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title: "Processing Records into SAP"
description: "What processing does in SAP, processing now or later, immediate and background runs, pausing and stopping, reading results, retrying, unknown outcomes and undoing."
source: "https://help.rikaiso.com/public-cloud/2026.2/processing-records"
edition: "public-cloud"
editionLabel: "S/4HANA Public Cloud"
version: "2026.2"
latest: true
language: "en"
section: "Working with Master Data"
updated: "2026-11-05"
---

# Processing Records into SAP

> What processing does in SAP, processing now or later, immediate and background runs, pausing and stopping, reading results, retrying, unknown outcomes and undoing.

> **Draft brief for authors.** Section page.

**Source in the product repository:** `.claude/rules/mass-processing.md`, `docs/mass-processing-architecture.md`, `.claude/rules/staging-app.md` (processing menu), customer guide §5 and §8.

## In this section

- [Before You Process: What Happens in SAP](https://help.rikaiso.com/public-cloud/2026.2/what-processing-does-in-sap.md): Whose user posts the change, what SAP records, what costs quota, which records are skipped, and the rules MDM keeps whatever happens.
- [Processing Selected or All Not Started Records](https://help.rikaiso.com/public-cloud/2026.2/processing-now.md): Start a run from Staging Records or Monitor Mass Changes, read the confirmation, and understand the three outcomes: finished at once, started in the background, nothing to process.
- [Immediate and Background Runs](https://help.rikaiso.com/public-cloud/2026.2/immediate-vs-background-runs.md): Small runs finish while you wait; larger ones run in the background, appear under Background Jobs and can be paused, resumed and stopped.
- [Scheduling a Run for Later](https://help.rikaiso.com/public-cloud/2026.2/scheduling-a-run.md): Schedule the processing of a Task for a later time when the table runs under the integration user or the background opt-in; stop it under Background Jobs before it starts.
- [Following a Background Run](https://help.rikaiso.com/public-cloud/2026.2/following-a-background-run.md): Watch a run's progress under Background Jobs and on the Task page, and get notified when it finishes.
- [Pausing, Resuming and Stopping a Run](https://help.rikaiso.com/public-cloud/2026.2/pause-resume-stop.md): Who may pause, resume or stop, what happens to the records in progress, the pause reasons and their next steps, and which runs resume by themselves.
- [Reading the Results](https://help.rikaiso.com/public-cloud/2026.2/reading-results.md): Where to read what happened to every record: statuses and messages in Staging Records, failed records by error on the Task page, and the entries in Application Logs.
- [Retrying Failed Records](https://help.rikaiso.com/public-cloud/2026.2/retrying-failed-records.md): Correct the values SAP rejected with Mass Edit, then process again; Retry Failed Records sends only the records a machine may send again unchanged, Retry All sends them all.
- [Records with an Unknown Outcome](https://help.rikaiso.com/public-cloud/2026.2/outcome-unknown.md): SAP did not confirm a change in time, so it may or may not have been applied; MDM never sends such a record again by itself.
- [Undoing a Processed Change](https://help.rikaiso.com/public-cloud/2026.2/undoing-changes.md): A revert Task puts back the values a processed Task changed, built from the preview's stored values; today through an assistant or the API.