End-to-End Overview of

System Conversion to SAP S/4HANA Part 2

CAA202
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Las Vegas
September 24–27, 2019

Boris Rubarth

Barcelona
October 8-10, 2019

Boris Rubarth

Bangalore
November 13-15, 2019

Abhishek Nath

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Agenda

News on the conversion target

 SAP S/4HANA 1909
 Simplification Item catalog

News on the conversion tools

 Readiness Check
 Maintenance Planner
 Simplification Item checks
 Software Update Manager (SUM)

Downtime considerations
 Conversion approaches
 Downtime-optimized Conversion (pilot)
 Uptime migration (downtime-optimized DMO)

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Agenda

News on the conversion target

 SAP S/4HANA 1909
 Simplification Item catalog

News on the conversion tools

 Readiness Check
 Maintenance Planner
 Simplification Item checks
 Software Update Manager (SUM)

Downtime considerations
 Conversion approaches
 Downtime-optimized Conversion (pilot)
 Uptime migration (downtime-optimized DMO)

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News on the conversion target SAP S/4HANA 1909
Hierarchy of components SAP S/4HANA 1909
SAP S/4HANA FND 1909
ABAP Platform 1909 –
Application Server ABAP
 ABAP Platform is not shipped separately SAP_BASIS 7.54
SAP Kernel 7.77
 SAP S/4HANA Foundation
– Technical successor of SAP NetWeaver instance application server ABAP SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 04 rev 41+

– SAP S/4HANA FOUNDATION 1909 is not allowed to be used standalone but only as a
foundation in combination with specific add-on product versions instances

– See SAP Release Information Note 2750164 on SAP S/4HANA FOUNDATION 1909

S/4HANA 1709 1809 1909

S/4HANA Foundation - - See SAP Note 2750164
ABAP Platform AS ABAP 7.52 ABAP Platform 1809 ABAP Platform 1909

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News on the conversion target SAP S/4HANA 1909
Simplification item catalog

 ~3 new items: no new industries or big add-ons did join SAP S/4HANA with 1909.

 Solaris taxonomy was introduced to catalog, also used in other SAP tools like SAP
Transformation Navigator.

 Activities have been added to (almost) all simplification items.

− This shall allow customers to easily identify which type of activities they have to do in which phase of the
project for this specific Simplification Item.
− Activities integrated into Readiness Check 2.0 to give an activity view of the conversion project.

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Agenda

News on the conversion target

 SAP S/4HANA 1909
 Simplification Item catalog

News on the conversion tools

 Readiness Check
 Maintenance Planner
 Simplification Item checks
 Software Update Manager (SUM)

Downtime considerations
 Conversion approaches
 Downtime-optimized Conversion (pilot)
 Uptime migration (downtime-optimized DMO)

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SAP Readiness Check 2.0 for SAP S/4HANA
What’s new?
 New and improved analyses to prepare
you even better for SAP S/4HANA
 New interactive Dashboard
 New authorization concept
 New design based on SAP Fiori 3.0

Benefits for our customers

 Even better project preparation due to
extended functional coverage
 Interactive features let you organize
preparation work more efficiently
 Easy access to results for your preferred
implementation partner, by enabling you to
provide & control access inside SAP
Readiness Check

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Maintenance Planner

 Use SAP S/4HANA tile - when starting from system view,

the frontend server would not be reflected in the plan

 Display of certified 3rd party add-ons:

If add-on was certified by ICC for the selected
SAP S/4HANA target release, then this add-on component
will be listed in a separate area, with a link to the
Certified Solution Directory

 Maintenance Planner 2.0 is in beta phase,

but will initially not be relevant for a system conversion planning

CAA375 View, Plan, and Transform Hybrid Landscapes with Maintenance Planner 2.0

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Checking of add-ons in Maintenance Planner and SUM
During conversion reparation and execution
Maintenance Software Update
Planner Manager (SUM)

SAP ERP Step 1: source system check Add-on Handling

3rd party
add-ons
SUM expects archive or ACP
3rd party Contact 3rd party vendor in time!
ICC
add-ons
3rd party
PPMS* add-ons If supported: archive or ACP will be provided
SAP If not supported: Un-installation of add-on
add-ons
SAP
System

 For new SAP S/4HANA versions: new version of partner or 3rd party add-ons typically coming later:
development and testing only possible after general availability of new SAP S/4HANA version

* PPMS: SAP internal Product and Production Management System on SAP software
** ACP: attribute change package, defines attributes for a software archive
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Simplification item checks

 Run SI checks manually early, with correct target release, and re-run repeatedly during project execution (on all
systems, in client 000 like SUM)

 Update related notes and SI catalog repeatedly until freeze phase (see SAP Note 2399707 for req. level)

 Helper report /SDF/RC_TROUBLE_SHOOT allows to run individual check in background

 "Check Consistency Details" is detailed check mode with in-depth analysis for individual simplification item, has longer
runtime

 Check the central blog https://blogs.sap.com/2018/03/26/sap-s4hana-simplification-item-check-how-to-do-it-right./

 Previous pre-check for targeting SAP S/4HANA 1511 and 1610 blocks conversion now
− SAP will no longer support a system conversion for a target release if there are two stable successor releases (on FPS02 or higher)
available (does not apply to installation or update/upgrade)
− Example: as soon as SAP S/4HANA 1909 FPS 02 is available, conversion to 1709 is no longer supported
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Finance Migration
FI Checks now available on source system

 How to find
– Consistency check programs for any DB
– Schedule finance data clean-up as a pre-project
– SAP Note 2755360 generally available
 How to resolve:
– SAP Note 2714344 Financial data migration to SAP S/4HANA:
Most frequent Error Messages – Information and Recommendations
 Additional SAP Notes and knowledge based articles
– SAP Note 2741967 How to plan and execute the financial data migration during conversion of SAP ERP
solution to SAP S/4HANA.
– SAP Note 2804470 Best practices for the SAP S/4HANA Conversion: General Ledger data migration.

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Conversion to SAP S/4HANA1909
SUM 2.0 SP 06 creates shadow repository on target database

 SAP Kernel 7.77 only supports SAP HANA database ->

shadow repository not possible on source database

 SUM 2.0 SP 06 creates SHD REP on target,

but not for processor SAP S/4HANA releases

 No manual interaction or dialog parameters required

 Potentially lower source database requirements,

but Unicode requirement for source system remains

 Restrictions with SUM 2.0 SP 06

on downtime-optimized DMO and “DMO with System Move”:
will not be supported for targeting SAP S/4HANA 1909 immediately, but with later SP version

https://support.sap.com/en/tools/software-logistics-tools/software-update-manager.html#section_870338401
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SUM 2.0 SP 06
New dialog sequence

 Scenario category (with or without stack.xml)

 Scenario decision
− Without stack: benchmarking, CTI, …
− With stack: DMO
(not shown if required: conversion from non-HANA database)

 Scenario strategy: standard or downtime-optimized:

− Conversion from non-HANA database: uptime migration
− Conversion from SAP HANA database: nZDM
− SUM prerequisite check is offered on that dialog as well

 All SUM scenarios use same URL now

 nZDM is no longer hidden in Advanced Mode

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Agenda

News on the conversion target

 SAP S/4HANA 1909
 Simplification Item catalog

News on the conversion tools

 Readiness Check
 Maintenance Planner
 Simplification Item checks
 Software Update Manager (SUM)

Downtime considerations
 Conversion approaches
 Downtime-optimized Conversion (pilot)
 Uptime migration (downtime-optimized DMO)

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Downtime optimization for standard approach

 DMO optimization: see blog in SAP Community: https://blogs.sap.com/?p=135725

 SAP Note 2351294 – SAP S/4HANA System Conversion / Upgrade: Measures to reduce technical downtime
 SAP Note 1616401 – Parallelism in the Upgrades, EhPs and Support Packages implementations

SUM Uptime Ramp Post FI & ML Business Ramp

Technical SUM Downtime
Processing Down Activities Data Conversion Validation Up
SHD
Migration Update Conversion

FIN data conversion:

IMG activities
1) FIN customizing
DMO 2) FIN data migration
optimization Number of 3) Post activities

background and
dialog processes
Database size:
consider archiving

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Downtime optimization approaches
Overview

 Standard approach
using Software Update Manager (SUM)
with several optimizations

Downtime
Decision about approach
 Downtime-optimized conversion approach depends on several factors
downtime is reduced by moving data conversion and should be taken after a
and migration partly to uptime (currently only piloted); migration planning workshop.
(subset: Uptime Migration i.e. downtime-optimized DMO) (Service component of SAP Value
see SAP Note 2293733 Assurance for SAP S/4HANA)

 Near-Zero Downtime Technology approach

allows further reduction of downtime
by executing the conversion on a clone;

Effort
it is a consulting service project (aka NZDT),
see SAP Note 693168

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Downtime-optimized conversion approach
Migration and conversion happens partly in uptime

 Table conversion moved to uptime processing

 Field conversion moved to uptime processing (KONV and VBFA tables)
 Uptime migration for selected big application tables (which are not part of the data conversion)

SUM Uptime Ramp Post FI & ML Business Ramp

Technical SUM Downtime
Processing Down Activities Data Conversion Validation Up

Migration Update Conversion

Conversion partially moved to uptime for

− FIN and Material Ledger (MM-ML)
& Inventory Management (MM-IM)
− KONV and VBFA tables Migration is only relevant for source systems on non-HANA database

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Uptime Migration (Downtime-optimized DMO approach)

 Uptime migration for selected big application tables, general available with SUM 2.0 SP 06
− Only applies to tables that are not affected by the data conversion / new data model
− Only applicable if source is on non-HANA database (otherwise no migration is required)

SUM Uptime Ramp Post FI & ML Business Ramp

Technical SUM Downtime
Processing Down Activities Data Conversion Validation Up

Migration Update Conversion

 Option is offered on SUM dialog on scenario strategy

 Report available to select appropriate tables for uptime migration
 Uptime processing: initial migration and delta migration
 Downtime: remaining delta migration and migration for remaining tables
 Replication monitoring is part of SUM Utilities
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 Downtime-optimization approaches of Software Update Manager 2.0

SAP Business Suite

(e.g. BS7i2016)

System Conversion
SAP ERP SYSTEM downtime-optimized Conversion*
ANYDB
Uptime Migration (downtime-optimized DMO)

Database Migration

downtime-optimized DMO

System Conversion
SAP ERP SYSTEM
downtime-optimized
Conversion*

nZDM Update / Upgrade

nZDM and ZDO*
** Pilot projects
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Silent Data Migration
for SAP S/4HANA release upgrades
1809 1909 1909

Upgrade Operations

 Data migration to new data model happens after upgrade to new release

 Example: new field for table ACDOCA

− New field ACTVALDAT is created empty during upgrade to SAP S/4HANA 1909
− After upgrade, business continues as usual, and silent data migration fills new field in background
− SUM offers to create users for background activity
− SAP Application continues to work without impact on business process
− The succeeding major release of 1909 requires the content of field ACTVALDAT

 Approach requires the upgrades to follow release sequence step by step,

no jump upgrade allowed that skips a release
CAA301 Leveraging Zero-Downtime Maintenance for SAP S/4HANA
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