Moving to SAP Cloud ERP is a major investment. But one piece companies almost always overlook is making sure SAP connects properly to the tools the business depends on, including Basware for managing supplier invoices and payments. When that connection breaks, the impact is immediate. Invoices pile up. Payments fall behind. Automation that was working stops overnight. This happens more than you’d think, and it’s almost always avoidable.
Clean core done right
SAP’s direction is clear: keep the core clean. No custom additions, no modifications that break when SAP updates. It’s the right strategy, but it creates a real challenge for AP teams. Invoice automation is inherently complex: exceptions, approval workflows, compliance logic, multi-country mandates. If you try to build that natively inside SAP using custom code, you’re working directly against the clean core principle you just committed to.
The answer is a connection that handles that complexity outside the SAP core, built to SAP’s own technical standards so it stays stable through every update. The Basware Connector is built on SAP’s own Business Technology Platform, so it works with SAP, not around it.
What SAP certification actually means for you
The Basware Connector for SAP Cloud ERP is SAP-certified, independently validated against SAP’s own technical standards. It uses only SAP’s official approved methods, so there’s no custom code and no workarounds. Your SAP core stays clean, and every quarterly update goes through without breaking your AP automation or pulling your IT team into regression testing.
It also runs within your own IT infrastructure. Basware never has direct access to your SAP system, so your data and controls stay exactly where they should be.
What to watch out for
Most SAP migrations follow the same pattern. Early shortcuts feel manageable. Then go-live arrives, workflows break, and your finance team ends up firefighting instead of running the business. Custom integrations that weren’t built to SAP’s standards break during cutover. Compliance gaps surface when new e-invoicing regulations arrive and the rules are buried in code that’s hard to change quickly. And with SAP releasing updates regularly, every new release risks breaking those custom connections all over again.
Get it right and your team sees benefits within three to six months. Get it wrong and the business spends years fixing the mess.
Compliance handled, independently of SAP
Basware manages e-invoicing compliance for 100+ countries alongside your SAP system. When new regulations arrive, and across Europe, LATAM, and APAC they keep arriving, you’re already covered. No emergency fixes, no customization projects running against your clean core strategy, and no surprises mid-migration when IT bandwidth is already stretched.
Built for deployment, not just connection
The connector comes with step-by-step deployment guidance and monitoring tools to get your team up and running quickly, with ongoing support for day-to-day operations. That means the AP workstream runs in parallel with your SAP program with no custom development bottlenecks or delays waiting on integration builds.
Your SAP migration is complex enough on its own. The connector keeps invoice automation off the critical path.
Watch the video to see how the Basware Connector for SAP Cloud ERP keeps your invoice automation running without custom code.
