interface Kyriba and SAP

[sanjivag]

Hello,

I wanted to find out how other companies interface Kyriba and SAP from cash accounting postings. Currently, we have bank statements uploaded in SAP and accounting postings are created automatically. When, we switch over to Kyriba, bank statements will be uploaded in Kyriba and Kyriba will send accounting postings to SAP. In that case, direct interface from Bank to SAP will be switched off. I will be interested in knowing how other companies approach this.

Thanks in advance

Sanjiv

[cairymeller]

Processing Bank statements in SAP is done though a Bank Reconciliation process which creates postings and does the open item clearing. This is not an easy process in SAP and on many occasions the clearing of the open item doesn’t happens automatically and it needs manual intervention to clear the open items. Generating postings outside SAP (i.e. Kyriba) and bringing it into SAP can help customers skip the Bank Reconciliation process in SAP which customers prefer.

Cheers,

Cairy Meller - Kyriba - Senior Strategic Alliance Manager

[amansrivastava]

Hi, we have a requirement to encrypt the files and push to Kyriba portal, any lead on encryption/decryption procedure in kyriba will be much appreciated.

How to get the Encryption keys from Kyriba?

Thanks

[ram_c]

Hi, we did work with Kyriba in our previous implementation. We had a unique design where Kyriba was only used for Cash forecasting, so the way we routed bank statements is by sending it to Kyriba first. Kyriba will copy the statement and then push the original statement to SAP. SAP has all the configuration to process the bank statement.

However, to answer your question on how would they generate direct account postings, it works similar to any other interface. We had multiple interfaces, one of them was to receive a file with accounting information (don't remember exactly what the interface was for). However, the file isn't any different from any other interfaces. They will format the file as per SAP's requirement and send it over to SAP. Depending on the parameters, SAP will determine the posting keys (GL was predefined in Kyriba).

Hope this helps. Please feel free to ask questions, I will share my experience if I worked on it.

Note: Just to add, there are a lot of restrictions with in Kyriba if you want to use any logical programming or even if you want to use IDOC's

Thanks

Ram

[former_member605728]

Hello Ram,

Thank you for sharing your experience. I would like to generate encrypted files (F110 transaction) and then send those files to kyriba using PI. I already configured commnication channels, and Kyriba recieves now the file.

But my question is, how to decrypt the file in Kyriba?

Thank you!

[john_brandt]

Hello Emna, Ram, I'm interested in hearing how you've implemented the integration to Kyriba using communication channels. Any insights are much appreciated!

Thank you!

[ram_c]

Hi Emna, if you guys already worked with Kyriba on the encryption/decryption procedure, your system integration guys should be able to exchange the encryption keys and Kyriba should be able to decrypt.

[ram_c]

Hi John, Am not technically aware of the communication channels but I think we leveraged a middleware to connect to Kyriba treating it like any other interface. We have had a common middleware to connect thru to all the interfaces. I can't recollect the name of the middleware though. Sorry somehow I don't get notifications so didn't see these messages until now.

[amansrivastava]

Hi we have a similar requirement to encrypt the files and push to Kyriba portal, my doubt is "will the encryption keys(AES) be given by Kyriba or we have to generate keys ourselves? if kyriba gives it then how to approach them to get the keys and test on their platform? I am new to integration, so still trying to understand the whole process.

Thanks

[Former Member]

Hi Sanjeev

Did you guys integrate Kyriba ?