SAP Activate, Project Management

Capabilities of the IT Enterprise management in the future or already now? 

• Focus on customer experience along the entire value chain
• Strategy execution at all levels of the corporate structure
• Ongoing business optimization via simulation of scenarios and embedded valuation
• Automation of comprehensive processes that used to require human intervention

Deploying On-Premise SAP S/4HANA

Implementation approaches 

• Implement a new instance of SAP S/4HANA 
• Convert an existing SAP ERP solution to SAP S/4HANA, including business data and configuration.

Discovery phase

• Create an overall strategy for digital transformation by recognizing the benefits and value of SAP S/4HANA.
• Evaluate the impact on the technical architecture and IT infrastructure
• What is the productive system strategy, that is, one single global instance or regional instances?
• Will a global template solution be adopted, and how will deviations from the template be managed?
• Will SAP Best Practices content be used and how?
• Perform a business scenario and solution mapping

Prepare phase

• Create an implementation plan includes which will describe the findings from the discovery phase and sets the stage for the entire project.

Explore phase

• The to-be design of the SAP S/4HANA solution is defined and documented
• Overall design documents for business scenarios and end-to-end processes that include the scope, objectives, benefits, requirements, KPIs, data requirements, and design.
• The backlog of requirements and gaps: Detailed catalog of gaps and requirements by business process.
• Workflows, Reports, Interfaces, Data Conversions, Enhancements, and Forms(WRICEF) list: Tracked status, complexity, and progress of WRICEFs.
• Functional specifications: detailed designs for the approved WRICEFs.
• Data migration approach and strategy: Agreed upon data migration scope and approach to quality, cleansing, extraction, transformation, load, and reconciliation.
• Technical design document: definition of architecture and infrastructure for productive and nonproductive systems.
• Test strategy document: definition of the testing scope, approach, deliverables, and tools.
• For a system conversion, a converted version of the existing system is used, and the existing custom code is analyzed. 
• The technical and functional aspects of the implementation project are fully planned.

Realize phase

• In a new implementation, prepare the new technical architecture and infrastructure.
• In system conversion, the landscape is sequentially converted to SAP S/4HANA. 

Deploy phase (hyper care phase)

• Finalize the business processes and solutions for production go-live. 

Run phase

• Operations are further stabilized and optimized in the run phase. 

Hybrid two-tier ERP setup

In the hybrid two-tier ERP setup, the complex processes continue to run in their proven on-premise applications, meanwhile, simplified and standard processes shift into a cloud-based ERP system for business functions or subsidiaries. It should slight these two points:

• Many customers are used to running one instance of SAP ERP for all their entities worldwide, resulting in a tightly coupled system (monolith).
• In many large enterprises, multiple ERP on-premise instances exist to take care of various entities worldwide. 

Master data can be classified as global master data or local master data. Global master data is the component of master data that needs to be consistent between headquarters and the subsidiaries. The process can also be distributed (integrated) via integration platforms.