You can upload process models and process diagram variants as BPMN diagrams to SAP Solution Manager. ARIS models are automatically converted to BPMN diagrams of the selected type. Models of the EPC and the Value-added chain diagram types are always converted. Models of all other are converted only if modeling rules are violated. If a model cannot be converted, the model is not transferred. For BPMN diagrams available in ARIS, the layout of the ARIS diagrams is used. If ARIS models are converted, by default, the layout for generated BPMN diagrams is Horizontal and the System landscape is used as a target diagram subtype. You can select other settings, if required. The type of the ARIS model and the selected SAP diagram subtype define how the resulting the SAP diagram will look.
You can transfer models of only these types:
EPC
EPC (column display)
EPC (row display)
Value-added chain diagram (VAD)
BPMN collaboration diagram (BPMN 2.0)
BPMN process diagram (BPMN 2.0)
Enterprise BPMN collaboration diagram
Enterprise BPMN process diagram
EPC/System landscape SAP diagram subtype
If you transfer ARIS models using the System landscape option, the system landscape is used as the target SAP diagram subtype. In the SAP system, the pools of the converted BPMN diagrams use the logical components occurring in the ARIS model. For each logical component group assigned to an SAP function, a corresponding lane is created and placed in the pool. This pool has the name of the process. Functions to which a logical component group is assigned are placed in the corresponding lane. Functions without logical components are placed in the N/A lane. Other elements without a logical component, such as gateways, are placed in the lane of one of the neighbor's logical components.
Events (see examples: and resulting )
Events without incoming connections are converted to Start events.
Events without outgoing connections are converted to End events.
All other events occurring between functions are not transferred. The incoming and outgoing connections connected to the related functions.
Process steps and Process interfaces (see examples: and resulting )
Process steps and process interfaces are converted to BPMN user tasks. If a process model or a process model variant is assigned to a Process interface, a subprocess is created in the BPMN diagram.
Rules (see examples: and resulting )
XOR rules are mapped to Exclusive gateways
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AND rules are converted to Inclusive gateways
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OR rules are represented as Parallel gateways
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EPC(column/row display)/Role SAP diagram subtype
If you transfer ARIS models using the Role option, the role is used as the target SAP diagram subtype. In the SAP system, the lanes are built from the row/columns of the EPC process model (Type: EPC (column display) or EPC (row display)). ARIS tries to keep the layout of the EPC for the transferred diagram. Process steps, events, rules, and process interfaces are converted in the same way as described for the EPC/System landscape SAP diagram subtype.
Organizational elements and the related connections define the lane where functions of the Process step SAP function type appear. The following types are used: Organizational unit type, Organizational unit, Position type, Position, Position description, Role, and Group.
A function without any connection to an organizational element appears in the N/A lane of the BPMN diagram.
appears in the lane that has the same name as the organizational element.
carries out connection type is used to determine the lane. If only one connection of this type is used, the function appears in the lane that has the same name as the related organizational element. If no carries out connections or multiple carries out connections are used, the related organizational element cannot be determined, and the function appears in the N/A lane.
, theIn models of the EPC (column display) or EPC (row display) type, the lanes of the SAP diagram are built from the columns or the rows (see examples: and resulting ). The names of the lanes are determined as follows:
If in the EPC a single object appears in the header of a row or column, the lane has the same name as the object.
If in the EPC multiple objects appear in the header of a row or column, the lane has the same name as the leftmost object in a row or the topmost object in a column.
If in the EPC the header of a row or column is empty, the lane has the same name as the row or column.
BPMN models
ARIS models of the BPMN collaboration diagram (BPMN 2.0) type and the BPMN process diagram (BPMN 2.0) type are converted to BPMN process diagrams of the SYST type. In SAP Solution Manager, diagrams of the SYST type, contain exactly one pool and each lane represents a logical component group. For each logical component group assigned to an SAP function, a corresponding lane is created and placed in the pool. Functions without logical components are placed in the N/A lane.
BPMN models are transferred only to BPMN process diagrams of the SYST type if they meet the following conditions:
Models do not represent a subprocess. Models that describe only a subprocess are not transferred.
Models contain exactly one pool. This pool contains lanes for each logical component group.
Lanes contain only objects related to the logical component.
All objects must be placed in lanes.
In ARIS, you can do much more in a BPMN model than in SAP diagrams of the SYST type, for example, you can use subprocesses or symbols for embedded process. Such ARIS models cannot be uploaded as they are. Therefore, the layout of these models is modified automatically during the upload process. The ARIS models remain unchanged.
Call Activities: Call activities are displayed as call activities in SAP diagrams.
Global Process: Global process call activities are displayed as call activities. In the SAP system, the process to call is linked.
Global Task: Global task call activities are displayed as call activities or process steps depending on the target. If the target of the call activity is a process, the global task call activity is displayed as a call activity and a related process link is created. If the global task call activity points to a process step, the call activity is replaced by this process step and no link is created.
Subprocesses
Embedded subprocess: Because SAP does not provide , the embedded subprocess in the SAP system is displayed as a one. For the embedded process, a BPMN process diagram is created in the SAP system and a link to the process is created. This link points to the process containing the subprocess.
Collapsed subprocess: are displayed as in the SAP system. For the assigned subprocess model, a BPMN process diagram is generated in the SAP system.
Collapsed subprocesses with image: If subprocesses in ARIS are collapsed and then expanded again, for expanded subprocesses, images are used for display instead of object occurrences. The subprocesses that use images are handled like collapsed subprocesses.
If you transfer models of the Enterprise BPMN collaboration diagram or Enterprise BPMN process diagram type to the SAP system, the diagrams are converted to BPMN collaboration diagrams or BPMN process diagrams. If converted to BPMN collaboration diagrams, the diagrams can contain more than one pool. Possible pools are the process pool, the external pool, and the draft pool. If converted to BPMN process diagrams, the diagrams can contain one pool.
The SAP function of the Process SAP function type to which the Enterprise BPMN collaboration diagram is assigned defines the corresponding process in the SAP system.
The process pool only contains process steps related to this process and free elements, such as gateways or free tasks that are not related to a specific process. If a pool contains only steps from another process, an external pool is created. The draft pool is created if a pool contains only free elements, such as gateways or free tasks that are not related to a specific process or the pool contains no element.
If a pool contains steps from two or more different processes, the diagram is converted internally during the model transfer. Elements are converted as described.