Successfully Implementing SAP S/4HANA – Part 4

Transition Road Maps for Upgrade of SAP S/4HANA and embedded products
Dr. Christoph Nake, SAP
Dr. Astrid Tschense, SAP
July, 2019
PUBLIC
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Webinar Series

July
CW27 CW28 CW29 CW30
July 3rd July 10th July 17th July 24th

1hr Webinar 2: 1hr Webinar 3: 1hr Webinar 4: 1hr

Webinar 1: Transition Road Maps
Working with Transition to SAP
Introduction to for Upgrade of SAP
Transition Road Maps S/4HANA – Service
Transition Road Maps S/4HANA and
Offerings
embedded products
Get an introduction on Get a deeper insight how Learn about the service After a transition to SAP
transition road maps and to create a service plan, offerings from SAP and S/4HANA, you may
how they can support an work with the road map understand the linkage consider to move to
implementation or graphic and adapt the between road map and S/4HANA embedded
transition project from project file template in SAP services. products like from LE-
first considerations until SAP Solution Manager or Get answers to the WM to SAP EWM, or LE-
realization MS Project following questions: TRA to SAP TM, or SAP
What are the service CRM to S/4HANA
Focus: Find information using offerings for Standard Customer Management.
SAP S/4HANA on prem the accelerators, filters Support customers? Learn which road maps
and search functionality What about Enterprise and services are already
Focus: Support Customers? available.
Target Group: SAP S/4HANA on prem What is premium
IT Management, CoE engagement? What Focus:
Leads, Project Managers Target Group: can I get with my type SAP S/4HANA on prem
Project Managers, of contract? Target Group:
Project Team, TQMs
IT Management, CoE
Target Group: Leads, Project
IT Management, Managers
Project Managers

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Transition Road Map for SAP S/4HANA Upgrade and embedded Products

Agenda

▪ Upgrade of SAP S/4HANA – Road Map and Services

▪ Product Integration in SAP S/4HANA – Example: SAP EWM embedded in SAP S/4HANA

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Available Transition Road Maps (excerpt)
Road Map Scenarios embedded products
• New implementation
Transition to SAP S/4HANA • System Conversion
• Selective Data Transition
On prem

• Upgrade
• New implementation of embedded product • SAP EWM
SAP S/4HANA Upgrade and Product Integration
• Transition to embedded product • SAP TM
• SAP S4CM
• New implementation
• System Conversion (in-place/shell/remote)
Transition to SAP BW/4HANA
• New implementation of embedded product • SAP BPC 11.0
• Transition to embedded product
SAP Activate Methodology for Business Suite and On- • methodology
Premise- Agile and Waterfall
SAP Activate Methodology for New Cloud • methodology
Implementations (Public Cloud-General)
SAP Activate Methodology for SAP S/4HANA Cloud • transition
Cloud

SAP Activate Methodology for SAP S/4HANA Cloud • transition

(single tenant edition)
SAP Activate Methodology for Success Factors • transition

Implementation of SAP Analytics Cloud • transition

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Upgrade of SAP S/4HANA
Run a pure technical upgrade, or implement new features or embedded products?

SAP S/4HANA is currently available on release 1809 FPS02

Check the help.sap.com landing page for SAP S/4HANA

For every release/FPS, a Feature Scope Description is

available, explaining which features are provided up to this
release of SAP S/4HANA

SAP and Partner Solutions (on

Premise and Cloud) with
integration to SAP S/4HANA

SAP S/4HANA LoB Products

embedded in SAP S/4HANA,
add. license required

Core processes in SAP S/4HANA

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Upgrading SAP S/4HANA
Transition Paths Overview

System conversion from SAP S/4HANA Finance to SAP S/4HANA

Upgrade within the SAP S/4HANA product family

SAP S/4HANA upgrade to release 1709 and 1809 with upgrade

from SAP HANA 1.0 to SAP HANA 2.0 :

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Upgrading SAP S/4HANA - Road Map Structure Picture

For a pure technical upgrade, only a sub-set of

the S/4HANA implementation road map
activities are relevant.
The activation of new features may require
additional activities!
➢ Adapt the structure slide to your project
requirements
➢ Consider:
➢ Which activities are required for the planned
scenario?
➢ Which activities are missing for the activation of
new features? Check against the picture from
the "Transition to SAP S/4HANA" road map
➢ Adapt activity sequence, if required

The road map structure picture ppt is available for download in the Road Map Viewer „Download Project Plan“

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Roadmap Viewer: Tasks and Tools

SAP Transformation Navigator

SAP Innovation Discovery Finder
S/4HANA – What’s New Viewer

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Roadmap Viewer: Tasks and Tools

Simplification Item Catalog

SAP Note 2399707 - Simplification Item Check

The Simplification Items Check can be used as of target

SAP S/4HANA 1709 and needs to be run on the source system
(SAP Notes 2399707 and 2502552)
SAP Blog: SAP S/4HANA Simplification Item Check – How to do it right
The Simplification Item Catalog provides a description of all relevant changes
from a source product/release to a target product/release

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Tasks and Tools

Software Logistics Toolset Landing Page

Maintenance Planner

SAP Note 693168 - Minimized Downtime Service (MDS)

Upgrade Guide for SAP S/4HANA 1809

ABAP Test Cockpit (ATC)

Custom Code Migration Guide

SAP Note 2469025 – How-To: Upgrading to SAP HANA 2.0

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Services for Upgrade of SAP S/4HANA

▪ Learn how SAP services are mapped to road map

activities
Consider:
➢ Should SAP support in the planning and design?
➢ Is the execution done by customer/partner or by an SAP
service?
➢ Should the Safeguarding be done by SAP?
➢ Transfer the decision on services to a
service plan

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Upgrade of SAP S/4HANA with enhancements – Service Components

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Transition Road Map for SAP S/4HANA Upgrade and embedded Products

Agenda

▪ Upgrade of SAP S/4HANA – Road Map and Services

▪ Product Integration in SAP S/4HANA – Example: SAP EWM embedded in SAP S/4HANA

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Product Integration in SAP S/4HANA – Example: SAP EWM

SAP Extended Warehouse Management Product Road Map

SAP S/4HANA Suite 1809 and planned new /changed functionality for SAP EWM in release 1909

EWM
standalone

embedded
EWM with
license

Basic Warehousing or
Stock room management,
no EWM license required

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Product Integration in SAP S/4HANA – Road Map
Example: SAP Extended Warehouse Management embedded in S/4HANA

Create an Innovation Strategy and a high-level Road Map for

SAP EWM → Advisory Service transition WM to SAP EWM

Identify the Impact of the implementation of SAP EWM on

existing processes → Business Assessment Service for
SAP EWM

Define the Implementation Strategy for SAP EWM → Value

and Implementation Strategy Workshop (VIS) with special
focus on EWM

https://go.support.sap.com/roadmapviewer → SAP S/4HANA Upgrade and Product Integration Roadmap

Filter for the Product you want to integrate in SAP S/4HANA (SAP EWM, SAP TM,SAP S4CM, more to come)
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Product Integration in SAP S/4HANA
SAP EWM embedded in S/4HANA – Service Components

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Project File Template for Upgrade and Product Integration
Download the Project In the Flavors Check which tasks
Add activities, tasks Assign resources to
Plan zip file, open the column, open the /subtasks are not
and planned all subtasks
Project Plan for MS column header menu relevant for your project.
services.
Project and add the and select all Select the line of the All tasks/subtasks
planned project start checkboxes respectice task/subtask Adapt the durations are explained with
date under containing your and open the context of the tasks, where the roadmap texts in
File>Info>Project planned transition menu. Choose appropriate. the notes section
Information scenario „Inactivate Task“. (column 1)

Result: Result: Result: Result: Result:

The project end date is Only the tasks and The selected tasks/subtasks You align th project plan You can check the
calculated automatically subtasks required for your are inactivated and the with the service plan and availability of the required
and earliest start dates scenario are displayed dependencies are re- add reasonable timelines resources, resource
of all tasks and subtasks and all dependencies are arranged. and check the service flow usage and assignment
are set re-arranged. Note: This inactivation can be conflicts
reverted, if necessary

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Summary

➢ The Upgrade of SAP S/4HANA is decribed in the Road Map „SAP S/4HANA Upgrade and
Product Integration“

➢ The transition to SAP S/4HANA-integrated products is currently described for:

SAP EWM, SAP TM, SAP S4CM (tbc.)

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Thank you.
Contact information:
Dr. Christoph Nake
Chief Support Engineer
christoph.nake@sap.com

Dr. Astrid Tschense

Expert Support Engineer
astrid.tschense@sap.com
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