AP Workflow Integration to SAP

Hi All,
We are new to SAP.
How to integrate 3rd party AP Workflow output to SAP .
Please let us know any standard procedure, work around, URL.
Thanks in Advance.
Kiran Babu

yes you can do that.
1. upload the xml - using gui_upload or thru http protocol into abap variable
2. use call transformation along with XSLT or cl_XML_document class to parase the xml into itab and use the same to call a BAPI/BDC to load the data
which version of R/3 you are using.
Regards
Raja

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