership. It helps your organization a variety of protocols, proprietary stan- achieve greater control through improved dards, and technology. The average payment automation and liquidity managecost for maintaining each proprietary ment, leading to enhanced regulatory interface can exceed US$50,000 per compliance. Furthermore, because year. For global companies with multiple SWIFTNet provides access to over banking relationships, their costs can 8,900 financial institutions in 208 countries easily exceed $1 million annually. and territories worldwide, you have a wider choice of banking partners and In addition to incurring integration costs, greater flexibility in your choice of those fragmented interfaces frustrate efforts partners. to improve financial process efficiencies and control. For example, payment orders SAP Integration Package for SWIFT uses Internet-based standards, which or electronic statements from each bank must be handled separately, which help your company achieve independence from proprietary payment results in higher levels of manual processing, productivity losses, and an protocols and bank-specific e-banking products. Integration between your overall lack of cash-flow transparency. financial systems and your banking institutions enables more streamlined SAP Integration Package for SWIFT payment processing, cash-flow transhelps reduce the complexity and cost parency, and improved visibility of of bank communication by enabling companies to consolidate their multiple global liquidity.
The package provides the following: Tight integration with the SAP ERP Financials solution (and the treasury applications from SAP) and the SAP NetWeaver technology platform, providing direct access to SWIFTNet and connectivity between banks and your companys financial systems Real-time exchange of payment and settlement messages via a secure and highly available network, which provides full redundancy and advanced recovery mechanisms Independence from country-specific standards and proprietary electronicbanking products Simplified implementation and auditing of statutory payment regulations through a uniform solution worldwide
The package provides dedicated message and process mappings between the application interfaces and business logic of SAP ERP Financials and SWIFTNet. Its process-integration content and mappings cover the entire business process lifecycle, from payment to reconciliation. SAP Integration Package for SWIFT also provides technical message mappings, which are positive or negative acknowledgments and delivery notifications that may be requested by the sending company. These messages also update the payment status monitor in the SAP Bank Communication Management application and if SWIFTNet or your bank is unable to process your payment transactions successfully create either a workflow or e-mail notification.
SAP Integration Package for SWIFT helps reduce the complexity and cost of bank communication by enabling companies to consolidate their multiple communication interfaces via the infrastructure of SWIFT.
Data Transfer
SAP Integration Package for SWIFT supports SWIFTs two main data transfer mechanisms called messaging services that define how information is exchanged between companies and their financial institutions. These messaging services are as follows: FIN is the main messaging mechanism used by organizations for liquidity and risk management purposes. It is a store-and-forward message transfer system used to exchange single payments or intraday and end-of-day bank statements using the SWIFT message type (MT) financial services messaging standards. FileAct is a system for transferring batch messages such as payroll or periodic payment runs. It also supports both real-time and store-and-forward communication.
Support of International Payment Standards
SAP Integration Package for SWIFT also supports the ISO 20022 message scheme referred to as the UNIversal FInancial Industry messaging scheme, or UNIFI as defined by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and SWIFT. These standards are the foundation of the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) initiative. SEPA enables corporations and individuals in the 27 European Union member states to send and receive cross-border payments in a standardized format.
and business processes across technologies and organizational boundaries. SAP NetWeaver provides the best way to integrate all systems running SAP or non-SAP software. Based on open, standard technology, it supports commonly used technologies such as Java Platform, Enterprise Edition; Microsoft.NET; and IBM WebSphere. SAP NetWeaver has advanced business process management functionality, allowing the design, execution, and monitoring of the pay-toreconcile process across applications and systems. Support for FIN and FileAct in the integration repository of the SAP NetWeaver Process Integration (SAP NetWeaver PI) offering lets you manage the pay-to-reconcile business scenario, processes, and mappings. The repository also contains the integration directory, where you can manage the technical characteristics of partners, such as party identification and collaboration agreements.
Technical Architecture
SAP Integration Package for SWIFT is powered by SAP NetWeaver, which lets you integrate people, information,
When using FIN, you have the following file-adapter-specific functionality: Creation of SWIFTNet-specific files formatted as protocol data units (PDUs) in the automated file transfer (AFT) format Local user authentication management between SAP NetWeaver PI and the SWIFTAlliance Access messaging interface, which eliminates the need to authenticate users to many different systems
Local authentication between SAP NetWeaver PI and SWIFTAlliance Gateway File transfer between SAP NetWeaver PI and SWIFTAlliance Gateway via FTP or through a shared folder
Benefits of SAP Integration Package for SWIFT
Organizations that use SAP Integration Package for SWIFT gain the following business benefits: Enhanced communications with banking partners Improved transparency into the cash-flow process Streamlined payment-exchange and pay-to-reconcile processes Support for international payment standards Find Out More For more information about how your company can simplify communications with banking partners, contact your SAP representative or visit us online at www.sap.com/solutions /business-suite/erp.
SAP Integration Package for SWIFT supports the ISO 20022 message scheme referred to as the UNIversal FInancial Industry messaging scheme, or UNIFI as defined by the International Organization for Standardization and SWIFT.
Support for FIN and FileAct in the integration repository of the SAP NetWeaver Process Integration offering lets you manage the payto-reconcile business scenario, processes, and mappings.
File transfer between SAP NetWeaver PI and SWIFTNet via FTP or through a shared folder Direct processing of SWIFTNetspecific files, formatted as PDUs of the AFT format by SAP ERP Financials The following functionalities are enabled when using the FileAct messaging service: Transmission of batch messages via the file transfer agent and processed by SWIFTAlliance Gateway, which manages access to SWIFTNet
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Summary SAP Integration Package for SWIFT provides integration with the SWIFTNet infrastructure of the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT). Using SWIFTs secure and reliable infrastructure lets companies communicate simply and efficiently with their multiple banking partners. Business Challenges Reduce reliance on proprietary payment protocols Maintain multiple banking relationships Harmonize and standardize payment infrastructure Improve financial process efficiencies and control Key Features Data transfer Use FIN or FileAct to exchange single payments or transfer batch messages Message and process mapping Communicate information throughout the business process lifecycle International payment standard support Send and receive cross-border payments in a standardized format and comply with the Single Euro Payments Area initiative for message exchange Business process management Manage the pay-to-reconcile process across applications Business Benets Improve communications between organizations and their multiple banking partners Streamline exchange of payments, using a secure and highly available network Enable cash-flow transparency, due to integration between your financial systems and your banking institutions Improve visibility of global liquidity, with support for international payment standards Improve the pay-to-reconcile process by using integration with the SAP NetWeaver technology platform For More Information Call your SAP representative, or visit us online at www.sap.com/solutions/business-suite/erp.
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