Expert Guided Implementation
SAP S/4HANA Implementation with SAP Activate
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Expert Guided Implementation
SAP S/4HANA Implementation with SAP Activate
You are about to plan your SAP S/4HANA implementation
project and you wonder how to utilize SAP Activate.
This expert guided implementation (EGI) session is the right starting
point for your project team.
Shows the end to end implementation of SAP S/4HANA On Premise
using the SAP Activate Innovation Framework.
It includes three pillars: SAP Activate methodology, SAP Best
Practices and tools.
The focus of this EGI is to go through the SAP Activate phases of
your SAP S/4HANA Any-Premise implementation project (discover,
prepare, explore, realize, deploy and run).
This Expert Guided Implementation(EGI) remote training service is
designed for customers who are implementing SAP S/4HANA Any
Premise.
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SAP S/4HANA Implementation with SAP Activate
Introduction
•
Introductions
•
Housekeeping items (e.g. download the deck each day, a 5 min break)
•
Questions to answer in the chat:
✓ What is your name and your role in your company? (e.g. business, IT, project management, end-users,
others)
✓ What is your SAP S/4HANA knowledge? (e.g. none, beginner, novice, intermediate or advanced)
✓ What is your SAP Activate Knowledge.
✓ At which stage of your SAP S/4HANA project are you? (e.g. not started, discover, prepare, explore)
✓ Have you decided on your transition path? (conversion or new implementation)
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Expert Guided Implementation
How to Get Help?
During the execution part you have direct
access to the Expert via telephone
number to solve questions quickly.
How to get help
If relevant for this EGI, please ensure that
the remote connections are open and that
we can logon to your system.
+3531471655
Fergal.Faughnan@sap.com
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Expert Guided Implementation
SAP S/4HANA Implementation with SAP Activate - Prerequisites
Expert Guided Implementation
is a new optimized, short-term
setup service to configure basic
scenarios without long-term, inhouse consulting
Empowering
Empowering
Execution
Execution
Web session, 1-2 hours each
morning
2-3 hours on the same day
Participants execute
demonstrated steps within their
own project, on their own SAP
environment
SAP expert explains step-bystep configuration using
training materials
Execution
Execution
✓
Customer Requirements
❑
Time to commit for the 3 days
❑
❑
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Expertise on
During Execution
Demand
Participants have direct access
toDemand
an SAP expert who directly
supports them remotely, if
necessary, during the execution
✓
✓
Customer Readiness
❑
Target Group:
❑ Project manager and project team
❑ Functional/technical consultants
Expertise on Demand
You are about to plan your SAP S/4HANA implementation
project
You are about to start your SAP S/4HANA implementation
project
This EGI is relevant for SAP S/4HANA On Premise
deployment options and transition paths (New Implementation)
Technical Prerequisites:
❑ None
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Expert Guided Implementation Schedule
SAP S/4HANA Implementation with SAP Activate
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Empowering lesson
Empowering lesson
Empowering lesson
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•
•
•
•
•
•
•
SAP S/4HANA introduction
Deployment options (AnyPremise vs Cloud) and
transition paths (conversion, new implementation,
selective data transition)
SAP Activate Overview
SAP Activate Phase: Discover
- Project Best Practices.
- Transformation Navigator.
- SAP Readiness Check for SAP S/4HANA
- Trial Systems
- Tools To Support Your SAP S/4HANA Journey.
•
Recap Day 1
SAP Activate phase: Prepare
- Recap Day 1
- Best Practices
- Best Practice Explorer – Demo
- Solution Activation Overview
- Custom Code Management
SAP Activate phase: Explore
- Enterprise Management Layer (EML)
- Fit-Gap Analysis
- SAP Fiori
Recap Day 2
SAP Activate phase: Realize
- Quality Built in.
- Agile
- SAP Data Migration with Best Practices.
- SAP Migration Cockpit and Migration Object Modeler
SAP Activate phase: Deploy
• SAP Activate phase: Run
• Further resources (e.g. SAP ES Academy, SAP Enterprise
Support value maps, LMK’S)
(Web session, 1-2 h. in the morning)
(Web session, 1-2 h. in the morning)
Execution by customer
Execution by customer
Execution by customer
Customers will learn SAP Activate methodology which
includes the SAP Roadmap viewer and SAP Best Practices
Explorer tools. Customers will understand the key elements
of the SAP Activate Discover phase.
Customer will understand in detail the tasks and deliverables of the
SAP Activate phases: prepare and explore including how to utilize
SAP Solution Manager in the context of SAP Activate.
Customer will understand in detail the tasks and deliverables
of the SAP Activate phases: realize, deploy and run .
Customers will learn how to get further resources.
(Web session, 1-2 h. in the morning)
(Remote support in the afternoon)
(Remote support in the afternoon)
(Remote support in the afternoon)
Goal of the day
Goal of the day
Goal of the day
◼ Understand SAP S/4HANA deployment options and
transition paths
◼ Understand SAP Activate including both tools: SAP
Roadmap Viewer and SAP Best Practices Explorer
◼ Learn SAP S/4HANA Activate discover phase including
key items such as the SAP Transformation Navigator,
the SAP Readiness Check, SAP S/4HANA trial
systems.
◼ Learn in detail the tasks and deliverables of the prepare phase
of SAP Activate
◼ Learn in detail the tasks and deliverables of the explore phase
of SAP Activate including the fit-to-gap approach
◼ Learn how to understand the purpose of fit-to-gap analysis.
◼ Learn in detail the tasks and deliverables of the realize
phase of SAP Activate
◼ Learn in detail the tasks and deliverables of the deploy and
run phases of SAP Activate
◼ Learn on how to get further resources
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Final goal
◼ Customer has the knowledge to implement SAP S/4HANA
using SAP Activate methodology
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SAP S/4HANA Implementation with SAP Activate
Learning Objectives – Day 1
•
Introduce SAP S/4HANA, its deployment options and transition paths
•
Understand SAP Activate overview, methodology and phases for SAP S/4HANA project
•
Learn how to access the SAP Activate content
•
Introduction to SAP Best Practices and the SAP Best Practices reference guide
•
Understand the key tools and accelerators for the discover phase
•
Introduce project best practices
•
Get an overview of SAP Transformation Navigator and SAP Readiness Check for SAP S/4HANA
•
Understand SAP S/4HANA trial options
•
Tools To Support Your SAP S/4HANA Journey.
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Agenda – DAY 1
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Learning Objectives
▪
SAP S/4HANA Introduction
o Deployment Options and Transition Paths
▪
Overview of SAP Activate Framework
o
o
o
o
An Introduction
Overview of SAP Best Practices
Methodology/Roadmap
Tools
o SAP Activate Phase: Discover
o
Introduction to Discover
Project Best Practices
Transformation Navigator
SAP Readiness Check for SAP S/4HANA
Trial Systems
Tools To Support Your SAP S/4HANA Journey.
o
Key Takeaways
o
o
o
o
o
▪
Quiz and Recommended Hands-on Exercises
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SAP S/4HANA Introduction
- Deployment Options and Transition Paths.
- SAP Best Practices
- Methodology/Roadmap
- Tools
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Key Principles for the Intelligent Suite
End-to-End
Business Processes
Harmonized
User Experience
Industry
Coverage
Embedded
Intelligence
Unified
Integration
Common Data
Foundation
Openness and
Modularity
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Reusable Business
Services
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SAP S/4HANA – Deployment Options
High level picture of SAP S/4HANA consumption
As a Service
SAP S/4HANA
As a Product
Cloud
SAP S/4HANA
•
On customer own datacenter
•
At hosting company
•
In SAP HEC
•
At hyperscaler (IaaS)
AnyPremise
ONE
Data Enterprise Management Layer • Semantic • User Experience
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Building YOUR Intelligent Enterprise
Driving business
innovation together
RISE with SAP
SAP S/4HANA Cloud
(public or private)

Take your next step towards an intelligent enterprise:
Resilience and low TCO with infrastructure of choice
SAP
Business
Technology
Platform
Premier Value
Flexibility to
choose
infrastructure
provider
•
SAP Data Center
•
IaaS Provider Infrastructure
•
Customer Data Center
•
Scalability option based on the growth of your
Guided Journey
SAP Business
Network
Starter Pack
Simplified
Engagement
business
Business
process
intelligence
(BPI) &
Signavio
•
Technical operations excellence by SAP
◼
Single point of contact
◼
One set of SLAs
SAP Launchpad Service & Mobile Start App,
Custom Code Migration,
SAP Readiness Check,
SAP Cloud ALM,
SAP Enable Now,
SAP Learning Hub
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SAP S/4HANA - Deployment Options
High level picture of SAP S/4HANA consumption
SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud
To learn more about cloud deployment, listen to the session:
The Path to SAP S/4HANA, Choosing the Right Cloud
Deployment for Your Business
SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud
SAP S/4HANA On-Premise
Customers who desire:
Customers who desire:
Customers who require:
•
•
•
Complete control and ownership of
their application and data landscape
•
The ability to manage unique, customerspecific needs which cannot be
addressed by public cloud or private
cloud offerings
•
The utilization of their existing IT
departments, infrastructure, budget,
and IaaS vendor agreements
•
Specific compliance with industry- and
country-specific regulatory requirements
A complete, modern, native SaaS ERP
solution with the full benefits of
public cloud
•
The fastest path to innovation and
the lowest TCO
•
A clean Cloud ERP solution without
converting old/legacy ERP processes
and configurations.
•
To reimagine business processes and
take advantage of standardized best
practices
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A rapid conversion of their existing
ERP/ECC environments to a Cloud-based
architecture
•
The flexibility of a traditional on-premise
application as well as subscription-based,
cloud economics
•
Gradual transformation to a pure SaaS
landscape at their own pace
•
Full, extensive, ERP functionality including
partner add-ons with the ability to extend
and enhance
RISE with SAP
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SAP S/4HANA Transition Paths
Three Paths to Transition to SAP S/4HANA
SAP S/4HANA
On Premise
System
Conversion
SAP ERP
System
Bring your business processes to the new platform
▪ A complete technical in-place conversion of an existing SAP
ECC system to SAP S/4HANA
▪ Adopt new innovations at your speed
SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Private
Edition
Partly re-use, partly re-implementation
Hybrid
Selective
Transition
Data Transition
SAP S/4HANA
On Premise
SAP ERP
System(s)
▪ Covers the migration of relevant business data from SAP ERP to
SAP S/4HANA
▪ Allows to combine redesign of business processes with retaining
historical data
▪ Realized by a combination of standard functions used for a new
implementation or system conversion together with complementing
expert functions which are not released to general availability
SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Private
Edition
New implementation / re-implementation
SAP S/4HANA
On Premise
New
Implementation
SAP ERP or
Third Party
System(s)
▪ Reengineering and process simplification based on latest innovations
▪ Fueled with best practices or Enterprise Management Layer (EML) &
based on a clean core
▪ Migrate your master data & open documents (no historical data)
SAP S/4HANA
Cloud
Mapping Your Journey to SAP S/4HANA - A Practical Guide for Senior IT Leadership
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Hybrid
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Overview of SAP Activate the Innovation Adoption Framework.
- Introduction to our Innovation Adoption Framework.
- SAP Best Practices
- Methodology/Roadmap
- Tools
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SAP Activate
Innovation as a Service is how your business deploys new capabilities, when and how you choose,
to build a sustained competitive advantage
Launch quickly and efficiently,
standardized for integration
Self-service to expand capabilities when,
where, and how you choose
Business-Driven Innovation with SAP Activate
Self-service configuration through a clear deployment
methodology of solution-specific practices, in a
standardized environment
Business Processes
Delivered
Ready to Run
Clear Methodology for
Adoption and
Extensibility
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Speed of Innovation
Greater Productivity
Growth & Scalability
Business Impact
Apps for Adoption
and Extensibility
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Overview of SAP Activate the Innovation Adoption Framework.
Quick Facts
SAP Activate innovation adoption framework is a unique
combination of best practices, methodology, and tools to
help customers and partners implement the SAP S/4HANA
suite.
Best practices, Methodology, and Tools are the three
pillars of SAP Activate.
It is designed for IT and business professionals who are
involved in the migration to or configuration, integration, or
extension of SAP S/4HANA.
SAP Activate Methodology is aligned with best
practices that the Project Management Institute (PMI)
documented in the PM Body of Knowledge (PMI
PMBOK)
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Overview of SAP Activate the Innovation Adoption Framework.
The 3 Pillars of SAP Activate
Business Value
New
Implementation
SAP Best Practices
SAP S/4HANA
Cloud
System
Conversion
Methodology
●
Faster, less service intensive initial
implementation in the cloud or AnyPremise
●
Rapid adoption of innovations throughout
the entire product lifecycle
●
Extensible framework for partners
●
SAP Activate methodology addresses all
deployment mode, be it cloud, hybrid or on
premise.
SAP S/4HANA
Tools
Accelerated Time-to-Value
Selective Data
Transition
(initial and ongoing)
Reduced Total-Cost-of-Ownership
(over total lifecycle cloud and any-premise)
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Customer Journey to SAP S/4HANA with SAP Activate
Three customer situations, three transition scenarios
Starting
point…
Accelerating your transition to
SAP S/4HANA with SAP Activate
New
Implementation
S/4HANA transition project and lifecycle
SAP S/4HANA
implemented
SAP S/4HANA
System
Conversion
Cloud
SAP S/4HANA
Selective Data
Transition
AnyPremise
…depending on your
transition scenario
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Key Elements Driving Successful Deployment
Working together to simplify, streamline and automate
deployment
Discover
Prepare
Explore
Realize
Deploy
Contract Start
Continuous Innovation
Discovery
Assessment
Setup and Enable
Fit
to Standard
Fit-to-Standard
Analysis
Analysis
Scope and
ScopeConfigure
and Configure
Migrate, Integrate,
Integrate,
Migrate,
Test, and
and Extend
Extend
Test,
Onboard and
Deploy
Ready-to-run processes
with process
documentation
Prescriptive, step-by-step
deployment guidance for
project teams
Powerful integrated tools
for configuration,
deployment and run
Best Practices
SAP Activate Methodology
Powered by SAP Cloud ALM
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Run
Go-Live
Innovate, Operate,
Support
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Implementing SAP S/4HANA with SAP Activate
Overview: How customers, partners, and SAP access SAP Activate methodology content
SAP Activate Community
Roadmap Viewer
SAP Best Practices Explorer
Register @
https://go.support.sap.com/roadmapviewer/#
https://rapid.sap.com/bp/
https://community.sap.com/topics/activate
Benefits
Benefits
Benefits
▪ Perfect way to get started and learn about the
SAP Activate approach
▪ SAP Fiori application that provides access to
complete methodology content (all tasks and
accelerators)
▪ SAP Best Practices Explorer allows you to browse
content per solution
▪ Collaboration with experts and other users
(discussion forums, documents sharing, etc.)
▪ Geared to use in a project, access complete
methodology content
▪ Content can also be downloaded into SAP
Solution Manager 7.2 as WBS
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▪ Predefined scope items with corresponding
business benefits, key process flows,
country/region relevance, and test scripts
▪ Power your project with ready-to-run processes
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Overview of SAP Activate the Innovation Adoption Framework.
- Introduction to our Innovation Adoption Framework.
- SAP Best Practices
- Methodology/Roadmap
- Tools
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SAP Best Practices Explorer (1/3)
Overview
SAP Best Practices Explorer - The New Web
Channel Experience to Search, Browse and
Consume SAP Best Practices
Key Benefits
• Simple and Easy Navigation - Built using SAP UI5
technology, SAP Fiori like navigation
• Access via Tablet and Mobile Devices – Access the
Best Practices content anytime anywhere
• Powerful Search Mechanism – In-app search/filter,
search from popular search engines like Google,
browse packages via catalog and A-Z index
• Quick access to accelerators based on user
authorization – One click access to key accelerators,
SAP Cloud Identity Management based
authorization, download accelerators for offline
usage
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SAP Best Practices Explorer (2/3)
Examples of the Standard Documentation
Overview
• Customer presentation: overview presentation
• Content Library: web page with links to all the
content
• Project schedule: example implementation project
schedule
• Prerequisite matrix
• Delivery supplement: key implementation
information
• Master Data Overview: describes master data used
Process Diagrams
Fact Sheet
End-to-End Process
• Fact sheets: scope description of each end-to-end
process
• Process diagrams: graphical BPML process
diagram with roles
• Test scripts: step by step process documentation
with data
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Test Scripts
Transaction List
Organizational Structure
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Implementing SAP S/4HANA with SAP Activate(3/3)
SAP Best Practice Explorer
What are SAP Best Practices?
How to consume SAP Best Practices?
▪
Preconfigured, accelerated business processes
to jump start your implementation
▪ Load your data and you can run through the
entire business process.
▪ Pre-delivered business 43 countries
▪ 25 system languages
SAP Best Practices Explorer
How to activate SAP Best Practices?
SAP Best Practice Explorer - Home Page
Meet-the-expert recording - Jump Start Your SAP S/4HANA
Implementation by Activating SAP Best Practices
Administration guide - Administration Guide to Implementation of
SAP S/4HANA 2020 with SAP Best Practices
SAP note - 3018654 - Jump Start Your SAP S/4HANA 2020
Implementation by Activating SAP Best Practices
Remote training sessions: Solution Activation with Best Practices
Blog - New Installation of S/4HANA – Best Practices Content
Activation
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•
•
•
•
•
Access SAP Best Practices
content
•
Power your project with readyto-run processes
•
https://rapid.sap.com/bp/
Scope-item fact sheets - scope description of each scope item
Process diagrams - graphical BPML process diagram with roles
Test scripts - step by step process documentation with data
Accelerators – many templates (e.g. chart of accounts, master data,
forms…etc.)
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A Live Demonstration
Implementing SAP S/4HANA with SAP Activate
SAP Best Practice Explorer demonstration: how to navigate from the landing page
SAP Best Practice Explorer (https://rapid.sap.com/bp/)
1
4
5
3
2
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SAP Best Practices for SAP S/4HANA (On Premise)
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Overview of SAP Activate the Innovation Adoption Framework.
- Introduction to our Innovation Adoption Framework.
- SAP Best Practices
- Methodology/Roadmap
- Tools
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SAPActivate Methodology accelerates your journey to
SAP S/4HANA with these principles
Based on over 40 years of implementation experience.
START WITH BEST PRACTICES &
ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT LAYER
Use ready-to run business processes
CLOUD READY
Leverage the flexibility and speed
of the cloud
CONFIRM SOLUTION FIT
Confirm fit to best practices with
fit-to-standard workshops or fit-gap, capture delta
PREMIUM ENGAGEMENT READY
Build and Run fully supported
via SAP control centers
MODULAR, SCALABLE AND AGILE
Structure project to deliver the solution
incrementally
QUALITY BUILT-IN
Identify risk early with total quality approach
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SAP Activate – The Innovation Adoption Framework
SAP Activate - Phases
Now that we have introduced all three pillars of SAP Activate, let’s take a look at how you apply them in an
SAP S/4HANA transition.
The SAP Activate concept is applicable in all transition scenarios (e.g. New implementation, System
Conversion and Selective Data Transition), but for simplicity we will focus on just new implementation and
conversion on-premise to demonstrate how SAP Activate supports you.
The SAP Activate approach follows six phases to support customers on their SAP S/4HANA transition
journey. The image below outlines key activities and objectives of each phase.
Landscape
Transformation
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Deploy SAP S/4HANA Any-Premise with SAP Activate
Journey Overview and Key Milestones
Discover
Prepare
Explore
Realize
Deploy
Run
Onboard and
Deploy
Operate,
Monitor,
Support
Onboard and
Deploy
Operate,
Monitor,
Support
SAP S/4HANA
Experience
Trial
Fit-Gap Analysis with
SAP Best Practices
or SAP Enterprise
Management Layer.
Scope and
Configure​
Migrate, Integrate,
Extend, Test
NEW IMPLEMENTATION
Project
Lifecycle
Solution Manager Integration
SAP S/4HANA
Experience
Trial
Technical
Preparation Steps
and Test
Conversion
Functional
Conversion
and Cut-Over
Integrate and
Extend
SYSTEM CONVERSION
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SAPACTIVATE
How Customers, Partners, and SAP access SAP Activate methodology content and its tools
SAP Activate Jam Group
SAP Roadmap Viewer
•
•
•
•
Engage SAP Activate
experts
Ask questions and
collaborate
•
http://bit.ly/SAPActivate
•
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Browse implementation
guidance for your digital
transformation
Access SAP Activate
methodology assets and
accelerators
https://go.support.sap.co
m/roadmapviewer/#
SAP Best Practices
Explorer
SAP Solution Manager
•
Optimal toolset for your
Digital Business
Transformation
•
Browse SAP Best
Practices content
•
Power your project with
ready-to-run processes
•
Management platform
for your SAP solution
•
https://rapid.sap.com/bp/
•
https://support.sap.com/
solutionmanager
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Digital Transformation to SAP S/4HANA with the SAP Activate/Enterprise
Management Layer
Discover
Prepare
Explore
Realize
Deploy
Run
SAP Digital Business Services for SAP S/4HANA
Project
Lifecycle
Solution Manager 7.2 Integration
Experience
Trial
System
SAP S/4HANA
•
•
•
Experience SAP
S/4HANA role-based trial
based on pre-configured
business scenarios
Prototype Based
Fit-Gap Analysis
•
Setup Project Governance
•
Ramp-up your team
•
Understand the value of
SAP S/4HANA for your
organization
Set expectations with customer
business users
•
Setup initial system from pre-activated
appliance
Create transition plan
•
Conduct fit-gap/fit-to-standard analysis
using SAP Best Practices and SAP
Enterprise Management Layer
Company content and processes
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Migrate,
Integrate,
Extend, Test
Onboard
Users and
Deploy
Operate
Monitor
Support
•
Iteratively build
functionality – resolve
gaps
•
Execute
End-User
Training
•
Innovation
Cycle
•
•
Configure solution
•
Go-Live
•
Leverage
Configuration Tools
like Implementation
Guide in SAP
S/4HANA on-premise
edition
Update
SAP
S/4HANA
•
Test Execution
Configure
and Test
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SAP S/4HANA Implementation with SAP Activate –Roadmap Viewer
Key Content Features
▪
Comprehensive guidance covering the transition strategies for deployment of SAP S/4HANA – new implementation, system conversion,
and selective data transition covered with prescriptive tasks, breakdown by workstreams and supported with rich accelerators.
▪
Full coverage of the Project Management
deliverables and tasks, including agile project
delivery
▪
Detailed guidance for use of SAP Solution
Manager 7.2 in SAP S/4HANA project
▪
Structured fit-gap workshops tasks –
prescriptive details for planning and running
workshops
▪
Formal quality process with structured Q-Gates
in each phase
▪
Content kept up to date with latest release of
SAP S/4HANA software
▪
Explanation of SAP Digital Business Services
contained in Packages for SAP S/4HANA
Access to SAP S/4HANA in Roadmap Viewer
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SAP Activate Methodology Coverage
Category
Implementation Roadmap
Product Coverage and purpose
Access links
Cloud solution
specific
SAP Activate Methodology for SAP
S/4HANA Cloud
SAP S/4HANA Cloud, including extensibility and integrations; covers the Run phase regression test after quarterly upgrade and adding scope/countries
Link
SAP Activate Methodology for SAP
S/4HANA Cloud, single tenant edition
SAP S/4HANA Cloud, single tenant edition deployment, 5 golden rules, cloud-like
deployment approach for this solution
Link
SAP Activate Methodology for
SuccessFactors
SAP Success Factors implementation guidance, fit-to-standard, configuration, project
management
Link
SAP Activate Methodology for SAP Hybris
Cloud for Customer Roadmap
Initial version of methodology guidance for C/4 portfolio, will be enhanced to better serve
the new C/4 product line
Link
SAP Activate Methodology for SAP Ariba
Complete coverage for SAP Ariba implementation projects, covers Procurement,
Contracts, Financial Supply Chain, Strategic Sourcing, Buying and Invoicing, etc.
Link
SAP Activate Methodology for Developing
SAP S/4HANA Cloud Extensions
Provides SAP partners with end-to-end, step-by-step guidance on their journey to
leverage their innovations along with SAP S/4HANA Cloud
Link
Transition to SAP S/4HANA
Guides customers transitioning to SAP S/4HANA in one of the scenarios – new, system
conversion, landscape transformation. Supports OP, managed cloud deployment
Link
Transition to SAP BW/4HANA
Guides the implementation team through the Transition to SAP BW/4HANA - New, InPlace System Conversion, Remote Conversion, Shell Conversion and Conversion/New
Implementation of SAP BPC 11.0
Link
SAP S/4HANA Upgrade and Product
Integration Roadmap
Provides guidance for customers upgrading their SAP S/4HANA On-Premise solution to
the newest release, including integration of SAP EWM and SAP TM
Link
SAP Activate Methodology for New Cloud
Implementations
Intended to guide project teams deploying SAP cloud solutions that do not have solution
specific guidance
Link
SAP Activate Methodology for Business
Suite and On-Premise
Intended to guide project teams deploying SAP on-premise solutions that do not have
solution specific guidance
Link
On-premise and
managed hosting
solution specific
General
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SAP Activate Methodology Jam Group
Join the Exclusive Community with the Latest Content on SAP Activate Methodology
Community benefits:
▪ Learn from our experts on various topics, gaining key insights, and stay up-to-date on the latest releases
▪ Webinars & events outlining the key topics which help organizations during project phases
▪ Open hours to engage live with our methodology experts
▪ Interactive collaboration with users regarding content, questions, and updates
▪ FREE access to the latest content to help organizations with projects
Join our community today:
https://community.sap.com/resources/getting-started#Register
Current members, access our community by clickinghere
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Mastering SAP Activate
Key Takeaways
NOT STARTING FROM SCRATCH
- principles are not new, built on proven techniques
Agile
ASAP
STANDARD FIRST
- best practice concept at core
Enterprise
Management
Layer
Company
FASTER PACED
fit-gap
Tools
HW
- priority based design and build
Build
Backlog
INCREMENTAL APPROVALS
Design
- deliverables acceptance
Sprint
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Value
Services
- demands early preparation
Resource
VALUE DRIVEN
A2O
Approve
Test
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Overview of SAP Activate the Innovation Adoption Framework.
- Introduction to our Innovation Adoption Framework.
- SAP Best Practices
- Methodology/Roadmap
- Tools
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SAP Activate AnyPremise Tools.
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A Live Demonstration
SAP Activate Phase: Discover
- Introduction to Discover Phase.
- Project Best Practices.
- SAP Transformation Navigator.
- SAP Readiness Check for SAP S/4HANA.
- Trial Systems.
- Tools To Support Your SAP S/4HANA Journey.
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Introduction to Discover Phase
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SAP Activate Phase: Discover
- Introduction to Discover Phase.
- Project Best Practices.
- SAP Transformation Navigator.
- SAP Readiness Check for SAP S/4HANA.
- Trial Systems.
- Tools To Support Your SAP S/4HANA Journey.
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Project Best Practices
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A Live Demonstration
SAP Activate Phase: Discover
- Introduction to Discover Phase.
- Project Best Practices.
- SAP Transformation Navigator.
- SAP Readiness Check.
- Trial Systems.
- Tools To Support Your SAP S/4HANA Journey.
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Tools to align on vision and strategy:
SAP Transformation Navigator: your company-specific product map & guides
Input
Output
Business guide – why?
Your current products
pre-filled from support profile
Your business needs
selected from capability catalog
▪
Your value drivers
▪ Your aspiration ranges
▪ Your tracking KPIs
Which solution to
use in which use
case
Value of
innovation?
Your IT-strategy
prompted decision points,
such as cloud preference
Which products
to use
▪
?
Industry-specific
guidance
Technical guide – what?
Cost of new
solution
Your industry reference map
▪ Your product
recommendations
▪ Your decision points
Transformation guide – how?
▪
What happens
to licenses
Your transition types
▪ Your license policies
▪ Your services
Build your future landscape with products complementing SAP S/4HANA from here.
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A Live Demonstration
SAP S/4HANA Discovery with SAP Enterprise Support
Meet-the-Expert & Tutorial
SAP Transformation Navigator
Goals:
This MTE & tutorial will provide you guidance on how to utilize SAP
Transformation Navigator. SAP Transformation Navigator is a free tool to help
you to build your business case to move to the SAP S/4HANA.
•
Learn how SAP Transformation Navigator provides clear guidance to the
Intelligent Enterprise
•
Understand how to create your future SAP Product Roadmap based on
your current SAP products
Visit us at SAP Enterprise Support Academy and enter
the search tag “SAP S/4HANA Discovery” with the
quotes
Direct access to the content:
MTE: Build Your Product Roadmap - SAP Transformation Navigator
Tutorial: SAP Transformation Navigator
Value & Benefits:
 Create your recommended future product road map
 Build your value-based business case
 Plan your transformation journey
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Tools to align on vision and strategy:
“Discovery” templates”
The “greenfield vs conversion” template helps
formalizing decision criteria
The “discovery” templates are accelerators to
support the strategic decision process. Learn more
about these templates and how to use them in the
“SAP S/4HANA discovery” series of MTEs:
•
Landscape Scoping
•
Greenfield vs conversion
•
The Starting point / Migration path
The “Consolidation”
Opportunities” template helps
formalizing the decision to
consolidate complex landscapes
The “Affinity to Core” helps
formalizing which function should
be in or out of the core
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SAP Activate Phase: Discover
- Introduction to Discover Phase.
- Project Best Practices.
- SAP Transformation Navigator.
- SAP Readiness Check for SAP S/4HANA.
- Trial Systems.
- Tools To Support Your SAP S/4HANA Journey.
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Project evaluation tools
SAP Readiness Check - Why is it so critical?
The SAP Readiness Check for SAP S/4HANA provides critical information on impacts of the transition to SAP S/4HANA, before
you even start the SAP S/4HANA project or have any SAP S/4HANA system in your landscape.
As of today, the following topics are currently analyzed:
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Simplification Items
2.
Activities Related to Simplification Items
3.
Compatibility Scope Analysis
4.
Add-On Compatibility
5.
Active Business Functions
6.
SAP S/4HANA Sizing and Archiving potential insights
7.
Custom Code Analysis for adaptation effort
8.
Integration (Incompatible interfaces)
9.
Financial Data Quality
10.
Customer Vendor Integration
11.
Business Process Discovery improvement potential
12.
SAP Fiori Apps
13.
Planned downtime (for conversion)
14.
SAP Innovative Business Solutions
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SAP Readiness Check for SAP S/4HANA Content
Our enablement offerings
Format
Title
Format type
Duration
Objectives
SAP Readiness
Check already
implemented
Understand why the tool is necessary. Get an overview of
how to implement and of the Readiness Check tool
No
Meet-the-Expert
Introduction to SAP
Readiness Check for
SAP S/4HANA
Recorded
session for selfpaced
consumption.
1 hour
Tutorial
Interpreting the Results
of your SAP Readiness
Check for SAP
S/4HANA
Self-paced
step-by- step
instructions,
demonstrations,
and interactive
elements.
2 – 4 hours.
Understand the value of each Readiness Check table,
through short videos.
Yes
Expert Guided
Implementation
SAP Readiness Check
for SAP S/4HANA
Live with
homework and
configuration
3 days – am: theory with an
expert and pm: customers
works on their own results
and/or perform the
implementation steps
Get a deeper overview of the Readiness Check tool.
Experience several live sessions with an expert and ask
questions. Cover the details of the installation of the
Readiness Check tool.
Yes/No
Live Must-Know
Webcast
Understand SAP
S/4HANA Readiness
Check
Live session –
available in
different
languages –
not recorded
90 min
Get a deeper overview of the tool. Experience a live
session with an expert and ask questions
Yes/No
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SAP Activate Phase: Discover
- Introduction to Discover Phase.
- Project Best Practices.
- SAP Transformation Navigator.
- SAP Readiness Check for SAP S/4HANA.
- Trial Systems.
- Tools To Support Your SAP S/4HANA Journey.
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Trial tools
Choose between three options depending on your objectives
✓
To get a first insight of SAP S/4HANA and its value
1.
✓
Access the SAP S/4HANA Cloud trial landscape without any prerequisite, and take the
guided tours.
For hands-on, for a proof of concept or a deeper understanding of SAP S/4HANA, or as a sandbox
for a new implementation scenario
2.
Deploy an SAP S/4HANA 2021 Fully Activated Appliance in the SAP Cloud Appliance Library
(CAL) with an hyperscaler account, usually in a few hours*.
3.
Deploy an SAP S/4HANA 2021 Fully Activated Appliance on premise, in a few days (not
including the provisioning of the on premise system).
•
•
•
•
SAP S/4HANA Trial
To learn more about the Fully Activated Appliance, please read this SAP Community blog post
Use SAP task tutorials to guide you when you use SAP S/4HANA trial
For Fully Activated Appliance on premise, check SAP Note 2041140
*CAL subscription may be required – review blog for further details
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Trial tools
SAP S/4HANA Cloud Trial - Try the product to feel the value in a few minutes (1/2)
1: Search SAP S/4HANA trial on a search engine or go to
https://www.sap.com/cmp/oth/crm-s4hana/index.html
2: Scroll down and chose the “Start your 14 day trial” button ( left side)
3: Fill your info to receive the login mail
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Trial tools
SAP S/4HANA Cloud Trial - Try the product to feel the value in a few minutes (2/2)
4. Scroll down to take the guided
tours.
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Trial tools
SAP S/4HANA Fully Activated Appliance - Try the product to feel the value
Create your own system instance in a fraction of the
usual setup time
SAP S/4HANA 2021 &
additional components
2-3 hours via SAP CAL,
hosted in AWS/ MS Azure / GCP
Software
2-3 days when deploying on own physical hardware
(see SAP Note 2041140 Order an SAP S/4HANA fullyactivated appliance for on-premise deployment)
SAP Best Practices &
technical settings
Configuration
SAP S/4HANA 2021,
Fully-Activated Appliance
Main use cases:
Trial / Sandbox / Poof of Concept / Scoping
Open to customers, partners, SAP employees, and
public users
Sample data &
demo scenarios
Walk-throughs
For detailed how to instructions, see SAP Community blog post: SAP
S/4HANA Fully-Activated Appliance: Create your SAP S/4HANA
system in a fraction of the usual setup time
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A Live Demonstration
SAP Activate Phase: Discover
- Introduction to Discover Phase.
- Project Best Practices.
- SAP Transformation Navigator.
- SAP Readiness Check for SAP S/4HANA
- Trial Systems.
- Tools To Support Your SAP S/4HANA Journey.
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Why so many tools?
•
The discover phase of SAP Activate covers the
“Pre-Project” activities of an SAP S/4HANA
project. It can last a few years or a few months.
There are many activities and many questions to
answer, for example:
•
•
•
•
Why should I move? I need to understand the value of
SAP S/4HANA before signing the contract or starting
the project
How should I move? I know I will move to SAP
S/4HANA, but I am still on a strategic planning level. I
need guidance on my future landscape, and in which
sequence to do the move
How much will it cost, for the project and for the run
phase?
The project phase and the run phase are less
about questions, but there are still many
challenges or activities to be executed
Quick Value Assessment tool
“Discovery” templates
SAP S/4HANA Value Map
SAP Best Practices Explorer
SAP Roadmap Viewer
Business Value Advisor
Simplification Item Checks
SAP Fiori Custom Code
Migration App
SAP Readiness Check
ABAP Test Cockpit
SAP S/4HANA Fully Activated
Appliance
CCLM
Process Discovery
DVM cockpit
SAP Transformation Navigator
https://blogs.sap.com/2021/11/09/are-you-ready-for-sap-s-4hana-tools-that-support-your-migration/
Tools To Support Your SAP S/4HANA Journey
Questions/Activities which are so different cannot be answered by the same tools
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Key Takeaways
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SAP S/4HANA Implementation with SAP Activate.
Day 1: Key Takeaways
▪
How SAP Activate can support SAP S/4HANA On Premise and Cloud Deployments.
▪
What are the key Phases in the SAP Activate Methodology and how each step aid the
implementation projects with the help of accelerators
▪
What tools are available from a SAP Activate point of view to support you to move to SAP
S/4HANA.
▪
Where to find SAP Activate Roadmap Viewer and download project accelerators
▪
How to setup a trial system using CAL and where to go to get some more information.
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Quiz and Recommended Hands-on Exercises
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SAP S/4HANA Best Practice Implementation
Day 1: Quiz
•
•
Quiz 1: What is the Roadmap Viewer?
It is the tool that is used to help your transformation to the SAP Intelligent Enterprise. For Example it can help you with
your SAP S/4HANA On Premise implementation
•
•
Quiz 2: Where can you get further information on your SAP S/4HANA Implementation
https://go.support.sap.com/roadmapviewer/
•
•
Quiz 3: Where do you get the Project Best Practices?
https://go.support.sap.com/roadmapviewer/
•
•
•
Quiz 4:What are the SAP Best Practices?
SAP Best Practices are a collection of content that accelerate the implementation of your S/4HANA Business Process.
Content is Pre-Defined Business Process, Test Scripts, Process Flows, Fact Sheets, Configuration Guides and there is
some general information as well.
•
•
Quiz 5: Where can you go to get more information on SAP Best Practices.
https://rapid.sap.com/bp/
•
•
Quiz 6: What is the purpose of the SAP Transformation Navigator?
To give you clear guidance on how to move to the Intelligent Enterprise.
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SAP S/4HANA Best Practice Implementation
Day 1: Recommended hands-on exercises
•
Ex1: Have you joined SAP Activate It contains some useful information on SAP Activate and points to subgroups for
Methodology and Best Practices.
•
Ex2: Logon to SAP Roadmap Viewer and download Project Template Duration ~ 10min
•
Ex3: Have you tried the SAP Transformation Navigator Duration ~ 5min
•
Ex4: Add the SAP Roadmap Viewer and the SAP Best Practices Explorer in your favorites. Duration ~ 5min
•
Ex5: Access the SAP CAL and Activate your own SAP S/4HANA systems.
•
Ex6: Take the Tools To Support Your SAP S/4HANA Journey training. Duration ~ 1.25 Hours.
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