Transaction Tutorial - Introduction

This Tutorial explains and walks you through basic concepts behind Process Runner.

Process Runner can run almost any SAP R/3 transaction, Business API (BAPI) or Remote Function module (RFM) and load data from MS Excel to SAP without any ABAP programming or coding.

Process Runner can upload and download data from SAP to Excel. For the purpose of this section, we will focus on how to use Process Runner with SAP Transaction and upload Excel data to SAP.

We will take a simple example of updating material master in SAP. This example will help you understand steps involved in loading data from Excel to SAP R/3 transaction using Process Runner.

One has to perform following steps while working with Process Runner:

A.   Decide what needs to be done. Decide which SAP transaction is most appropriate for given task.      

B.   Prepare an Excel Spreadsheet and get ready with the data to upload.        

C.   Show Process Runner how to do it once - Record a sample transaction.

D.   Map Excel columns and cells to SAP fields        

E.   Test run          

F.   Production run

Once you understand the given example, you can run almost any SAP transaction using same method in Process Runner.

Also note that Process Runner can execute transaction in any SAP modules. You can use Process Runner not only to update or change data in SAP but also to create data, to print, to delete, or simply to check existence of data.