Typical use cases
- Goods receipt: weighed actual quantities instead of delivery-note figures – discrepancies show up immediately
- Shipping: freight weights automatically into the delivery, labels and shipping papers
- Stocktaking: counting scales post stock directly – without count sheets and Excel
- Production: batch and recipe weighing with feedback to SAP
- Truck scale: inbound and outbound weighing with document and posting creation
How we connect scale and SAP
The right route depends on your SAP landscape. On S/4HANA and ECC we work with REST/OData services or classic RFC/IDoc methods; on SAP Business One with the DI API. Where direct access is not wanted, we hand over via an intermediate database or file interface that your SAP team reads in under its own control. The scale side – reading out, plausibility checks, buffering on connection loss – we handle completely; the hand-off we define together with your SAP support.
Why not just a standard connector?
For the textbook case there are standard products. In practice they fail on the details: a scale from a different manufacturer, a special goods-receipt process, your own label layout, legal-for-trade weighing with a mandatory Alibi memory. We build the integration that fits your process – not the other way round.
Frequently asked questions
Do you need access to our SAP system?
Not necessarily. Many projects run so that we deliver up to a defined hand-off point (database, file, service call) and your SAP team takes over from there.
Which scales can be integrated?
Any with a data interface – vendor-independent. See our pages on Mettler Toledo, KERN, Bizerba and others.
How long does such a project take?
A single scale with a clear hand-off point is often productive within a few weeks; complex scenarios with several sites take correspondingly longer. You receive the timeline with the fixed-price quote.
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