Business Application Programming Interfaces (BAPIs) enable access to SAP functions across formal, stable and dialog-free interfaces. These interfaces can be used by external applications developed by customers and complementary software partners as well as by other SAP applications. Let's understand taking an example
BAPI_CUSTOMER_GETDETAIL2:
In this example we will send Customer number from DS to SAP and retrieve Customer Name, City, Region, Country Key and Customer Account Group data elements for those customers and place that data in Data Source in various columns.
We will use BAPI_CUSTOMER_GETDETAIL2 for this exercise. This Business API (BAPI) is provided by SAP in most SAP release.
This Tutorial should provide basic understanding of how to use BAPI in Process Runner DB.
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