
A number of steps need to be executed in order to deliver a fully operational S/4 HANA system in the live production environment. The Cutover Strategy seeks to explain the sequence of activities required to achieve this and propose drawing up of a schedule for the tasks, dates, data conversion and the upload of the necessary balances and open items into the production system.
There are two types of data involved in a SAP system: Master Data and Transaction Data.
Application master data tends to be static once defined. Most master data can be driven by the Legacy applications. Examples include cost center, profit center, bills of materials, resource etc.
This type of data covers current and outstanding transaction data that needs to be captured from the Old system and defined to the SAP applications for business process completion. Examples include open purchase orders, open accounting documents, initial stocks and so on.
This document to be used to communicate the cut over strategy to the Project Management and Steering Committee and obtain important business decisions required to carry out activities involved in cut over. It is to be used to communicate to all team members the strategy to be followed for cut over.
It should always be remembered that “Data Migration Makes or Breaks the Project. “
Following are the pre-requisite steps in Data Migration with elaboration on the same:
Approach : Data collection will be done in excel & upload will be done through LTMC, LSMW, BAPI & Transport request for respective element etc.
Below are the list of master data in controlling –
Statistical Key Figure (SKF)
SKF data will be created manually
Dependency – N/A
Profit Center Hierarchy
Profit Center Hierarchy will be created as per finalized organisation structure.
Dependency – N/A
Profit Center
Profit center will be created as per finalized organisation structure by LTMC (Migration Tool).
Dependency – Segment
Cost Center Hierarchy
Cost Center Hierarchy will be created as per finalized organisation structure.
Dependency – N/A
Cost Center
Cost center will be created as per finalized organisation structure by LTMC (Migration Tool).
Dependency – Profit Center
Activity Types
Activity will be created manually by KP26
Dependency – GL Master(FI)
Activity Rates
Planned Activity Quantities against each Activity Type/Cost Centre Combination AND Costs per Cost Centre/Cost Element combination needs to be uploaded by LTMC.
Dependency – Cost Center
Cost Center Budgeting (If Applicable)
Uploaded by FIORI APP.
Dependency – Cost Center
Assessment cycle
Manual Activity
Dependency – Cost Center
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