Connect Planful and
SAP with AI

Automate the flow of actuals, budget data, and financial consolidations between your ERP and planning platform. Stop manually exporting SAP financials into spreadsheets, reformatting for Planful imports, and chasing down variance explanations across systems.

No code required
Live in minutes
SOC 2 Type II

What you can automate today

Redbird gives your team ready-to-run workflows — just connect your accounts and go.

Sync SAP actuals into Planful budget vs. actual reports automatically

Pull monthly actuals from SAP cost centers, P&L accounts, and entities, then map and load them into Planful dimensions for real-time variance analysis. Finance teams get current budget-vs-actual dashboards without manual exports or data staging.

Push approved Planful budgets back to SAP cost center planning modules

When annual budgets or revised forecasts are locked in Planful, automatically write them to SAP CO planning tables by cost center and account. Keeps operational budgets aligned with strategic plans without dual entry.

Enrich Planful scenarios with SAP procurement and supply chain actuals

Combine SAP purchasing orders, inventory levels, and supplier spend with Planful revenue forecasts to model working capital and cash flow scenarios. Enables FP&A to build operational models grounded in live transactional data.

Alert finance teams when SAP actuals trigger Planful variance thresholds

Monitor incoming SAP monthly closes and compare against Planful budget targets. When variances exceed defined thresholds by department or GL account, notify budget owners and trigger commentary workflows in Planful.

Automate multi-entity consolidation by syncing SAP subsidiary financials to Planful

Pull trial balance data from SAP instances across legal entities and geographies, apply intercompany eliminations and currency translations, then load into Planful consolidation cubes. Eliminates manual consolidation workbooks and version control issues.

Generate board-ready variance reports combining Planful plans with SAP actuals

Build automated monthly reports that blend Planful forecast versions, SAP actual performance, and driver-based commentary. Export formatted outputs to presentation decks or BI tools without manual data assembly or pivot tables.

Live in four steps

No engineers, no pipelines to maintain. Redbird handles the connectivity — you focus on the outcome.

01

Connect your accounts

Authorize Planful and SAP with OAuth or API credentials. Redbird never stores your data — it just passes through.

02

Describe what you want

Tell Redbird what to do in plain language — no SQL, no code, no configuration files required.

03

Review and activate

Redbird shows you exactly what it will do before running anything. Approve the workflow, set a schedule, and switch it on.

04

Let it run — and iterate

Workflows run on your schedule or on triggers. Every run is logged. Adjust with natural language at any time.

Built for data-driven teams

Redbird understands both SAP's complex account hierarchies and Planful's multidimensional planning structures, so your finance team can automate consolidation and variance workflows without middleware or custom code.

AI that speaks both ERP and FP&A

Redbird maps SAP chart of accounts, cost centers, profit centers, and company codes to Planful dimensions, accounts, and entity hierarchies automatically. It handles currency translations, fiscal calendar mismatches, and intercompany eliminations without manual transformation logic. When SAP posts actuals or Planful updates forecasts, Redbird reconciles data structures in real time and flags exceptions before they break downstream reports.

SAP CO/FI account mapping
Planful cube & dimension sync
Multi-currency consolidation
Variance threshold monitoring
10×

faster monthly close variance analysis

No SAP exports, Excel staging files, or manual Planful data imports required

Auto-generated reports

Redbird can pull from Planful and SAP simultaneously, merge the results, and format a polished report — sent on a schedule or on demand.

Trigger-based alerts

Set conditions in natural language. Get notified in Slack or email the moment a threshold is crossed in either Planful or SAP.

Enterprise-grade security

SOC 2 Type II certified. Data flows encrypted in transit and at rest. Fine-grained permission controls with full audit logs.

Bidirectional sync

Push data from Planful into SAP, or from SAP back into Planful. Resolve conflicts with configurable merge rules.

Full audit trail

Every workflow run is logged — what ran, what changed, and why. Replay or revert any individual step at any time.

Triggers & actions for every team

Start automations from budget approvals in Planful or period-end postings in SAP, and orchestrate workflows across your entire finance stack.

Planful
Triggers & Actions
Trigger

Budget version approved

Fires when a budget or forecast version reaches approved status in Planful workflow.

Trigger

Scenario published

Triggers when a financial scenario or plan is published for reporting or stakeholder review.

Trigger

Variance threshold exceeded

Activates when actual-vs-plan variance crosses a defined percentage or dollar threshold by dimension.

Action

Load actuals to cube

Write financial data into a Planful cube with specified dimensions, accounts, and time periods.

Action

Update driver assumptions

Modify driver values or assumption tables used in Planful forecast calculations.

Action

Run consolidation workflow

Execute a Planful consolidation process including eliminations, translations, and rollups.

SAP
Triggers & Actions
Trigger

Period closed in FI module

Fires when a fiscal period is closed and actuals are locked in SAP Finance.

Trigger

Cost center actuals posted

Triggers when new expense or revenue postings hit specified cost centers or internal orders.

Trigger

Purchase order approved

Activates when a PO exceeds a threshold amount and is released in SAP MM procurement.

Action

Update cost center budget

Write budget values to SAP CO planning tables for specific cost centers and fiscal periods.

Action

Create internal order

Generate an internal order in SAP for project tracking or capital expenditure management.

Action

Post journal entry

Write a GL journal entry to SAP FI with account assignments, amounts, and posting text.

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SAP

Ready to connect your stack?

See how Redbird AI syncs Planful and SAP to automate your monthly close, variance analysis, and consolidation workflows without custom integrations or manual exports.

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