Sven Denecken is the senior vice president and chief marketing and solutions officer for Industries & CX, SAP SE. He drives product marketing across SAP's Industry & CX solutions, enabling customers' digital transformation.

The industries in which customers operate define their core business and, from the outset, SAP has worked together with customers and partners to build business solutions that address industry-specific processes and enable their digital transformation. Sven Denecken leads product marketing for Industries & CX at SAP. In this role, Sven is charged with strengthening SAP's go-to-market approach.

Sven has many years of experience working with customers and partners to create success and value within the SAP network. He has held a variety of roles across functional areas, including ERP product management, where he led acquisition post-merger integrations, and in product engineering as head of product success and chief operating officer for the flagship solution, SAP S/4HANA Cloud.

As a senior executive, Sven works closely with customers, partners, influencers, and SAP experts to shape and deliver effective outcomes for industry customers to support their digital transformation.

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... Foreword by Jan Gilg ... 15

... Foreword by Sven Denecken ... 17

... Preface ... 19

... The Objective of This Book ... 20

... Who This Book Is For ... 20

... How This Book Is Organized ... 21

... Acknowledgments ... 23

1 ... SAP S/4HANA Fundamentals ... 25

1.1 ... Transition into an Intelligent, Sustainable Enterprise ... 26

1.2 ... Key Technologies ... 30

1.3 ... Deployment and Operating Models ... 43

1.4 ... Deployment Approaches ... 47

1.5 ... Summary ... 50

2 ... Introduction to SAP Activate ... 53

2.1 ... SAP Activate Key Concepts ... 53

2.2 ... Components of SAP Activate ... 59

2.3 ... SAP Activate Phases and Project Management ... 65

2.4 ... Clean Core Strategy ... 73

2.5 ... Golden Rules for Implementing SAP S/4HANA Cloud ... 76

2.6 ... SAP Activate Methodology Taxonomy ... 89

2.7 ... SAP Activate Community ... 96

2.8 ... SAP Activate Training and Certification ... 100

2.9 ... Summary ... 103

3 ... Accessing SAP Activate ... 105

3.1 ... SAP Activate Roadmap Viewer ... 105

3.2 ... SAP Signavio Process Navigator ... 113

3.3 ... SAP Cloud ALM ... 123

3.4 ... Summary ... 151

4 ... Starting with a Working System ... 153

4.1 ... SAP Best Practices for SAP S/4HANA ... 153

4.2 ... Enterprise Management Layer for SAP S/4HANA ... 169

4.3 ... Summary ... 173

5 ... Implementation Activities ... 175

5.1 ... Business-Driven Configuration ... 175

5.2 ... Data Migration ... 185

5.3 ... Extensibility ... 190

5.4 ... Integration ... 195

5.5 ... SAP Business AI ... 199

5.6 ... Testing ... 206

5.7 ... Summary ... 214

6 ... Agile Project Delivery ... 215

6.1 ... Roles, Responsibilities, and Governance ... 215

6.2 ... Creating and Managing the Backlog ... 222

6.3 ... Agile Realization ... 225

6.4 ... Definition of Ready and Done ... 230

6.5 ... Putting It All Together ... 233

6.6 ... SAP Activate in a Scaled Agile Environment ... 234

6.7 ... Summary ... 238

7 ... New Implementation of SAP S/4HANA ... 239

7.1 ... New Implementation of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition ... 239

7.2 ... New Implementation of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition ... 295

7.3 ... New Implementation of SAP S/4HANA ... 323

7.4 ... Summary ... 378

8 ... System Conversion and Selective Data Transition to SAP S/4HANA ... 379

8.1 ... Deployment Project Overview ... 379

8.2 ... Discover Your Solution ... 382

8.3 ... System Conversion ... 389

8.4 ... Selective Data Transition ... 422

8.5 ... Summary ... 428

9 ... Deploying Hybrid System Landscapes ... 429

9.1 ... What Is a Two-Tier ERP Setup? ... 430

9.2 ... Move Options ... 434

9.3 ... Master Data ... 436

9.4 ... Finance ... 437

9.5 ... Sales ... 447

9.6 ... Services ... 455

9.7 ... Procurement ... 463

9.8 ... Manufacturing ... 469

9.9 ... Integration ... 479

9.10 ... Analytics and Reporting ... 480

9.11 ... Summary ... 482

10 ... Organizational Change Management ... 483

10.1 ... Organizational Change Management ... 483

10.2 ... Transition to the Customer Center of Expertise ... 504

10.3 ... Summary ... 510

11 ... SAP Activate for Other SAP Products ... 511

11.1 ... SAP Activate for SAP SuccessFactors ... 511

11.2 ... SAP Activate for the Intelligent Enterprise ... 514

11.3 ... SAP Activate for SAP Business Technology Platform ... 516

11.4 ... SAP Activate for Two- to Three-System Landscape Conversions ... 517

11.5 ... SAP Activate Methodology for SAP S/4HANA Upgrades ... 519

11.6 ... Additional SAP Activate Methodology Roadmaps ... 521

11.7 ... Summary ... 523

A ... SAP Activate Certification Preparation ... 525

A.1 ... Exam Structure ... 525

A.2 ... Practice Questions ... 526

A.3 ... Practice Question Answers and Explanations ... 537

B ... The Authors ... 547

B.1 ... Contributors ... 548

... Index ... 557