Mapping your journey to SAP S/4HANA : A practical ...

anandtigadikar · ‎2024 Jun 18

One of the best informative advisory document that i have came across, definitely a must read by all the leaders who are planning for starting/completing their S/4HANA Transformation Journey.

"Mapping your journey to SAP S/4HANA : A practical guide for senior IT leadership"

https://www.sap.com/documents/2019/05/44b3ebd5-4b7d-0010-87a3-c30de2ffd8ff.html

My Personal key takeaways from this guide which hopefully can help many of you -

✅Making strategic choices with respect to deployment path to S/4HANA - Customers with the SAP ERP application havethe choice among system conversion ~ Brownfield Conversion, new implementation ~ Greenfield Conversion, and selective data transition. (Many of them do call this as Blue Field Conversion/Hybrid approach)

✅Cloud adoptions is key decisions when planning your digital transformation toward SAP S/4HANA Cloud product you would like to implement – SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition or SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition.

✅Following the clean core principle : Organization must adapt to a changing business environment and adopt new capabilities to thrive in a digital era.

https://www.sap.com/products/erp/rise/migration/clean-core.html

✅Understanding the importance of compatibility packs in Note 2269324 and in this blog post- https://lnkd.in/gRpu7Qzs

✅Integration is a key enabler for digital business transformation and a future-proof enterprise solution estate. By using advanced technologies and services provided bySAP BTP, SAP helps ensure the integration of industry-specific business processes across SAP, partner, and third-party applications.

✅Key role played by SAP BTP – enabling, facilitating,& protecting the built-in suite qualities.

The capabilities in SAP BTP are grouped into five portfolios -

1️⃣Application development and automation- Low code No code

https://www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/application-development.html

2️⃣Artificial intelligence- Leverage SAP AI Services and support

https://www.sap.com/products/artificial-intelligence.html

3️⃣Data and analytics- Leveraging HANA cloud, SAP Analytics cloud and SAP Datasphere

https://www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/analytics.html

4️⃣Extended planning and analysis - https://www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/extended-planning-analysis.html

5️⃣SAP Integration Suite - https://www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/integration-suite.html

✅The custom-code workstream should have these three major work packages:

1️⃣Removal of unused code

2️⃣Automated and manual code adaptation

3️⃣Review of modifications, clones, and implicit enhancements

✅Plan for proper risk free Rollout Strategy

✅Understanding system downtime and different optimization techniques like leveraging DMOVE2S4 via Downtime Optimized Conversion ~ doC or downtime optimized DMO ~ doDMO which can help to convert & migrate via One step approach in minimum downtime.

https://help.sap.com/docs/SLTOOLSET/7d57e56e12104cc68bce7646cd9f4cbf/c17f45ffa4004ca4837913a745b3a08...

✅Importance of Data Cleansing, Archiving , Sizing & Data Volume Management does play a major role along with Custom Code Analysis & Adjustment to reduce the overall data footprint prior to Migration .

https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_Solution_Manager/2280273f45054d318142b271b06a03c1/e445e854d52d47a8b1ee...

https://me.sap.com/notes/2818267/E - Data Volume Management during migration to SAP S/4HANA

✅Start Discovery phase pretty early and Work on Essential tools like -

1️⃣SAP Readiness Check - SAP Readiness Check provides a suite of tools to assist in the planning of the next step on your digital transformation journey.

Landing page https://me.sap.com/readinesscheck

KBA note - https://me.sap.com/notes/3404904

2️⃣Custom Code Migration app - https://help.sap.com/docs/btp/sap-business-technology-platform/custom-code-migration

3️⃣SAP Business Transformation Center (especially if Selective Data Transition is being used for Migration) - https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blogs-by-sap/sap-business-transformation-center-digital-blue...

KBA note# https://me.sap.com/notes/3328319 and Landing page- https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/sap-cloud-alm/transformation/SAP_B...

4️⃣Usage of Maintenance Planner - https://support.sap.com/en/alm/solution-manager/processes-72/maintenance-planner.html

5️⃣SAP Signavio for Business Process insights - https://www.signavio.com/products/process-insights/

6️⃣SAP Integration Suite , Integration Advisor & Downtime tools

https://www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/integration-suite.html

https://help.sap.com/docs/cloud-integration/sap-cloud-integration/sap-integration-advisor

https://support.sap.com/en/tools/software-logistics-tools/software-update-manager.html?anchorId=sect...

7️⃣S/4HANA Migration and CVI Cockpit, DTV Validation tool