ERP integration is the designed exchange of approved data and process states between an ERP and another system. Procurement integration can include supplier, accounting, budget, requisition, order, receipt, invoice, contract, or status objects, depending on scope. Each implementation requires agreed mappings, validation, access, cadence, monitoring, exception handling, support ownership, and reconciliation.
In plain English
It connects procurement and ERP records through controlled, customer-specific exchanges.
Illustrative example
At Northstar Industrial Systems, the architecture team agrees which purchase-order fields move in each direction, how errors are handled, and which system owns each value.
- Related terms
- Application programming interface; Scheduled synchronization; Real-time synchronization; System of record
- Lifecycle stages
- Integrate; Execute; Reconcile
- Stakeholders
- IT and Security; Procurement; Finance