SAP S/4 HANA Conversion – Part 1
Hello everyone!
We are back with yet another post on SAP.
This time we will speak about the most spoke about topic “Conversion of SAP ECC to S/4 HANA”
Conversion is a step by step process, majorly divided into various stages, or we can say milestones. To start with, let’s first try to understand the various phases that we have to go through during this process.
Please note that we will speak about SAP S/4 HANA release 1709 in this post.
Pre Conversion Checks
Application Preparation Activities in Business Downtime: Finance
Period-End Closing and Prepare for Cut-Over
Check Customizing Settings Prior to Upgrade
General Prerequisites
Prerequisite Check
Consistency Checks before Conversion and Migration
Check Customizing Settings Prior to Upgrade
Reconcile and compare Data (Document your Posting Data)
Technical Migration (SUM – Software Update Manager)
This activity is performed by our BASIS colleagues and is purely technical in nature
Preparing Customizing Post Conversion
Preparations and Migration of Customizing for General Ledger
Preparations and Migration of Customizing for Asset Accounting
Preparations and Migration of Customizing for Controlling
Preparations and Migration of Customizing for Material Ledger
Preparations for Migration of House Bank Accounts
Data Migration Post conversion
Regenerate CDS Views and Field Mapping
Analyze Transactional Data
Start and Monitor Data Migration
Migrate General Ledger Allocations
Migrate House Banks Accounts
Credit Management Migration
Complete Migration
Post Migration Activities
Manual Activities for Credit Management
Deactivate Reconciliation Ledger
Preparatory Activities and Migration of Customizing for Credit Management
Data Migration
Above activities are to be done at least three times as below:
First Mock Run
Second Mock Run
Final Migration in Production System
We will discuss about all of the above in detail in the coming posts.
Till then thanks a lot.