Using guided workflows

Guided workflows facilitate the way business processes that include SAP steps can be implemented in IBM® Business Process Manager (BPM) with minimal programming skills, and align business users without requiring an extensive understanding of the underlying SAP process documentation.

Because SAP runtime systems are not process driven and little or no visibility of throughput and backlog is available, process issues can be difficult to detect and correct. Therefore the users must be trained to understand and comply with the SAP process documentation to complete their business activities. However, using the SAP guided workflows in IBM BPM, you can enable an information flow between the SAP transactions and IBM BPM, prioritize process tasks dynamically, sequence tasks in the correct order, customize and refine business processes. To support this functionality, IBM BPM V8.5.5 provides an SAP Guided Workflow toolkit that uses the SAP WebGUI technology.

You can generate SAP guided workflows either automatically for SAP business projects that are imported from SAP Solution Manager or manually for business process definitions (BPD) that are defined in IBM BPM. After you generate the SAP guided workflow, you can use it to enable the information flow between the SAP transactions and IBM BPM, or you can customize it to update the implementation of various steps in your business flow in Process Portal.