Mark Mergaerts is a principal technical consultant working for Logos Consulting, a Belgian consulting company that focuses exclusively on SAP technology. Before that, he worked for SAP Belgium between 1995 and 2011, giving him almost 20 years of SAP BC experience. His activities concentrate on system administration, database management, performance, upgrades (he has been upgrading SAP since the days of release 2.1), and platform and Unicode migrations.

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... Acknowledgments ... 19

... Preface ... 21

... Who Is This Book For? ... 21

... How This Book Is Organized ... 22

... Terminology ... 23

... Conclusion ... 23

1 ... Introduction to SAP S/4HANA ... 25

1.1 ... New Possibilities, Features, and Functionality ... 25

1.2 ... SAP S/4HANA in the Cloud versus On-Premise ... 27

1.3 ... New Implementation, System Conversion, and Transformation Scenarios ... 29

1.4 ... Simplification ... 38

1.5 ... Conversion Methodology ... 44

1.6 ... SAP S/4HANA Transformation Enablers ... 54

1.7 ... Summary ... 61

2 ... Architecture, Tools, and Strategy ... 63

2.1 ... SAP S/4HANA Architecture ... 63

2.2 ... SAP S/4HANA and SAP Fiori ... 72

2.3 ... SAP Solution Manager and SAP S/4HANA ... 75

2.4 ... Maintenance Planner ... 78

2.5 ... SAP Readiness Check ... 83

2.6 ... Simplification Item Check ... 95

2.7 ... Sizing for SAP HANA ... 105

2.8 ... Software Update Manager ... 108

2.9 ... Database- and Operating System-Specific Aspects ... 121

2.10 ... Upgrading the Frontend Software ... 125

2.11 ... SAP Landscape during Conversion ... 128

2.12 ... Summary ... 135

3 ... Project Planning ... 137

3.1 ... Why Convert to SAP S/4HANA? ... 137

3.2 ... Factors Influencing Conversion Complexity ... 140

3.3 ... Estimating the Effort ... 153

3.4 ... Project Team ... 162

3.5 ... Conversion Project Steps ... 168

3.6 ... Conversion Plan ... 171

3.7 ... Testing Phase ... 184

3.8 ... Summary ... 191

4 ... Preparing the Conversion ... 193

4.1 ... Introducing the Tools: SUM and DMO ... 194

4.2 ... Conversion Documentation ... 195

4.3 ... Conversion Software ... 205

4.4 ... Maintenance Planner ... 209

4.5 ... Preparations in the SAP ERP System ... 224

4.6 ... Final Preparations ... 232

4.7 ... Preparing SUM ... 238

4.8 ... Summary ... 248

5 ... Converting the System ... 249

5.1 ... Planning the Conversion ... 249

5.2 ... Starting the Conversion with SUM ... 257

5.3 ... Roadmap Step: Extraction ... 263

5.4 ... Roadmap Step: Configuration ... 266

5.5 ... Roadmap Step: Checks ... 282

5.6 ... Roadmap Step: Preprocessing ... 285

5.7 ... Preparing for Downtime ... 302

5.8 ... Final Preprocessing Steps ... 306

5.9 ... Roadmap Step: Execution ... 308

5.10 ... Roadmap Step: Postprocessing ... 316

5.11 ... SUM Special Features ... 322

5.12 ... Postconversion Activities ... 328

5.13 ... Post Go-Live ... 351

5.14 ... Troubleshooting ... 354

5.15 ... Summary ... 358

6 ... Modification Adjustment ... 361

6.1 ... Modification Adjustment Transactions ... 362

6.2 ... Preparing and Running Transaction SPDD ... 363

6.3 ... Transaction SPDD Object List ... 370

6.4 ... Transaction SPDD Transport Request ... 372

6.5 ... Adjusting Objects ... 373

6.6 ... Final Steps ... 385

6.7 ... Transaction SPAU ... 386

6.8 ... Transaction SPAU_ENH ... 389

6.9 ... Summary ... 391

7 ... Custom Code Management ... 393

7.1 ... Custom Code Management Process ... 395

7.2 ... Impact of SAP HANA ... 397

7.3 ... Impact of Simplification ... 399

7.4 ... Enabling the ABAP Test Cockpit ... 404

7.5 ... Custom Code Analysis in the Preparation Phase ... 413

7.6 ... Custom Code Adaptation after the Conversion ... 430

7.7 ... Custom Code Adaptation as an Ongoing Process ... 436

7.8 ... Summary ... 441

8 ... Functional Conversion ... 443

8.1 ... Business Partners ... 444

8.2 ... Financials and Accounting ... 458

8.3 ... Credit Management ... 474

8.4 ... International Trade and Trade Finance ... 485

8.5 ... Logistics ... 490

8.6 ... Sales and Distribution ... 502

8.7 ... SAP Business Warehouse ... 504

8.8 ... Cleaning Up Obsolete Data after the Conversion ... 506

8.9 ... Summary ... 509

A ... References ... 511

A.1 ... SAP Notes ... 512

A.2 ... SAP Installation and Documentation Manuals ... 520

A.3 ... SAP Service Marketplace ... 521

A.4 ... Other Online Resources ... 521

B ... The Authors ... 523

... The Contributors ... 524

... Index ... 525