An Event Data Extraction Approach from SAP ERP for Process Mining

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The extraction, transformation, and loading of event logs from information systems is the first and the most expensive step in process mining. In particular, extracting event logs from popular ERP systems such as SAP poses major challenges, given the size and the structure of the data. Open-source support for ETL is scarce, while commercial process mining vendors maintain connectors to ERP systems supporting ETL of a limited number of business processes in an ad-hoc manner. In this paper, we propose an approach to facilitate event data extraction from SAP ERP systems. In the proposed approach, we store event data in the format of object-centric event logs that efficiently describe executions of business processes supported by ERP systems. To evaluate the feasibility of the proposed approach, we have developed a tool implementing it and conducted case studies with a real-life SAP ERP system.

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Berti, A., Park, G., Rafiei, M., & van der Aalst, W. M. P. (2022). An Event Data Extraction Approach from SAP ERP for Process Mining. In Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (Vol. 433 LNBIP, pp. 255–267). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98581-3_19

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