SAP S/4 HANA Cloud Essentials MBC Bank Payments Automation

BACKGROUND

The scope of the blog is to describe the high-level architecture and the configuration steps required to integrate SAP S/4 HANA Cloud Essentials with the banks using SAP Multi-Bank Connector deployed on Business Technology Platform.

WHAT IS A MULTI BANK CONNECTOR?

MBC is a combination of SAP Managed CPI version deployed on SAP Business Technology Platform that is compliant with the banking security standards and SPRO Configuration that will be activated on SAP S/4 HANA Cloud Essentials backend when you purchase 16R Scope Item on SAP S/4 HANA Cloud Essentials (SPRO won’t be available for users on S/4HANA Cloud Essentials).

Steps to configure the connectivity between MBC and S/4 HANA Essentials:

1. Once you purchase the 16R Scope Item, then SAP will provide you SAP Global Account with the below MBC subaccounts on the SAP Business Technology Platform for test and production environments respectively.

2. Once SAP Team provides the subaccount, you will need to give SAP Team full BTP Developer and CPI permissions for accessing and testing MBC FLOWS. You can give yourself permissions as well but you don’t generally need to do this unless you want to check the messages or do the end-to-end connectivity tests along with SAP teams.

3. You will then need to raise an incident to SAP Team to open the connectivity between SAP S/4 HANA Cloud Essentials and Exchange Certificates and assign it to the incident group

LOD-FSN-INT

4. Assign the role BR_BANK_INT_SPECIALIST in SAP S/4 HANA Cloud Essentials to see Manage Bank Messages App

5. If you have an issue with encryption or with seeing messages in the Manage Bank Messages App then you need to again raise an incident and assign it to the incident group LOD-FSN-INT

HIGH-LEVEL INTEGRATION ARCHITECTURE

The below diagram depicts the high-level end-to-end architecture of the SAP S/4 HANA Cloud Essentials -> MBC -> Bank interfaces.

S/4 HANA CLOUD ESSENTIALS FIORI APPS

The table provides you a list of the Fiori apps that we will be using in SAP S/4 HAN Cloud to process payments and bank statements.

Interface	SAP Fiori Apps	Functionality Provided
Inbound Bank Statements	Manage Bank Statements (F1564)	Pull and Display Bank Statements from MBC
Inbound Bank Statements	Manage Bank Messages (F4385)	MBC Tenant to MBC Connector – Automatically uploadS Bank Statements into S4 using a polling job Re-run upload Bank statements if required This new app allows users to monitor the status of messages sent to banks and received from banks via SAP Multi-Bank Connectivity. Users can view failed messages, trigger reprocessing, and download messages to initiate the next steps. This new app allows users to monitor the status of messages sent to banks and received from banks via SAP Multi-Bank Connectivity. Users can view failed messages, trigger reprocessing, and download messages to initiate the next steps. Users can also be notified if a message requires attention.
Inbound Bank Statements	Bank Statement Monitor	This app is used to monitor all bank statements received intraday and end of the day.
Outbound Payment files	Manage Automatic Payments	Validate Payment files, Generally in this phase test files can contain 1-3 transactions per file. Bank Specific payment media is generated and an accounting document is posted.Navigation to the corresponding batch in “Monitor Payments” and “Approve Bank Payments”
Outbound Payment files	Monitor Payments	Display the S4 Payments approval Status- In Approval, Approved, Sent to the Bank
Outbound Payment files	Approve Bank Payments	Automatically routes the approved payment messages to MBC Scheduled Job that will push the messages to SAP MBC system in the next step.
Outbound Payment files	Manage Bank Messages (F4385) – Verify file sent to MBC – Send Payment Instruction to MBC	Following a payment run, payment messages can be sent to the relevant bank automatically via SAP Multi-Bank Connectivity – Multi-Bank Connectivity (MBC) payment file is created automatically and messages are pushed to the SAP MBC system. This app will show the audit log of all messages received/sent from/to SAP MBC System.
Outbound Payment files	Monitor Situations (F3264)	Lists all Bank Statement/Payment Messages that are not processed correctly based on situation type configured according to the client requirements.

MONITORING MBC Interfaces

SAP S/4 HANA Cloud provides the following apps to monitor bank statements and payments.

Monitor Messages Sent from/to SAP S/4 HANA Cloud from/to SAP MBC: 

Monitor Bank Statements:

Monitor Payments:

Monitor Situations