Master data about customers, suppliers, products, profit & cost centres, assets, etc is critical to efficient and effective business processes. If you bring your data problems with you when you move to SAP S/4 HANA implementation you will most likely be disappointed with the quality of your operational and analytical processes once you get there. SAP Master Data Governance is a multi-domain master data management solution that can help you prepare your master data for an SAP S/4HANA implementation.
SAP S/4 HANA is the next generation business suite designed to help organizations of all sizes and industries to run their business processes effectively and efficiently. It is a comprehensive, integrated, and real-time ERP solution that offers a simplified data model, user experience, and architecture. SAP S/4 HANA can help organizations to make data-driven decisions, enhance productivity, and improve customer satisfaction. In this blog, we will explore the SAP S/4 HANA implementation process and its benefits.
How to Start?
Before starting your SAP S/4HANA journey you need to consider which way to go.
Out of the three general approaches, as outlined below, the SAP S/4 HANA implementation journeys.
New Implementation and Selective Data Transition should always consider ,
a solid data cleansing and data standardization process established during the migration phase.
Once you’ve identified your transition approach.
The SAP Activate Roadmap “Transition to SAP SAP S/4HANA” provides a fully guided path
and methodology for New Implementation, System Conversion, and Selective Data Transition.
Look for Solution Specific->Transition to SAP S/4HANA HERE.
The Workgroup Data Management outlined in the SAP Activate methodology can,
utilize software solutions to improve data quality even before the data migration itself is happening (PREPARE).
During the MIGRATION phase standardized and re-usable processes,
approvals and people interactions will accelerate, re-run, and govern the data migration task.
Finally, data quality and data volumes need to be managed continuously once,
the migration to SAP S/4HANA is finalized (INNOVATE) to make sure that the data value will be preserved.
Data validation and Data enrichment services can be utilized along the entire journey.
PREPARE Phase
Within the PREPARE phase, you do check data from all your relevant sources (SAP and non-SAP) that will be data providers for SAP-S/4HANA-implementation.
Data Cleansing activities that are supported by SAP Data Services/SAP Information Steward are happening to cleanse .
The data in the source systems even before the migration is started.
The Business Partner is a mandatory concept within SAP-S/4HANA-implementation.
The complexity behind the Business Partner and the CVI technical component is well described in the SAP S/4HANA Cookbook “Customer/Vendor Integration”.
The new Business Partner model forces all migration teams to think about how to introduce the business partner concept and when.
This task is critical for the SAP S/4 HANA implementation overall success even though the Business Partner is not really a migration topic.
Since the Business Partner is already available in SAP ECC.
In order to reduce user confusion in SAP S/4 HANA implementation.
I’d recommend introducing the Business Partner for customer and vendor master data management as soon as possible during the journey to SAP S/4 HANA implementation.
SAP Master Data Governance can support the introduction of the Business Partner early,
even if all business applications still run on SAP ECC.
SAP Master Data Governance on SAP S/4HANA can be introduced early to merge and migrate customer and vendor data into a centralized master data hub.
Identical customers and vendors are merged into a single business partner during the SAP Master Data Governance Consolidation process.
SAP Master Data Governance will replace the maintenance of customer and vendor master data from within the SAP ECC systems:
New master data is created in SAP Master Data Governance and distributed to the consuming SAP ECC applications.
The underlying SAP S/4 HANA implementation platform can be subsequently utilized,
to migrate business applications from SAP ECC overtime which converts.
The SAP Master Data Governance Hub deployment into a Co-deployment architecture.
The final task that you should undertake during the PREPARE phase is the Right Size,
Move to SAP-S/4HANA-implementation by evaluating data volumes of your source systems and their relevance for the new SAP S/4HANA solution.
Only move the data that is needed and relevant for SAP-S/4HANA-implementation. Other business complete data, you might move into an archive, so that it is still accessible and available if needed.
There may be also data in your source systems that you are not even allowed to use anymore.
GDPR regulations are a driver for such an evaluation.
With the utilization of SAP Information Lifecycle Management, you’re reducing complexity, scope and overall costs of SAP-S/4HANA-implementation with the right data volume to be migrated.
MIGRATE Phase
The phase of data migration is a repetitive task of reading data from sources, staging it, validating it (again), and making it ready for the target SAP S/4HANA consumption.
This entire process typically involves many different people who need to review, change,
and approve the data before it is final and can be loaded into SAP-S/4HANA-implementation.
SAP Advanced Data Migration by Syniti is the management layer in such a Data Migration Factory.
It holds processes, data rules, mappings in a central place (and not distributed across various different systems (e.g. different ETL Tools, source or target applications, etc.).
SAP Data Services is utilized solely as an ETL engine to execute generated data mappings.
The pure data upload into SAP S/4HANA can be done either via SAP Migration Cockpit for any kind of data (transactional or master data).
SAP Master Data Governance Consolidation for master data if SAP Master Data Governance is enabled on SAP S/4HANA.
Please also check out the SAP Community Topic around SAP Migration Cockpit and ask questions in that context.
Benefits of SAP S/4 HANA Implementation
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Improved efficiency: SAP S/4 HANA can help organizations to automate their business processes, which can lead to increased efficiency and productivity.
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Real-time analytics: SAP S/4 HANA offers real-time analytics that can help organizations to make data-driven decisions and respond quickly to changing business conditions.
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Simplified IT landscape: SAP S/4 HANA has a simplified data model, user experience, and architecture, which can help organizations to reduce the complexity of their IT landscape and improve system performance.
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Enhanced customer satisfaction: SAP S/4 HANA can help organizations to improve customer satisfaction by providing a better customer experience, faster response times, and more accurate information.
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Improved financial management: SAP S/4 HANA can help organizations to improve financial management by providing real-time financial data, automating financial processes, and reducing financial risk.
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Better supply chain management: SAP S/4 HANA can help organizations to improve supply chain management by providing real-time visibility into inventory levels, optimizing procurement processes, and improving logistics management.
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