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Tuesday afternoon. On the way from Munich to our branch office in Zurich, we make a brief stopover. A well-known Swiss corporation wants to introduce S\/4 Hana. A greenfield project.<\/p>\n

The application template is as good as finished. Now everyone is ready for the first rollout. The overall program including timeline is fixed.<\/p>

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The plan is to gradually replace several SAP systems in more than 25 individual projects. The critical question: How will the data from the source systems get into the new target landscape?<\/p>\n

Migration - a classic diligence task for the Indian colleagues, says IT. But then the CFO asks himself: Are we on the right track, is our transformation to S\/4 sufficiently planned?<\/p>\n

A u-shaped curve on the flipchart describes the business performance. The lower point is the go-live of the new system, at which point open orders have to be canceled, deliveries canceled, open items cleared - a massive impact for the business.<\/p>\n

Later, all these activities have to be performed again in the new system in order to continue business. In the worst case, this means that they cannot deliver goods for a few days. A customer of similar size recently calculated that this standstill can mean a loss of sales of more than one million euros in central shipping alone!<\/p>\n

The CFO nervously fiddles with his tie: \"What does that mean for the entire company and the entire supply chain? We can't afford that!\"<\/p>\n

\"Krischer\"<\/a><\/p>\n

So a minimally invasive S\/4 migration should be the goal: With the right migration approach, a strategy tailored to business processes and the special software cbs ET Enterprise Transformer, the switch to the new ERP platform can be realized in near-zero downtime, with virtually no downtime.<\/p>\n

Documents are transferred in every status. When users log on to the new system, they can continue working on their documents exactly where they left off in the old system.<\/p>\n

A crucial point in the migration strategy: the software!<\/h3>\n

SAP is discontinuing the long-standing LSMW migration. Its successor is called S\/4 Migration Cockpit. The new tool certainly has potential, but it still lacks maturity.<\/p>\n

Another alternative: SAP Data Services with Rapid Deployment Solutions - a purchased tool that masters the classic ETL functionalities (Extract - Transform - Load) in its sleep.<\/p>\n

The crux: The well-known limits apply to all of the approaches mentioned: slow processing of the data with transactional methods (BAPI or IDOC) and a limitation to current data. History migration? No way!<\/p>\n

Standard software has long been available that can be used to transfer any amount of data from SAP ERP systems of any release and from non-SAP systems to S\/4. The ET also masters the functionalities required for history transfer for direct database updates.<\/p>\n

New SAP template rolled out<\/h3>\n

Twelve months later, we are a big step further. Together with the customer, we have developed a suitable migration strategy. The new SAP template was rolled out in three countries in the first wave.<\/p>\n

The project has shown: Migration to S\/4 is not a classic IT task; most of the critical questions have to be decided by the business. Which data should be transferred from the legacy systems?<\/p>\n

The team has been highly selective here. How much history is needed? We took documents and orders from the past two years. And: The consistency of all data is ensured.<\/p>\n

Firstly, thanks to the process and object-oriented approach of the ET. Second, thanks to a variety of validations built into the software.<\/p>\n

New core business processes in S\/4, consolidated systems, immediate real-time analyses - the CFO is satisfied for now. But there is more to come. Now the project team is already working flat out on the second wave.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More than 50,000 SAP installations are about to be migrated to S\/4. Regardless of whether new processes or adapted legacy processes are involved, the migration must be carried out without interruption. Otherwise, there is a risk of a business impact with losses in the millions.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1514,"featured_media":36626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,22044],"tags":[3224,19701,799],"coauthors":[22553],"class_list":["post-39124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-management","category-mag-1805","tag-enterprise-resource-planning","tag-s-4-hana","tag-transformation","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/One-Global-Corporation.jpg",1000,432,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/One-Global-Corporation-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/One-Global-Corporation.jpg",400,173,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/One-Global-Corporation-768x332.jpg",768,332,true],"large":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/One-Global-Corporation.jpg",1000,432,false],"image-100":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/One-Global-Corporation-100x43.jpg",100,43,true],"image-480":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/One-Global-Corporation-480x207.jpg",480,207,true],"image-640":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/One-Global-Corporation-640x276.jpg",640,276,true],"image-720":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/One-Global-Corporation-720x311.jpg",720,311,true],"image-960":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/One-Global-Corporation-960x415.jpg",960,415,true],"image-1168":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/One-Global-Corporation.jpg",1000,432,false],"image-1440":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/One-Global-Corporation.jpg",1000,432,false],"image-1920":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/One-Global-Corporation.jpg",1000,432,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/One-Global-Corporation.jpg",1000,432,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/One-Global-Corporation.jpg",1000,432,false],"trp-custom-language-flag":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/One-Global-Corporation.jpg",18,8,false],"bricks_large_16x9":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/One-Global-Corporation.jpg",1000,432,false],"bricks_large":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/One-Global-Corporation.jpg",1000,432,false],"bricks_large_square":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/One-Global-Corporation.jpg",1000,432,false],"bricks_medium":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/One-Global-Corporation.jpg",600,259,false],"bricks_medium_square":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/One-Global-Corporation.jpg",600,259,false],"profile_24":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/One-Global-Corporation-24x24.jpg",24,24,true],"profile_48":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/One-Global-Corporation-48x48.jpg",48,48,true],"profile_96":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/One-Global-Corporation-96x96.jpg",96,96,true],"profile_150":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/One-Global-Corporation-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"profile_300":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/One-Global-Corporation-300x300.jpg",300,300,true]},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"

Mehr als 50.000 SAP-Installationen steht ein Umstieg auf S\/4 bevor. Egal, ob mit neuen Abl\u00e4ufen oder adaptierten Altprozessen \u2013 es gilt, die Migration unterbrechungsfrei zu gestalten. Sonst droht ein Business Impact mit Millionenausf\u00e4llen.<\/p>\n","category_list_v2":"Business-Management<\/a>, MAG 18-05<\/a>","author_info_v2":{"name":"Benjamin Krischer, cbs","url":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/author\/benjamin-krischer\/"},"comments_num_v2":"0 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1514"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131029,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39124\/revisions\/131029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39124"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=39124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}