Overview of Potential Topics in a Conversion Project
Watch the video to learn about the business challenges, business benefits and solution overview of a conversion project.
- Additional Context
- SAP Cloud ALM is included with SAP Enterprise Support, cloud edition as well as GROW with SAP and RISE with SAP. You can learn more about the usage rights of SAP Cloud ALM here.
- Get more information on SAP Readiness Check integration on the SAP Help Portal or in this blog.
- For more information about how to use your digital discovery assessment result in SAP Cloud ALM, refer to Importing a Process Scope from a Spreadsheet.
- Further Information on Cloud ALM Implementation can be found on our SAP Cloud ALM for Implementation Expert Portal.
SAP Cloud ALM as the Central Tool to Run Your SAP S/4HANA Conversion Project
This figure illustrates SAP Cloud ALM serving as the central platform for SAP S/4HANA conversion projects.
This E2E process flow provides the key activities per each project role during the whole project life cycle.
Project Setup
A project is a container that helps in reporting and managing information. SAP Cloud ALM allows the creation and management of multiple parallel projects:
- Consume SAP Activate best practice content for S/4 system conversion and perform fit-to-standard workshops.
- For more detailed information regarding to project setup, refer to Expert Portal.
The Digital Discovery Assessment:
- Used to identify SAP Best Practice processes in use and based on that allows the scoping of the implemented processes.
- The scope can be reused in SAP Cloud ALM to accelerate implementation planning and configuration.
Upload Readiness Check in SAP Cloud ALM
In your SAP Cloud ALM tenant, start a new analysis in the SAP Readiness Check tile:
Provide a name for the analysis and select the analysis zip file, which was generated from the SAP Readiness Check Data Collector.
After the analysis has been finally made available, you can update the data with ATC information.
ATC data contain information about custom code available in your ERP system.
Via the Custom Code Migration app, you can handle your custom code (for example, retire unused custom code and adjust custom code to be S/4-ready).
During the project, it can be useful to update the ATC data from the Custom Code Migration app to the SAP Readiness Check in SAP Cloud ALM to have their latest stage of information.
SAP Readiness Check in SAP Cloud ALM
The Readiness Check includes several information to your current ERP system, such as installed Add-Ons or activated business functions.
It shows the mandatory and optional/conditional activities that must be performed to convert the ERP system into SAP S/4HANA.
Further information like relevant SAP Notes, accelerators, and so on, are shown to provide as much information as possible.
Creation of follow-ups to Readiness Check Findings
With the activated integration, in various screens of the Readiness Check detail pages, the selection of items is possible.
Choose the Follow-Up button to create new requirements/user stories or assign to existing ones.
Display of Connected Findings
When you open the created or assigned follow-up, there is an area in Requirement and User Story that shows the related Readiness Check items.
It shows the title, check name, analysis name, and analysis scenario of the related findings.
By clicking on the title, you are navigated to the finding in SAP Readiness Check.
You can also distinguish between Requirements/User Stories, which have been created manually or via Readiness Check via the source field, as this is automatically filled with the "SAP Readiness Check".
A tag is also written to the Requirement/User Story with the affected system:
Track the status of Requirements or User Stories created from the SAP Readiness Check via the traceability reports.
Use the Source field to identify follow-ups created from Readiness Check findings.