Accelerating Your Project with SAP Best Practices

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to explain how SAP Best Practices can be used in an SAP project implementation. 

What are SAP Best Practices?

SAP Best Practices represent the adoption of proven strategies and solutions, helping businesses to save time, mitigate risks, and align projects with industry standards.

To facilitate the adoption of these best practices, SAP provides a suite of preconfigured, standardized content. This content serves as an accelerator, enabling organizations to begin leveraging best practices even before the complete configuration and system integration are finalized.

How to Access SAP Best Practices?

You can access SAP Best Practices through the SAP Signavio Process Navigator. The SAP Signavio Process Navigator is a cloud-based service integrated into SAP for Me.

Note

An S-user ID is required to access SAP for Me.

It offers free access to SAP’s Best Practices process portfolio. This service provides prebuilt assets through a business and solution-oriented data model and design, delivering a process-centric approach to navigating and leveraging SAP's best practices.

The prebuilt assets include:
- Configuration guides
- Master data guides
- Test scripts
- Process flow diagrams
- Sample data

The benefits of using the prebuilt assets are:

  • Utilizing the available standard end-to-end scenarios as a baseline.
  • Helping to identify the process gaps during the initial phases of the project.
  • Enabling users to learn about the solution and navigate the system.
  • Facilitating the creation of Proof-of-Concepts and system pilots.
  • Allowing partners to utilize the content alongside customers during implementation.

SAP Activate and SAP Best Practices

The perfect combination to run and accelerate a project implementation are ready-to-run business processes (SAP Best Practices) pre-delivered through a structured deployment methodology (SAP Activate).

Combination of the SAP Activate Methodology Phases with the SAP Best Practices content available in the SAP Signavio Process Navigator.

How to Get Started with SAP Best Practices?

  • Log on to SAP for Me.
  • Choose "Services & Support", within the category of ALM.
  • Choose "SAP Signavio Process Navigator".
  • Use the Search Engine to search for the solution, or use the Solution Scenario and/or Solution Process Applications.

Hint

Further documentation on how to use the SAP Signavio Process Navigator is available here.

SAP Best Practices for SAP Transportation Management

Specifically for SAP Transportation Management in S/4HANA Cloud, private edition, the Best Practicesaimed at accelerating and simplifying your journey for quicker time-to-value include the following scenario:

- Planning of External Transportation Requirements (4OZ).

Conclusion

A thorough understanding and effective use of SAP Best Practices are critical for accelerating SAP project implementations. By leveraging prebuilt assets such as configuration guides, master data guides, test scripts, process flow diagrams, and sample data, organizations can quickly initiate projects, identify process gaps, and navigate through the system more efficiently.

The integration of SAP Activate with SAP Best Practices further boosts project efficiency, providing a structured and streamlined approach to achieving implementation success.

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