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SAP to Success Factors integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep SAP and Success Factors in sync without custom scripts. Cut weeks of integration work, eliminate silent data drift, and give your team a single, reliable source of truth.

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Why teams connect SAP and Success Factors

Sync the workers, org structure, and cost centers that SAP and Success Factors share in real time, so the people Success Factors manages stay current in the system that runs finance and operations.

Success Factors is the system of record for people: who was hired, which department and location they sit in, who they report to, and how they are paid. SAP runs finance and operations, and much of what it does depends on that same information, from booking labor cost to approving an expense report to staffing a project. Where the two are bridged by re-keying or an overnight file, each side spends the day out of step, with new hires missing from the systems they need and leavers still active where they should not be.

Stacksync syncs Outbound Deliveries, Billing Documents, GL Accounts and Journal Entries, Production Orders in SAP with PerPerson, EmpEmployment, EmpJob, EmpCompensation in Success Factors field by field, in real time, and in both directions. You decide which system owns which fields, so the people side stays authoritative for worker data while SAP keeps its own accounting and operational detail, and every change made in one is reflected in the other within seconds instead of at the next batch run.

Common use cases

  • 01 Keep MES and WMS systems aligned with production orders and goods movements.
  • 02 Expose sales order and delivery status to customer portals through a synced Postgres database instead of direct SAP access.
  • 03 Keep Foundation Objects (department, location, cost center) aligned between SuccessFactors and an ERP so cost-center and org hierarchies match.
  • 04 Write updated PerEmail, PerPhone, and User attributes back into SuccessFactors from an identity or directory system so contact data stays current.

Common sync patterns

Where Success Factors is the worker system of record: one employee master

When a worker is hired, moved, or offboarded in Success Factors, the matching employee record in SAP is created, updated, or deactivated, so the business system reflects the workforce as it actually is.

New hires ready to transact in SAP

A new person set up in Success Factors becomes an employee record in SAP in time to submit expenses, enter time, or approve a purchase, without waiting on manual setup.

One org structure

Departments, cost centers, and locations that both systems reference stay in agreement, so labor cost, approvals, and reporting in SAP roll up to the same structure Success Factors maintains.

What you can sync between SAP and Success Factors

Representative objects on each side — any object or custom field can map to any target. Schemas are auto-detected; types are converted between the two systems.

SAP objects Success Factors objects How this pairing syncs
Business Partners The unified customer and supplier master in S/4HANA, the anchor object for CRM and procurement syncs. EmpEmployment Employment record tying a person to an employment period (hire, service dates); carries lastModifiedDateTime used for incremental polling. Business Partners is specific to SAP and EmpEmployment to Success Factors — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Materials (Products) Item master with plant and sales views, synced to commerce, PLM, and CRM systems. EmpJob Effective-dated job info: position, department, manager, FTE, pay grade, cost center; the most-synced record for downstream HR and provisioning. Materials (Products) is specific to SAP and EmpJob to Success Factors — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Sales Orders Order documents written from external channels and read for status and fulfillment. EmpCompensation Effective-dated pay and compensation; usually read into a warehouse for reporting, writable for comp updates as new dated slices. Sales Orders is specific to SAP and EmpCompensation to Success Factors — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Purchase Orders Procurement documents synced with supplier portals and spend tools. Foundation Objects (FODepartment, FOLocation, FOCostCenter) Org-structure master data (department, location, cost center, division); mastered elsewhere and written in, or read out to build org charts. Purchase Orders is specific to SAP and Foundation Objects (FODepartment, FOLocation, FOCostCenter) to Success Factors — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Outbound Deliveries Shipment documents synced to WMS, carriers, and customer portals. Position Position Management records for headcount and requisition planning; synced with an ATS or ERP to keep positions and reqs aligned. Outbound Deliveries is specific to SAP and Position to Success Factors — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Billing Documents Invoices read for AR status and replicated for revenue reporting. PerEmail and PerPhone Contact sub-entities under PerPerson; synced two-way with a directory or comms system to keep worker contact data current. Billing Documents is specific to SAP and PerEmail and PerPhone to Success Factors — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between SAP and Success Factors

Each direction of the sync is driven by what the source system can signal and what the destination accepts — detection, delivery, and expected latency below.

SAP Success Factors Sub-second propagation

DetectionSAP notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Business events via SAP Event Mesh on S/4HANA.

DeliveryEach detected change is written to Success Factors through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Success Factors SAP Sub-second propagation

DetectionSuccess Factors notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Polling on each entity's lastModifiedDateTime / lastModifiedOn (effective-dated entities require date-range handling).

DeliveryEach detected change is written to SAP through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Rate-limit considerations

  • SAP: Throttling is configured at the gateway and tenant level rather than as a single published rate limit.
  • Success Factors: OData calls are throttled at the tenant level (Access Limits for OData V2); large reads must be paginated (default page size 1000) via $top/$skip or paging cursors.
What ships with SAP ⇄ Success Factors

Connect SAP and Success Factors for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every SAP–Success Factors connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in SAP or Success Factors instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever SAP or Success Factors data changes, update records, fire webhooks, or kick off sequences without brittle API scripts.

At scale

Event queues

Handle millions of events per minute without losing a single SAP or Success Factors record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your SAP ⇄ Success Factors sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

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EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between SAP and Success Factors.

How the SAP and Success Factors connectors work

SAP

Integration surface
OData (v2/v4) APIs on S/4HANA; BAPI/RFC and IDoc on ECC and on-prem systems; SOAP services
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 or basic auth via communication arrangements on cloud editions; SAP user credentials for RFC on-prem
Change detection
Business events via SAP Event Mesh on S/4HANA; change pointers with IDocs or timestamp polling on ECC
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Throttling is configured at the gateway and tenant level rather than as a single published rate limit

Success Factors

Integration surface
OData V2 and V4 REST APIs (plus legacy SFAPI / Compound Employee SOAP API)
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 SAML Bearer Assertion — register an OAuth client for an API key (used as client_id), then exchange a signed SAML assertion for a short-lived access token; legacy HTTP Basic auth is being retired
Change detection
Polling on each entity's lastModifiedDateTime / lastModifiedOn (effective-dated entities require date-range handling); Intelligent Services can also push a fixed set of standard business events (e.g. Employee Hire) to a REST endpoint
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
OData calls are throttled at the tenant level (Access Limits for OData V2); large reads must be paginated (default page size 1000) via $top/$skip or paging cursors.
How it works

How to connect SAP to Success Factors — three steps, no code

Configure and sync within minutes, no code. Whether you sync 50k or 100M+ records, Stacksync handles the queues, infra, and plumbing. Integrations are non-invasive and need zero setup on your systems.

  1. 01

    Connect your apps

    Authenticate SAP and Success Factors with each platform's native method — OAuth, API keys, or service accounts — plus secure options like SSH tunneling, IP whitelisting, and VPC peering.

    • OAuth 2.0
    • SSH tunnel
    • VPC peering
    SAP connected
    Success Factors connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the SAP and Success Factors objects to sync — Stacksync auto-detects both schemas, including custom fields where the platform exposes them. Sync to existing tables, or let Stacksync create new ones with ideal data types.

    • Standard objects
    • Custom objects
    • Auto-schema
    objects · SAP ⇄ Success Factors
    Customers 12,480
    Sales Orders 8,213
    Invoices 5,902
    Items 1,344
  3. 03

    Map fields

    Fields map automatically even when names and types differ. Stacksync handles transformation and type casting for you, zero configuration required.

    • Auto-map
    • Type casting
    • Transforms
    SAP Success Factors
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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Alerts

Immediately get alerted about record syncing issues over email, Slack, PagerDuty and WhatsApp. Resolve issues from a centralized dashboard with retry and revert options.

Secure connection options

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