Real-time
Two-way sync
Changes in SAP or Workday instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.
ERP ⇄ Accounting and finance
SAP to Workday integration — real-time, two-way sync
Keep SAP and Workday 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 Workday
Keep Workday and SAP agreeing on customers, invoices, and balances, whether they split the finance workload or one is replacing the other.
A dedicated finance tool and an ERP end up side by side for practical reasons: a subsidiary runs lighter software than headquarters, billing runs in a specialist system while the enterprise system holds the wider view, or the company is mid-migration and both are live. Whatever the split, the two systems describe overlapping customers and transactions, and that overlap drifts without a live connection.
Stacksync syncs Compensation, Time Off and Absence, Payroll Results, Suppliers in Workday with Sales Orders, Purchase Orders, Outbound Deliveries, Billing Documents in SAP in real time and in both directions. You decide which system wins on which field, and every change made in one is reflected in the other within seconds instead of at the next batch run.
Common use cases
- 01 Replicate worker, organization, and compensation data into a secured database for people analytics without giving analysts tenant access.
- 02 Push completed payroll results into a finance system or data warehouse each pay cycle.
- 03 Publish plant-level inventory to e-commerce and planning systems on change or on schedule.
- 04 Replicate journal entries and billing documents to a warehouse for finance analytics without loading the ERP.
Common sync patterns
One customer and vendor master
Where both systems keep records of the same organizations, corrections made in either propagate to the other.
Subsidiary to headquarters
Where Workday serves a business unit and SAP is the group system, transactions and customer records roll up continuously, so consolidation starts from live data.
Where Workday handles billing: invoices land in SAP
Invoices and payment activity from the billing side post through to the enterprise system automatically.
What you can sync between SAP and Workday
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 | Workday objects | How this pairing syncs | |
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| Billing Documents Invoices read for AR status and replicated for revenue reporting. | Positions Job seats synced with recruiting and planning tools. | Billing Documents is specific to SAP and Positions to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| GL Accounts and Journal Entries Financial postings replicated to warehouses for group finance analytics. | Compensation Pay components read into payroll, planning, and equity systems under strict access control. | GL Accounts and Journal Entries is specific to SAP and Compensation to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Production Orders Manufacturing orders exchanged with MES and scheduling systems. | Time Off and Absence Balances and requests synced with scheduling and workforce tools. | Production Orders is specific to SAP and Time Off and Absence to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Inventory / Stock Plant and storage-location quantities synced to storefronts and planning tools. | Payroll Results Completed pay data exported to finance and benefits systems. | Inventory / Stock is specific to SAP and Payroll Results to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Cost Centers Controlling masters read for mapping costs in finance integrations. | Suppliers Workday Financials vendor records aligned with procurement tools. | Cost Centers is specific to SAP and Suppliers to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Business Partners The unified customer and supplier master in S/4HANA, the anchor object for CRM and procurement syncs. | Customers and Invoices Financials receivables objects synced for billing visibility where Workday Financials is used. | Business Partners is specific to SAP and Customers and Invoices to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. |
How changes propagate between SAP and Workday
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 Workday 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 Workday through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.
Workday SAP Interval-based propagation
DetectionStacksync polls Workday for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. Polling, including transaction-log criteria on SOAP operations to fetch objects changed since a given moment.
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.
What ships with SAP ⇄ Workday
Connect SAP and Workday for flexible, real-time data sync.
Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every SAP–Workday connection.
No-code + pro-code
Workflow automation
Trigger automated workflows whenever SAP or Workday 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 Workday record.
Observability
Monitoring
Track your SAP ⇄ Workday sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.
Trading partners
EDI
Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between SAP and Workday.
How the SAP and Workday 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
Workday
- Integration surface
- SOAP Workday Web Services (WWS), a REST API, and Reports-as-a-Service (RaaS) endpoints for custom reports
- Authentication
- OAuth 2.0 for the REST API; integration system users with WS-Security or certificate-based auth for SOAP
- Change detection
- Polling, including transaction-log criteria on SOAP operations to fetch objects changed since a given moment; no general webhook surface
- Capabilities
- read · write
How it works
How to connect SAP to Workday — 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.
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Connect your apps
Authenticate SAP and Workday with each platform's native method — OAuth, API keys, or service accounts — plus secure options like SSH tunneling, IP whitelisting, and VPC peering.
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connected
Workday
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Choose tables
Pick the SAP and Workday 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.
objects · SAP ⇄ WorkdayCustomers 12,480Sales Orders 8,213Invoices 5,902Items 1,344 - 03
Map fields
Fields map automatically even when names and types differ. Stacksync handles transformation and type casting for you, zero configuration required.
SAP WorkdayCompany company_name textEmail email textAmount amount numericCreated created_at timestamp
FAQ
SAP and Workday integration FAQ
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Yes. Stacksync provides a managed, real-time two-way integration between SAP and Workday: authenticate both systems, choose the objects to sync (such as SAP's Billing Documents and GL Accounts and Journal Entries), map fields visually, and changes propagate both ways in milliseconds — no code required.
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Stacksync pricing is usage-based and starts at $1,000/month, including the managed SAP and Workday connectors, real-time two-way sync, monitoring, and support. That replaces building and maintaining a custom SAP–Workday integration in-house.
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Yes — Stacksync ships production-grade connectors for both SAP and Workday. The connectors handle authentication, schema detection, rate limits, and retries; you configure the sync, and Stacksync operates it.
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Change detection on SAP: Business events via SAP Event Mesh on S/4HANA; change pointers with IDocs or timestamp polling on ECC. On Workday: Polling, including transaction-log criteria on SOAP operations to fetch objects changed since a given moment; no general webhook surface. Each detected change propagates to the other side in milliseconds, with field-level conflict resolution and an inspectable event log.
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On the Workday side: Compensation, Time Off and Absence, Payroll Results, Suppliers, plus custom fields where Workday exposes them. On the SAP side: Sales Orders, Purchase Orders, Outbound Deliveries, Billing Documents. Stacksync auto-detects both schemas and converts types between the two systems.
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Yes. Each object mapping can be bidirectional or restricted to a single direction (both systems accept writes). Read-only mirrors, one-way pushes, and full two-way sync can be mixed in the same integration.
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As a data company, we understand the importance of keeping your data secure. Stacksync is built with security best practices to keep your data safe at every layer, and is DPF-certified for US, EU, UK and CH data transfers.
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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.
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