SAP S4 HANA Conversion
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Migrate to SAP S/4HANA
By 2025, SAP will no longer support its existing ERP business suite, requiring users to move to the HANA in-memory platform.
While every SAP customer knows that migrating to SAP S/4HANA is inevitable “It’s no longer a question of whether to migrate
but rather when to migrate to SAP S/4HANA”
There are three implementation scenarios for SAP S/4HANA
Choosing SAP S/4HANA System Conversion
S4 HANA Implementation Process
S/4HANA System Conversion Process
To convert SAP ERP system to SAP S/4HANA use SAP Readiness Check for SAP
S/4HANA to check the following aspects of your SAP ERP system:
➢ Custom code impact
➢ SAP S/4HANA sizing
➢ Recommended fiori apps to replace existing transactions
➢ Relevant simplification items
➢ Business process analytics
➢ Data volume management
➢ Business warehouse extractor
SAP Readiness Check runs as of ERP 6.0 (EhP 0-8) and the database can be non-Unicode or Unicode
Project Plan and Breakdown into Preparation and Realization
Overview of conversion steps
SAP provides a process for the conversion to SAP S/4HANA. The following figure gives an overview of the tools, the
phases, and the activities involved in the process.
Custom Code Checks
Before converting to SAP S/4HANA you need to check your custom code against the SAP S/4HANA simplifications. These simplifications
are loaded into the Custom Code Analyzer tool (transaction SYCM), where you get the overview, search for simplifications related to
certain objects/object types and navigate to the relevant SAP Notes.
Project roles – Overview
Project Team and Roles
Customer
Champion, Critical Decisions, Escalations
Project Sponsor(s)
Project
Management
Consultant
Consultants
Consultants
Project Sponsor
Activity, Resource, Risk and Issue Management
Configuration Design
Configuration Validation
Training Design and Delivery
Architecture, Connectivity and Migration
Project Manager
Functional
ProcessExpert
Owners / SMEs
Business
Business
Resource
Stakeholders
Trainer
Trainers
Technical
Technical
Resource
Resources
Organizational Change Management
Description
SAP Activate
Ensure a smooth transition process towards the new way of working. Alignment of goal and incentive
plans to ensure all employees and project team members are fully accountable to execute work consistent
with the project objectives.
Opportunity
Mgmt*
Prepare
Explore
Realize
Deploy
Work stream:
Performance Management
Define project
related objectives
Review and
align goals &
incentives
Integrate goals &
incentive system
Business related activities
Project team building and recognition
Project team internal & external knowledge transfer
Project team
related activities
Project team
check
Project
team check
Project
team check
Run
Run
Transition path overview for SAP S/4HANA system conversion
SAP S/4HANA – One-step vs. two-step approach
A project plan includes many different aspects of the conversion