AWS for SAP
Build AI-Powered SAP automations seamlessly with Amazon Quick Automate
Every day, enterprises grapple with a fundamental challenge: SAP systems contain business critical data that drives enterprise operations—from supplier relationships and inventory levels to financial transactions and production planning. However, accessing this data for workflow automations has traditionally required complex custom integrations, specialized SAP knowledge, and significant development time. Business processes that rely on both SAP and non-SAP data have traditionally required extensive developer effort to integrate these sources. Line of business teams, including supply chain managers need real-time disruption analysis, finance teams want automated exception handling for invoices, and procurement specialists require instant supplier risk assessment. And yet turning these business needs into automations have remained complex – until now.
AWS Action Connectors for SAP in Amazon Quick Suite
Earlier this month, AWS announced Amazon Quick Suite, a new agentic teammate that helps employees transform how they find insights, conduct deep research, automate tasks, visualize data, and take actions across applications. Quick Suite integrates with popular third-party applications such as SAP, ServiceNow, PagerDuty, Asana and more, to ingest data and allow users to create tasks, open tickets, and take action within the Quick Suite interface.
This blog discusses the built-in connectors for SAP available within Quick Suite and how customers can leverage these connectors to build powerful automations using Amazon Quick Automate to streamline their business operations. Quick Automate is a capability of Quick Suite that enables enterprises to build, deploy and maintain resilient automations at scale. The AWS Action Connectors for SAP helps customers to perform real-time read operations against live SAP data, enabling Quick Automate to seamlessly interact with SAP ERP Systems like SAP S/4HANA. Additionally, these connectors handle the technical complexity of SAP APIs, authentication, and data exchange automatically. Quick Automate is transforming enterprise automation by making complex SAP integrations accessible to business users through structured workflow definitions and Process Definition Documents. Instead of waiting months for custom development, customers can now build AI-powered SAP automations in hours.
This release includes 5 connectors for SAP S/4HANA, that address common enterprise automation scenarios. Each connector provides specific API endpoints as actions, enabling precise data retrieval (Read-Only) and workflow automation:
- Business Partner: Access comprehensive business partner, supplier and customer data for vendor analysis and customer demographics assessments.
- Product Master: Retrieve essential material data, plant information, and supply planning details for comprehensive inventory management.
- Bill of Materials : Query material structures and component relationships to understand product dependencies and manufacturing requirements.
- Physical Inventory Documents: Access inventory document postings and stock movements for accurate reconciliation processes and comprehensive audit trail maintenance.
- Material Stock: Get real-time inventory levels and stock positions by location for precise availability tracking and inventory optimization.
For detailed API specifications, you can reference the corresponding SAP API documentation for each service endpoint. When configuring automations, use the action names listed to access the specific data sets your automation scenarios require.
How Genpact has Automated Supply Chain Risk Assessment on behalf of their customers using Amazon Quick Automate
Genpact is an agentic and advanced technology solutions company recognized for its deep industry knowledge, process intelligence, and last-mile expertise. With it’s deep industry expertise and business process acumen, the company has partnered with AWS and built an AI-powered supply chain resiliency solution on Quick Automate to transform enterprise risk management. Equipped with the solution’s intelligent, automated supply chain monitoring capabilities, organizations can assess disruption impact across multiple SAP modules in minutes—a dramatic improvement from the 2-3 days typically required for manual analysis. When external risk monitoring systems detect supply chain disruptions, the automated workflow immediately orchestrates data collection across Business Partner Master, Product Master, Bill of Materials, and Inventory Management systems, calculates business impact priorities, and triggers appropriate response actions such as alternative sourcing and stakeholder notifications. This breakthrough solution provides around-the-clock supply chain protection with real-time cross-system coordination, positioning Genpact as a leader in AI-powered business process transformation.
With Quick Automate and SAP connectors, you can create a structured workflow through an intuitive User Interface, that outlines the automated response process:
Figure 1: Supply Chain Disruption Response Process implemented by Genpact
This kind of automated, data-driven approach helps companies stay resilient and respond faster when things go wrong—keeping shelves stocked and customers happy.
SAP actions can be customized by specifying additional parameters, including filtering criteria and selection parameters. This complex workflow, defined through structured process documentation, now executes automatically in minutes, enabling proactive supply chain risk management.
Getting Started with AWS Connectors for SAP
To begin using AWS Action Connectors for SAP with Quick Automate:
- Access Amazon Quick Suite: AWS Connectors for SAP are currently available for all customers via Amazon Quick Suite Integrations.
- Setup Connectivity: Set up secure connections to your SAP systems through the Quick Suite console and configure necessary actions to be performed with the Connectors.
- Discover Actions: Post a successful connection setup, enabled set of actions as part of this integration are visible.
- Create Automation Groups: Now go to Quick Automate Projects and click on Manage groups to setup an Automation group, onboard created Integration as ‘Actions’.
- Define automations: Now create an automation project and add the automation group created to the workflow specifications that outline your business processes and leverage the appropriate SAP connectors.
- Test and Refine: Review, test, and modify generated automations before deployment
- Deploy and Monitor: Execute automations and monitor performance through the Studio.
The AWS Action Connectors for SAP are built with enterprise security requirements in mind:
- Secure Authentication: Support for basic authentication available today and support for OAuth will be available shortly.
- Data Privacy: Data governance and authorizations managed within SAP (Users and Roles)
For detailed guidance on setting up these connectors please refer to AWS Documentation. Visit the getting started page to start using Amazon Quick Suite today.
Join the SAP on AWS Discussion
In addition to AWS Account team and Support channels, we have recently launched re:Post – A Reimagined Q&A Experience for the AWS Community. Our AWS for SAP Solution Architecture team regularly monitor the AWS for SAP topic for discussion and questions that could be answered to assist our customers and partners. If your question is not support-related, consider joining the discussion over at re:Post and adding to the community knowledge base. Visit our SAP on AWS page to learn more about moving your SAP workloads to AWS.
Acknowledgments
The strategic collaboration between AWS and Genpact to build an Agentic AI solution for SAP Supply Chain, powered by Amazon Quick Suite, will help customers optimize their supply chain operations through intelligent automation. We would like to acknowledge and thank Genpact leadership team for their partnership on this initiative.
Shriram Bidkar – Associate Vice President, AWS Solutions
James Avellone – Director, Sourcing and Procurement Advisory
Perryn Stewart – Vice President, Supply Chain Management
About the Authors
Rengarajan Sridharan is a Sr. Technical Program Manager for AWS EC2 Commercial Applications, driving programs focused on SAP and VMware workloads. With over 20 years of experience in enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions, Renga specializes in helping customers modernize their enterprise systems to maximize business value and digital transformation outcomes.
Apoorva Chandra is a Senior Product Manager – Technical on the EC2 SAP Engineering team at AWS, where she leads modernization and ecosystem initiatives for SAP enterprise customers running workloads on AWS. Her focus is on helping customers unlock the full potential of generative AI and analytics services to enhance their SAP landscapes.