Mainstream Support ends 2025?

[SerhanEr]

Hello guys,

For the product SAP EWM 9.5, the one which is not part of S4HANA, mainstream maintenance ends by 2025. Do you know what does that mean?

Clients need to switch ECC to S4HANA by 2025, does it mean they have to switch EWM based on S4HANA also?

[Miguel_Arino · Accepted solution]

The main thing about Mainstream Maintenance , is that products get SAP Notes for new bugs found, modifications for legal requirements are issued to the customer and Support Package updates are scheduled regularly.

At the end of Mainstream Maintenance, you may opt for Extended Maintenance, or stay with "Customer Specific Maintenance".

With Extended Maintenance, things work for the most part as in Mainstream Maintenance. Availability of Exteneded Maintenance changes on a product by product basis, so you may want to check if EWM 9.5 will have an Extended Maintenance phase.

With Customer Specific Maintenance, you can still log tickets to support about issues, but if a new non-existing code correction is needed, you may be left without that correction.

For more detail, please read https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/SL/Maintenance+Strategy

Best regards,

Miguel Ariño

[marekzikmunda]

small update, as per as product availability matrix, the end of mainstream maintenance is now 31.12.2027

SAP Product Availability Matrix

[NTeunckens]

Hello Serhan,

As far as I can see, the EWM-Basics are implemented in S/4HANA (Embedded), however there is a Decentralized option for EWM as well ...

Check the following References :

• See this .PDF document (link)
• See Document "FAQ_EWM_S4_EXT_V3_20160718" : link (S-login required)
• Also there are some BlogPosts on EWM Embedded VS Decentralized ...
• SAP-Note 2782080 "Overview Guide Best Practices Documents EWM"

Hope this helps

Nic T.

[NTeunckens]

• See SAP PAM (Product Availability Matrix) on this SAP-Solution for more information, although the image suggests that you've already done that ...
• Check the SAP-Roadmap on EWM for future directions regarding S/4HANA.
• In some Cases there is an option to run the 'present Solution' as a "side-car" or in "compatibility-mode", but this is probably not favourable. See SAP-Note 1606493 "SAP EWM Deployment Options Best Practices" and others ...

Aside from that, a lot of SAP-Solutions have this deadline surrounding Support (ECC / EWM / Mobile SMP / ...). As innovations to core Products like S/4HANA and SAP-Cloud continue, products like EWM 'will get' of 'have' their place in that EcoSystem. I for one expect some of these Solutions to evolve into smaller, leaner, ... parts (cfr. Services-APIs) that can be integrated in an On-Premise or Cloud Core ...

Hope this helps

Nic T.

[SerhanEr]

Hi Nic,

Thanks for you answer, but still it's not clear to me. Roadmap doesn't say anything about EWM standalone's future, maybe I missed this, it was explained in the past publications.

Actual roadmap only explains what's coming for EWM on S/4HANA. This might be the proof that SAP will not bring new developments to EWM standalone, instead EWM on S/4HANA. I confirmed from several sources, there won't be any new release for EWM standalone, cannot see any official comments though.

I assume there will be many migration projects from EWM standalone to EWM on S/4HANA also, seems like using standalone EWM is same as using LE-WM: Dead by 2025.

Best regards

Serhan