Deployment Strategy Overview

Objectives

After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

  • Describe the Activate Methodology process.
  • Identify the resource that includes tasks and responsibilities.

Deployment Strategy Overview

Definition:

Innovation adoption framework introduced for SAP S/4HANA that combines SAP Best Practices, methodology, and guided configuration delivered with a reference landscape. The SAP Activate methodology is the SAP guidance for implementation, enhancements, upgrades, or co-innovation of SAP solutions starting with SAP S/4HANA. It enables cost effective, agile, and fast delivery of the SAP solution to the customer and supports deployments in the cloud, on premise, or in hybrid deployment.

SAP Business Network for Logistics:

To help our partners successfully enable their customers, we have concentrated on the Prepare, Explore, Realize, and Deploy phase. Within each phase, SAP has provided you with numerous accelerators to aid in your project management.

SAP Business Network for Logistics:

To help our partners successfully enable their customers, we have concentrated on the Prepare, Explore, Realize, and Deploy phase. Within each phase, SAP has provided you with numerous accelerators to aid in your project management.

Activate Methodology and Tasks

To determine the appropriate order and responsibility for each task, refer to the RACI matrix.

Deployment Team Necessary for a Successful Deployment

Example of deployment team necessary for a successful deployment

Go-Live Prep

Here is a list of items that you and your team should have completed as you prepare for Go-Live.

  • Review the necessary Business Network for Logistics Guidance and Resources
  • Be sure that you know who to contact for Support
  • Watch solution specific Readiness Materials available on SAP Business Network for Logistics Resources
  • Planned for how the system will be supported after the go-live
  • Visit SAP Business Network for Logistics Community (Community Wiki)

SAP Onboarding Resource Center

Contact SAP Product Support

Contact SAP Product Support by reaching out to Experts or Submit any Incidents.

If you are experiencing an issue with the functionality of your SAP solution, and you are unable to find the solution using the SAP Support Knowledge Search, you can use any of the following channels.

SAP Business Network Global Track and Trace

Reminder Service

  • Allows you to create a template email for an event, such as that a sales order has been created, then when the event occurs, automatically send emails based on the template to the involved parties
  • Is available with Version 2 of SAP Business Network Global Track and Trace

Message Log Administration

  • The View Logs (VL) app allows you to have an at-a-glance overview of the available logs and their statuses. These messages could have the following status:
  • Success
  • Warning
  • Error
  • Pending
  • Not Relevant

SAP Business Network Global Track and Trace - Model Administration

This section provides a summary to manage version 2 models for SAP Business Network Global Track and Trace. This involves using the following apps:

  • Manage Models (MM) app
  • Check Processes and Events (CPE) app

Using the Model Administrationguide, will allow the administrator to create and manage reporting scenarios relevant to the customer’s unique business requirements.

Model Structuring

Different models can be created in the MM app. Each model must contain one or more tracked process types and event types. Each tracked process type and event type contain some pre-defined core model fields that you cannot change. You can add user-defined fields to each tracked process type and event type. For each tracked process type, some event types can be specified as either an:

  • Admissible Planned Event type: specifies the event types that can be used in planned events of a tracked process with this process type or an
  • Admissible Unplanned Event type: specifies the event types that can be used in unplanned events of a tracked process with this process type.

As shown in the following diagram, some other field types can be defined:

  • Tracked process type
  • Event type
  • Field type

Model Overview Page

MM app starts by opening the Model Overview page. This lists up to 20 models. The model count is displayed at the bottom. For example: (20/100) indicates that 20 models are displayed of a total of 100. If there are more than 20 models, click the More button to see the next 20. The information on each model is displayed on a model card.

To find your model, you can simply check the list or search by typing its model name. To select your model, click its model card.

Also, on the Model Overview page, you can do the following:

  • Create a model
  • Import a model
  • Export a model
  • Delete a model

Refresh the latest data of models on the page by clicking the Refresh icon.

On the top right, a Sample Codes menu is provided with direct links to download the sample codes. There are two options in the dropdown list:

  • For Template Apps: links to the following GTT repository in the SAP Samples organization on GitHub.com where you can download the sample codes of template apps: https://github.com/SAPsamples/logistics-business-network-gtt-samples.
  • For Fulfillment Tracking Apps: links to the following GTT repository in the SAP Samples organization on GitHub.com where you can download the SAP ERP sample codes of Fulfillment Tracking apps: https://github.com/SAP-samples/logistics-business-network-gtt-standardapps-samples.

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