Single Global Instance - Issues and concerns

[Former Member]

Hello Guru's

My client has recently acquired multiple companies and now we are a global implementation. So the business has decided to go for a Single Global instance of SAP-R/3

The SGI is going to be live pretty soon.

I am a BW Analyst and I am concerned as how the changes can affect the BW system.

As of now I have no idea of what has changed, but I am in the process of searching scenario's as what could change and how it could effect the BW system

This is one of my attempts to pursue it. if any of you BW guru's have encountered/worked/have knowledge of, such a situation please could you please direct me in the direction as of how to approach it.

Is there any documentation available where i can browse through and prepare a pre-GAAP analysis document.

Thanks in advance and points will be awarded generously to every useful documentation.

Nagaraju

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Nagaraju,

Usually in a Global Implementation , there will be regional differences which in the backend are consilidated. For example tax structures built into billing , Inventory process , Depreciation accounting , Manufacturing ( excise duty etc )

When you try and integrate the same into one global BW implementation, you will have to watch out for these differences. It is basically mapping all the process ( which will take a very long time ) and ironing out the differences. In view of this , usually what companies do is to go for a global instance of their common processes - manufacturing , procurement etc and have localized versions of Finance etc. Also the reporting needs of each geography will vary with reports becoming regionj specific. What you could look at is a Single BW implementation for the common processes and then do the same for the individual regions providing them region specific reports. That way the performance will also be good ( assuming huge volumes of data and connecting to Switzerland from Manila for a single report )

My 0.02

Arun