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Configuring Standard API in S/4 HANA Cloud

2024-07-31T17:12:57.099000+02:00

Generating OData of standard API :

First we have to login to SAP business accelerator hub account and go to SAP S/4 HANA Cloud Public edition.

Choose a standard API as shown below

In this case I have choose the product master standard API.

Select the overview tab, under that we can see Communication Scenario ID.

Copy communication scenario from standard API. Now Move to the

S/4Hana cloud system -> Communication Arrangements

Select the Option New, and add a Scenario ID which we have copied from the Standard API

Create new communication system:

Search for Communication System in S/4 HANA cloud, here we need to create user and password for all OData services

Click on New,

System will ask for new communication system id and system name. we can give the ID & Name of our choice. And Click on create.

Give the Host name as shown below,

In User for Inbound Communication, click on Add and Create New Inbound Communication User. Click on “New User”

Give the username and description and select on proposed password to get the password which will give by system itself. (Copy the user name and password and paste somewhere so that, Once the user and password has created we can use the same for all the OData service Consumption.)

Click on create

Click on Save

Then add your custom communication system in this communication arrangement

Then you get required ODATA URL

Now will connect S/4HANA Cloud to Power BI or any other reporting tools through OData Feed. Example:Open Power BI->get Data->OData feed.

In the OData feed enter the OData URL generated in S/4HANA Cloud. And give user name and password that we have generated in S4hana cloud “Communication System” to get the OData url.

Then Click on connect.

Select the checkbox to data preview and click on Transform data or Load.

SAP Collaborative ERP update for 2408. Share as cards, tab, or chat.

2024-08-15T22:21:27.202000+02:00

Our collaboration features are gaining popularity among SAP S/4HANA Cloud customers. Now, we have added a new capability to share content from an SAP Fiori elements app as an adaptive card through Microsoft Teams. This is available in the 2408 release of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition. This update improves collaboration with your co-workers by providing another option to interact with a single source of data in your SAP S/4HANA system. You can now share application data with your colleagues as a card, tab, or chat.

Share as Card makes SAP S/4HANA data more portable

For SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition customers, a new "Share as Card" option is now available in the Microsoft Teams share menu.

This feature allows you to work directly within Microsoft Teams and execute actions right from your Teams environment.

The adaptive card in Microsoft Teams lets you perform simple tasks that will update your SAP S/4HANA Cloud data seamlessly.

Chat directly from the SAP app

In addition, when using SAP Fiori elements applications, you can now start a chat, video call, or voice call with your co-worker directly from within the app. This feature facilitates real-time communication for discussing issues or seeking clarification.

Actions come to you as To Do notifications

For early adopters a new Notifications feature is enabled in Microsoft Teams.

Receive notifications for tasks that are in your My Home page in SAP S/4HANA Cloud directly in your Microsoft Teams Activity Feed, enabling you to quickly begin working on tasks right from Teams.

Lots of great collaboration in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2408

What’s new in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2408?

What’s next

We are continuing to enhance the integrations between SAP S/4HANA Cloud and Microsoft Teams. As was announced at SAP Sapphire, we will include new integrations between SAP Joule and Microsoft CoPilot. This will provide even more opportunities for collaboration between human experts when AI doesn’t have all the answers.

We’re looking forward to your feedback!

Automatic Credit Score Calculation in S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

2024-09-10T03:43:25.248000+02:00

1. Credit Management

In SAP, credit management is a function within Financial Supply Chain Management (FSCM) that oversees and regulates customer credit limits to promote timely payments and minimize the risk of bad debt. Mainly these 3 scope items are responsible for Overall credit management function:

Basic Credit Management (BD6)

Advanced Credit Management (1QM)

Credit Agency Integration (1RY)

2. Automatic Credit Score Calculation

Automatic Credit Score Calculation is a feature of advanced credit management that streamlines the process of setting credit scores through automation. We will explore how the system is set up and operates to automatically determine credit score.

Please note: This blog is intended for individuals who already have a fundamental understanding of basic credit management. Automatic Credit score Calculation is part of 1QM scope item.

There will be a separate blog for Automatic Credit Limit Calculation.

3. Related Configuration

Some configurations are managed through the configuration node (CBC or Manage Your Solution), while others are defined directly via various SAP Fiori Apps.

Process Step	App Name/ Config	Remarks
Credit Formula for Score and CL	Define Formulas [CBC]	Just the structure, values are filled with Fiori App
Rule for Scoring and Credit Limit, Rating procedure assignment	Create Rule for Scoring and Credit Limit Calculation [CBC]
Formula Parameters are created	Maintain Formula Parameters (App)	Formula Parameters are created and assigned to score formula group and limit formula
Formula is created	Manage Formula in Credit Management (App)	Formula is created (code is used previous one). Simulation can be done
Valuation is assigned against the rules	Manage Credit Management Rules (app)
Credit Details are updated in Customer Master	Manage Credit Account

Define Formulas (CBC)

Here, we are only setting up the code and framework for the Credit Score Formula. The logic will be incorporated later in the Manage Formula in Credit Management App. This same formula is assigned during the configuration process in the "Create Rule for Scoring and Credit Limit Calculation" section.

Define Rating Procedure (CBC)

It is an optional configuration if you an agency which cannot find then you can create your own here.

You also need to define the rating results within your rating procedure, similar to how an agency assigns ratings like A, AA, AAA, B, etc or just A, B, C, D, E, etc.

In this blog, we've used the standard rating procedure, 'creditsafe,' for calculating credit scores.

Create Rule for Scoring and Credit Limit Calculation (CBC)

Here, we create a rule which is used for credit score and Credit Limit calculation. The formula is assigned to a rule within both the Score folder and the Credit Limit folder. We will focus Credit score folder in this blog.

Credit Score Folder:

Here, we assign credit score formula that we had created under ‘Define Formulas’

The rating procedure is like credit agencies, and several such agencies are available in the standard system. You also have the option to create custom rating procedures and assign them to rules for determining credit score.

Note: This Credit Score Rule is assigned with Business Partner (Customer) in Manage Credit Account App. Please refrain from using the Maintain Business Partner App for credit management purposes. It is recommended to use the Manage Credit Account App instead. Using the Maintain Business Partner App may not yield the desired outcomes in some processes within Credit Management.

Manage Formula in Credit Management (App)

You can create Credit Score Formula from Template or from scratch (create). We will create from scratch.

It is assigned to the formula you previously created in the configuration step "Define Formula."

Threshold and Rounding are applicable to credit limit calculations and will be explained in detail in another blog.

Scoring Formula Tab:

Multiple methods can be defined for calculating your credit score formula. In our approach, we have considered the following factors:

COUNTRY_REGION, CREDIT_GROUP, COFACE_RATING, CREDITSAFE_RATING, and CASH_RATIO

When assigning weight, there are two sections: Parameter Group (General, External Information) and Formula Parameter (COUNTRY_REGION, CREDIT_GROUP, CREDITSAFE_RATING and CASH_RATIO), each requiring specific weight allocation. You must ensure that the total for each individual group sums to 100, and then the overall parameter group weight also totals 100, as shown in the screenshot above.

Penalty Parameter

The penalty parameter is used to apply negative adjustments, such as deducting points, to address minor fraud or other issues in the overall credit score calculation. However, if the fraud is significant, you may opt to stop extending credit to that customer. In such cases, the Exit parameter can be used to set a zero or minimal credit limit, as explained in the next point.

Exit Parameter

The Exit parameter is typically used in cases of bankruptcy, major fraud, or similar situations where you would no longer extend credit to the customer. The Exit parameter sets a fixed credit score for the customer, ranging from 1 to 100, regardless of the system's calculated score.

This fixed score overrides the calculated score and becomes the final value assigned to the customer. Consequently, this will indirectly affect the credit limit calculation if you are using risk classes. Risk classes can be automated based on the score assigned to customers, and these risk classes can then be used in automatic determination of credit limit.

The calculation and logic for score calculation can be seen in the simulation in the blog below.

We have used the following Formula Parameters in our Credit Score Formula, which we will explore in detail in the subsequent step:

Country/Region)
Credit Group
Coface Rating
Creditsafe Rating
Affidavit
Fraud
Bankruptcy

Credit Limit Simulation:

We can simulate the credit score calculation for a specific business partner to verify the functionality of our formula. You can expect the same results when performing calculations for the same customer in the Manage Credit Account App.

The system initially calculated the score as 64 (22+28+14) and applied a penalty of -40 points (10+30). However, due to the Exit formula parameter (i.e., Bankruptcy), the system overwrote the score to 1, which became the customer's final assigned score.

You can see the calculation for each parameter according to its assigned weight, including any negative adjustments for the penalty parameter. Additionally, the exit condition (parameter) can be observed, with its assigned rating overriding the overall calculation. Ultimately, the score assigned to the customer will be the one set in the exit parameter, such as 1.

Maintain Formula Parameters App

Numerous formula parameters are already available; ideally, you should use the standard ones, but it is also possible to create your own formula parameters in case business need.

Formula parameters can be categorized into two types:

Formula Parameter for Score Calculation: Assigned to the Parameter Group for Score Formula (used in credit score formulas).
Formula Parameter for Credit Limit Calculation: Assigned to the Parameter Group for Limit Formula (used in credit limit formulas).

In this blog, we will focus solely on the 'Parameter Category for Score Formula'.

Let's explore the specifics of below Formula Parameters which we have used in our Score Formula

Country/Region
Credit Group
Coface Rating
Creditsafe Rating
Cash Ratio
Affidavit
Fraud
Bankruptcy

If you create a custom Formula Parameter, it must be assigned to the appropriate folder where it belongs. In this blog, we have not created any custom formula parameters for score calculation, as the standard ones are sufficient.

COUNTRY_REGION (Country/Region)

CREDIT_GROUP (Credit Group)

CREDITSAFE_RATING (Creditsafe Rating)

Similarly, we can see other formula parameter.

Manage Credit Management Rules

Here, valuation is mapped to specific rules.

We will explore the rules that are pertinent to the Credit Score Formula:

Formula: Parameter Evaluation
General: Country/Region Risk

Formula: Parameter Evaluation

Assign values to the parameters that you use to calculate the scoring in credit management.

Pre-delivered formula parameters are available. You can define more formula parameters in this app: Maintain Formula Parameters

We maintain several necessary formula parameters here for our credit score calculation. We assign variable values to these formula parameters, such as the credit group (whatever group you have created in the standard). For each credit group, you can specify an internal result (weightage/valuation). The internal result maintained here corresponds to the weightage you provided for the same formula parameter in the "Manage Formula in Credit Management" app. And that is how it works and contribute to credit score calculation.

There are six columns in Formula: Parameter Evaluation, each serving a different purpose:

Formula Parameter
Parameter Value
Number (Parameter Value)
Amount (Parameter Value)
Date (Parameter Value)
Interim Result

For each Formula Parameter, only one of the following columns will be populated—Parameter Value, Number (Parameter Value), Amount (Parameter Value), or Date (Parameter Value)—depending on the nature of the data, as indicated by the column names.

General: Country/Region Risk

Specify which country or region is associated with which country/region risk. This rule can be utilized for scoring in credit management. The corresponding country/region risk for each business partner is also displayed in the Manage Credit Accounts app.

4. Master Data and Calculation Process in Manage Credit Account App

Assignment of Calculation Rule and Credit Check Rule

Credit scores are calculated at the business partner level, while credit limits are determined at the segment level. In this discussion, we'll focus on how Credit Score and Risk Class are determined. For information on credit limit calculation, stay tuned for an upcoming blog.

Note: The Calculation Rule (ZCRLIMIT) that we created in Create Rule for Scoring and Credit Limit Calculation configuration serves as the connection among all the configurations and settings implemented for calculating the credit score.

Maintenance of Fraud, Affidavit and Bankruptcy:

Imp: This data is assigned with X (not 1, 2, 3) under Parameter value in Maintain Credit Management Rules App

Financial Statement Data E.g. Cash Ratio

An import feature is available and should be used to update the customer's financial statement data.

Credit Score calculation.

The validity (score valid to) is determined by the configuration settings in the "Create Rule for Scoring and Credit Limit Calculation" configuration.

In the top right corner, there is a "Calculate Score" button, which becomes available in the Scoring Tab when in edit mode. You can use this button to calculate the customer's credit score.

Risk Class Determination:

Along with score calculation, the system will also determine the risk class based on the configuration set in "Create Risk Classes."

You can also manage various other parameters in Manage Credit Accounts App for your business partner from a credit management perspective, such as Credit Group, First Year of Customer Relationship, and more.

Note that I have only discussed the items we utilized from the perspective of our blog; there are many other aspects of master data relevant to credit management that are not covered here. This blog is intended for those who have a solid understanding of basic credit management.

Key Links:

https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_S4HANA_CLOUD/918bca53037f408f91a2295d04ac16bc/ba31db0b263a438c8640ec3731d0b640.html

https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_S4HANA_CLOUD/918bca53037f408f91a2295d04ac16bc/6c529513913f427d8d73bd359cb74ca5.html

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Automatic Credit Limit Calculation in S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

2024-09-10T04:20:37.412000+02:00

1. Credit Management

Basic Credit Management (BD6)

Advanced Credit Management (1QM)

Credit Agency Integration (1RY)

2. Automatic Credit Limit Calculation

Automatic Credit Limit Calculation is a feature of advanced credit management that streamlines the process of setting credit limits through automation. We will explore how the system is set up and operates to automatically determine credit limits.

Please note: This blog is intended for individuals who already have a fundamental understanding of basic credit management. Automatic Credit Limit Calculation is part of 1QM scope item.

Additionally, there is a separate blog for Automatic Credit Score Calculation available:

Automatic Credit Score Calculation in S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

3. Scenario

We are going to calculate credit limit based on three condition such as

Last three months sales of the company code with the customer
Collateral
Risk Adjustment (Calculated Credit Limit adjustment based on Risk Class of the customer)

4. Related Configuration

Some configurations are managed through the configuration node (CBC or Manage Your Solution), while others are defined directly via various SAP Fiori Apps.

Process Step	App Name/ Config	Remarks
Credit Formula for Score and CL	Define Formulas [CBC]	Just the structure, values are filled with Fiori App
Rule for Scoring and Credit Limit, Rating procedure assignment	Create Rule for Scoring and Credit Limit Calculation [CBC]
Formula Parameters are created	Maintain Formula Parameters (App)	Formula Parameters are created and assigned to score formula group and limit formula
Formula is created	Manage Formula in Credit Management (App)	Formula is created (code is used previous one). Simulation can be done
Valuation is assigned against the rules	Manage Credit Management Rules (app)
Credit Details are updated in Customer Master	Manage Credit Account

Define Formulas (CBC)

Here, we are only setting up the code and framework for the Credit Limit Formula. The logic will be incorporated later in the Manage Formula in Credit Management App. This same formula is assigned during the configuration process in the "Create Rule for Scoring and Credit Limit Calculation" section.

Create Rule for Scoring and Credit Limit Calculation (CBC)

Credit Limit Folder:

Here, we assign Segment and credit limit formula that we had created under ‘Define Formulas’

Note: The Score Folder and Rating Procedure selection are primarily needed for credit score calculation. We will cover these in another blog titled Automatic Credit Score Calculation in S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

Manage Formula in Credit Management (App)

You can create Credit Limit Formula from Template or from scratch (create). We will create from scratch.

It is assigned to the formula you previously created in the configuration step "Define Formula."

Threshold and Rounding will be detailed in the sections below. Please pay close attention.

Credit Limit Formula Tab:

Change mode.

Multiple methods can be defined for calculating your credit limit formula. In our approach, we have considered the following factors:

The credit formula is divided into two sections: 1. Limit Demand and 2. Limit Adjustment.

Limit Demand:

We calculate the credit limit based on the total sales value from the last three months, plus the collateral value. For example, if your sales were Rs. 700 and collateral was valued at Rs. 300, then your credit limit would be calculated as Rs. 1000.

Limit Adjustment:

- If the Risk class is A (No Default Risk), the credit limit will be twice the Limit Demand (Rs. 1000 * 2 = Rs. 2000).

- If Risk Class is B (Low Default Risk), the credit limit will be 1.5 times the Limit Demand (Rs. 1000 * 1.5 = Rs. 1500).

- If Risk Class is D (High Default Risk), the credit limit will be 0.5 times the Limit Demand (Rs. 1000 * 0.5 = Rs. 500).

The credit score formula calculates the credit score, which automatically fetches the risk class based on the configuration (Create Risk Classes). This illustrates the integration between credit score calculation and credit limit adjustment, where the risk class plays a critical role in determining the adjusted credit limit.

Under Limit Demand: Operand 1 and Operand 2 are Formula Parameter and Result Parameter is a Text. The Result Parameter is a descriptive text you need to provide when defining it, and it can be anything that makes sense for the process. In our case, we have named it ‘Credit Limit Calculation’.

Under Limit Adjustment: Operand 1 is a Formula Parameter and Operand 2 is the Result Parameter from Limit Demand.

We have incorporated the following Formula Parameters in our Credit Limit Formula, which we will explore in detail in the subsequent step:

ZSALE_H_3M (Sales from the Last 03 Months)
COLLATERALS (Collaterals)
RISK_ADJUSTMENT (Risk Adjustment)

Note: It is necessary to establish Formula Parameters prior to creating the Credit Limit Formula in the Manage Formula in Credit Management (App).

Credit Limit Simulation:

We can simulate the credit limit calculation for a specific business partner and segment to verify the functionality of our formula. You can expect the same results when performing calculations for the same customer in the Manage Credit Account App.

You can learn about Limit Adjustment, Rounding, and Threshold in the Manage Credit Management Rules Section.

Maintain Formula Parameters App

Numerous formula parameters are already available; ideally, you should use the standard ones, but it is also possible to create your own formula parameters.

Formula parameters can be categorized into two types:

Formula Parameter for Score Calculation: Assigned to the Parameter Group for Score Formula (used in credit score formulas).
Formula Parameter for Credit Limit Calculation: Assigned to the Parameter Group for Limit Formula (used in credit limit formulas).

In this blog, we will focus solely on the 'Parameter Category for Limit Formula'.

Let's explore the specifics of these three Formula Parameters

ZSALE_H_3M (Last 03 Months Sales)
COLLATERALS (Collaterals)
RISK_ADJUSTMENT (Risk Adjustment)

If you create a custom Formula Parameter, it needs to be assigned to the appropriate folder. For example, we created a Formula Parameter called ZSALE_H_3M for credit limit calculation, which we then assigned to the Parameter Category for Limit Formula.

ZSALE_H_3M (Last 03 Months Sales)

COLLATERALS (Collaterals)

RISK_ADJUSTMENT (Risk Adjustment)

Manage Credit Management Rules

Here, valuation is mapped to specific rules.

We will explore the rules that are pertinent to the Credit Limit Formula:

Formula: Credit Limit Rounding Rule
Formula: Credit Limit Threshold
Formula: Risk Adjustment

Formula: Credit Limit Rounding Rule

You can define it by Risk Class. In this instance, I have left the Risk Class field blank, meaning it applies to all Risk Classes in the system. With an amount of 100 and a rounding position of 2, along with a Rounding Rule of Up (Round Up), this configuration means if the system calculates a credit limit amount as Rs. 7056, it will round up to Rs. 7100.

Formula: Credit Limit Threshold

Continued screen shot

Here, we set the minimum and maximum values for credit limit calculations. If the minimum value is set at Rs. 6000, then the system will assign a credit limit of Rs. 6000, even if the calculated limit falls below Rs. 5999. Likewise, the system will not exceed the maximum value assigned here.

Note: You can establish multiple conditions and designate various lower and upper credit limit values based on factors such as Segment, Country, Risk Class, and Credit Group.

Formula: Risk Adjustment

Adjust the credit limit of a business partner depending on the risk class and credit segment.

Input a Risk Class to adjust the credit limits for. If you want the adjustment to apply to all credit segments, leave the Credit Segment field blank. The credit limit for the relevant business partners will be multiplied by the value entered in the Risk Adjustment field. Entering a factor of 1 in the Risk Adjustment field will leave the credit limit unchanged.

Entering a factor greater than 1 will increase the credit limit.

Entering a factor less than 1 will decrease the credit limit.

This is utilized in the 'Manage Formula in Credit Management App'. Please refer to that section for a detailed explanation.

5. Master Data and Calculation Process

Master data such as:

Calculation Rule

Credit scores are computed at the business partner level, while credit limits are calculated at the segment level.

Note: The Calculation Rule (ZCRLIMIT) serves as the connection among all the configurations and settings implemented for calculating the credit limit.

Segment Tab (go to details): Credit Limit Calculation

Validity is derived from the configuration settings in Create Rule for Scoring and Credit Limit Calculation (CBC).

In the top right corner, you'll find a button marked in yellow "Calculate Credit Limit." This button appears in the segment section when in edit mode. Once you calculate the credit limit for the customer and segment combination, the remaining process will proceed as usual.

Collateral

Items like Collateral, Insurance, etc., can be maintained either at the Business Partner Level or the Segment Level, depending on the business scenario. It is feasible to maintain these values at both levels simultaneously.

Key Links:

https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_S4HANA_CLOUD/918bca53037f408f91a2295d04ac16bc/ba31db0b263a438c8640ec3731d0b640.html

https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_S4HANA_CLOUD/918bca53037f408f91a2295d04ac16bc/8a35ffa389004b3a9f9b8b22ef81e3a1.html

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Custom Fields (Characteristics) for Margin Analysis (Profitability Analysis) in S/4HANA Cloud Public

2024-09-17T16:20:15.344000+02:00

Basic Information about custom Characteristics (Custom Fields)

Key users can add custom fields to margin analysis by utilizing the "Accounting: Market Segment" business context.
You can add up to 120 custom fields using the "Accounting: Market Segment" business context.
With this context, you can include the following types of custom fields:
- Code List (Recommended)
- Numerical Text
- Text

Custom fields can be deleted even if postings have already been made using them.

Custom Field (Characteristic) Creation

Custom Field App:

Clear Create (+)

Type option you have:

Code List (Recommended)
Numerical Text
Text

Click: Create and Edit

You need to activate the fields where they are required. Each section provides available options; identify your area of interest or need and activate the relevant fields accordingly.

We have Enabled below services under User Interfaces:

Cost Centers Actuals

Manage Journal Entries

Post General Journal Entries

Manage Recurring Journal Entries

Journal Entry Item and many other.

Save

and then Publish. It may take a while.

It got published.

Inputting Values for Custom Fields

There are three following options to enter values for custom fields:

Substitution Rules

You can create substitution rules for custom fields through the "Accounting: Market Segment" business context, available in the Manage Substitution/Validation Rules app.

Manual Selection in Manual Entries

Field values for custom fields can be entered manually.

Substitution Using Business Add-In (BAdI)

The relevant enhancement option is the Business Add-In Market Segment Extension Fields Substitution (FINS_MARKET_SEGMENT_SUB), which allows you to determine extension characteristics using the market segment.

- Create a custom field through a pre-existing CDS view.

- Generate a custom field by creating a derivation rule through a custom business object.

- Develop a custom field based on another custom field that was previously derived.

(Please Consult with Technical Consultant)

Manage Substitution / Validation Rules – Journal Entry App

Create

Substitution Type: Substitute with Constant

Save

Then Activate.

Transaction Posting with Manually Custom Fields Update

Create Outgoing Invoice (FI Customer Billing)

Region Field

Note: A functional consultant can manually derive a custom field (characteristic) or through substitution. However, if you wish to use BAdi, you will need to seek assistance from a technical consultant.

How to restrict access to material types and material groups in SAP S4 HANA

2024-09-20T10:20:05.886000+02:00

Restricting access to material types and material groups in SAP S4 HANA

In S4 HANA Procurement, material types and material groups are restricted using authorization objects M_MATE_MAR (Material Master: Material Types) and M_MATE_WGR (Material Master: Material Groups). Both these objects have a common field value called BEGRU (Authorization group).

Material types and material groups cannot be directly maintained in BEGRU. First, use the Tcode SE54 to create authorization groups. The authorization groups must then be mapped to material types and groups using the T-codes OMS2 and OMSF. Then these authorization groups should be maintained in a role.

Note: Material types with no authorization group will skip the M_MATE_MAR authority check. material groups with no authorization group will skip M_MATE_WGR. Hence, authorization groups should be maintained against all the material types (allowed and restricted) and material groups (allowed and restricted) to make the access restrictions work.

Authorization object	Description	Field1	Description	Field2	Description
M_MATE_MAR	(Material Master: Material Types)	Actvt	Activity	BEGRU	Authorization group
M_MATE_WGR	(Material Master: Material Groups)	Actvt	Activity	BEGRU	Authorization group

Let us look at an example of restricting users' access to specific material types and groups while using the T-codes MM01, MM02, and MM03.

Material types allowed for users – Goods. All the other material types other than Goods should be restricted for users.

Material groups allowed for users - Finance Services. All the other material groups other than Finance Services should be restricted for users.

Two sets of authorization groups should be created in SE54 for the case described above.

Z001 for allowed material types.

Z002 for restricted material types.

Z003 for allowed material groups.

Z004 for restricted material groups.

Steps:

Create authorization groups for material types and material groups using the Tcode SE54.

Map authorization groups with the material types using the Tcode OMS2 (maintain the authorization group Z001 against the allowed material types (Goods) and maintain the authorization group Z002 against all the restricted material types.)

Map authorization groups with the material groups using the T-code OMSF (maintain the authorization group Z003 against all the allowed material groups (Finance Services) and maintain the authorization group Z004 against all the restricted material groups.)

Maintain the authorization groups in the authorization objects (M_MATE_MAR and M_MATE_WGR) in PFCG.

SAP Activate and Scaled Agile Framework Playbook is publicly available

2024-10-15T16:57:23.083000+02:00

The October 2024 release of the SAP Activate Roadmap Viewer, supporting the SAP Activate Methodology for RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition journey, introduces the SAP Activate and Scaled Agile Framework Playbook as an accelerator in the Prepare phase.

This playbook serves as a practical resource for teams embarking on S/4HANA Cloud, Private Edition implementations in organizations utilizing the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) to enhance their agile deployment practices.

Below are additional references to assist organizations in aligning both methodologies effectively :

Breathing New Life into SAP Brownfield+: 5 Challenges and 5 Steps with BTP, UX, and Innovation Trife

2024-10-19T12:23:16.680000+02:00

Background

Brownfield projects+, while offering a tempting shortcut to expansion, come with their own set of hurdles. Despite the acknowledged limitations of brownfield+ upgrades compared to greenfield projects, many customers are drawn to this approach due to the significant risks and costs associated with greenfield implementations.

The Challenge and The Step

1. Integrated Legacy Systems: The Weight of the Past

Outdated integrated systems is a common obstacle in brownfield projects. Integrating new systems with legacy infrastructure can lead to compatibility issues, data silos, and security vulnerabilities and may also need clients to rewire the integrations to the new system.

Consolidation of Integrations: . We should begin by ranking each integration based on its business criticality and the potential positive business impact of modernization. We still need to rewire all the old integrations to the new SAP Brownfield + systems and test them to ensure that data is flowing through correctly and processes are working as expected. This may be right time for us to assess whether rewiring or upgrading middle-ware or redesigning interfaces using new BTP technologies is the right thing to do based on risk vs reward vs cost.

Conquer Integration Chaos

1. Minimize Integration Debt: Identify and eliminate unnecessary integrations, focusing on those that deliver clear business value.

2. Prioritize Integration Journeys: Define and prioritize key integration journeys that directly impact business efficiencies and outcomes.

3. Establish Integration Standards:Implement clear standards and best practices for future integrations to ensure consistency, maintainability, and scalability.

2. Data Inconsistencies: Unearthing Hidden Treasures

Brownfield+ projects often inherit messy data landscapes. Inconsistent formats, duplicate entries, and poor data quality hinder decision-making and operational efficiency.

Unearthing Hidden Treasures : Now is the ideal time to uncover valuable data assets and establish robust data governance. We should identify business processes where analytic insights and improving poor data quality can yield significant business benefits. Then, we can define and implement appropriate data policies and governance mechanisms to ensure data accuracy, consistency, and reliability in these areas.

3 data gold mine tips, link process and data and analytics KPI's together !

Fill Data Holes : Leverage process mining tools to identify data holes that are causing process inefficiencies
Magnify : Assess and rank both business processes and data objects based on their potential business value and impact on desired outcomes.
Build Process and Data Telescope : Prioritize process analytic insights and attributes that helps to see your business and processes in different dimensions and re-think analytic journey and get data quality right.

3. Spice up the Brownfield+ User Adoption: Use the UX as a cornerstone

Don't let UX become an afterthought in brownfield+ projects, this can be crucial factor to sell your S4 HANA brownfield + business case to business! Prioritize customer and business user experience by identifying key customer and business persona journeys that would benefit from a refresh. Leverage the power of generative AI, Web4, and 5G technologies to seamlessly embed modern and engaging UX elements into these end to end journeys.

Don't think SAP, think journeys end to end to identify areas of highest business impact!

Engage UX and Business Experts : Conduct a poll to identify customer and business journeys that can be improved
Heart the high impact UX journeys : Map user journeys to business KPI's and get businesses to heart/like the UX journeys that will be be very useful to business
Magic Business UX Value Formulae : Use Gen AI to map UX journeys to value case and develop UX Journeys cost vs value case

4. Grease the Wheels and Prune the Code

While achieving a pristine core codebase might seem like a distant dream in brownfield+ projects with extensive legacy code, remember that even seemingly insurmountable challenges can be overcome with bold vision and determined action. If Elon Musk can revolutionize the automotive and aerospace industries, surely we can find innovative ways to streamline SAP codebase. Let's not be daunted by the scale of the task, but instead, approach it with the same spirit of innovation and ambition that drives groundbreaking achievements.

May not be fully clean but easier to scale in future

Trimming the Fat : Time for some code spring cleaning! Let's hunt down those unused custom objects and code, then hit delete and free up some space in our system
Polish Your Custom Crown Jewels : Let's sharpen our competitive edge! We'll leverage cutting-edge BTP,AI and cloud technologies to revamp and supercharge the custom objects that set us apart in the market.
No More Code Clutter: Time for a Fresh Future: Let's create a sunset plan for currently, moderately used, outdated code. We'll map out how to redesign or retire this existing code, set clear expiration dates, and establish guidelines to ensure all new custom code is future-proof and aligned with our long-term goals.

5. Create a Landscape That Bends, Not Breaks

ERP and legacy modernization projects often become overly complex and costly due to a perfect storm of challenges: inadequate documentation, lack of automated testing for continuous improvement, a poor understanding of existing data and processes, and insufficient availability of crucial business resources. Brownfield+ projects offer a prime opportunity to **bleep** these recurring project nightmares in the bud.

DevOps: The Conductor of Operational Symphony

Instant Process Mapping where Gen AI Meets Signavio : Leverage new Gen AI and Signavio tools to augment your process flows and generate documentations for critical end to end process scenarios.
Shift Gears for Continuous Automated Testing : Don't let those end-to-end brownfield test scripts gather dust! Automate them, document them, and turn them into a valuable asset for future testing and maintenance of your brownfield project.
The Change Express for delivering value non-stop : Reuse change management training and enable continuous release mechanisms where possible to deploy applications quicker where possible using new GIT frameworks. Let's inject some fun into change management! Imagine a Gen AI bot as your guide, helping you create engaging podcasts, interactive diagrams, and other creative content to communicate process changes in a fun and memorable way.

By embracing a strategic blend of BTP, UX design, and a forward-thinking mindset, we can transform brownfield projects into catalysts for innovation and growth.

Now go forth and conquer those brownfield challenges! We have the power to transform brownfield limitations into strategic advantages.

Don't shy away from bold goals. Even seemingly daunting legacy systems can be modernized and optimized for a brighter future.

Prioritize user experience. A seamless and intuitive UX can make all the difference in driving user adoption and maximizing the value of your brownfield investment.

Embrace automation and continuous improvement. From code optimization to testing and deployment, automation is key to unlocking efficiency and agility.

Make it fun! Change management doesn't have to be dry and tedious. Inject creativity and engagement into the process to inspire your team and stakeholders.

The RFP Revolution: From Box-Ticking to Perfect-Fit SAP Partnerships

2024-10-19T14:55:42.579000+02:00

This year, I've witnessed a fascinating contrast in the world of SAP RFPs. I've had the opportunity to be involved in both ends of the spectrum: from exciting, purpose-driven proposals that prioritized value and innovation to more traditional, checklist-based approaches.

It's been inspiring to see clients championing this shift towards a more collaborative and value-focused selection process for their SAP implementation partners. I'm eager to share my observations and insights on how this transformation is unfolding and what it means for the future of successful SAP projects. I'm also keen to hear about your own experiences and perspectives on this evolving landscape.

1. From Requirements List to Interactive Blueprint:

Traditional: A lengthy document outlining every technical specification, often stifling creativity and limiting the exploration of innovative solutions.

Modern: Host a collaborative workshop where client and potential partners jointly develop a visual blueprint of the desired future state. This interactive approach encourages open dialogue, challenges assumptions, and fosters a shared understanding of the vision.

2. From Price Comparisons to Value-Based Assessments:

Traditional: A focus on the lowest bid, often leading to compromises on quality, experience, and long-term value.

Modern: Request a "Value Proposition Canvas" from each potential partner. This canvas outlines the partner's understanding of your key business pains, their proposed solutions, and the quantifiable value they aim to deliver. This shifts the focus from cost to return on investment.

3. From One-Size-Fits-All to Tailored Proof of Concepts:

Traditional: Generic presentations and case studies that may not resonate with your specific challenges.

Modern: Challenge potential partners to develop a tailored Proof of Concept (POC) addressing a critical business problem you face. This provides tangible evidence of their expertise, problem-solving approach, and ability to deliver tangible results.

4. From Formal Interviews to "Day in the Life" Simulations:

Traditional: Structured interviews that may not reveal true team dynamics and cultural fit.

Modern: Conduct a "Day in the Life" workshop where your team and the potential partner collaborate on a simulated project scenario. This provides valuable insights into communication styles, problem-solving approaches, and overall team synergy.

5. From Static Documents to Dynamic Collaboration Platforms:

Traditional: Paper-based or static digital RFPs that limit interaction and feedback.

Revolutionized: Utilize collaborative platforms that allow for real-time communication by asking intelligent questions, document sharing, and feedback loops throughout the RFP process. This fosters transparency, encourages engagement, and ensures everyone is aligned.

The RFP Revolution: A Call to Action

By embracing these concrete examples and adopting a more collaborative, value-driven, and holistic approach, we can transform the RFP process from boring check list document into a catalyst for forging truly trans-formative SAP partnerships. Let's modernize the procurement landscape together!

Here's how we can reshape the traditional RFP's commercial strategy, shifting from a cost-centric approach to one that fuels innovation:

Traditional RFP (Cost Focus) ➡️ Revolutionized RFP (Innovation Focus)

Price-Driven Selection ➡️ Value-Based Assessment:

Old: Lowest bidder often wins, potentially sacrificing quality and long-term value.

New: Evaluate proposals on Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), ROI projections, and the partner's commitment to continuous improvement and value delivery.

Fixed Scope & Requirements ➡️ Agile & Outcome-Oriented:

Old: Rigidly defined scope limits flexibility for innovative solutions to emerge during the project.

New: Define desired business outcomes and allow for iterative development, incorporating new technologies or approaches as needed.

Payment Tied to Deliverables ➡️Shared Risk & Reward Models:

Old: Vendor gets paid for completing tasks, even if the overall solution doesn't meet expectations.

New: Explore gain-sharing agreements, outcome-based pricing, or joint innovation funds to incentivize partners to deliver exceptional results.

Key Questions to Ask Potential Partners (Innovation Focus):

How will you leverage emerging technologies (e.g., AI, automation) to drive innovation and efficiency in our SAP implementation? Give an example of your business problem to solve!
Can you provide examples of how you've helped other clients in our industry achieve breakthrough results through innovative SAP solutions?
How will you ensure that our SAP implementation remains flexible and adaptable to future business changes and technological advancements?Give an example of your business problem to solve!
What is your approach to knowledge transfer and co-innovation, ensuring that our team is empowered to drive ongoing innovation with SAP? Give an example of your business problem to solve!

SAP BTP BRH (Batch Release Hub for Life Sciences) Application Extension

2024-10-24T11:48:12.227000+02:00

Introduction

SAP Batch Release Hub for Life Sciences is your central point of access to the information necessary for

making fast and accurate release decisions in the pharmaceutical industry.

As a person involved in the release decision process, SAP Batch Release Hub for Life Sciences provides you with the information you need to prepare, review, and make compliant release decisions. By centralizing the relevant data from diverse source systems in one place, the solution helps you manage the complexity of the release decision process and detect any deviations early in the process.

Integration Options

Depending on business needs, SAP Batch Release Hub for Life Sciences can be integrated with a variety

of source systems such as follows:

SAP S/4HANA
SAP Advanced Track and Trace for Pharmaceuticals
Laboratory information management system (LIMS)
Regulatory information management system (RIMS)
Quality management system (QMS)
Manufacturing execution system (MES)
SAP Global Batch Traceability (SAP GBT)
SAP Intelligent Clinical Supply Management

In our case we are integrating SAP BRH with S/4HANA.

Architecture

Requirement.

SAP BRH APPLICATION UI EXTENSTION.

Introduce a few new fields with possible values Stop Shipment, SUQ, Obsolete which is mapped from the S4 app.

Field ID	Field Description	Type	Length
ZZ_Reason_Rest	Reason for Restriction	String	200
ZZ_Batch_Status	Batch status	String	1

Below are the CDS data models need to extend to achieve the same

BatchesCore
BatchesService

Below are the fields need to be added while extending entity for BatchesCore and BatchesService

ZZ_Reason_Rest - Reason for Restriction
ZZ_Batch_Status - Batch status

Extend the BatchesStage and BatchesActive UI to for extended fields.

To achieve the above requirement we are going to extend UI and DB table SAP BTP.

Frontend extension (UI) – to extend the view
Extending Native SAP S/4 HANA Integration

Development

Frontend Development on BTP.

To Extend the field we should have BAS (Business Application Studio) service activated BTP Sub Account.
Once we have service activated, we should login into the cloud foundry and start the development.

Open The Terminal and install the appropriate version of @Priya0/cds-dk as follows

Version of SAP Batch Release Hub for Life Sciences	SDK Version	Command
2406	7.7.2	npm install -g @Priya0/cds-dk@7.7.2

Create a new Directory / Project into the BAS through UI / below command also can be used to create directory.

Command to create Directory - mkdir brh_ext_company_short_name_01

Go inside the rectory and execute command - cd brh_ext_company_short_name_01

After creating Directory please create a file ( package.Json) and mention the project which you want to extend.

Below is the command to achieve the same.

touch package.json and after that put below JSON into the file.

{ "name": "brh-ext-1",

"extends": "_base" }

Note – Above Step is very important step to pull the project otherwise it will give error.

To extend any project we should have Extension.cds file inside the app folder. Lets create that too with the command, you can do it through the UI also.

“Mkdir app” and once folder created go inside the folder and execute “touch Extension.cds” command.

Similarly create a i18n folder and under this create file called i18n.properties

Now the important step is to pull the project which you want to extend. Use the below command for the same.
Syntax - cds pull -s <subdomain> --from <brh-mtx-url>

Command - cds pull -s ***-mt-dev-eu --from https://iron-preprod-preprod-iron- mtx.cfapps.eu10-004.hana.ondemand.com

Password - when will you start pulling the project it will ask for the password.

You can get a valid passcode at:

Syntax - https://<subdomain>.authentication.<landscape>.hana.ondemand.com/passcode

Command - https://***-mt-dev-eu.authentication.eu10.hana.ondemand.com/passcode

Once you are done with extension in Extension.CDS file and i18n file lets buid the project and push it to repository / server. With the following command.

Command – CDS Build

Once your build is finished you will get the following message like build completed in 2369 ms

at the end.

After Build lets push the project to the Cloud / Server.

Syntax - cds push -s <subdomain> --to <brh-mtx-url>

Command - cds push -s ***-mt-dev-eu --to https://iron-preprod-preprod-iron-mtx.cfapps.eu10-004.hana.ondemand.com

Password - will generate the password in same manner as pulling the file / project.

Syntax - https://<subdomain>.authentication.<landscape>.hana.ondemand.com/passcode

Command - https://***-mt-dev-eu.authentication.eu10.hana.ondemand.com/passcode

You will get Activation succeeded message in couple of second after entering the command. Now your changes are live please check in to the application.

Integration (Extending Native SAP S/4HANA Integration) Development

Extensibility provides customers with the flexibility to adapt the SAP Life Sciences defined model to

accommodate custom attributes that are specific to the business on master and transaction data objects.

The goal of extensibility is to enable customers to extend APIs with custom data. A simple case would be adding single fields, a more complex case would be to add array fields or add child entities.

For the extensions to work seamlessly, customers should make the changes in the Integration Hub, SAP S/4HANA, and Batch Release Hub tenant keeping the field names the same across all the applications.

Extensions for SAP BTP

This section contains information about creating customer extensions for Integration Hub for Life Sciences in SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP).

Customers can access all base entity models in the application and can add non-key and non-mandatory fields to the entity by extending the model. These additions should be on the root level of the entity. The field names are case-sensitive. The following default prefixes are allowed for custom attributes:

Note - Any other prefix will result in an activation error.

Prerequisites

You have read the Cloud Application Programming Model documentation (Extending SaaS Applications ).
You have been assigned the required role. You must be assigned with the CDS Extension Development access role collection for Integration Hub for Life Sciences, because it contains the cds.ExtensionDeveloper scope, which is required by the cds.xt.Extensibility service. Otherwise, you will get a "403 forbidden" error.
You have set up your development environment as follows:
We recommend using Nodejs 18 or higher.
You must use @Priya0/cds-dk version 7.0.0 or higher.
Install and update @Priya0/cds-dk globally by running npm i -g @Priya0/cds-dk@^7.

Development

Log on to the BAP BTP BAS (Business Application Studio) and in Cloud foundry.
Create another project in same way we did for frontend model extension:

Project Name (Folder)

DB(Folder)

Node_modules(Folder)

Package.json(File)

Once structure is ready. Let’s add the code below to the package.json file. And add extension.cds file in DB folder.

{

"name": "ihls-extension-project",

"version": "1.0.0",

"description": "IHLS extension project",

"cds": {

"extends": "_base"

"dependencies": {

"@sap/cds-dk": "^7.7.2"

}

Once your structure is ready let’s pull the project in the same manner we did above. Run the below command line.

Syntax - npx cds pull -s <tenant-subdomain> --from <ihlssubscribed-core-app-url>

Command - npx cds pull -s ***-mt-dev-eu --to https://***-mt-dev-eu-validation-lsifs -core.cfapps.eu10.hana.ondemand.com

After pulling project lets start development

Since we are extending Batch entity lets find entity in S4 side , for this go to the index.csn file in node_modules folder and search for the Batch, and copy the sap.ihls.batch.Batch.

Please see the screenshot below for the same.

Now lets modify the extension.cds file in DB folder, and the entity and fields like below.

using {

sap.ihls.batch.Batch,

} from '_base';

extend entity Batch with {

ZZ_ReasonRest : String;

ZZ_BatchStatus : String;

}

Once this development is done, lets push the code with below command.

Syntax - npx cds push -s <tenant-subdomain> --from <ihlssubscribed-core-app-url>

Command - npx cds push -s ***-mt-dev-eu --to https://***-mt-dev-eu-validation-lsifs -core.cfapps.eu10.hana.ondemand.com

After pushing the code to the server now you should see S4 data in the added field.

Note – Don’t forget to enhance BADI in the backend(S4) side for added fields. 😊

CDS Abstract Entity and ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model: Input parameter modelling.

2024-10-24T11:50:26.846000+02:00

1. Using Abstract Entities for Non-Standard RAP BO Operations.

This short overview of abstract entities concept in the context of non-standard RAP business object operations. It outlines their purpose, advantages, and implementation strategies, emphasizing their role in enhancing modularity and flexibility in data modeling.

Purpose.

Abstract entities are Core Data Services (CDS) constructs specifically designed to model complex input parameters for non-standard RAP BO operations(actions and functions).

Database Independence

One of the key features of abstract entities is their independence from database persistence. They are particularly suited for parameter modeling and give possibility to redefine parameters on next modelling level.

Reusability.

Abstract entities promote reusability across multiple operations. This characteristic enables developers to adopt a more modular approach, allowing the same abstract entity to be utilized in different contexts without the need for redundant definitions.

Parameter Flexibility.

These entities support complex structures, including multi-level nested components. This flexibility allows for more sophisticated data representations and enhances the capability to handle intricate business logic.

Binding.

Unlike traditional entities, abstract entities are not bound to specific BO nodes. They provides greater adaptability in how they are integrated into various operations.

Improved Separation of Concerns.

By decoupling input parameter modeling from the actual business logic, abstract entities facilitate a clearer separation of concerns. This simplification in design leads to more maintainable and understandable code, as the focus can be placed on each aspect of the application independently.

In conclusion, abstract entities serve as a powerful tool for modeling complex input parameters in non-standard RAP BO operations.

2. Implementation details.

I want to highlight how to effectively use abstract entities in ABAP development. One of their key applications is for typing, particularly for action parameters in RAP actions. Let’s begin with a straightforward example.

We make a simple abstract entity with four fields.

@EndUserText.label: 'ABSTRACT ENTITY'
define root abstract entity ZPRU_ABS_ENTITY
{
    ABSTRACTENTITYNAME : char40;
    SURNAME : char40;
    AGE : int4;
    EMAIL : char40;
    
    CHILD : composition [ * ] of ZPRU_ABS_CHILD;
    CHILD_2: composition [ * ] of ZPRU_ABS_CHILD_2;
}

Next, I created a RAP business object with a root entity view (the specifics of which aren’t important for this example) and defined the 'sendEntity' action with an input parameter of type ZPRU_ABS_ENTITY.

Let’s have a look at action definition:

managed implementation in class zbp_pru_root_entity unique;
strict ( 2 );

define behavior for ZPRU_ROOT_ENTITY alias ROOT
persistent table zpru_dn
lock master
authorization master ( instance )
{
  create;
  update;
  delete;
  field ( readonly ) dn_no, freq, prod;

  //Flat
  action sendEntity parameter ZPRU_ABS_ENTITY;
  // Deep
  action sendEntity2 deep parameter ZPRU_ABS_ENTITY;
  // Deep Table
  action sendEntity3 deep table parameter ZPRU_ABS_ENTITY;

}

Right now, let’s check RAP business object implementation class.

CLASS lhc_root DEFINITION INHERITING FROM cl_abap_behavior_handler.
  PRIVATE SECTION.

    METHODS get_instance_authorizations FOR INSTANCE AUTHORIZATION
      IMPORTING keys REQUEST requested_authorizations FOR root RESULT result.

    METHODS sendentity2 FOR MODIFY
      IMPORTING keys FOR ACTION root~sendentity2.

    METHODS sendentity FOR MODIFY
      IMPORTING keys FOR ACTION root~sendentity.

    METHODS sendentity3 FOR MODIFY
      IMPORTING keys FOR ACTION root~sendentity3.

ENDCLASS.

CLASS lhc_root IMPLEMENTATION.

  METHOD get_instance_authorizations.
  ENDMETHOD.

  METHOD sendentity2.
    DATA(lv_deep_field_from_abs_entity) = keys[ 1 ]-%param-child[ 1 ]-abstractchildname.
  ENDMETHOD.

  METHOD sendentity.
    DATA(lv_field_from_abs_entity) = keys[ 1 ]-%param-abstractentityname.
  ENDMETHOD.

  METHOD sendentity3.
    DATA(lv_deep_table_field) = keys[ 1 ]-%param[ 1 ]-child[ 1 ]-abstractchildname.
  ENDMETHOD.

ENDCLASS.

Derived type:

As a result, you'll see the KEYS table, where each row contains a %PARAM component. This component is typed as the structure ZPRU_ABS_ENTITY.

The next step is to demonstrate the use of the 'deep parameter AbstractBDEF' and the 'deep table parameter AbstractBDEF' in defining a BDEF action parameter.

To do this, we need to extend the abstract entity by adding a BDEF of type Abstract with a hierarchy.

First, I added the 'root' keyword to the abstract entity:

One important note: when adding a BDEF to an abstract entity, we initiate the creation of an abstract business object. As a result, we need to construct this business object in a way that's quite similar to how we build standard RAP business objects. This is why we use keywords like 'root', 'composition', and 'association to parent.'

I also created a new abstract entity, ZPRU_ABS_CHILD. Then, I added mutual associations between ZPRU_ABS_ENTITY as the root and ZPRU_ABS_CHILD as the child.

Then, I’ve created BDEF with ZPRU_ABS_ENITY as root entity and Abstract implementation type:

Let’s overview new abstract BDEF:

abstract;
strict ( 2 );
with hierarchy;

define behavior for ZPRU_ABS_ENTITY alias ABS
{
  association CHILD;
  association CHILD_2;
}

define behavior for ZPRU_ABS_CHILD alias CHILD
{

  association ROOT;

}

define behavior for zpru_abs_child_2 {

association third_level;

}

There are 3 main points:

add keyword ‘with hierarchy’ to make BDEF opt to deep expanding.
recreate RAP BO composition tree, add root entity and child entity.
explicitly mark association to ZPRU_ABS_CHILD.

Finally, I’ve added addition keyword ‘deep’ to action definition to expand action parameter type.

Let’s have a look into typing:

%PARAM typing:

You can notice that to component %PARAM a new nested table with the name CHILD has been added. It’s an effect of keyword ‘deep’ in action parameter definition. Component CHILD has type of table due to cardinality [ * ] in definition of composition in abstract root entity ZPRU_ABS_ENTITY.

Last topic is about addition ‘deep table’ to action parameter definition.

Let’s add it:

Hence, let’s check what has been changed in typing:

As you can see component %PARAM became table, before it was a structure. This is the effect of keyword ‘table’ in action parameter definition.

Lastly, the same principles apply to typing action output parameters. However, one key difference is that we can't use the 'deep' addition when defining output parameters. As a result, the %PARAM component will be incorporated into the output's derived type as a structure.

A table with summarizing:

SAP Community Question: In your opinion, what's the biggest use-case for Blockchain at SAP Customers

2024-11-13T09:09:19.281000+01:00

Good Morning SAP Community,

in your opinion what is _the_ biggest use case for Enterprise Blockchain / Distributed Ledger Technology at SAP Customers ?

Anybody following my blogs will know I like Enterprise Blockchain, and am interested in positioning Enterprise Blockchain as a Technology Standard for use-cases and business demands at SAP Customers enabling them to run Enterprise Blockchain.

I talk to a lot of people about this and regularly get asked the same question, what is _the_ BIG use case for Blockchain in the Enterprise and at SAP Customers ?

So, the floor is open, the comments are open, there is no wrong answer, and everybody is invited to give their opinion on,

for SAP Customers, what is the biggest use case for Blockchain ?

Over to you, feel welcome to put your thoughts in the comments and let's see what we discover, and, there is no wrong answer 🙂

Andy Silvey.

🧰👷‍♂️ The SAP S/4HANA RISE & SAP BTP - Toolbox 👷‍♂️🧰

2024-11-21T11:45:22.191000+01:00

The SAP S/4HANA PCE Private Cloud Edition on RISE & SAP BTP

🧰👷‍Toolbox for SAP Technology Architects & SAP Basis Administrators 👷‍🧰

[This blog is updated daily - and please note, this blog is not about the pros and cons, this blog is to help me and anybody else who is anywhere on the journey]

Having found this "RISE & BTP 1 Pager for Technical Architects & SAP Basis Administrators", if you're interested in this subject, then subscribe to the SAP Innovation and Transformation newsletter, here's the link: Innovation & Transformation Newsletter SAP Services and Support and to the weekly SAP News Center Newsletter: SAP News Center Newsletter the technology is evolving so fast it is more important than ever to stay up to date, and subscribe to the SAP Enterprise Support Academy newsletter.

RISE with SAP , S/4HANA Cloud, Private Edition, (btw - if you don't have time to read this then just click that link and read all the links in there) is re-writing the book on how companies "do" SAP, and in fact, everybody on that journey or planning for or preparing for that journey is re-writing the book.

The blog, the toolbox covers pretty much _all_ aspects of the SAP Private Cloud Edition (s) journey, all Phases, and across all technologies and everything that will be touched and goes deep in to the SAP Basis Administration tasks for setting up and establishing and operational readiness of SAP Private Cloud systems and the BTP and everything around it. The blog is updated on a daily basis, I use it as my own Toolbox and if it helps others then that's great. The subject is so big that it spilled over in to the comments. The goal is one page so that it can be searched with CTRL-F. If you need something and cannot find it, then write in the comments what you are looking for or send me a DM and I will show you where it is and if I don't know somebody else will.

The interesting thing is, as we move towards 2026, the move to S/4HANA is no longer only about S/4HANA Private (or Public) Cloud Edition or S/4HANA Cloud Private or RISE or whatever you call it, the move to S/4 has turned into a modernisation of the whole IT Platform.

Look at this presentation of "Transition to S/4HANA" from 2017.....

The Path to S/4HANA: Transition Scenarios and Best Practices

Back then, we were only thinking about the "upgrade to S/4HANA", back then in 2017 the SAP Cloud Platform, now the SAP BTP Business Technology Platform was in its infancy and basically only SAP Cloud Platform Integration and Mobile Services.

Now, let's say 9 years later, coming in to 2026, the move to S/4 is triggering a modernisation (or transformation) of the whole IT Stack/.Tool Set, the S/4 as the Core and everything around it from Data (Master Data), Integration (APIs/Events), Security (System/BTP Hardening, E2E Integration, Users RnA, Provisioning), Extension/Custom Development (Clean Core), Monitoring, User Experience, Reporting & Analytics, Operations, Organisation, and of course Innovation, where innovation is lead by AI in all of its forms.

And it's not only the S/4HANA on RISE anymore, it's all of the OnPremise Editions moving to RISE Private Cloud Editions, not many years ago we were unsure of the future of products like SAP GRC AC and now we can see that SAP GRC2026 is coming and that will have the same end of life as the S/4HANA, currently 2040, and where will we be running that, as a Private Cloud Edition on RISE ECS. And it's the same for the rest of the products like GTS, ATTP etc, if their end of life is 2040 then they will be moving to PCE RISE ECS.

And what about the BW's ? Our legacy BW's BW on HANA, BW/4HANA are going to move to the BDC Business Data Cloud as PCE Private Cloud Editions on BDC. And so, this subject is evolving before our eyes. This is interesting, BW's are not going to RISE ECS Private Cloud, they are going to BDC Private Cloud.

What we are part of is, in my opinion, is a once in a generation, once in a lifetime technology change and learning opportunity.

And so this blog, is here to help me, and others, across the holistic subject of SAP modernisation. There is so much to learn, so many new things, and the majority of it is on this page. The page is updated on a daily basis with everything new that I touch are learn.

So let's get in to it...

There are so many myths and misunderstandings about RISE, hopefully this work will shine more light on the subject.

The goal of this work is to provide a SAP S/4 RISE & BTP "1 Pager" for all of us Customer/System Integrator side folks who are on this journey.

This is where you are coming from and going to as a SAP Customer and as an Individual...

The SAP Business Suite Advantage https://dam.sap.com/mac/app/p/pdf/asset/preview/mEz8n1W?h=&ltr=a

For me, there are at least five high level dimensions to this S/4 RISE BTP journey:

SAP Next Generation ERP - Getting to S/4HANA Private Cloud Edition

SAP Managed Cloud Infrastructure - Getting running on SAP RISE

SAP Cloud Enterprise Applications - Getting the BTP

SAP Customer Organisational Change - SAP North Star Architecture

SAP AI & Intelligent Technologies & Automation & New Innovations & RoadMap Opportunities - get them as soon as possible across all dimensions - functions - units - domains - processes

All five of the dimensions, and more, are covered in this 1 pager.

Moving quickly from those five high level dimensions and down in to the lower level engine room impact of the S/4HANA RISE BTP journey, it must be clearly understood, that, an S/4HANA RISE Program is actually all of this and more....

a Project Management / Program Management Transformation - the program is huge and has a specific proven approach, Activate, which people need to learn

a Data Transformation - the Data is changing, and the structures

a Process Transformation - processes are changing

a Technical Basis Transformation - Basis technologies are changing and how you do Basis

an Integration Transformation - integrations (API Events) and the tools (Broker) are changing

a Hosting Transformation - hosting is changing

a User Experience Transformation - User Experience and User Interfacee is changing

an Operations Transformation - how you do Operations is changing

a Security Transformation - Security is changing, eg how to secure end to end API integrations across Authentication and Authorisation at all layers

a Monitoring Transformation - monitoring is changing

a Tools Transformation - the tools you use are changing

a Custom Development (Extensions) Transformation - how you do extensions and where is changing

an Organisational Transformation (whether you like it or not) - your organisation will have to change, the old set up will be inefficient

a Roles & Responsibilities Transformation - roles will change

a People Transformation - people will need new skills

a Testing Transformation - there will be so much testing required - end to end

a New Technology Transformation - there will be so much new tech starting with Joule....

a to-be-architecture Legacy System transformation - as in legacy which remains as transition or part of the to-be will need to adapt

How to solve that ?

The very first thing to do is read and digest SAP's 10 Underlying Quality Principles.

Implementing and Migrating to and Running S/4 PCE on RISE for the last three years, there is so much to learn and the SAP technology is changing faster these days than I have seen in my whole career, there is so much to keep up with, and similarly for the BTP, having been doing BTP (or as it was the SAP Cloud Platform) for 7 years, the BTP is moving very fast, new Services, existing Services evolving.

The two subjects are combined, SAP S/4HANA PCE on RISE with BTP, because in my eyes the two go hand in hand, S/4HANA PCE on RISE is the next generation of the previous On-Premise ERP offerings from SAP, and the BTP contains the next generation of Applications which we will all use with the S/4HANA PCE on RISE.

And then, since we are on this RISE journey, we are going to need to change our SAP CoE organisation, the existing SAP CoE setup will not be optimal for working with RISE/ECS, and so there's a section on SAP Organisational Change Management, SAP Center of Excellence, and SAP North Star Architecture.

The SAP North Star Architecture Service will safe guard the whole journey, from evaluation to run and everything in between, if you have the money, it's a must have, on the other hand, can you afford to go on the S/4 RISE BTP journey and not invest in safe guarding with the SAP North Star Architecture Service ?

And then, the final section is lessons learned :-), what can we learn from previous implementations and bring to the next implementation.

In my whole career I have never seen the pace of new SAP Technology move so fast and so wide. One of the phenomena which never ceases to amaze me these days is as the front end and user experience becomes easier, the back complexity goes up exponentially, as we make the front end more simple we make the backend more complex.

Please expect to find changes and new information here, because it will be a live work in progress.

Hopefully this toolbox will accelerate you as much as it will accelerate me.

This is the journey you are going on...

Source: 20230328_sap_dmlt.pdf

Capabilities Reference Architecture for Best S/4HANA Transformation, SAP Applications and Processes, The SAP Big Picture Architecture... SAP Big Picture Architecture

Ok, let's go 🚀

Section 1] General Introduction Documents and RISE Getting Started Guides

What is RISE from the viewpoint of a SAP Technology Architect ?

This is your starting point:

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition

Customer Journey RISE Document.pdf

Provisioning Guide for RISE with SAP.pdf

Discover Organizational Change Management for SAP Cloud Projects

SAP Cloud ALM

Data Migration | SAP Help Portal

SAP Enterprise Support Academy

RISE with SAP - Webcast E-book go through all of the links in there

SAP | Knowledge Transfer for SAP User Groups sign up for the Events

The SAP Transformation home page... SAP | Transformation Series

The following picture is from the publicly available document Presentation Title

This is a really nice document and worth reading, but, it doesn't go in to the details...

RISE with SAP Overview Focus on SAP S/4HANA, private cloud edition

This one below is from here: PowerPoint Presentation

How do you do RISE ?

Regardless of what anybody thinks about all of the different methodologies, every SAP Customer who is contemplating the move to S/4HANA Private Cloud Edition on RISE must begin by reading about the "RISE with SAP Methodology".

This is basically a guided procedure including supporting documentation to help SAP Customers get to S/4HANA in the smoothest and straightest line possible.

This picture is very useful because it elaborates a little more what is happening at each part of the journey:

The RISE with SAP Methodology introduction

SAP S/4HANA transformation : RISE with SAP Methodology System Conversion – Transition : Integrated Tool Chain Approach (Process Design, Solution Design, Build, Test, Implement, Enable)

Here's an introduction to the methodology RISE with SAP | Methodology

This is the overview of the guided procedure:

This picture comes from this document which is publicly available: Mapping your journey to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition : A practical guide for senior IT leadership

These are the core tasks of the methodology:

day_1_session_2b_pnp_application_modernization_migration.pdf

I recommend everybody who will be part of the journey to read that document as one of the first steps, once everybody has read that document, everybody will be on the same page as to what lies ahead.

Here are more documents which are very useful during the preparation:

SAP Activate Methodology for SAP S/4HANA Transformation

https://go.support.sap.com/roadmapviewer/#/group/AAE80671-5087-430B-9AA7-8FBE881CF548/phaseAccelerator/S4HANATRANSONPRE

Take the RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition learning journey...

Discovering RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, premium plus Implementation and Adoption

If you can afford it, you should do the SAP Activate Training Courses and the SAP RISE Training Course

ACT1CL_EN_Col11 SAP Activate Methodology Introduction

ACT2CL_EN_Col11 SAP Activate Methodology Cloud Implementation

ACT5CL_EN_Col12 Introduction to SAP Activate Methodology for SAP Cloud Implementations

ACT100.21.EN-US SAP Activate Methodology

S4C03_EN_Col21 RISE with S4HANA Cloud Private Edition Onboarding Fundamentals

This is another really nice overview and get-you-started guide, with very nice explanations and pictures:

https://assets.dm.ux.sap.com/webinars/sap-user-groups-k4u/pdfs/220630_discover_value_of_rise_with_sap.pdf

One of the things mentioned in the SAP Activate Training Course is the 10 SAP Quality Principles, this document is an oldy, and a goody, from 2016 and goes through the 10 SAP Quality Principles, Driving Excellence in Implementations - and Beyond: The Underlying Quality Principles and one of the principles is:

SAP Quality Awards for Customer Success | SAP Quality

SAP Landscape Management HomePage

https://support.sap.com/en/tools/software-logistics-tools/landscape-management-process.html?anchorId=section_1465999275

RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition Product Overview - nice comparisons

RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition Licensing Overview

From the same presentation RISE Package Portfolio:

And from the same presentation RISE Package Details and FUE's

From the same document.....

Please note, from S/4HANA 2023, S/4HANA PCE and S/4HANA On-Premise have different Feature Scope Definitions...

RISE with SAP Packages

This is the SAP Marketing page, as Technical Architects we need to know what the RISE options are, what the possibilities are, what the different SAP RISE Packages contain and be able to advise and consider and decide which would be best for our RISE Programs

RISE with SAP | How to Buy

Click on the link and expand the Options to see the details of what is included

Cloud architecture, services, operations, and tools included in all RISE with SAP packages:

All details are in the RISE with SAP Packages link

And while we are at it, here are the RISE with SAP Service Specifications for Enterprise Cloud Services...

SAP S/4HANA Cloud private edition - Service Specifications

Join the SAP RISE Community

RISE with SAP | SAP Community

RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition Service Description Guide ("SDG")

rise-with-sap-s4hana-cloud-private-edition-service-description-guide-english-v6-2024.pdf

This is the shall we say, academic, legal, technical, description of the RISE with SAP Service and including information like this:

SAP S/4 Transformation Readiness Homepage

https://me.sap.com/readinesscheck/home

When and How to Run the SAP S/4HANA Readiness Check

Title

SAP S/4HANA Readiness Check Preparation Overview

Readiness Check preparation overview

SAP Readiness Check | SAP Help Portal

Availability of SAP Readiness Check | SAP Help Portal

SAP for Me - Readiness Check - homepage...

SAP Readiness Check - SAP for Me

2913617 - SAP Readiness Check for SAP S/4HANA - SAP for Me

3059197 - SAP Readiness Check for SAP S/4HANA upgrades - SAP for Me

SAP Readiness Check | SAP Community

RISE OnBoarding Resource Center

https://support.sap.com/en/product/onboarding-resource-center/rise/rise-private.html

RISE OnBoarding Handbook Page

Onboarding Handbook .pdf

The Handbook is another MUST READ and is publicly available and contains a huge amount of useful practical information, like this, what happens after signing the SAP RISE Contract:

https://support.sap.com/en/product/onboarding-resource-center/rise.html

Then you are reminded of the overview of who does what...

and then you are reminded that to be a Future Ready Enterprise you are going to need a BTP...

Source: https://assets.dm.ux.sap.com/webinars/sap-user-groups-k4u/pdfs/differentiating_your_core_erp_with_sap_s4hana_240227.pdf

Source: https://assets.dm.ux.sap.com/webinars/sap-user-groups-k4u/pdfs/introduction_to_rise_with_sap_240222_.pdf

And there is a link to an excellent publicly available document on the Future Ready Enterprise with the BTP FRE Best Practice Guide for RISE Transformation_Private Cloud.pdf

BTP is covered in detail in the BTP section of the Toolbox

This is a really useful document, it walks you through a theoretical S/4HANA Transformation and including all of the steps Transformation Plan 1.0 - Outcome summary of SAP S/4HANA Adoption Starter

Moving to RISE Differentiating your Core ERP with S/4HANA PCE

Presentation Title

SAP ERP to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition Delta Scope

Learn how you can explain the main differences between SAP ERP and SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition to your SAP ERP customers starting the transformation journey to
SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition (eg ACDOCA)

SAP ERP to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition Delta Scope

RISE with SAP Transition Workbench

https://help.sap.com/docs/SLTOOLSET/940e4b48bd434bcb95db32940d08694f/cc75825f2d7049db96b6c60ec269aac6.html

SAP Events, click the link and use the search box to find subjects you are interested in and subscribe to them: SAP Events | Finder

More useful doco, the "Overview of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition"...

Edition Benefits | SAP Help Portal

RISE with SAP Embedded Launch Activities Specifications, this is where SAP helps you with the journey...

SAP Sales and Service Cloud Functional Specifications_20181129_Rev2

Activate Roadmap Viewer:

https://go.support.sap.com/roadmapviewer/

Click on

"RISE with SAP Clean Core Success Plan" and it takes you to

"SAP Activate Methodology for RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition"

https://go.support.sap.com/roadmapviewer/#/group/658F507A-D6F5-4B78-9EE1-0300C5F1E40F/roadmapContentPage/a11ec6d657054bf9:t23

https://www.sap.com/documents/2019/05/44b3ebd5-4b7d-0010-87a3-c30de2ffd8ff.html

The Clean Core Concept

Clean Core as the foundation for future readiness

Clean Core is an ongoing strategy

https://d.dam.sap.com/x/HvXc6b7/94115_92460_enUS.pdf?rc=19&inline=true

Exploring how to make Business Processes Clean Core Compliant

Exploring How to Make Business Processes Clean Core Compliant

Clean Core Strategy

RISE with SAP | ERP Clean Core Strategy

this is a very very useful document, you need an S User for it

Clean Core Extensibility

Clean core extensibility for SAP S/4HANA Cloud

RISE PCE ECS Services

https://www.sap.com/about/agreements/policies/hec-services.html?sort=latest_desc&search=private%20edition%20roles%20responsibilities

SAP Help Portal Welcome RISE PCE

https://help.sap.com/doc/daa7b7ca5dfb4fc28a69c3bbd4e22f60/ALL/en-US/SAP_Help_Portal_Welcome_PCE.pdf

Onboarding Resource Center

https://support.sap.com/en/product/onboarding-resource-center/sap-customer-onboarding-webinars/sap-s-4hana-customer-onboarding-webinars.html

https://support.sap.com/en/product/onboarding-resource-center/rise/rise-private.html

SAP RISE Partner Finder

https://partnerfinder.sap.com/

RISE with SAP - Migrate your ERP system to the cloud – and keep on innovating

Presentation Title

From the same presentation, the RISE Methodology Migration and Modernisation Program

S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition

Including Transition Paths Architectural Landscape Offering Comparison

https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_S4HANA_CLOUD_PE/b89b8b9026e1456bb2a1df7c0d59c937/f70e688a7cf54c1a8980cc3298b57e30.html

RISE OnBoarding Handbook

https://d.dam.sap.com/a/aW26pWQ/Onboarding%20Handbook.pdf?rc=10

RISE PCE Help Page

https://help.sap.com/docs/RISE_WITH_SAP_PRIVATE_CLOUD_EDITION

When you open that page, click on the Logon button in the top right hand corner, I know, logon to help.sap.com we never did that before, but if you do that here, and your S User has the correct (Customer) authorisations you will see a collection of 40 pdf's going in to deep dives across the following areas of RISE. Please note: to see these documents you will need to be a RISE Customer... for example....

SAP_ECC_to_SAP_S4HANA_Transformation_Roadmap_System_Conversion

SAP_ECS_Customer_Runbook

SAP_Private_Cloud_Internet_Proxy_Service

SAP_Technical_Onboarding_Topics_for_PCE

SAP_ECS_S4HANA_Cloud_PE_CDC_Connectivity

SAP_Enterprise_Cloud_Services_Backups

SAP_Enterprise_Cloud_Services_Global_Support_Operations_Guide

SAP_HANA_USER_MANAGEMENT_ABAP_Client_000

SAP_HANA_USER_MANAGEMENT_PCE_Customer_User_Guide

SAP_Help_Portal_Welcome_PCE

SAP_PCE_Service_Request_Bundling

SAP_PCE_VPN_Guide

SAP_Private_Cloud_Customer_Connectivity_Options

SAP_Private_Cloud_DNS_Integration_Guide

SAP_Private_Cloud_DNS_Integration_Scenarios

Changes initiated by SAP

ECS_Server_Provisioning_Guide

SAP_Cloud_Peering_Customer_Guide_PCE

SAP_ECS_Business_Continuity

SAP_ECS_Customer_Role

SAP_ECS_Customer_Service_Request_Onboarding

SAP_ECS_DB_Release_Roadmap

SAP_ECS_DR_Testing

SAP_ECS_Escalation_Process_Overview

SAP_ECS_Fighting_Against_Ransomware

SAP_ECS_Key_KBAs

SAP_ECS_Monitoring

SAP_ECS_Network_Concept

SAP_ECS_Release_Lifecycle_Management

SAP_ECS_Mixed_HADR

Webinars

https://support.sap.com/en/product/onboarding-resource-center/sap-customer-onboarding-webinars/sap-s-4hana-customer-onboarding-webinars.html

Implementing SAP S/4HANA with a Cloud Mindset accelerator

The following pictures are from the Onboarding Handbook: Onboarding Handbook .pdf

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/S4H_682%20S4%20Cloud%20Mindset%20Implementation.pptx

Mapping Your Journey to SAP S/4HANA – A Practical Guide for Senior IT Leadership

https://www.sap.com/documents/2019/05/44b3ebd5-4b7d-0010-87a3-c30de2ffd8ff.html

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition Overview

https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_S4HANA_CLOUD_PE/b89b8b9026e1456bb2a1df7c0d59c937/f70e688a7cf54c1a8980cc3298b57e30.html

RISE Beyond SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition

This document contains a number of useful slides and including one which touches on the Availability SLA's for RISE with ECS, the 99.5%, 99.7%, 99.95%, there are more details about the S/4HANA PCE ECS SLA Service Level Agreements in the RISE ECS Service Description document which is also in this 1 pager...

Presentation Title

RISE with SAP Migrate your ERP system to the cloud – and keep on innovating

Presentation Title

The Value of RISE with SAP

PowerPoint Presentation

Shared Responsibility in SAP S/4HANA Cloud

Presentation Title

Federated governance with SAP Master Data Governance MDG on SAP S/4HANA as core data owner

Federated governance with SAP Master Data Governance on SAP S/4HANA as core data owner

Solution Reference Architecture MDG

Edition Benefits and Comparison PCE and Public

https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_S4HANA_CLOUD_PE/b89b8b9026e1456bb2a1df7c0d59c937/1485d139460246d2a4b936c0bb0ca272.html

RISE S/4HANA PRIVATE CLOUD EDITION Getting Started Guides

https://help.sap.com/docs/RISE_WITH_SAP_PRIVATE_CLOUD_EDITION?task=discover_task

RISE with S/4 PCE

https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_S4HANA_CLOUD_PE

https://support.sap.com/en/product/onboarding-resource-center/rise/rise-private.html?anchorId=section

PCE Customer Center

https://sway.office.com/9UuBdnelwBKWimBH

S/4HANA OnPremise Edition

https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_S4HANA_ON-PREMISE/8308e6d301d54584a33cd04a9861bc52/2c0e7c571fbeb576e10000000a4450e5.html

Extend SAP S/4HANA in the cloud and on premise with ABAP based extensions
Guidelines for extension project managers, key users, and ABAP developers

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/S4H_1612%20Extend%20SAP%20S_4HANA%20in%20the%20cloud%20and%20on%20premise%20with%20ABAP%20based%20extensions.pdf

We'll just slip this SAP S/4HANA Cloud Single Tenant Edition presentation in because it could be useful...

Title Goes Here and Here and Here

And while we're here we'll include a link to the SAP Cloud for Customer C4C Setup Guide

SetUpGuide.pdf

SAP Enterprise Architecture Methodology Guide

As @Gaurish-Dessai and @PaulKurchina are teaching, SAP Enterprise Architecture and SAP Enterprise Architects need complete re-wiring, and need to change from "Governance focused" to being "accelerators of Innovation and Transformation"

It is all to clear to see, companies and people which don't change mindset, will be left behind, we all need to join the Enterprise Architecture SAP Community and read the fantastic blogs...

https://community.sap.com/t5/enterprise-architecture-blog-posts/bg-p/Enterprise-Architectureblog-board

SAP Technical and Enterprise Architects need to innovate, if you are a RISE PCE Customer and you want to innovate then you can apply to be part of the Early Adopter Care program for all different new technologies, keep an eye on the subjects here:

https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/

Next up we have the....

SAP Enterprise Architecture Methodology Guide

Getting Started | SAP Help Portal

The SAP Enterprise Architecture Methodology is very important for all of us Architects, and, another, must read, here are some useful pictures to give a taster...

While we are here, this document,

https://help.sap.com/docs/link-disclaimer?site=https%3A%2F%2Fd.dam.sap.com%2Fa%2FJ9MF5Fb%3Frc%3D10%26doi%3DSAP1125785

Slide #106, SAP EA Enterprise Architecture Metro Map

SAP Enterprise Architecture Methodology Getting Started Guide from help.sap.com

Getting Started | SAP Help Portal

Since we are here, we cannot, not mention, LeanIX... so we'll start with the LeanIX and Business and Solution Transformation Tools and Methodology Learning Journey from the LearningHub...

Exploring Business and Solution Transformation Tools and Methodology

The Rise with SAP Methodology Dashboard

Launching the RISE with SAP Methodology Dashboard ... - SAP Community

SAP Cloud ALM and RISE with SAP | SAP Help Portal

The System View dashboard is now available on the SAP Cloud ALM launchpad. It gives you information on your system's clean core compliance.

SAP Cloud Appliance Library CAL

SAP Cloud Appliance Library

SAP CAL S/4HANA Fully Activated Appliance Getting Started Guide

bf0c9643-65f2-4647-9146-2afce089cf1a_Getting_Started_Guide_v7.pdf

SAP CAL S/4HANA FAA Fully Activated Application Technical Components Architecture

bf0c9643-65f2-4647-9146-2afce089cf1a_2023_FAA_Architecture.png (2559×1439)

SAP CAL S/4HANA Trial Edition

SAP S/4HANA | Trial

SAP for ME User Setup

https://d.dam.sap.com/a/4NS7wPS/SAP%20for%20Me%20Initial%20Access%20-%20Customer%20Onboarding%20Digital%20Experience.pdf?rc=10

Getting Started with Support from SAP (Support Accreditation)

https://learning.sap.com/learning-journeys/getting-started-with-support-from-sap-support-accreditation

Landscape Management Process

https://support.sap.com/en/tools/software-logistics-tools/landscape-management-process.html?anchorId=section_175842419

SAP SAP S/4HANA migration cockpit - Cookbook - Public Edition

SAP for Me Explanation

https://support.sap.com/content/launchpad/oslp-retired.html

SAP Blue Field Selective Data Transition

https://support.sap.com/en/offerings-programs/support-services/data-management-landscape-transformation/selective-data-transition-engagement.html?anchorId=section_1492374967

Adobe Document Services on SAP RISE

3489432 - Question Inquiry regarding SAP Forms service by Adobe usage for RISE with SAP

Transactions

1405975 - Minimum Authorization Profile for Remote Service Delivery

Data Volume Management during Migration to S/4HANA

2818267 - Data Volume Management during migration to SAP S4HANA

Digital Access

You need to keep a close eye on what SAP data is going where and being used where and how, because SAP will charge you for it.

This is how SAP describe Digital Access on help.sap.com Digital Access | SAP Help Portal

This document is from 2018/2019 and has nice pictures explaining the subject...

Title Goes Here and Here and Here

A useful document from 2021 Digital Access Adoption Program DAAP_External_FV_050520.pdf

The SAP Digital Access Evaluation Service... SAP Digital Access

Another useful document PowerPoint Presentation

Digital Access in the context of SAP RISE, RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition Licensing Overview slide number 8, this document is publicly available...

This is another older document, but again very useful, because it contains very nice descriptions of Indirect / Digital Access Indirect_Access_Guide_for_SAP_Installed_Base.pdf

This is not something to be ignored or taken lightly.

2711786 - Digital Access Technical SAP Note

2738406 - Digital Access Central Technical Guidelines

2853271 - Digital Access License in SAP S4HANA Cloud from 3rd party legacy system

2955707 - Message You do not have an active license in the license Compliance Digital Access App

3004348 - What is counted as digital access

2716388 - Digital Access Message texts

DMO to S/4HANA on RISE

https://d.dam.sap.com/a/nyiZxHt/Slides%20-%20SAP%20Premium%20Engagement%20Session%20-%20Conversion%20to%20SAP%20S4HANA%20and%20RISE%20-%20in%20one%20Go.pdf?inline=true

The following link is the video of the webinar from SAP and this is well worth watching

https://dam.sap.com/mac/app/p/video/asset/preview/Hcyt8pC?ltr=a&rc=10&doi=SAP1125273

Very useful DMO Performance Blog thanks @mirja_kempin

HELP! The database migration is too slow! #DMOVE2S... - SAP Community

RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud License Overview

Title Goes Here and Here and Here

Licensing and FUE Full Usage Equivalents, this is a nice picture in this publicly available document: RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition Licensing Overview

It is extremely important to take care of how you classify your Users, all Users, Dialog and System/Technical, because if you don't classify a User then that User will be measured as Advanced and charged accordingly.

And then the following documents bring more light to the subject....

SAP ECS FUE's Consumption FUE me.sap.com

https://me.sap.com/financelegal/Consumption

go to me.sap.com -> Finance & Legal -> Consumption and there you have it, you will need the right authorisations

3113382 - Authorization-based SAP S/4HANA User Simulation / FUE Projection

20211005 - RISE_with_SAP Licensing FUE explaination

FUE, Price Lists for Private Cloud and SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud Edition - User Type Descriptions

Price Lists PCE

Metering for FUE FUE sizing ppt

sap-private-cloud-metering-interpretation-of-data-from-different-sources.pdf

SAP Private Cloud Metering

https://support.sap.com/en/my-support/systems-installations/glac/private-cloud-metering.html?wcmmode=disabled&anchorId=section_833509608_co

https://support.sap.com/en/my-support/systems-installations/glac/private-cloud-metering.html?anchorId=section_833509608_co

https://go.support.sap.com/roadmapviewer/#/group/658F507A-D6F5-4B78-9EE1-0300C5F1E40F/phaseAccelerator/a11ec6d657054bf9:FA163EAF25B21EEB8FC47DE9E72868DB,FA163EAF25B21EEB8FC47DE9E72888DB,FA163EAF25B21EEB8FC47DE9E728A8DB,FA163EAF25B21EEB8FC47DE9E728C8DB,FA163EAF25B21EEB8FC47DE9E728E8DB,FA163EAF25B21EEB8FC47DE9E72908DB,t23

https://support.sap.com/en/my-support/systems-installations/glac/private-cloud-metering.html?anchorId=section_1138314800_c

SAP Licensing Overview included in the following presentation

Not the newest, but still useful...

SAP S/4HANA Strategy Cloud Customer Advisory Council 2020

Useful OSS Notes for the preparation of going to S/4HANA PCE on RISE

3039705 - SAP Best Practices Activation process and questionnaire for RISE with SAP S4HANA Cloud, private edition and SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, advanced edition

2394975 - FAQ CQC Service Results

2881788 - End of SAP Business Suite 7 mainstream maintenance

2913617 - SAP Readiness Check for SAP S4HANA

3016445 - SAP ERP, private cloud edition Information about the release and maintenance strategy

3016524 - RISE with SAP S4HANA, private cloud edition Information about the release and maintenance strategy

3017596 - RISE with SAP S4HANA, private cloud edition and SAP ERP, private cloud edition Information about maintenance availability

3018442 - Selective Data Transition and Selective Data Transition Engagement

3035880 - Recommendations for greenfield implementations of RISE with SAP S4HANA Cloud, private edition following a cloud mindset

3039705 - SAP Best Practices Activation process and questionnaire for RISE with SAP S4HANA Cloud, private edition and SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, advanced edition

3097708 - Release upgrade for RISE with SAP S4HANA Cloud 2-System and 3-System Landscape

3393071 - Technical Preparation Services for SAP S4HANA Movement for Private Cloud

20211005 - RISE_with_SAP Licensing FUE explaination

3544232 - Validating System Recoverability for SAP HANA System Replication During RISE S/4HANA Migration - SAP for Me

3470873 - SAP Access Control 12.0 - Rise PCE migration queries

3489432 - Question Inquiry regarding SAP Forms service by Adobe usage for RISE with SAP

3429848 - SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition: Integration with SAP Start - Restrictions - SAP for Me

3279787 - SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition : Partner Products compatible with S/4HANA 2022 - SAP for Me

3194163 - Private Cloud Edition Reset Password - SAP for Me

3470873 - SAP Access Control 12.0 - Rise/PCE migration queries - SAP for Me

SAP Business Accelerator Hub S/4HANA API Events Integrations Business Processes Library

Overview | SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition | SAP Business Accelerator Hub

Follow the SAP Support Academy

SAP Enterprise Support Academy Newsletter January ... - SAP Community

SAP Enterprise Support Academy newsletter

SAP Enterprise Support Academy

ORC Revamp Cutover.pdf

Setting Up Automation of Source-to-Pay with Ariba Network and S/4HANA SAP Business Network (42K)

Section 1.001] The SAP 10 Principles of Quality

Everybody should read this before going any further...

SAP Quality Awards for Customer Success | SAP Quality

Anchor Business Value Firmly in your Project and Start Scoping Early

Cooperate with Stakeholders and use a Proper Governance Model, and, Ensure Timely Delivery and Effective Tracking

Staff the Project with Sufficient Competent and Motivated People, and, Apply Appropriate Methodology and Plan for Quality

Identify and Manage Risks and Issues Throughout the Project, and, Exploit Standard Functionality and Delivery Best Practices

Achieve Production Readiness, and, Use Organisational Change Management to Transform Business

Section 1.01] The SAP & Customer Shared Responsibilities on RISE

The goal of this section is to help the SAP Customer who is thinking about RISE to build a clear picture and understanding of what the responsibilities are and what the segregation of duties are.

A lot of people seem to think that on RISE the Customer won't need a Basis Team, well, far from it, on RISE the Customer obviously won't need so many Basis people, but, and the big but is, the Customer will need exceptionally qualified and experienced Basis people who at the same time have a very good maturity and discipline in their behaviour. One of my biggest lessons, and there are many many learnings, has been, with RISE, due to the nature of the shared responsibilities, there is very little room for trial and error in the Basis Domain, and the Basis Team need to put massive effort in to proper planning and preparation of activities and understand who will do what bases upon the segregation of duties between SAP and the Customer. There is no room for trial and error when doing new things in the Basis area.

So, we could write a book about that, but we are here to share useful documentation, so here it comes...

RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition Security and Compliance

Don't be deceived by the title, this document contains some golden information, anybody wanting to understand who does what with RISE, here are pictures you need, these picture show where your responsibilities are:

We start with a higher level view which is from the RISE OnBoarding Handbook Onboarding Handbook .pdf

In my opinion the above picture is not detailed enough, it doesn't communicated really how much responsibility the Customer SAP Basis Team will have. (The detailed list of ECS Services is here: SAP S/4HANA Cloud private edition - Service Specifications)

The following pictures go into some more detail on the Customer's SAP Basis responsibilities:

The above pictures are from the publicly available document Check & ProductivityPlus Training

RISE with SAP: Shared Security Responsibility for SAP Cloud Services

There are some great pictures and explanations in this blog, like this one:

Speaking from first hand experience this is how I see the responsibilities, this can of course all by done by SAP ECS by the Customer buying additional Services:

Customer / SI

Dedicated Private Connectivity to Hyperscaler
Configuration of Business Processes
Application Administration and Management
Application Identity Management
Application Authentication and Authorisation
Business Roles, User Groups, Access Control
Compliance Regulations
Application Security Audit Logs
API Extension, Integration and 3rd Party Connectivity
Application Change Management
Performance Management
Advanced Security & Compliance
Functional Application Management
Deployment Management
Testing
Release Management
Business Improvement
Data LifeCycle Management
Operations Improvement
Advanced Application / Solution Monitoring
Application Security Updates
Continuous Operations

SAP ECS

SW Subscription / Support
Reference Architecture
Technical System Operations
HA / DR
OS/ DB
Compute/Storage/Network
Threat Management and Patch Management
Operational Security

RISE with SAP: Shared Security Responsibility for ... - SAP Community

Shared Responsibility Model Between You and SAP for the SAP BTP

Shared Responsibility Model Between You and SAP | SAP Help Portal

Shared Responsibility in SAP S/4HANA Cloud

Presentation Title

Rise with SAP SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Private Edition Cyber Security & Data Privacy

This is a very useful document, a couple of years old, but it contains very useful information like this for example

220818_rise_with_sap_sap_hana_cloud_private_edtition.pdf

SAP Learning Hub, SAP Learning Journeys for Introducing RISE with SAP Services

Introducing RISE with SAP Services

Sizing and Data Volume Management

In RISE, you have to take care of the System Sizing and Data Volume Management, SAP ECS deliver a T Shirt sized system and the rest is up to you, so here are some useful sizing related links...

As it says in this document, Principles of SAP HANA Sizing - on premise and cloud "Memory is the leading driver in (S/4) HANA sizing"...

And we need to go back to basics regarding HANA sizing and remember the 2 to 1 rule, which is also re-iterated here, 3307794 - How to judge if the available memory is sufficient for the current system - SAP for Me which points to item #10 of this Note 1999997 - FAQ: SAP HANA Memory - SAP for Me

The total size of column store and row store should not exceed 50 % of the allocation limit.

Here are useful OSS Notes and Guides

3464083 - Quick check for whether HANA memory is sufficient - SAP for Me

1969700 - SQL Statement Collection for SAP HANA - SAP for Me

3307794 - How to judge if the available memory is sufficient for the current system - SAP for Me

2813738 - Brownfield sizing for SAP S4HANA embedded analytics

2943225 - Scalability and throughput of S4HANA in large customer installations

2815376 - Greenfield sizing for SAP S4HANA embedded analytics

This Sizing Guide is first class

Practical Guidelines and Techniques for Sizing your SAP Landscape for Optimal Performance and Scalability

This next one is a very useful Sizing document for S/4HANA and S/4HANA Cloud, it's also useful for the PCE Edition, because it talks about Sizing S/4HANA for Non-SAP Systems which are calling API's on the S/4 and talks about how the S/4 Cloud QuickSizer has a category for API calls, and for some reason the PCE QuickSizer doesn't have that category. I find that more and more Non-SAP systems are calling OData API's on the S/4HANA and we need to be able to size for API calls, we need to think of a calling System as a User and the API as a Transaction and we need to understand the frequency of API calls, the complexity of the business logic behind the API call and the volume of the data being posted or gotten...

CAA303 - Sizing for SAP S/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA Cloud

As is this one...

Introduction into Post Go-Live Sizings

as is this one...

Sizing Methods and Tools

and this one...

Expert Sizing & Methods of Sizing Validation

and this one...

Principles of SAP HANA Sizing - on premise and cloud

and a guide to the QuickSizer

Determine Your Sizing Requirements with Quick Sizer

and the magic QuickSizer Url...

https://userapps.support.sap.com/sap/bc/bsp/sap/qs_oberflaeche/hana.do?bsp-language=en

Here is the Url for S/4 Cloud (HANA based) Quick Sizer, this one if useful because it has a category for Non-SAP API calls, which the other one does not have

userapps.support.sap.com/sap(bD1lbiZjPTAwMQ==)/bc/bsp/sap/qs_oberflaeche/cloud.do?bsp-language=en

The SAP "HANA-based" Quick Sizer Rough Guide (you'll need an S User)

HANA Quick Sizer Rough Guide

The HANA-based Quick Sizer - How to fill in the questionnaire

SAP Quick Sizer Help

The SAP "HANA-based Cloud" Quick Sizer Rough Guide

SAP HANA Cloud - Quick Sizer Rough Guide

The SAP Quick Sizer Best Practices

pdf1.htm

If you are doing sizing with the HANA-Cloud based QuickSizer, the results will be given as a value, "Tier Number for Cloud Pricing", and you get a number like, "04". The question is, how does this number correspond or translate to FUE's ? Ok, the following is an unofficial rule of thumb conversion from "Tier Number for Cloud Pricing" to FUE:

If you are using the HANA-Cloud based QuickSizer to do a sizing calculation for S/4HANA PCE, you can then take that FUE range and translate it to the T Shirt sizing for the S/4HANA PCE according to the service specification here:

RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition Service Description Guide

rise-with-sap-s4hana-cloud-private-edition-service-description-guide-english-v12-2024.pdf

SAP Sizing home page

https://www.sap.com/about/benchmark/sizing.html

SAP S/4HANA Sizing Guidelines

SAP S/4HANA Sizing Guidelines | SAP Help Portal

How to use the SAP Quick Sizer

How to use the Quick Sizer - SAP's sizing tool for greenfield sizings

Some other useful sizing guides

Other Sizing Guidelines | SAP Help Portal

Sizing SAP Edge Integration Cell

Sizing_Guide_Edge_Integration_Cell.pdf

SAP In-Memory Computing Sizing Guidelines

SAP In-Memory Computing Sizing Guidelines | SAP Help Portal

SAP BTP Sizing

SAP Business Technology Platform Sizing Guidelines | SAP Help Portal

OData API's are extremely powerful compared to BAPI's and RFC's, and ODATA API's can even be executed as Batches and can execute very complex activities as I elaborated here https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blogs-by-members/s-4hana-odata-api-s-is-it-time-for-a-quot-safety-belt-quot/ba-p/13704550 I've seen OData API performance problems where the answer has been to create Indexes at the HANA level as is described here Multi-Column Index Types | SAP Help Portal and here CREATE INDEX Statement (Data Definition) | SAP Help Portal, and the point of the story,

To Create Indexes at the HANA DB level, only the ECS Basis Team can do that and you will need a Service Request...

Regarding sizing S/4HANA for API calls from other and non-SAP systems, the recommendation I have is think of the calling System as a Standard User and the API as a Transaction and size it that way with the QuickSizer.

There are also however some interesting OSS Notes around the subject, for example this one for Success Factors, the Best Practices and Principles in this OSS Note, in my opinion, in general also apply in the case of S/4HANA

2735876 - Odata API Best Practices [Query Modified Records, Pagination - Batch Size, Timeouts, etc.,] - SAP Successfactors Odata API - SAP for Me

This OSS Note is interesting because it gives hints on how to get the best performance from the Journal Entries API call, and the guidance here can be used as thought leadership for improving performance in other API's...

3391018 - Performance recommendations for Journal Entry - Post API - S/4HANA Cloud - SAP for Me

Data Volume Management Sizing with SAP HANA Native Storage Extension

3406430 - Sizing-relevant information for using SAP HANA NSE in SAP S/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition - SAP for Me

2973243 - Guidance for use of SAP HANA Native Storage Extension in SAP S/4HANA and SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA - SAP for Me

Performance - if your S/4 is not performing, it's your job to find out why, unless you buy a CAS Service from ECS... so you'll need to roll up your sleeves and do some good old performance analysis... Where is the problem... OS DB, OS App Server, Which API's are having a problem ?What are the API's doing ? External Components CI / APIM / etc

SAP Gateway Foundation (SAP_GWFND)

https://help.sap.com/docs/ABAP_PLATFORM_NEW/68bf513362174d54b58cddec28794093/98f6ff5082d2793ee10000000a423f68.html?locale=en-US&state=PRODUCTION&version=202310.001

2524975 - Performance tracing overview: SAT, ST05 & ST12 traces - SAP for Me

2520774 - FAQ: SAP HANA Performance Trace - SAP for Me

2126752 - Performance Problems when reading Business Partner Change Documents - SAP for Me

2689405 - FAQ: SAP S/4HANA Performance Best Practices - Collective Note - SAP for Me

2000002 - FAQ: SAP HANA SQL Optimization - SAP for Me

SAP_HANA_Troubleshooting_and_Performance_Analysis_Guide_en

https://help.sap.com/doc/e344ef1295b6433e88fe084c0768e1cd/2.0.07/en-US/SAP_HANA_Troubleshooting_and_Performance_Analysis_Guide_en.pdf

CAS Cloud Application Services - Performance Management

6 weeks to create the scripts ! Obviously this ain't their first rodeo...

https://assets.cdn.sap.com/agreements/product-policy/hec/service-description/sap-cloud-application-services-for-performance-management-english-v8-2024.pdf

CAS Cloud Application Services - Core Performance Management

https://assets.cdn.sap.com/agreements/product-policy/hec/service-description/sap-cloud-application-service-for-core-performance-management-english-v8-2024.pdf

2925766 - How to troubleshoot OData performance issues with Gateway Performance Trace? - SAP for Me

2999990 - How-To: SAP HANA Performance Analysis - SAP for Me

3212479 - How to identify whether it's a HANA Database performance problem according to ST12 trace - SAP for Me

2362876 - Gateway performance issue - relevant notes - SAP for Me

2943225 - Scalability and throughput of S/4HANA in large customer installations - SAP for Me

2436955 - How to collect and analyze traces using ST12 (single transaction analysis) - SAP for Me

Best Practice - Proactive Performance and Capacity Management

AGS_47.pdf

Best Practices for Designing, Developing, and Testing to Ensure Optimum System Scalability and Performance

Section 1.02] The S/4HANA 3 Transition & Migration & Implementation Options

Before we start here, if you are a Learning Hub Customer have a look at these courses:

ADM328_EN_Col23 SAP S4HANA Conversion and SAP system upgrade

ADM329_EN_Col21 SAP S4HANA Downtime-optimized Conversion

Furthermore, I recommend you to engage the SAP North Star Architecture Service (for an introduction have a look further down in this 1 pager as there is a lot of North Star information in that section).

SAP PE Session 'North Star service' (Virtual, Dece... - SAP Community

Title Goes Here and Here and Here

Digital Library

The SAP North Star Architecture should be engaged from the very beginning of the journey, as should be considered as an investment to safeguard the success of the Program.

There are three ways to get to S/4HANA PCE on RISE:

Greenfield - new clean S/4HANA

Bluefield Selective Data Transition - search this page for Bluefield and you will find the latest guides on how to do this

Brownfield Transformation - transform and convert an existing ECC in to an S/4HANA

This document is publicly available: 20230328_sap_dmlt.pdf

I'm not going to write much more on this in my own words because there is so much very useful documentation available from SAP on this subject.

This section of the Toolbox will provide links to lots of useful supporting documents and highlight very useful diagrams which will help for understanding your situation and your options.

It's less about tossing a coin and more about understanding what you want to achieve and where you want to get to. The following documents and pictures will explain why...

Please note some of these documents are older and some are newer, the older ones are using older terminology, but the essentials are the same and that's why they are included here, because the message they communicate is useful

These pictures are from this publicly available document: Microsoft PowerPoint - S4HANA RIG @ User Groups.pptx

The following picture is from this publicly available document: PowerPoint Presentation

The following three pictures are from a really good publicly available RIG document from March 2024: GSSP workshop Day 1 - Part 1

Here is another publicly available excellent picture: day_1_session_2b_pnp_application_modernization_migration.pdf

Match your business objectives to possible transition paths...

Do you want to do Process ReUse or Process ReDesign, from the same presentation as the one above..

This is a really useful document, it walks you through a theoretical example demo S/4HANA Transformation and including all of the steps Transformation Plan 1.0 - Outcome summary of SAP S/4HANA Adoption Starter

and some very useful pictures....

Section 1.1] Implementing and Running S/4HANA PCE Private Cloud Edition on SAP RISE

There are three ways to get to S/4HANA PCE on RISE:

Greenfield - new clean S/4HANA

Bluefield - search this page for Bluefield and you will find the latest guides on how to do this

Brownfield - transform an existing ECC in to an S/4HANA

There is a very nice document here FRE Best Practice Guide for RISE Transformation_Private Cloud.pdf which amongst other things has some nice picture and details on SAP's recommended architectures for the different S/4HANA migration/transformation approaches including:

The following two pictures are Brownfield, meaning you Transform your existing ERP in to an S/4HANA on RISE:

These three pictures are publicly available in this document: Mapping your journey to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition : A practical guide for senior IT leadership

The SAP Activate Roadmap Viewer

This is , the starting point, this is an unbelievable library of resources

You navigate it like this, click the link below, and then click Explore all Roadmaps

then click SAP Activate Methodology for SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud Edition on SAP RISE

then read the Overview and click any of the links and then click on Accelerators

SAP for Me

Transition Paths to S/4HANA (RIG Document)

This is an extremely valuable document as one would expect because it comes from the RIG and it has a lot of useful pictures and information which need to be elaborated here.. this document is first class and a great reference and must read

GSSP workshop Day 1 - Part 1

the RIG document then points to this, another amazing document...

SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit - Migrate your Data to SAP S/4HANA

This document also contains an amazing amount of detailed pictures which need to be elaborated here....

https://www.sap.com/docs/download/2017/07/26113ac0-c47c-0010-82c7-eda71af511fa.pdf

How to Approach a Remote Cutover

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/S4H_747%20How%20to%20Approach%20Remote%20Cutover.pptx

Best-Practice Document - Elements for Designing a Transition Roadmap to SAP S/4HANA

Whitepaper_v28_final.pdf

The SAP RISE Transition Option A Bridge for the RISE with SAP Journey | SAP News Center

In the second quarter of 2025, SAP will announce an offering called “SAP ERP, private edition, transition option.” This cloud subscription service is designed to help large customers with complex installations on a RISE with SAP journey from SAP ERP systems to SAP cloud ERP.

In the meantime, there is this option....

RISE with SAP Limited Maintenance Policy

The RISE LMP provides an overview of how SAP S/4HANA on-premise customers currently using a production system on a release not currently under mainstream maintenance or with less than nine months remaining of mainstream maintenance as of the start date of their Order Form for RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition or RISE with
SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition, tailored option (each a “RISE Private Edition”) can upgrade to a current SAP S/4HANA software release in mainstream maintenance through RISE Private Edition. Furthermore, the RISE LMP describes the process, technical framework, and associated pre-requisites for a customer to move and upgrade to RISE Private Edition from a release with limited or no remaining mainstream maintenance for SAP S/4HANA

This is a very useful and important document with useful pictures which are elaborated here...

rise-with-sap-limited-maintenance-policy-english-v11-2021.pdf

SAP RISE Limited Maintenance Policy and System Move and Upgrade 2 step go-live...

Conversion to RISE Private Edition responsibilities in the System Move

Paths for Transitioning to S/4HANA

CAA114 - Paths for Transitioning to SAP S/4HANA

Cloud Mindset Assessment

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/S4H_666%20Cloud%20Mindset%20Assessment_External.pptx

Custom Code Migration Guide

https://help.sap.com/doc/9dcbc5e47ba54a5cbb509afaa49dd5a1/2023.000/en-US/CustomCodeMigration_EndToEnd.pdf

Clean Core Quality Starter

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/DISCOVER_CCQualityGate0.xlsx

Perform SAP Readiness Check for S/4HANA

https://roadmapviewer-supportportal.dispatcher.hana.ondemand.com/?rc=1#/group//roadmap/a11ec6d657054bf9:FA163EAF25B21EEB8FC47DE9E72868DB,t2/node/FA163EF018EC1EECB78AEDF28A4C985E:t2

SAP Activate Methodology High Level Planning Implementation Strategy

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/SAP%20Activate%20Methodology%20High%20Level%20Planning%20-%20Implementation%20Strategy%20Consideration.xlsx

Technical Review Workshop Guide

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/S4H_1032%20Technical%20Review%20Workshop%20Guide%20for%20System%20Conversion.pdf

Agile Release Planning

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/AG_17.pptx

Conversion Approaches and Downtime Optimisation Techniques

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/Conversion%20Approaches%20and%20Downtime%20Optimization%20Techniques.pdf

Conversion Cycle Considerations and Risks

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/Conversion%20Cycle%20Considerations%20and%20Risks.pdf

Custom Code Migration Guide

https://help.sap.com/doc/9dcbc5e47ba54a5cbb509afaa49dd5a1/2023.000/en-US/CustomCodeMigration_EndToEnd.pdf

Custom Extensions in S/4HANA Implementations - Guide for Senior Leadership

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/S4H_881%20Custom%20Extensions%20in%20SAP%20S_4HANA%20Implementations%20-%20A%20Practical%20Guide%20for%20Senior%20IT%20Leadership.pdf

Data Migration Approach and Strategy

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/PM_181%20Data%20Migration%20Approach%20and%20Strategy.docx

Dual Maintenance Landscape Considerations and Risks

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/Dual%20Maintenance%20Considerations%20and%20Risks.pdf

This presentation contains a number of The Golden Rules for an S/4HANA Transformation which can be applied in the Journey to RISE and can be taken as going in Principles...

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/S4H_1614%20Implementing%20SAP%20S4HANA%20Cloud%20private%20edition.pptx

Steps to Deploy SAP S/4HANA on RISE with SAP Activate

Enablers for your S/4HANA on RISE Digital Transformation Journey

Golden Rules for Deploying S/4HANA on RISE with a Cloud Mindset

Implementing SAP S/4HANA with a Cloud Mindset

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/S4H_682%20S4%20Cloud%20Mindset%20Implementation.pptx

Key Decision Document Template

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/Key%20Decision%20Document%20Template.pptx

Quick Guide to Evaluating SAP Fiori Apps

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/S4H_946%20Quick%20Guide%20to%20Evaluating%20SAP%20Fiori%20apps.pdf

Quick Guide to Naming Conventions for SAP Fiori Entities

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/S4H_938%20Quick%20Guide%20to%20Naming%20Conventions%20for%20SAP%20Fiori%20launchpad%20entities.pdf

Retrofit for Selective Data Transition

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/S4H_2282%20Retrofit%20Guide%20for%20Selective%20Data%20Transition.pdf

SAP Activate Analytics Strategy

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/SAP%20Activate%20Analytics%20Strategy.docx

SAP Activate for S/4HANA Private Edition - Selective Data Transfer - BlueField

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/SAP%20Activate%20for%20S4HANA%20Cloud%20Private%20Edition%20-%20selective%20data%20transition.pdf

SAP Maintenance Planner Guide

https://help.sap.com/doc/9c9945692df94231b8dc323afe48a58e/Latest/en-US/loio6a17e10646f647bc8ace581ebc039b05.pdf

SAP S/4HANA Cookbook - Customer/Vendor Integration

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/S4H.0781%20SAP%20S4HANA%20Cookbook%20Customer%20Vendor%20Integration.pdf

SAP S/4HANA Selective Data Transition BlueField Whitepaper

This is a very very useful document which goes through the details of a BlueField Selective Data Transition and I have the feeling the majority of ECC Customers will go this path...

Bluefield Selective Data Transition compared to New Implementation and System Conversion:

Comparison of System Conversion, Selective Data Transition, New Implementation

Drivers for Selective Data Transition / Bluefield

Decision Criteria

Bluefield Selective Data Transition Project Methodology

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/offerings-and-programs/support-services/data-management-landscape-transformation/whitepaper-sdte.pdf

Selective Data Transition Bluefield Project Landscape

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/S4H_2281%20Selective%20Data%20Transition%20-%20Project%20System%20Landscape%20Shell%20Conversion%20Approach.pdf

Selective Data Transition Bluefield Planning Workshop

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/S4H_2283%20Selective%20Data%20Transition%20Planning%20Workshop.pdf

Solution Standardisation Board Private Cloud

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/S4H_746%20Solution%20Standardization%20Board%20and%20Process%20Template.pptx

Starter System for S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition - Getting Started Guide

https://caldocs.hana.ondemand.com/caldocs/help/a62c1e70-8528-4e13-a1bc-5710e7470278_Getting_Started_Guide_v10.pdf

Test Management Guide

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/S4H_894%20Test%20Management%20Guide.pptx

S/4HANA Conversion Guide

This is another very useful document

https://help.sap.com/doc/2b87656c4eee4284a5eb8976c0fe88fc/2023/en-US/CONV_OP2023.pdf

Your Finance Transformation Roadmap - Going from ECC to S/4HANA

20230321_sap_finance.pdf

This document is very useful, I found it on google SAP Functional Business Processes explained... SAP_2__MATERIAL_compressed.pdf

SAP S/4HANA MAP

Implementing SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/S4H_1614%20Implementing%20SAP%20S4HANA%20Cloud%20private%20edition.pptx

Integration Scenario and API List

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/S4H_471%20Integration%20Scenario%20List.xlsx

CQC Private Cloud GoLive

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/offerings-and-programs/sap-enterprise-support/enterprise-support-academy/continuous-quality-check-improvement-services/SAP-CQC-FOR%20PRIVATECLOUDGO-LIVE_InfoSheet.pdf

Connect S/4HANA to SAP Analytics Cloud

https://d.dam.sap.com/a/7YmTKro/SAC_S4HANA_Technical_Integration%20-%20Final.pdf?rc=10

Output Management Setup Instructions

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/Sol_Pack/S4C/Library/Setup/1LQ_Set-Up_EN_XX.pdf

SAP Private Cloud Automated User Monitoring FUE Measurement

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/my-support/systems-installations/system-measurement/information-about-sap-system-measurement/documentation/sap-private-cloud-user-metering-guideline.pdf

Transport Concept Migrating Data using Staging Tables

https://www.sap.com/documents/2021/10/6af5929d-007e-0010-bca6-c68f7e60039b.html

How to Approach Design your Launchpad Layout Workshop

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/S4H_937%20How%20to%20approach%20Design%20your%20Launchpad%20Layout.pptx

SAP Fiori Launchpad Best Practice Verification Checklist

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/S4H_992%20SAP%20Fiori%20launchpad%20best%20practice%20verification%20checklist.pdf

What's New is SAP S/4HANA 2023

WN_OP2023_EN.pdf

Upgrading S/4HANA How, Why, and Best Practice

This document has a lot of very nice information including the S/4HANA Release Version Strategy

And the Upgrade Best Practice, there is another Upgrade document in the Toolbox which talks about how to do the Repair boxes etc

https://www.sap.com/documents/2020/06/94ca0995-9d7d-0010-87a3-c30de2ffd8ff.html

Thanks to @jmarquezmr for this excellent Blog on the SAP Activate Methodology for S/4HANA PCE Upgrades Upgrade your SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition fol... - SAP Community which introduces amongst other things the SAP Activate for RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition - Upgrade and that is a MUST read as well as the rest of the doco in this section including the Best Practices document...

S/4HANA 2023 Activate Roadmap Documents:

Functional Review Workshop for System Upgrade

Technical Review Workshop for System Upgrade

Embrace Agility and Upgrade for Success

Embrace agility and upgrade for success

Since S/4HANA 2023 Releases are delivered every 2 years...

Release Strategy for S/4HANA Private Cloud Edition - every two years 2 years

Regarding SAP S/4HANA PCE Maintenance Strategy and Version Roadmap and Release Strategy the SAP RISE Handbook has some nice descriptions and pictures

Onboarding Handbook .pdf

And the respective OSS Note: 2269324 - Compatibility Scope Matrix for SAP S/4HANA - SAP for Me

And the Learning Journey for S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition | SAP Learning

From the same document, What are Compatibility Packs ?

Call to Action for S/4HANA Customers - Compatibility Packs

Presentation Title

Compatibility Packs - The Way Forward...

PowerPoint Presentation

3016524 - RISE with SAP S/4HANA, private cloud edition: Information about the release and maintenance strategy - SAP for Me

sap-release-and-maintenance-strategy-new.pdf

The SAP Platform Product Availability Matrix Maintenance

3061124 - SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition - Release Information - SAP for Me

3017596 - RISE with SAP S/4HANA, private cloud edition and SAP ERP, private cloud edition: Information about maintenance availability - SAP for Me

1928533 - SAP Applications on Microsoft Azure: Supported Products and Azure VM types - SAP for Me

3016445 - SAP ERP, private cloud edition: Information about the release and maintenance strategy - SAP for Me

Software Center - SAP for Me - here you can see the verions

2900388 - SAP S/4HANA maintenance commitment until 2040 - SAP for Me

Release Cycles in SAP S/4HANA | SAP Help Portal

SAP S/4HANA Maintenance Phases

https://support.sap.com/en/release-upgrade-maintenance/maintenance-information/maintenance-strategy/maintenance-phases.html?anchorId=section_1521753191

S/4HANA Cloud Safe Keeper Service

https://support.sap.com/en/release-upgrade-maintenance/maintenance-information/maintenance-strategy/safekeeper-service.html

3424346 - SAP S/4HANA Cloud Safekeeper - Description of maintenance-related service elements
https://me.sap.com/notes/3424346

Compatibility Packs

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/release-upgrade-maintenance/maintenance-information/maintenance-strategy/maintenance-phases/compa-pack.pdf

Customer Specific Maintenance

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/release-upgrade-maintenance/maintenance-information/maintenance-strategy/maintenance-phases/cu-cust-spec-maint-en.pdf

New SAP S/4HANA Release & Maintenance Strategy | SAP News

What's New Viewer - SAP S/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition | SAP Help Portal

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition | SAP Help Portal

This document is also a must read because it really goes in to the details of executing the upgrade including for example setting up the Repair box(es) and the Dual Line Landscape...

UPGR_PE2023.pdf

This is a very useful document for helping with planning S/4HANA Upgrades... Upgrading SAP S/4HANA - Why, How, and Best Practices

The document is 180 slides !!! make sure to read the whole thing, here are a few of the slides, the document covers so much diverse information you need to read the whole thing..

Define your Business Strategy for your Upgrade

Responsibilities during an S/4HANA RISE Private Cloud Edition PCE Upgrade

S/4HANA Release Strategy 2023 2025

Partner AddOns and S/4HANA on RISE Upgrades Considerations

3418615 - SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition : Partner Products compatible with S/4HANA 2023 - SAP for Me

Manage the Impact of a Technical and Functional Upgrade on Fiori Apps

Key Considerations when Planning an Upgrade

Always check System Sizing as part of an Upgrade

Check Cyber Security Authentication Requirements changes

And continue by making sure to read the whole document, it is 180 pages !!! Upgrading SAP S/4HANA - Why, How, and Best Practices

HANA Studio, HANA Cockpit, on SAP RISE you don't have the SAP HANA Studio or the SAP HANA Cockpit, what you do have though is the DBA Cockpit where you can still do a lot of things

DBA Cockpit for SAP HANA | SAP Help Portal

1969700 - SQL Statement Collection for SAP HANA - SAP for Me

SAP Authorization Objects and SAP Roles for SQL Editor | SAP Help Portal

3169613 - Accessing SAP HANA Database of SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition - SAP for Me

Pay attention to the Roles and Responsibilities between you and SAP to understand what SAP will do with HANA and what you will do with HANA on RISE, as a rule of thumb if it needs command line access then you cannot do it on RISE

https://assets.cdn.sap.com/agreements/product-policy/hec/roles-responsibilities/rise-with-sap-s4hana-cloud-private-edition-tailored-option-customer-data-center-option-english-v7-2024a.pdf

The SAP Services and Support Portfolio for S/4HANA PCE on RISE

https://www.sap.com/documents/2024/09/7cd3160b-d87e-0010-bca6-c68f7e60039b.html

Operations of Cloud Centric Hybrid Landscapes

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/managing-hybrid-solutions/hybrid-operations.pdf

Connecting a HEC System to an OnPremise Solution Manager

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/sap-solution-manager/sapsolutionmanager72/connecting-hec-system-to-on-premise-solman-v2.0.pdf

Deployment Models by SAP on Hyperscalers

https://support.sap.com/en/offerings-programs/ccoe/sap-hyperscalers.html

S/4HANA 2023 Guides...

S/4HANA PCE 2023 Installation Guide

https://help.sap.com/doc/6b11678926d3409bbfea8897cb34d10f/2023/en-US/INST_OP2023.pdf

S/4HANA PCE 2023 Conversion Guide

https://help.sap.com/doc/2b87656c4eee4284a5eb8976c0fe88fc/2023/en-US/CONV_OP2023.pdf

S/4HANA PCE 2023 Upgrade Guide

https://help.sap.com/doc/49908826699d4fcab6fe550bed34ac8f/2023/en-US/UPGR_PE2023.pdf

S/4HANA PCE 2023 Security Guide

https://help.sap.com/doc/d7c2c95f2ed2402c9efa2f58f7c233ec/2023/en-US/SEC_OP2023.pdf

S/4HANA PCE 2023 Simplification Guide

https://help.sap.com/doc/c34b5ef72430484cb4d8895d5edd12af/2023/en-US/SIMPL_OP2023.pdf

S/4HANA PCE 2023 Custom Code Migration Guide

https://help.sap.com/doc/9dcbc5e47ba54a5cbb509afaa49dd5a1/2023.002/en-US/CustomCodeMigration_EndToEnd.pdf

S/4HANA PCE 2023 Data Migration Guide

https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_S4HANA_ON-PREMISE/29193bf0ebdd4583930b2176cb993268/a4d4119a2cc9448a98e5d17e6dd0eac4.html

Data Migration | SAP Help Portal

Upgrade Guide SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud Edition PCE 2023

UPGR_PE2023.pdf

Administration Guide to Implementation of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition 2023 with SAP
Best Practices

AdminGuideS4HANAImpl_HELP_EN.pdf

SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit, this is the 2023 version and it is an excellent document, and will be elaborated here...

SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit - Migrate your Data to SAP S/4HANA

SAP ECS CAS Cloud Application Services Functional Application Management:

sap-cloud-application-services---functional-application-management-english-v8-2024.pdf

RISE with SAP System Transition Workbench, this is used for used for migration of customer systems to SAP Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS) in context of RISE.

3462243 - RISE with SAP System Transition Workbench - SAP for Me

Section 2] SAP ECS Enterprise Cloud Services

The SAP ECS Team is your Partner for pretty much everything, they are like your Cloud/Unix/Technical-Layer-Basis wrapped in to one, the majority of the really useful documentation on what the ECS Team do and how to work with them is listed below, but, you will need an S User and in some cases need to be a RISE Customer to access the documentation.

This section of the Toolbox is really aimed at Basis people and Unix Team / Cloud Hosting / Network people from the Customer side, and so, I am including here the most useful pictures from documents in the public domain to help with introductions as to how the networking to SAP ECS is working, how the hosting is working and how the security of it all is working.

The following picture is from the publicly available document Presentation Title

The picture helps us all to understand what the SAP ECS Team are doing, what parts of the stack they are responsible for:

This is a nice overview of SAP Cloud Application Services for RISE Customers, this document is publicly available: Presentation Title

The detailed documentation on ECS Services and Roles and Responsibilities is here in the SAP S/4HANA, and ERP Cloud Services Documentation :

SAP S/4HANA Cloud private edition - Service Specifications

And here some extracts from the documents...

ECS Advanced Security and Compliance SAP Cloud Application Services_advanced security & compliance_v08-2024 includes a very useful RACI, here's an extract

SAP ECS Cloud Application Services for Performance Management details and RACI

SAP CAS Performance Management_enGLOBAL.v08-2024

and there are many many more such Services and their respective RACI's

SAP CAS Business improvement foundation_enGLOBAL.v.08-2024

sap-cloud-application-services---functional-application-management-english-v8-2024.pdf

sap-cloud-application-services-for-cloud-integration-testing-english-v8-2024.pdf

sap-cloud-application-services-for-application-security-updates-service-description-english-v8-2024.pdf

sap-cloud-application-services-for-test-management-english-v8-2024.pdf

sap-cloud-application-services-for-data-management-english-v8-2024.pdf

sap-cloud-application-services-for-regression-testing-english-v8-2024.pdf

sap-cloud-application-services-for-release-version-upgrade-english-v8-2024.pdf

SAP CAS Data Volume Optimization ServiceDescription enGLOBAL.v.08-2024

sap-cloud-application-services-for-btp-core-operations-english-v8-2024.pdf

sap-cloud-application-services-for-data-quality-optimization-english-v8-2024.pdf

sap-cloud-application-service-for-core-performance-management-english-v8-2024.pdf

sap-cloud-application-services-for-application-operations-english-v8-2024.pdf

sap-cloud-application-service-advanced-monitoring-english-v8-2024.pdf

sap-cloud-application-services-for-application-monitoring-english-v8-2024.pdf

disaster-recovery-services-and-customer-invoked-failover-services-for-sap-hana-enterprise-cloud-services-and-s4hana-cloud-extended-edition-service-description-documentation-english-v7-2024.pdf

Keep in mind these are extra Services on top of the basic RISE agreement

below is the document for RISE PCE...

disaster-recovery-services-and-customer-invoked-failover-services-for-private-cloud-edition-services-and-tailored-option-services-service-description-documentation-english-v7-2024.pdf

RISE with SAP S4HANA Cloud, private edition, tailored option Roles and Responsibilities

RISE with SAP S/4HANA PCE Private Cloud Edition with Customer Data Center Option

RISE with SAP S4HANA Cloud, private edition, tailored option, customer data center option

and many more...

The Customer Data Center Option for RISE with SAP

RISE with SAP | Customer data center option

RISE with SAP, reach the Cloud without compromise... The Customer Data Center Option

The cloud without compromise: Explore the customer data center option of the RISE with SAP solution:

https://www.sap.com/docs/download/2022/06/1e771e5c-307e-0010-bca6-c68f7e60039b.pdf

RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Private Edition, Tailored Option for Customer Data Center

Roles and Responsibilities RISE with SAP S/4HANA PCE Private Cloud Edition Tailored Option Customer Data Center Option

RISE with SAP S4HANA Cloud, private edition, tailored option, customer data center option

SAP S/4HANA Cloud private edition - Service Specifications

SAP ECS Locations of Data Centers

PDF Generator

And now some useful pictures on how the networking and HA and DR are working, these pictures are from the publicly available document 220818_rise_with_sap_sap_hana_cloud_private_edtition.pdf

The document contains many many useful diagrams explaining the dimensions of the infrastructure and network security, here are some examples...

And then here we have some great insights to the HA and DR setup... there are other documents, they are listed in this 1 Pager and you will need an S User for those, just search this list for HA and DR...

SAP S/4HANA, and ERP Cloud Services Documentation

This is all of the Services and Roles and Contracts and in all Languages

RISE with SAP S/4 HANA CLOUD, private edition and SAP ERP, PCE Roles and Responsibilities

SAP ECS RISE Roles and Responsibilities July 2024

RISE with SAP S4HANA Cloud, private edition, tailored option, customer data center option

SAP ECS Business Continuity

https://help.sap.com/doc/05f121caa8b7424899a5d88512ea94de/ALL/en-US/SAP_ECS_Business_Continuity.pdf

SAP ECS Backups

https://help.sap.com/doc/4c8333b29baf4627b18a243237a876af/ALL/en-US/SAP_Enterprise_Cloud_Services_Backups.pdf

SAP ECS Failover Backup Service

https://assets.cdn.sap.com/agreements/product-policy/hec/roles-responsibilities/rise-with-sap-s4hana-cloud-private-edition-and-sap-erp-tailored-option-roles-and-responsibilities-english-v7-2023.pdf

ECS & RISE Service Requests Process Flows

https://help.sap.com/doc/3d58db33cac44d0a8fb6846f505525a2/ALL/en-US/SAP_ECS_Service_Process_Flows.pdf

2669783 - S-user authorizations required for the Private Cloud Service Request application

2669783 - S-user authorizations required for the Private Cloud Service Request application - SAP for Me - SAP for Me

2720477 - How to access Private Cloud Service Requests

2720477 - How to access Private Cloud Service Requests - SAP for Me - SAP for Me

3432011 - How to check the closed/confirmed Service Requests

3432011 - How to check the closed/confirmed Service Requests - SAP for Me - SAP for Me

3239384 - How to use Service Requests application

3239384 - How to use Service Requests application - SAP for Me - SAP for Me

RISE ECS Service Requests FAQ

https://me.sap.com/notes/0003380895

Dual Maintenance Dual Landscape Considerations

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/Dual%20Maintenance%20Considerations%20and%20Risks.pdf

Planning Landscape Changes (Best Practice Guide) Software Logistics

https://help.sap.com/docs/SUPPORT_CONTENT/sl/3362917490.html

ECS & RISE Early Watch Report for S/4

https://me.sap.com/app/ewaworkspace

Landscape Management Process - the Big Picture

https://support.sap.com/en/tools/software-logistics-tools/landscape-management-process.html?anchorId=section_175842419

ECS Services including System Extensions Capacity etc

https://assets.cdn.sap.com/agreements/product-use-and-support-terms/service-description-guides/rise-with-sap-s4hana-cloud-private-edition-service-description-guide-english-v10-2023.pdf

ECS CAS ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

https://assets.cdn.sap.com/agreements/product-policy/hec/roles-responsibilities/rise-with-sap-s4hana-cloud-private-edition-and-sap-erp-tailored-option-roles-and-responsibilities-english-v7-2023.pdf

SAP Enterprise Cloud Services The Customer’s Role in an SAP Enterprise Cloud Services Managed Environment

https://help.sap.com/doc/7a4296d457f24471ab9b642aa0a843a6/ALL/en-US/SAP_ECS_Customer_Role.pdf

ECS Cloud Services Catalogue

https://www.sap.com/about/agreements/policies/hec-services.html?sort=latest_desc

ECS Cloud Services Specifications

https://www.sap.com/about/agreements/policies/cloud-service-specifications.html?sort=latest_desc

HEC Extended Services full list

https://www.sap.com/germany/about/agreements/policies/hec-services.html?sort=latest_desc&tag=language:english

How SAP Run their DataCenters

https://www.sap.com/about/trust-center/data-center.html

Cloud Services Agreements List of Cloud Services

https://www.sap.com/about/trust-center/agreements/cloud/cloud-services.html?sort=latest_desc&tag=agreements:product-development-schedule/product-development-schedule

HANA Enterprise Cloud

https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_HANA_ENTERPRISE_CLOUD

https://help.sap.com/doc/04708a0338ce4695b558f9b0c94c9c86/ALL/en-US/SAP_Help_Portal_Welcome.pdf

HEC Contact Email

SAP_HEC_Delivery_Help_Portal_Administration@sap.com

ECS System Handover Hostnames

https://help.sap.com/doc/fe22c9325a63449881605024cc4f9273/ALL/en-US/SAP_ECS_System_Handover_Hostnames.pdf

Technical OnBoarding Topics RISE ECS

https://help.sap.com/doc/7689b0e36b0e4c8f8adf9e7c1167b1d1/ALL/en-US/SAP_Technical_Onboarding_Topics_for_PCE.pdf

SAP ECS RISE Health Check Url Relative Path

/ping/publicicp/show_init_statepub.icp

ECS Workspace Url

https://me.sap.com/servicessupport/ecsworkspace

HEC ECS Landscape

https://me.sap.com/app/heclandscape

OnLine Help HEC Landscape

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/my-support/help-for-sap-support-applications/hec/02_system_landscape.html#standard-port-numbers

HEC Landscape

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/my-support/help-for-sap-support-applications/hec/02_system_landscape.html#standard-port-numbers

CAC Maintenance Windows

https://support.sap.com/en/my-support/systems-installations/cac/maintenance-windows.html

S/4HANA Upgrades Activate Methodology

https://go.support.sap.com/roadmapviewer/#/group/AAE80671-5087-430B-9AA7-8FBE881CF548/roadmapOverviewPage/MATS4HANA

Useful ECS related OSS Notes

3435333 - AL11 Usage, Restrictions, and Support for HEC ECS Managed Systems

2196476 - Information on standard Database software releases in SAP Enterprise Cloud Services

2534288 - Additional Information ECS Service Homogenous System Copy System Refresh (ABAP)

2538563 - SAP HEC users defined in Customer HANA Systems

2716655 - How To Use the Data Volume Management APP - Step by Step guide

2722532 - Hybrid Cloud offerings with cloud driven maintenance of on-premise parts

3016445 - SAP ERP, private cloud edition Information about the release and maintenance strategy

3016524 - RISE with SAP S4HANA, private cloud edition Information about the release and maintenance strategy

3017596 - RISE with SAP S4HANA, private cloud edition and SAP ERP, private cloud edition Information about maintenance availability

3059197 - SAP Readiness Check for SAP S4HANA upgrades

3089798 - ECS Brownfield setup pro-active checks

3517086 - Non-Security Parameters for ABAP systems in SAP Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS) - SAP for Me

3480723 - Information on mandatory Security Parameters & Hardening requirements for SAP HANA databases in SAP Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS) - SAP for Me

3358252 - How to share files or folders on ECS volumes - SAP for Me

3343395 - FAQ: How to connect Cloud Integration to T-code AL11 - SAP for Me

3169613 - Accessing SAP HANA Database of SAP S4HANA Cloud, private edition

3205486 - How to contact your HEC ECS RISE hosting partner

3250501 - Information on mandatory Security Parameters Hardening requirements for ABAP systems in SAP Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS)

this Note also contains details about Audit Log Retention Periods

Regarding Audit Logging on SAP RISE & ECS, this document gives overview of Audit Logging and Retention options

RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, Security and Compliance (ECS) a very useful document and worth reading... it also crosses over to S/4HANA RISE Short Distance DR Disaster Recovery and Long Distance DR setups

Check & ProductivityPlus Training

The following slides are from the presentation...

SAP S/4HANA RISE PCE ECS Secure Connectivity

SAP S/4HANA RISE PCE ECS Short Distance DR Disaster Recovery

SAP S/4HANA RISE PCE ECS Long Distance DR

SAP S/4HANA RISE PCE ECS Landscape

SAP S/4HANA RISE PCE ECS Secure Data Flow VNET Gateway LoadBalancer Firewall Region Zone Subnet

SAP S/4HANA RISE PCE ECS Managed Firewall Services

3291540 - Email received from SAP Enterprise Cloud Services with recommended action to open Service Request

3292465 - Connection between SAP solutions operated in a Hyperscaler environment and an On-Premises Oracle Database

3303172 - Activating a Super-User SAP Star

3319026 - Delivery of Maintenance Readiness Checks (MRC)

3328319 - FAQ SAP Business Transformation Center

3336611 - Information of standard service ports in SAP Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS)

3344326 - FAQ ECS Landscape

3345151 - How to Request a Load balancer in ECS

3351928 - FAQ ECS ABAP system user management including SAP star

3358252 - How to share files or folders on ECS volumes

3372118 - Introduction to the Release Upgrade Management Tool

3380895 - FAQ ECS Service Request

3381209 - Information on mandatory Security Parameters Hardening requirements for JAVA systems in SAP Enterprise Cloud Services

3385632 - Information about CGS Server and IEM Server (ECS)

2658835 - Hybrid Cloud Offering - Cloud Service containing on-premise applications

2722532 - Hybrid Cloud offerings with cloud driven maintenance of on-premise parts

3044106 - Inconsistent Memory Statistics

3410386 - How to manage SSL certificates in Enterprise Cloud Services - Guided Answer

3444865 - Partner Managed Cloud (PMC) Provider Responsibilities – RISE with SAP Private Cloud Edition

3468878 - How to connect an on-premise SAP ECC or S4 HANA ABAP system to SAP HANA Cloud through a proxy server

Section 2.1] Azure Useful Links

High-availability architecture and scenarios for SAP NetWeaver

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sap/workloads/sap-high-availability-architecture-scenarios

Azure Availability Zones Overview

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/availability-zones-overview?tabs=azure-cli

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/explore/global-infrastructure/

Azure Glossary

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/glossary

Section 2.2] AWS Amazon Web Services Useful Links

RISE with SAP on AWS Cloud

RISE with SAP on AWS Cloud - General SAP Guides

RISE with SAP on AWS Cloud - Connectivity

Connectivity - General SAP Guides

RISE with SAP on AWS Cloud - Security

Security - General SAP Guides

RISE with SAP on AWS Cloud - Reliability

Reliability - General SAP Guides

RISE with SAP on AWS Cloud - performance Fiori and Extensions

Extensions - General SAP Guides

RISE with SAP on AWS (the whole everything pdf)

General SAP Guides - SAP Guides

Section 3] Security on SAP RISE and ECS

There is only one way to open the Security chapter of the 1 Pager and that is to begin with the....

The SAP Secure Operations Map: 230216_introduction_into_sap_security_optimization_services_portfolio.pdf

Some of this presentation is obviously positioning Services, but the presentation really helps to frame the most important areas of the subject, starting with the Pillars of SAP Landscape Security

SAP Trust Center Secure Data, Applications, and Data Centers | SAP Security

SAP Certification Compliance Certifications and Compliance | SAP Trust Center

And then the SAP Secure Operations Roadmap...

How to use the SAP Secure Operations Roadmap

Cyber Security Authentication Requirements SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud Edition, taken from this document Upgrading SAP S/4HANA - Why, How, and Best Practices

SAP Security for Cloud Customers...

If you are a Learning Hub Customer, have a look at these courses:

ADM900_EN SAP Security Fundamentals

ADM900_EN SAP System Security Fundamentals

ADM940_EN ABAP AS Authorization Concept

For Security subjects on S/4HANA PCE on RISE you should start with this publicly available document: Check & ProductivityPlus Training

IT contains a wealth of information on Security and Compliance in RISE and ECS including shared responsibilities...

And then move on to this publicly available document 220818_rise_with_sap_sap_hana_cloud_private_edtition.pdf

It contains beautiful pictures and descriptions like these:

It goes through all of the domains of security including the networking with the hyperscalers and with many detailed pictures like this one..

A very important resource for SAP on RISE security subjects are the blogs written by SAP's Jana Subramanian @Jana_Cyber About Jana_Cyber - SAP Community in the SAP Community. A number of Jana's blogs are listed here, and there are more, so have a look in to Jana's blogs in the SAP Community.

This is another great one from Jana, RISE with SAP, S/4HANA Cloud, Private Edition, Security and Compliance, it is first class just read it and digest the slides and information...

Check & ProductivityPlus Training

The two presentations that we open this section with are authored by Jana.

Introduction into the SAP Security Optimization Services Portfolio

230216_introduction_into_sap_security_optimization_services_portfolio.pdf

RISE with SAP: Comparing the Security of SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition Vs SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition

RISE with SAP: Comparing the Security of SAP S/4HA... - SAP Community

RISE with SAP: Multi-layer Defense in Depth Architecture of SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Private Edition

RISE with SAP: Multi-layer Defense in Depth Archit... - SAP Community

DNS integration with SAP RISE in multi-cloud environment series guide - Azure

DNS integration with SAP RISE in multi-cloud envir... - SAP Community

RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Private Edition : Secure Cloud Connectivity

RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Private Edition : Sec... - SAP Community

SAP ETD Enterprise Thread Detection

Title Goes Here and Here and Here

Short Presentation Title

Feature Scope Description for Enterprise Threat Detection

Securing your transformation to SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition (RISE with SAP)

Securing your transformation to SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition

Recommended Security Configurations for SAP Cloud Products

https://www.sap.com/documents/2022/12/7616adbb-547e-0010-bca6-c68f7e60039b.html

Identity LifeCycle in SAP Cloud Products

https://www.sap.com/documents/2018/05/38ce7d25-067d-0010-87a3-c30de2ffd8ff.html

Securing RISE with SAP

https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blogs-by-sap/securing-rise-with-sap/ba-p/13519419

RISE with SAP: Multi-layer Defense in Depth Architecture of SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Private Edition

https://community.sap.com/t5/financial-management-blogs-by-sap/rise-with-sap-multi-layer-defense-in-depth-architecture-of-sap-s-4hana/ba-p/13517826

RISE with SAP: ‘Defense in Depth’ Security Architecture with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition

https://community.sap.com/t5/enterprise-resource-planning-blogs-by-sap/rise-with-sap-defense-in-depth-security-architecture-with-sap-s-4hana-cloud/ba-p/13529891

SAP ECS RISE SOC 2 (ISAE 3000) Reports

SAP Enterprise Cloud Services SOC 2 Audit Report 2024 H1

SAP Enterprise Cloud Services SOC 2 Bridge Letter Package

RISE with SAP: Adopting to Zero Trust Architecture Principles with SAP Cloud Services

https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blogs-by-sap/rise-with-sap-adopting-to-zero-trust-architecture-principles-with-sap-cloud/ba-p/13544003

RISE Cyber Security Excellent Blog

https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blogs-by-sap/rise-with-sap-s-4hana-cloud-private-edition-cybersecurity-faq-explained/ba-p/13562875

SAP SAPNS2 CAS Cloud Application Services Security Brief

CAS_Solution-Brief_External.pdf

SAP National Security Services

Application-Management_Datasheet_SAP-NS2-002-1.pdf

SAP NS2 National Security Services Overview

SAP NS2 National Security Services Secure Cloud Portfolio

SAP NS2 National Security Services Overview - Why SAP NS2 ?

SAP Security Research

SAP Security White Papers

Security Whitepapers

How SAP Protects Data

https://www.sap.com/about/trust-center/security.html

SAP Security Baseline - this is THE MOST IMPORTANT Note !

2253549 - The SAP Security Baseline Template https://me.sap.com/notes/2253549/E

The Role of the SAP Security Baseline Template...

SAP Secure Logon Login Service and SAP Single Sign On guides...

SAP Secure Login Service for SAP GUI

SecureLoginForSAPSSO3.0_UACP.pdf

SAP Secure Login Service for SAP GUI - Solution Overview

SAPSSO30MasterGuide_uacp.pdf

SAP Single Sign-On | SAP Help Portal

SecureLoginForSAPSSO3.0_UACP.pdf

Security Token Service for SAP Single Sign-On and SAP Identity Management

Identity Provider for SAP Single Sign-On and SAP Identity Management

One-TimePasswordAuthentication_UACP.pdf

ABAP Security and Identity Management at SAP

https://help.sap.com/docs/SUPPORT_CONTENT/security/3362974716.html

Secure Configuration Monitoring of SAP Cloud Services

Title Goes Here and Here and Here

SAP Cloud Identity Services Best Practices

Presentation Title

Tier recommendations for Identity Access Management

Tier recommendations Identity Access Management Dev Test Prod

Multi Region Landscapes Identity Access Management

Reference Architecture for SAP Cloud Security

SAP Discovery Center - Reference Architectures

SAP Discovery Center Architecture - Cloud leading authentication

SAP Discovery Center Architecture - Cloud leading Identity Lifecycle

SAP Discovery Center Architecture - Cloud leading identity lifecycle authorizations

SAP BTP Cloud Identity and Security Services

SAP Cloud Identity Services - Identity Authentication

SAP Cloud Identity Services - Identity Authorisation

SAP Cloud Identity Services - Identity Provisioning

SAP XSUAA

SAP Authorisation and Trust Management Service

SAP BTP Principle Propagation

SAP Connectivity and Destination Service

SAP Cloud Connector

Since we're now on the Cloud Connector let's dig in a little deeper on that...

The following pictures are from a presentation on BTP API Management, the Cloud Connector section, the subject of the Cloud Connector remains the same though, and these pictures offer a very good overview of what it is doing and why it is there and how it works, the pictures are not the newest, but the principles remain the same, and the presentation also gives a useful overview of how to setup the Cloud Connector...

Short Presentation Title

Installing and Configuring the SAP BTP Cloud Connector:

Installing and Configuring SAP Cloud Connector | SAP Help Portal

SAP BTP Connectivity

Initial Configuration | SAP Help Portal

There is very useful Cloud Connector documentation here, everything from setting it up to the processes for bringing new functionality to Production

Process Guidelines for Hybrid Scenarios | SAP Help Portal

SAP solutions for cyber security and data protection

Title Goes Here and Here and Here

Discovery Center, Connect S/4HANA with Cloud Connector

SAP Discovery Center Mission Public Card - Connect S/4HANA system using Cloud Connector

Learning Journey, Connecting BTP and OnPremise Systems using Cloud Connector

Connecting SAP BTP and On-Premise Systems using the Cloud Connector | SAP Learning

SAP BTP Connectivity Security Guidelines

Security Guidelines | SAP Help Portal

SAP Cloud Security Framework Theory and Practice

3 marko

The SAP Enterprise Support Security Value Maps Interpretation and Use of SAP’s Secure Operations Map

Title Goes Here and Here and Here

The Universe of SAP BTP in a Nutshell – Platform Security

Title Goes Here and Here and Here

RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition Security and Compliance

Check & ProductivityPlus Training

Keeping Track of System Security with SAP EarlyWatch Alert Workspace

The Data-Driven Collaboration Platform SAP EarlyWatch Alert Workspace

Data Protection in SAP S/4HANA Processing and SafeGuards

240418_data_protection_in_sap_s4hana.pdf

Managed Security Service Current Threats in Cloud environments

Managed Security Services across Platform

Security for the Internet of Things: Strategy and Road Map

(This is an old one but a good one, the concepts are useful)

PowerPoint-Präsentation

This is a fantastic document, The 5 Pillars of SAP Governance, Compliance, and Risk GRC

240620_introducing_the_new_5_pillars_of_sap_governance_risk_and_compliance.pdf

The Challenges of Managing Governance, Risk and Compliance

Capabilities, and Advantages of Modern Governance, Risk, and Compliance

Capabilities, and Advantages of Modern Governance, Risk, and Compliance, continued...

Governance, Risk, and Compliance capabilities from SAP

Governance, Risk, and Compliance capabilities from SAP continued,

SAP's Portfolio

SAP Solutions for GRC

Section 4] Data Migration and Transition

If you are a Learning Hub Customer, have a look at this course:

S4D445_EN_Col23 Data Migration Using The SAP S4HANA Migration Cockpit

The following picture is from this document which is publicly available: Mapping your journey to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition : A practical guide for senior IT leadership

Don't let Data stop your Journey to S/4HANA - Data Management Landscape Transformation - an excellent document well worth a read

20230328_sap_dmlt.pdf

Consider your options for moving to S/4HANA

SAP S/4HANA MOVEMENT – Three Take Away

Best Practices - Data Volume Management During an S/4HANA Conversion

DMV_CONV.pdf

SAP Blue Field Selective Data Transition

https://support.sap.com/en/offerings-programs/support-services/data-management-landscape-transformation/selective-data-transition-engagement.html?anchorId=section_1492374967

What Selective Data Transition Offers:

These pictures are from this document which is publicly available: Mapping your journey to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition : A practical guide for senior IT leadership

Data Migration S/4HA

https://me.sap.com/processnavigator/SolS/EARL_SolS-055/2022/SolP/2Q2?region=US

https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_S4HANA_ON-PREMISE/29193bf0ebdd4583930b2176cb993268/a4d4119a2cc9448a98e5d17e6dd0eac4.html

S/4HANA Data Migration

https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_S4HANA_ON-PREMISE/29193bf0ebdd4583930b2176cb993268/a4d4119a2cc9448a98e5d17e6dd0eac4.html

SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit, this is the 2023 version and it is an excellent document, and will be elaborated here...

SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit - Migrate your Data to SAP S/4HANA

Another excellent document which needs to be read and digested and elaborated...

SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit - Development News SAP S/4HANA 2023

And another one S/4HANA Private Edition Migration Cockpit - Cookbook - this presentation is 94 slides of "excellence" and a must read....

SAP S/4HANA migration cockpit - Cookbook - Private Edition

SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit - Deep Dive LTMOM for Staging

SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit - Deep Dive LTMOM for Staging - OP2021 and higher

Migrate to SAP S/4HANA with a reliable and confident data transition

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/rise-with-sa...

RISE with SAP - Migrate your ERP system to the cloud – and keep on innovating

Presentation Title

SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit - Migrate your Data to SAP S/4HANA

This document also contains an amazing amount of detailed pictures which need to be elaborated here....

https://www.sap.com/docs/download/2017/07/26113ac0-c47c-0010-82c7-eda71af511fa.pdf

Data Migration Tools for the Move to S/4HANA

https://www.sap.com/documents/2021/03/d2e82fec-d27d-0010-87a3-c30de2ffd8ff.html

The next slide is really useful because it explains what MC and RDM mean. There is a lot of documentation which just talks about MC and RDM without explaining what they mean, now we know....

MC - SAP Migration Cockpit

RDM - Rapid Data Migration with SAP Data Services

LSRM - ok we all know that Legacy System Migration Workbench

SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit - Migrate your Data to SAP S/4HANA S/4HANA 2023

This is an excellent document

https://www.sap.com/documents/2017/07/26113ac0-c47c-0010-82c7-eda71af511fa.html

https://help.sap.com/docs/DATAMIG_S4HANA/ffaed9ee977247e689972af70212149e/aa522d5e44934907a3530e68b5cb1c2f.html

https://help.sap.com/docs/DATAMIG_S4HANA/ffaed9ee977247e689972af70212149e/9d23ad19c1c048feb7604a3bf7244e9a.html

S/4HANA Custom Code Migration Guide

Another very useful guide.... Custom Code Migration for System Conversion:

Custom Code Migration Process

Custom Code Migration in S/4HANA Conversion Options:

CustomCodeMigration_EndToEnd.pdf

Useful S/4HANA Data Migration OSS Notes

2483494 - How to open the Migration Cockpit in a SAP S4HANA on-premise system

2515151 - SAP S4HANA Migration Cockpit Migration objects or fields which you want to migrate cannot be found

2537549 - Collective SAP Note and FAQ for SAP S4HANA Migration cockpit - File Staging on premise S4CORE

2538700 - Collective SAP Note and FAQ for SAP S4HANA Migration Cockpit - File Staging Cloud SAPSCORE

2609932 - How to access Migration Objects Documentation in S4HANA Migration Cockpit

2620588 - How to use Migration Objects template for Data Migration Cockpit

2650201 - Migration Cockpit How to create update data records

2663579 - Migration Cockpit Validation of data after migration

2681413 - FAQ for SAP S4HANA Data Migration Status App

2684818 - SAP S4HANA Migration Cockpit usage for mass processing data or as interface

2726010 - Migration Cockpit Support of custom fields (in-App extensibility key-user extensibility)

2733253 - FAQ for SAP S4HANA migration cockpit Migration approach Transfer Migrate data using staging tables

2754615 - SAP S4HANA Migration Cockpit Information about Posting Date Migration Key Date

2768127 - Data Services repository migration steps - SAP Data Services

2818267 - Data Volume Management during migration to SAP S4HANA Archiving

2838747 - Migration Object dependencies

2878945 - SAP S4HANA Migration Cockpit Parallelization of XML CSV file loads

2903506 - How to assign a contact person as sales partner using migration cockpit

2907976 - Silent Data Migration (SDMI) - FAQ

2937069 - SAP HANA Cloud Migration FAQ

2943035 - Migration of historical balances to SAP S4HANA and SAP S4HANA Cloud Public Edition

2953530 - Data Load via HANA native tables

2988692 - SAP S4HANA Migration Cockpit – Information about different versions

3018442 - Selective Data Transition and Selective Data Transition Engagement

3023051 - Migrate your Data App – Migration Cockpit Warning message Another activity is in process

3065607 - Performance tips tricks for SAP S4HANA Migration Cockpit Migrate Data Using Staging Tables

3075638 - SAP S4HANA Cloud Integration with SAP Launchpad Service - Restrictions

3113391 - Reasons why creation of a Development Namespace is not possible - SAP for Me

3209755 - SAP S4HANA Migration Cockpit (Direct Transfer) – System Compatibility Information

3245580 - How to find the required Authorization Object for each Migration Object - Migration Cockpit

3386136 - SAP S4HANA Migration Cockpit CSV template file size limits

3390805 - How to manage usr sap trans during BrownField migration

3396021 - SAP RISE customer needs to limit data so as not to exceed the 50GB limit in Process Insights

3405369 - Information required for CI-DS Agent migration to RISE

3462243 - RISE with SAP System Transition Workbench

3496181 - How to transport deleted migration objects

3508867 - Legacy System Migration Workbench - FAQs

3496181 - How to transport deleted migration objects

3508867 - Legacy System Migration Workbench - FAQs

Section 5] SAP BTP General

SAP Business Technology Platform BTP is a massive Platform, and in my opinion will be bigger and more important than the S/4HANA for SAP Customers in the future. The BTP is a technology enabler containing all kinds of capabilities.

Here is the SAP BTP Strategy WhitePaper for 2025 onwards SAP Business Technology Platform: The Innovation Engine for Your SAP Applications

The first thing I am going to comment on, since this is a 1 Pager for SAP Technology Architects is the Technical Architecture of the BTP.

Ok, but first, we need to include this one...

SAP Business Technology Platform: The Innovation Engine for Your SAP Applications - strategy 2025

SAP Business Technology Platform: The Innovation Engine for Your SAP Applications

The BTP is extremely rich and flexible in how it can be set up and configured, and this can be a good thing and a bad thing, the biggest challenge is, making foundation layer mistakes which cost time and money to correct in the future.

For me to try show how complex the BTP is, we will first look at SAP's Future Ready Enterprise Framework, this is an approach to modularising maturity with the BTP and leading the Customer on a journey to BTP Architecture Excellence.

You've heard of a SAP Customer Center of Excellence, there is now a concept of SAP BTP Center of Excellence, this shows how complex and rich this subject is.

There is a beautiful publicly available presentation here on the Future Ready Enterprise and the SAP BTP Future Ready Enterprise Unlock and Maximize the value of BTP

With wonderful slides like these...

You don't necessarily need to engage SAP's Services on this, at least by studying and digesting the picture you can think about how those dimensions apply to your Organisation and fill in the boxes in terms of the objectives and vision of your Organisation

These slides are a humbling reminder of how vast the BTP is, and how getting a decent maturity level in the BTP will help your Organisation achieve its goals

So now we know, the BTP is big, and it's complex, and it needs proper planning and architecting if we are going to get the most from it.

For the first few years the SAP Cloud Platform was mainly SAP Cloud Platform Integration and a lot of people slipped in to a bad habit of associating the BTP with Integration capability, we it's a lot more than that and we all need to appreciate that.

The following document is another useful introduction to the SAP Future Ready Enterprise Framework:

Presentation Title

The following picture is here to show us just how complex the BTP is, and let us all reflect on where our Company's maturity level is with the BTP:

Just spend some time to study that table and think about where your Organisation's maturity level is and whether or not it would be a good investment to buy some BTP Training and Services from SAP. I am not trying to sell Services here, but I have learned the hard way that an investment in knowledge can save significant amounts in the future.

This picture which is from the same deck is to really show us what a journey BTP maturity is...

There is a very nice blog by @Pedro_Souza169 on the same subject here The Future-Ready Enterprise: A Framework for SAP B... - SAP Community

The SAP Learning Journey - Administering the SAP BTP - SAP BTP Administration

Administrating SAP Business Technology Platform

The next step for the SAP Technology Architect is to read the BTP Admin Guide SAP BTP Administrator's Guide | SAP Help Portal https://help.sap.com/docs/btp/btp-admin-guide/btp-admin-guide and read the section on SetUp and Plan Set Up and Plan | SAP Help Portal the whole section including the Governance Model. The BTP Admin Guide as a pdf.. SAP_Cloud_Platform.pdf

SAP BTP Platform Configuration Guide

PlatformConfiguration.pdf

SAP BTP Common Concepts and Strategic Directio

Presentation Title

BTP Configuration Guide Entitlement Management EMS Onboarding Guide_2311.pdf

The Fastest Way to Adopt The SAP BTP Business Technology Platform Title Goes Here and Here and Here

SAP BTP Data Management in a Nutshell Title Goes Here and Here and Here

Then read the section Setting up your Account Model Setting Up Your Account Model | SAP Help Portal

The biggest lesson I can bring is, when architecting the BTP from a clean sheet of paper, one of the most important foundation steps is to correctly design the Stages / Directories / Sub-Accounts and Entitlements, the setting up of the Account Model, get this wrong and you will pay for it later.

BTP Domains / Stages / Directories / Sub-Accounts

Domain refers to the Capability, eg Cloud Integration, Work Zone, Build Process Automation

Stages refers to the type of environment, eg Dev, Test, Quality, UAT, Prod

Directory refers to the structuring elements for Sub-Accounts

Sub-Account let's you further structure according to your requirements

My recomendation is go for an Account Model with Directories and Sub-Accounts Account Model With Directories and Subaccounts | SAP Help Portal

Account Model | SAP Help Portal

The reason for this is:

You then have the possibility for all kinds of template BTP layouts according to the demands of your Organisation and at the same time you can leverage all of the benefits described above

And then as already described you profit from being able to leverage Authorisation and Entitlement features per Directory / BTP Domain

Setting Up Your Account Model | SAP Help Portal

To recap setting up the Account Model is probably the most important BTP Technical Architecture decision !

This is the Future Ready Enterprise document which is referred to in the RISE Onboarding Handbook FRE Best Practice Guide for RISE Transformation_Private Cloud.pdf

Next step go to the SAP Discovery Center and look at the BTP OnBoarding material SAP Discovery Center Mission Public Card - Live and OnDemand Webinars about SAP BTP Onboarding

And then go to the SAP BTP OnBoarding center SAP Business Technology Platform General Concepts

After doing all of this preparation, the next step is to Architect and Administer your BTP, and for that the next step is to read the SAP BTP Administrator's Guide SAP BTP Administrator's Guide | SAP Help Portal

For SAP Build and all of the Services around it have a look at this presentation

2023_sap_build_webinar_april_4.pdf

For the BTP another very good place to start is here: Future Ready Best Practice Guide for RISE Transformation_Private Cloud.pdf Reference Architecture pictures recommending which BTP Services to have and where and why depending upon the type of move to S/4HANA on RISE that you are doing

and very nice BTP Services descriptions like this one for Security and Identity Management in the BTP

and then you can move on the following documents...

A BTP Overview

Presentation Title

A Hitchhiker's Guide to Fiori UX

230504_a_hitchhikers_guide_to_sap_fiori_ux.pdf

This document is really worth reading, it's two years old and could do with being brought up to date, but nevertheless it explains the concepts and especially where to use what and why, for example Build WorkZone Standard and Advanced

the document goes into fine detail on Key User extensions etc

and then it points to this document, which is up to date...

SAP Fiori Deployment Options and System Landscape Recommendations

the document has got very good explanations of Fiori versions and S/4HANA versions and combinations and Landscape set up examples

and then that document points to this one Extend SAP S/4HANA in the cloud and on premise with ABAP based extensions

and this document goes into great detail about how to do extensions and what possibilities there are for extensions and when to use which, and much much more...

3489432 - Question Inquiry regarding SAP Forms service by Adobe usage for RISE with SAP

SAP Cloud BTP Metrics Usage Costs Pricing

https://support.sap.com/en/my-support/systems-installations/system-measurement/cloud-saas-application-usage.html?anchorId=section

BTP Cockpit

https://emea.cockpit.btp.cloud.sap

BTP Services Pricelist

https://www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/price-list/list.cpea.SE.html

Welcome to the SAP Discovery Center

https://discovery-center.cloud.sap/index.html

SAP BTP Future Ready Enterprise

Accelerate your journey to S/4HANA with SAP Business Technology Platform Business drivers to use SAP S/4HANA with SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP)

Simplify App Development using SAP’s Extension Suite

SAP Integration Suite Powering the Intelligent Enterprise

SAP BTP in GxP environments for Life Sciences

sap-business-technology-platform-in-gxp-environments.pdf

BTP Security Shared Responsibility between you and SAP

https://help.sap.com/docs/btp/best-practices/shared-responsibility-model-between-you-and-sap

SAP BTP Security and Compliance

https://d.dam.sap.com/m/4vaWes7/SAP%20BTP%20Security%20and%20Compliance%20June%202024%20-%20External%20Version.pdf?inline=true

SAP BTP Security Recommendations

https://help.sap.com/docs/btp/sap-btp-security-recommendations-c8a9bb59fe624f0981efa0eff2497d7d/sap-btp-security-recommendations

Security Events Logged in Cloud Foundry BTP

https://help.sap.com/docs/btp/sap-business-technology-platform/security-events-logged-by-cf-services

BTP Admin Guide

https://help.sap.com/doc/bd6250c40c9c4c5391e3009a6f26dc3b/Cloud/en-US/SAP_Cloud_Platform.pdf

SAP BTP Practitioners Forum

https://events.sap.com/2024-1231-sap-btp-practitioners-webinar-global/en/home

How to Integrate SAP Build Process Automation for Workflow and Process Visualization

SAP BTP Garage

https://events.sap.com/2024-12-31-sap-ie-btp-garage2024-webinar-series/en/home

SAP BTP Platform Release Navigator

Release Navigator for SAP Business Technology Platform

https://readiness-at-scale.enable-now.cloud.sap/pub/20230621_ras/index.html?show=book!BO_EC8330B09B97CDBE#slide!SL_120BDFE08096029D

SAP AI Unit Estimator

https://discovery-center.cloud.sap/ai-estimator/

SAP XM eXperience Management Transformation

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/S4H_1019%20Transformation%20XM_Procedures.pptx

BTP Guided Answers

2700553 - SAP Business Technology Platform - Guided Answers

https://ga.support.sap.com/dtp/viewer/#/tree/2065/actions/26547?version=current

DevOps with SAP BTP

https://help.sap.com/docs/DEVOPS_OVERVIEW

BTP Everything including Governance and Operating Model

https://help.sap.com/docs/btp/sap-business-technology-platform/sap-business-technology-platform

BTP Security

https://help.sap.com/docs/btp/sap-btp-security-recommendations-c8a9bb59fe624f0981efa0eff2497d7d/sap-btp-security-recommendations

https://help.sap.com/docs/btp/sap-business-technology-platform/btp-security

SAP BTP Best Practices

https://help.sap.com/docs/btp/best-practices/best-practices-for-sap-btp

ABAP System Sizing

https://help.sap.com/docs/btp/sap-business-technology-platform/abap-system-sizing

Best Practices BTP

https://help.sap.com/docs/btp/best-practices/best-practices-for-sap-btp

BTP DEVOPS

https://help.sap.com/docs/DEVOPS_OVERVIEW

BTP Latest Innovations information

https://dam.sap.com/mac/app/p/pdf/asset/preview/1nJkgtY?ltr=a&rc=10&doi=SAP1126991

BTP Discovery Center Services Overview

https://discovery-center.cloud.sap/viewServices

SAP Enterprise Architecture Community

https://community.sap.com/t5/enterprise-architecture/gh-p/Enterprise-Architecture

BTP Solution Architecture Diagram Repository

https://sap.github.io/btp-solution-diagrams/

SAPBTP Discovery Center

https://discovery-center.cloud.sap/index.html

SAP BTP Onboarding Resources Center

https://support.sap.com/en/product/onboarding-resource-center/business-technology-platform.html

Upgrading the SAPUI5 SAP UI5 Libraries, a very important routine activity...

2346367 - How to upgrade the SAPUI5 library in ABAP | SAP Knowledge Base Article

3155948 - ABAP SAPUI5 patch version update - SAP for Me

2282103 - How to check the version of SAPUI5 you have installed - SAP for Me

2118663 - Install a patch for SAPUI5 runtime libraries - SAP for Me

BTP Guidance Framework

https://help.sap.com/docs/sap-btp-guidance-framework/guidance-framework/what-is-sap-btp-guidance-framework

SAP BTP API Center

https://api.sap.com/products/SAPCloudPlatform/overview

SAP BTP Developers Resources

https://developers.sap.com/

SAP BTP Developers Guides

https://help.sap.com/docs/btp/btp-developers-guide/btp-developers-guide

SAP BTP Guidance Framework

https://help.sap.com/docs/sap-btp-guidance-framework/guidance-framework/what-is-sap-btp-guidance-framework

SAP BTP Fundamentals

https://www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/resources.html?sort=title_asc&tab=fundamentals

SAP BTP Developer Tools

https://www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/developer-tools.html

SAP BTP Automation Tools

https://www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/enterprise-automation.html

SAP BTP AI Tools

https://www.sap.com/products/artificial-intelligence/business-technology-platform.html

SAP BTP Release Navigator

https://readiness-at-scale.enable-now.cloud.sap/pub/20230621_ras/index.html?library=library.txt&show=book!BO_EC8330B09B97CDBE#slide!SL_120BDFE08096029D

SAP BTP Roadmaps

https://roadmaps.sap.com/board?PRODUCT=42F2E964FAAF1EDA9FF753E17F3000E5&range=CURRENT-LAST#Q4%202024

SAP BTP Product Page

https://www.sap.com/products/technology-platform.html

SAP BTP Need to Know links

https://d.dam.sap.com/a/1nJkgtY/Need2Know%20-%20Important%20Links%20about%20SAP%20Business%20Technology%20Platform.pdf?rc=10

SAP Learning for BTP

https://learning.sap.com/learning-journeys/administrating-sap-business-technology-platform

S/4HANA Federation to SAP BTP

https://developers.sap.com/tutorials/cp-launchpad-federation-prepares4hana..html

BTP Guided Answers

2700553 - SAP Business Technology Platform - Guided Answers

https://ga.support.sap.com/dtp/viewer/#/tree/2065/actions/26547?version=current

CALM Audit Logging BTP Guided Answers

https://ga.support.sap.com/dtp/viewer/#/tree/3642/actions/59095

SAP BTP Guidance Framework

https://help.sap.com/docs/sap-btp-guidance-framework/guidance-framework/what-is-sap-btp-guidance-framework

SAP Extension Methodology for evaluating and processing demands:

SAP Application Extension Methodology Overview | SAP Help Portal

https://help.sap.com/docs/sap-btp-guidance-framework/sap-application-extension-methodology/sap-application-extension-methodology-overview

and we use the

SAP Extension Architecture Guide What is the Extension Architecture Guide? | SAP Help Portal

https://help.sap.com/docs/sap-btp-guidance-framework/extension-architecture-guide/what-is-extension-architecture-guide

SAP Next Gen Products and Documentation

https://www.sap.com/events/data-unleashed.html

https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blogs-by-sap/announcing-general-availability-of-sap-build-code-speed-up-development-with/ba-p/13646073

SAP BTP Guidance Framework

https://help.sap.com/docs/sap-btp-guidance-framework/guidance-framework/what-is-sap-btp-guidance-framework

SAP Application Extension Methodology

https://help.sap.com/docs/sap-btp-guidance-framework/sap-application-extension-methodology/sap-application-extension-methodology-overview

SAP BTP Extension Architecture Guide

https://help.sap.com/docs/sap-btp-guidance-framework/extension-architecture-guide/what-is-extension-architecture-guide

Integration Architecture Guide for Cloud and Hybrid Landscapes Based on SAP® Integration Solution Advisory Methodology

https://www.sap.com/documents/2020/11/400ae14b-bf7d-0010-87a3-c30de2ffd8ff.html

SAP BTP Architecture Catalog

https://discovery-center.cloud.sap/refArchCatalog/

SAP BTP Reference Architecture OpenAI

https://discovery-center.cloud.sap/refArchDetail/ref-arch-open-ai

SAP BTP Solution Architecture Diagrams

https://sap.github.io/btp-solution-diagrams/

SAP BTP Solution Architecture Starter Kits

https://github.com/SAP/btp-solution-diagrams/tree/main/assets/all-in-one-starter-kits

https://sap.github.io/btp-solution-diagrams/docs/solution_diagr_intro/big_picture/

SAP Business Process Solution Diagrams

https://hub.sap.com/allprocess

https://hub.sap.com/dfd/SP1C2-DFDMasterDataFlows

SAPUI5 BTP Workzone CDM Common Data Model

https://ui5.sap.com/1.108.0/resources/sap/ushell_abap/bootstrap/appruntime-min-1.js

https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blogs-by-sap/removing-outdated-ui5-versions-from-ui5-cdn/ba-p/13481293

Fiori Apps Library

https://fioriappslibrary.hana.ondemand.com/sap/fix/externalViewer/

Monitoring Service for SAP BTP

https://discovery-center.cloud.sap/serviceCatalog/monitoring-service?tab=feature&service_plan=default&region=all&commercialModel=cpea

https://help.sap.com/doc/35fe1fd503ec45378bf4f71b7d5f82b5/Cloud/en-US/SAP_BTP_FSD_Neo.pdf

SAP BTP Multi-Bank Connectivity MBC Configuration Guide

f323d63678a747ccbcb3356faf958ffd.pdf

BTP ABAP uses SAP HANA Cloud

https://help.sap.com/docs/sap-btp-abap-environment/abap-environment/abap-environment

BTP Security Useful Links

https://pages.community.sap.com/topics/btp-security

Continuous Integration and Delivery by SAP

https://help.sap.com/docs/CICD_OVERVIEW

SAP BTP Developers Guide

https://help.sap.com/docs/btp/btp-developers-guide/what-is-btp-developers-guide

DEVOPS with the BTP

https://help.sap.com/docs/DEVOPS_OVERVIEW

SAP BTP Developer's Guide

https://help.sap.com/docs/btp/btp-developers-guide/what-is-btp-developers-guide

Integration Architecture Guide for Cloud and Hybrid Landscapes Based on SAP® Integration Solution Advisory Methodology

https://www.sap.com/documents/2020/11/400ae14b-bf7d-0010-87a3-c30de2ffd8ff.html?locale=en-US

Extend SAP S/4HANA in the cloud and on premise with ABAP based extensions

https://www.sap.com/documents/2022/10/52e0cd9b-497e-0010-bca6-c68f7e60039b.html

Custom Extensions in SAP S/4HANA Implementations - A Practical Guide for Senior IT Leadership

https://www.sap.com/documents/2020/03/ceeea71f-8a7d-0010-87a3-c30de2ffd8ff.html

SAP Application Extension Methodology

https://help.sap.com/doc/87e18fdb75fd42f8aee59e3c76de7cd7/Cloud/en-US/sap.application.extension.methodology.pdf

https://help.sap.com/docs/sap-btp-guidance-framework/sap-application-extension-methodology/sap-application-extension-methodology-overview

SAP BTP UseCases

https://www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/use-cases.html?sort=title_asc

ABAP Cloud - Technical Use Cases and Recommended Technologies

https://www.sap.com/documents/2023/05/74fc05e6-747e-0010-bca6-c68f7e60039b.html

Discover Business Processes for Faster Integration

https://hub.sap.com/allprocess

Reference Architectures

https://discovery-center.cloud.sap/refArchCatalog/

What is the SAP BTP Guidance Framework?

https://help.sap.com/docs/sap-btp-guidance-framework/guidance-framework/what-is-sap-btp-guidance-framework

Integration Architecture Guide for Cloud and Hybrid Landscapes Based on SAP® Integration Solution Advisory Methodology

https://www.sap.com/documents/2020/11/400ae14b-bf7d-0010-87a3-c30de2ffd8ff.html?locale=en-US

SAP Application Extension Methodology

https://help.sap.com/docs/sap-btp-guidance-framework/sap-application-extension-methodology/sap-application-extension-methodology-overview

Full Document

https://help.sap.com/doc/87e18fdb75fd42f8aee59e3c76de7cd7/Cloud/en-US/sap.application.extension.methodology.pdf

SAP BTP Security Recommendations

https://help.sap.com/docs/btp/sap-btp-security-recommendations-c8a9bb59fe624f0981efa0eff2497d7d/sap-btp-security-recommendations

SAP BTP Operating Model Governance etc

https://help.sap.com/docs/btp/sap-business-technology-platform/operating-model-in-cloud-foundry-environment

Cloud Services Availability

https://www.sap.com/about/trust-center/cloud-service-status.html

BTP Identity Authentication Guided Procedure

https://ga.support.sap.com/dtp/viewer/#/tree/2288/actions/29674

SAP BTP Private Link Service

https://help.sap.com/docs/private-link

SAP Guided Answers Decision Trees

https://ga.support.sap.com/dtp/viewer/#

SAP BTP Decision Tree for Guided Answers

https://ga.support.sap.com/dtp/viewer/#/tree/2065/actions/26547?version=current

Fiori Design Guidelines

https://experience.sap.com/fiori-design/

BTPDEVOPS

https://help.sap.com/docs/DEVOPS_OVERVIEW

SAP API Web Page

https://api.sap.com/api/OP_API_BUSINESS_PARTNER_SRV/overview

pay attention to the supported authentication methods

Best Practices for SAP BTP

https://help.sap.com/docs/btp/best-practices/best-practices-for-sap-btp

Private Network from SAP

https://discovery-center.cloud.sap/serviceCatalog/private-link-service?region=all&service_plan=standard&commercialModel=cpea&tab=feature

Cloud Integration Automation Service

https://help.sap.com/docs/cloud-integration-automation/user-guide/overview

Build Workzone and S/4HANA

https://help.sap.com/doc/16e48a873c2f4b1587b55e3ffa1bff67/1maint/en-US/6b51f4d55acf42d6a7d4dd5f691014e2.pdf

Reference Architecture Build Work Zone

https://discovery-center.cloud.sap/refArchDetail/ref-arch-sap-build-work-zone

Integration Guide Build Work Zone

https://help.sap.com/docs/CIAS%20FES%202020/ecb81b5bfce440ca8e7e7c9ad58fcf3a/98a3f0830f084aefb5ea75fb20959af5.html

SAP Event Driven Architecture White Paper Digital Library SAP EDA Extended Paper 101424 v7.pdf

The following "Universe of BTP in a Nutshell" documents are very very good, and well worth reading and using as reference documentation....

The Universe of SAP BTP in a Nutshell – Platform Security

Title Goes Here and Here and Here

The Universe of SAP BTP in a Nutshell – Platform Analytics

Presentation Title

The Universe of SAP BTP in a Nutshell – Pro Code Development

Title Goes Here and Here and Here

The Universe of SAP BTP in a Nutshell – SAP BTP Overview

Title Goes Here and Here and Here

The Universe of SAP BTP in a Nutshell – Operations

Efficient DevOps with SAP BTP

The Universe of SAP BTP in a Nutshell – Overview

Title Goes Here and Here and Here

SAP BTP Admin Guide

SAP_Cloud_Platform.pdf

Application Operations in the SAP BTP

230511_the_open_space_of_application_operations_cloud_app_sap_hana_cloud.pdf

SAP BTP Security Recommendations

SAP BTP Security Recommendations | SAP Help Portal

Efficient DevOps with the SAP BTP

Efficient DevOps with SAP BTP

Comparison SAP BTP Kyma RunTime and Cloud Foundry

SAP_Cloud_Platform_1.pdf

3543065 - Best Practices for Creating Support Users in Your BTP System

3543065 - Best Practices for Creating Support Users in Your BTP System - SAP for Me

BTP Logging

2637286 - How to collect Audit Logs for SAP BTP - SAP for Me

3320764 - How a customer can obtain detailed SAP BTP audit logs - SAP for Me

3473519 - How the encryption for SAP BTP Audit Logs works? - SAP for Me

3430822 - Audit Logging in the Cloud Foundry Environment: Guided Answers - SAP for Me

3420371 - Can BTP Audit Log retention period be longer than 90 days? - SAP for Me

3533005 - What's the default retention period for SAP Cloud Logging? - SAP for Me

2637286 - How to collect Audit Logs for SAP BTP - SAP for Me

3557260 - Information about the deprecation of SAP Application Logging Service - SAP for Me

From Application Logging to Cloud Logging: Service... - SAP Community

3450163 - How to export log of custom application using SAP Cloud Logging service on BTP - SAP for Me

3435835 - Release Schedule for SAP Cloud Logging service and SAP Private Link (SAP BTP) - SAP for Me

3429848 - SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition: Integration with SAP Start - Restrictions - SAP for Me

Section 5.1] SAP CALM Cloud Application LifeCycle Management

[We must all remember, CALM in many cases is the successor of SAP Solution Manager (SolMan), and SAP Cloud ALM Application Lifecycle Management will replace SolMan for many of the capabilities, but not all !]

In my opinion of the SAP world, it's fair to say that CALM is a new(er) product, and it is a fact that it is evolving, and the capabilities are evolving according to SAP's RoadMap and Vision for CALM.

Everybody needs to keep in mind, that CALM is not a 1 to 1 replacement of SolMan, and even the planned capabilities of CALM are not yet all in place, but, according to SAP they will be.

CALM is going to be the center or our universe, we will be "doing" the whole Program/Operation from CALM, from what I hear SAP has hundreds of programmers working on CALM, the following presentation is a great way to open this section and give a view of what CALM is in 2024 and where CALM is going....

SAP CALM for Implementation - What's new 2024

Presentation Title

In this section there is a lot of very useful documentation, and including one which shows the comparison between CALM and SolMan, and for SAP Technology Architects who are looking at the capabilities of As-Is technologies and looking at the To-Be architecture and required capabilities and making the transformation roadmap, this is something which is very important to know.

CALM is a lot more, but for the basics, Monitoring, Transporting, Alerting, read on and explore the documentation....

SAP Solution Manager SolMan to SAP Cloud ALM CALM Transition Center in SAP for Me Portal, this is your starting point for how to transition from SolMan to CALM, this page includes the feature scope comparison between SolMan and CALM

Transition to SAP Cloud ALM

Everybody needs to keep in mind, SolMan is going out of Mainstream Maintenance at the end of 2027

SAP Cloud ALM Value Proposition, this publicly available presentation contains some very useful information

Value_of_SAP_Cloud_ALM.pdf

The SAP CALM Functional Overview, this for me, is one of the most important documents available for understanding in detail the functional capabilities of CALM

SAP_Cloud_ALM_Functional_Overview.pdf

SAP NG-DCI Next Generation Data Collection Infrastructure, this is how it works: OpenTelemetry@SAP

Obviously Monitoring is only one of the dimensions of the CALM Capabilities, and the presentation elaborates on all of the functional capabilities of CALM

How Cloud ALM enables Clean Core adoption in SAP S/4HANA RISE Transformations

How SAP Cloud ALM suports clean core adoption

SAP Cloud ALM Business Transformation Center

https://support.sap.com/en/alm/sap-cloud-alm/transformation/btc.html?anchorId=section_copy_copy_co_419748021

For Implementations, how do you get to SAP CALM from SolMan SAP Solution Manager, here's a useful document

Selective Data Transition from SAP SolMan Solution Manager to SAP CALM for Implementation

SelectiveDataTranferGuide_SAPSolutionManager.pdf

If you want to play with CALM and try out different capabilities then SAP have a CALM Public Demo Tenant just for that purpose...

Cloud ALM Demo Tenant

ALM Demo Landscape

Access to the SAP Cloud ALM Demo System

The following link contains the Roles and Usernames and Passwords.... (open the link and scroll down to find it all)...

Cloud ALM Demo Tenant

and here is the Launchpad Url for it:

SAP Cloud ALM Demo Landscape: Log On

SAP Discovery Center Mission - Onboarding & First Steps to SAP Cloud ALM

CALM Audit Logging BTP Guided Answers

https://ga.support.sap.com/dtp/viewer/#/tree/3642/actions/59095

Cloud ALM for Operations

SAP Cloud ALM for Operations

SAP CALM for Operations Overview

SAP Cloud ALM for Operations - Introduction

CALM Business Service Management from SAP for Me7

https://support.sap.com/en/alm/sap-cloud-alm/operations/expert-portal/business-service-management.html

https://support.sap.com/en/my-support/systems-installations/cac.html?anchorId=section

CALM Roles and Authorisations Role Collections

https://help.sap.com/docs/cloud-alm/setup-administration/role-collections

CALM Audit Logging BTP Guided Answers

https://ga.support.sap.com/dtp/viewer/#/tree/3642/actions/59095

3398745 - Can custom Events be defined for missing metrics in the various SAP Cloud ALM Use Cases?

https://me.sap.com/notes/3398745

3436616 - How to configure SAP Cloud ALM Health Monitoring metric thresholds, alerts, and e-mail notifications?

https://me.sap.com/notes/3436616/E

SAP Cloud ALM for Operations what's new Q4 2023

SAP Cloud ALM for Operations - Delta

Setting up CALM connectivity to S/4HANA PCE

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition

CALM Health Monitoring Setup and Configuration

https://support.sap.com/en/alm/sap-cloud-alm/operations/expert-portal/health-monitoring/health-monitoring-setup-configuration.html

What SAP Products SAP CALM supports

https://help.sap.com/docs/cloud-alm/setup-administration/supported-solutions

SAP CALM Quarterly Updates Documentation

https://webinars.sap.com/sap-cloud-alm-quarterly-updates/en/replays

3124427 - SAP Cloud ALM Operations How-to video playlist

https://me.sap.com/notes/3124427

Transport Transporting CTMS CTS+

Transporting is an evolving capability in CALM and leverages the SAP BTP Transport Management Service, here are some useful documents on how to set it up and the capabilities

Enabling Transport Management | SAP Help Portal

3429058 - Data Transfer to SAP Cloud ALM - SAP for Me

SAP CALM Admin Guide including setting up Transporting

SAP Cloud Transport Management Service | SAP Help Portal

SAP Cloud BTP Transport_Management_en.pdf

Presentation Title

Integrate SAP Cloud Transport Management in to Application LifeCycle Management Solutions - this is an excellent document...

Presentation Title

Best Practices for Combining CI and Transport Management

Holistic Picture of SAP BTP Change and Transport Management

SAP Cloud Transport Management Service

SAP Cloud Transport Management Service Road Map

SAP Road Map Explorer

SAP Discovery Center Mission - Get Started with SAP Cloud ALM for Implementation

Release & Deployment Management

SAP Community Call for SAP Cloud ALM Experts March 2024

This is a useful document including some useful slides in the context of RISE and CALM and how CALM enables the Activate Methodology, and regarding....

Deployment Integration

SAP SolMan to CALM capability transition roadmap...

SAP Cloud ALM for BTP Operations SAP Cloud ALM for BTP

This is a very useful document regarding Monitoring and Capabilities

Integration of Deployment Tools | SAP Help Portal

Transitioning to SAP Cloud ALM...

Transition to SAP Cloud ALM

Transition to SAP Cloud ALM for Implementation

Transition to SAP Cloud ALM for Operations

SAP Products which can be monitored by CALM

https://support.sap.com/en/alm/sap-cloud-alm/operations/expert-portal/integration-monitoring/int-mon-setup-support.html?anchorId=section

CALM OSS Resolution Groups

SV-CLM-OP

SV-CLM-IMP

SV-CLM

Setup CALM for S/4HANA

https://support.sap.com/en/alm/sap-cloud-alm/operations/expert-portal/setup-managed-services/setup-abap-priv-cloud.html?anchorId=section_1685269020_c

CALM Cockpit

https://emea.cockpit.btp.cloud.sap/cockpit/

The SAP Cloud ALM Summit 2024 happened in September 2024

Here is the list of documentation: https://support.sap.com/en/alm/sap-almsummit/sap-alm-summit-emea-2024-materials.html

Here are my favourite documents in terms of S/4HANA and RISE Customers

AI Innovation Platform - SAP Services and Support: Driving AI Business Value in Services & Support

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/cross-topics/Day4-CrossTopics-AIInnovationPlatform-KarolBliznak.pdf

SAP EarlyWatch Alert in the Cloud

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/cross-topics/Day4-CrossTopics-EarlyWatch-in-the-Cloud-Susanne-Glaenzer.pdf

News in Service Delivery via SAP Cloud ALM for Service

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/cross-topics/Day4-CrossTopics-NewsinSAPCloudALMforService-UlrikeHormann.pdf

ITSM Integration via SAP Cloud ALM

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/cross-topics/Day4-CrossTopics-ITSM_Integration_via_SAP_Cloud_ALM-WilhelmJuette.pdf

USING GENAI TO ACCELERATE IMPLEMENTATION PROJECTS IN SAP CLOUD ALM

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/customer-experiences/Day3_Using%20GenAI%20to%20accelerate%20implementation%20projects%20in%20SAP%20Cloud%20ALM_Seidler_Bona_Schaeffer_AFO.pdf

Integrated Tool Chain

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/customer-experiences/Rosenberger_SKYWAY_Integrated_Tool_Chain_ALM_SUMMIT_EMEA_2024_20240926.pdf

Gain insights in how to manage large and hybrid SAP landscapes with SAP Focused Run

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/sap-focused-run/Day4-FRUN-Gain%20insights%20in%20how%20to%20manage%20large%20and%20hybrid%20SAP%20landscapes%20with%20SAP%20Focused%20Run-Lahr.pdf

See how SAP is leveraging SAP Focused Run to ensure system stability, performance, and security

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/sap-focused-run/Day4-FRUN-See%20how%20SAP%20is%20leveraging%20SAP%20Focused%20Run%20to%20ensure%20system%20stability,%20performance,%20and%20security-Lahr.pdf

Latest news regarding analytics & intelligence in SAP Focused Run

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/sap-focused-run/Day4-FRUN-Latest%20news%20regarding%20analytics_intelligence%20in%20SAP%20Focused%20Run_Campo.pdf

Learn how SAP Cloud ALM supports your change control management process

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/transition-to-sap-cloud-alm/Day4%20-%20Learn%20how%20SAP%20Cloud%20ALM%20supports%20your%20change%20control%20management%20process.pdf

What you need to know for a successful transition to SAP Cloud ALM

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/transition-to-sap-cloud-alm/Day3_Transition_to_SAP_Cloud_ALM_Overview_Schneider.pdf

Mastering Selective Data Transfer from SAP Solution Manager to SAP Cloud ALM

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/transition-to-sap-cloud-alm/Day%204%20Mastering%20Selective%20Data%20Transfer%20from%20SAP%20Solution%20Manager%20to%20SAP%20Cloud%20ALM.pdf

Fire up your transition journey with the SAP Readiness Check for SAP Cloud ALM

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/transition-to-sap-cloud-alm/Day4_Transition_to_SAP_Cloud_ALM_Fire_up_your_transition_journey_with_the_SAP_Readiness_Check_for_SAP_Cloud_ALM_Kunst_Jungmann.pdf

Cloud ALM CALM Expert Portal

This is the source and starting point for all CALM doco, and set up guides and best practices and everything

SAP Cloud ALM for Implementation Expert Portal

SAP Cloud ALM for Implementation End 2 End Demo - this is the how to best practices guide for implementing and getting to Cloud ALM

Presentation Title

Prepare your transition from SAP Solution Manager to SAP Cloud ALM

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/transition-to-sap-cloud-alm/Day4_Transition%20to%20SAP%20Cloud%20ALM_Prepare%20your%20transition%20from%20SAP%20Solution%20Manager%20to%20SAP%20Cloud%20ALM_M.Biegert.pdf

Learn how to use SAP Cloud ALM in a partner scenario

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/how-to-extend-sap-cloud-alm/Day2-Extend-Learn%20how%20to%20use%20SAP%20Cloud%20ALM%20in%20a%20partner%20scenario-Birkenbach.pdf

Get first-hand experience from partners on how to manage deliveries with SAP Cloud ALM

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/how-to-extend-sap-cloud-alm/Day2-Extend-Partner%20Best%20Practices-Birkenbach.pdf

Extend SAP Cloud ALM with external systems Agile project management and workflow management

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/how-to-extend-sap-cloud-alm/Day2-HowToExtendSAPCloudALM-ExtendSAPCloudALMWithExternalSystems.pdf

Unlock the potential of DevOps with SAP Cloud ALM

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/how-to-extend-sap-cloud-alm/Day2%20-%20Manage%20and%20monitor%20your%20SAP%20extensions%20with%20SAP%20Cloud%20ALM%20Xavier%20Dupeyrat.pdf

Extend SAP Cloud ALM with Observability Platform

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/how-to-extend-sap-cloud-alm/Day2_How%20to%20extend%20SAP%20Cloud%20ALM_Extend%20SAP%20Cloud%20ALM%20with%20Observability%20platform_Campo.pdf

What's New and Roadmap: API for SAP Cloud ALM

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/how-to-extend-sap-cloud-alm/Day2%20-%20Discover%20the%20latest%20and%20upcoming%20API%20management%20functionalities%20in%20SAP%20Cloud%20ALM%20Xavier%20Dupeyrat.pdf

Gain Insights on How to Monitor Integration Scenarios for SAP and Even Non-SAP Components
with SAP Cloud ALM

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/sap-cloud-alm-for-operations/Day2-SAPCloudALMforOperations-Gain%20insights%20on%20how%20to%20monitor%20integration%20scenarios%20for%20SAP%20and%20even%20non-%20SAP%20components%20with%20SAP%20Cloud%20ALM-bechler.pdf

Embrace openness: See the integration between local and central observability and
integration of NON-SAP components with SAP Cloud ALM

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/sap-cloud-alm-for-operations/Day2-CALMOperations-Embrace%20openness-Budzisch.pdf

Discover how AI empowers synthetic and real user monitoring in SAP Cloud ALM

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/sap-cloud-alm-for-operations/Day3-CALMOperations-Discover_how_AI_empowers_Synthetic_and%20_Real_User_Monitoring_in_SAP_Cloud_ALM-Garcia.pdf

Manage your Landscape, Authorizations, and Connectivity to Managed Components with SAP Cloud ALM

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/sap-cloud-alm-for-operations/Day3_SAP%20Cloud%20ALM%20for%20operations_Manage%20your%20landscape,%20authorizations,%20and%20managed%20component%20connectivity%20with%20SAP%20Cloud%20ALM.pdf

Get an overview, news and outlook of SAP Cloud ALM for Operations

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/sap-cloud-alm-for-operations/Day2-CALMOperations-Get%20an%20overview,%20news%20and%20outlook%20of%20SAP%20Cloud%20ALM%20for%20Operations-Budzisch.pdf

Monitoring of jobs and automation tasks with SAP Cloud ALM

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/sap-cloud-alm-for-operations/Day3-CALMOperations-Ensure%20reliable%20executions%20of%20job%20and%20automation%20tasks%20with%20SAP%20Cloud%20ALM-Spiry.pdf

See how SAP Cloud ALM and AI help to manage business services and alerts

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/sap-cloud-alm-for-operations/Day2-CALMOperations-See%20how%20SAP%20Cloud%20ALM%20and%20AI%20help%20to%20manage%20business%20services%20and%20alerts-Wenzke%20Richarts.pdf

Provide Observability for Business Technology Platform with SAP Cloud ALM

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/sap-cloud-alm-for-operations/Day3-CALMOperations-Observability_for_BTP-Budzisch.pdf

Assure your quality with SAP Cloud ALM and SAP Application Testing Solutions by Tricentis

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/sap-cloud-alm-for-implementation/Day4-Assure%20your%20quality%20with%20SAP%20Cloud%20ALM%20and%20SAP%20Application%20Testing%20Solutions%20by%20Tricentis-Implementation-AlexanderErtl%20-%20Copy.pdf

The road to SAP Cloud ALM

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/sap-cloud-alm-for-implementation/Day3_Implementation_customer%20journey%20to%20CALM_Mercedes_Niedermann_FlehmigloudALM_ALM_Summit_2024.pdf

Supporting RISE and Clean Core with SAP Cloud ALM

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/rise-with-sap---clean-core/Day%202%20-%20Supporting%20RISE%20and%20Clean%20Core%20with%20SAP%20Cloud%20ALM_Chris+Hendrik.pdf

Get insights on how SAP Cloud ALM for operations will support the clean core initiative

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/rise-with-sap---clean-core/Day3_Clean_Core_Support_with_SAP_Cloud_ALM_For_Operations_JankoBudzisch.pdf

Keep your core clean with SAP Cloud ALM change and deployment management

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/rise-with-sap---clean-core/Day3%20-%20Keep%20your%20core%20clean%20with%20SAP%20Cloud%20ALM%20change%20and%20deployment%20management.pdf

Manage your RISE with SAP implementation project using SAP Cloud ALM in a clean core mindset

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/rise-with-sap---clean-core/Day2_Clean%20Core_Manage%20your%20RISE%20with%20SAP%20implementation%20project%20using%20SAP%20Cloud%20ALM%20in%20a%20clean%20core%20mindset_Henrik%20Zimmermann.pdf

Clean Core Compliance with SAP Cloud ALM and RISE with SAP Methodology

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/rise-with-sap---clean-core/Day2-Clean%20Core%20Compliance%20with%20RISE%20with%20SAP%20Methodology.pdf

Make your SAP S/4HANA conversion project a non event supported by SAP Cloud ALM

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/rise-with-sap---clean-core/Day2-Make%20your%20SAP%20S4HANA%20conversion%20project%20a%20non-event%20supported%20by%20SAP%20Cloud%20ALM.pdf

How SAP Cloud ALM and SAP Customer Evolution Kit can kick start your transformation

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/rise-with-sap---clean-core/Day2_How%20CALM%20and%20SAP%20Customer%20Evolution%20Kit%20can%20kick%20start%20your%20transformation_ChristianMueller_v1.pdf

Migrate to SAP S/4HANA with a reliable and confident data transition

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/rise-with-sap---clean-core/Day2_Migrate_to_SAPS4HANA_with_a_reliable_and_confident_data_transition_Spihlmann.pdf

Gain transparency in transformation projects with SAP Cloud ALM

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/keynotes---plenarys/SAP_ALM_Summit_Johannes_Hurst_SNP_Transparency%20in%20migration%20projects%20with%20SAP%20Cloud%20ALM_Final.pdf

The Age of Acceleration: AI and rethinking innovation opportunities

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/keynotes---plenarys/Timo%20Elliott%20ALM%20keynote%20final.pdf

Section 5.1.2] SAP Build Work Zone

SAP Work Zone integration with S/4HANA

Integration Guide: SAP Build Work Zone, Standard Edition Integration with SAP S/4HANA

Integration Guide: SAP Build Work Zone, Standard Edition Integration with SAP S/4HANA Cloud

The journey from SAP Cloud Portal to SAP Build Work Zone

SAP Work Zone - Product Overview

Establish a Central Entry Point with SAP Build Work Zone - Reference Architecture

SAP Discovery Center Architecture - Establish a central entry point with SAP Build Work Zone

SAP Build Work Zone Advanced Edition User Guide

What Is SAP Build Work Zone, advanced edition? | SAP Help Portal

SAP Build Work Zone Advanced Edition HowTo Guides

How To Guides | SAP Help Portal

SAP Build Work Zone Advanced Edition Security Guide

Security Guide | SAP Help Portal

Feature Scope Specification SAP Build Work Zone

WZ_STD_FSD.pdf

Reference Architecture Build Work Zone

https://discovery-center.cloud.sap/refArchDetail/ref-arch-sap-build-work-zone

Integration Guide Build Work Zone

https://help.sap.com/docs/CIAS%20FES%202020/ecb81b5bfce440ca8e7e7c9ad58fcf3a/98a3f0830f084aefb5ea75fb20959af5.html

Solution to the Work Zone problem of Apps not getting refreshed and not being visible, here's the solution (Apps not visible in Workzone):

Set Up Automatic Updates for an SAP Enterprise Portal Content Provider | SAP Help Portal

here's somebody with the same problem:

Solved: HTML5 App published but not showing in Work Zone ... - SAP Community

"Do you see your app listed in the HTML5 Applications menu in the BTP cockpit? If yes, try refreshing the HTML App channel in SAP Build Work Zone."

The SAP Fiori Applications Library...

SAP Fiori Apps Reference Library

Integration Guide: SAP Build Work Zone Integration with SAP S/4HANA

Integration Guide: SAP Build Work Zone, Standard Edition Integration with SAP S/4HANA | SAP Help Portal

Connecting the Cloud Connector to the SAP BTP Subaccount | SAP Help Portal

Section 5.2] Extending S/4HANA on RISE

Start here....

SAP Extension Methodology for evaluating and processing demands:

SAP Application Extension Methodology Overview | SAP Help Portal

https://help.sap.com/docs/sap-btp-guidance-framework/sap-application-extension-methodology/sap-appli...

and we use the

SAP Extension Architecture Guide What is the Extension Architecture Guide? | SAP Help Portal

https://help.sap.com/docs/sap-btp-guidance-framework/extension-architecture-guide/what-is-extension-...

and the SAP BTP Developer's Guide Develop the User Interface | SAP Help Portal

This is very useful picture, from this presentation explaining the Golden Rule for Extensions Planning and Design

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/S4H_1614%20Implementing%20SAP%20S4HANA%20Cloud%20private%20edition.pptx

Extend SAP S/4HANA in the cloud and on premise with ABAP based extensions
Guidelines for extension project managers, key users, and ABAP developers

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/S4H_1612%20Extend%20SAP%20S_4HANA%20in%20the%2...

Overview of extensibility options...

Key User Extensibility

SAP S/4HANA on RISE On Stack Developer Extensibility with SAP CLoud ABAP

SAP S/4HANA on RISE Side by Side Extensibility with the SAP BTP ABAP

SAP S/4 Extensibility when to use what Clean Core AGENDA – 22. November 2023, Berlin, Inclover Studio

Summary of Extensibility Options for S/4HANA Cloud

How to Optimize Application Development and Automation with the SAP BTP Presentation Title

Extend SAP S/4HANA in the cloud and on premise with ABAP based extensions
Guidelines for extension project managers, key users, and ABAP developers

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/S4H_1612%20Extend%20SAP%20S_4HANA%20in%20the%2...

Another very useful document for helping with the decisons of where to do what... extend_your_erp_while_keeping_the_core_clean_with_sap_build_code_and_ai.pdf

When to use which extensibility option

SAP Build Code Best Practices

TurboCharging Application Development with Generative AI

The Universe of SAP BTP in a Nutshell – SAP Build

2023_sap_build_webinar_april_4.pdf

3470426 - Collection note: Release of data elements for Clean Core developments in S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition - SAP for Me

This is another very good document and well worth a read

Extend SAP S/4HANA in the cloud and on premise with ABAP based extensions

ABAP based extensibility options....

2023_abap_extensibility_options_btp_universe.pdf

Establish Connection Between SAP S/4HANA PCE and SAP BTP

Establish Trust Configuration between SAP S/4HANA On-premise and SAP BTP | SAP Tutorials

Section 5.3] SAP Integration Suite Cloud Integration CI

This is very useful picture, from this presentation explaining the Golden Rule for Integrations Planning and Design

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/S4H_1614%20Implementing%20SAP%20S4HANA%20Cloud%20private%20edition.pptx

This picture, which gives a visualisation of how to move, migrate, transition from SAP Process Integration Process Orchestration to SAP Integration Suite Cloud Integration is from this publicly available document: sap_integration_suite_btp_series_202302.pdf

Migrating from SAP PI PO to SAP BTP Integration Suite

Presentation Title

SAP Discovery Center Integration Suite Overview

SAP Discovery Center Service - Integration Suite

SAP Integration Suite for Hybrid and Heterogeneous Environments

PowerPoint Presentation

High Availability of Integration Suite HA DR

SAP Integration Suite Introduction

PowerPoint Presentation

Integration Suite Feature Scope Description

FSD_IntegrationSuite.pdf

Integration Suite for Hybrid Environments

sap_integration_suite.pdf

Generation Hybrid Integration with Edge Integration Cell - this is a useful document 002_btp-melb-edge-integration-cell.pdf

Edge Integration Cell

Edge Integration Cell High Level Architecture

SAP Cloud Integration Content Transport

Content Transport | SAP Help Portal

Simplify and accelerate all your Enterprise Integrations with a versatile and enterprise-grade integration platform

PowerPoint Presentation

This document is higher level and talks about Integration and Core Business Processes

Integrate to Innovate

This is the official SAP Integration Architecture Guide

Summary | SAP Help Portal

Future-proof Integration strategy with SAP Integration Suite

This presentation contains very nice explanations on how to migrate from SAP Process Orchestration or Process Integration to SAP Integration Suite Cloud Integration...

Migration Guide for SAP Process Orchestration Migration Guide for SAP Process Orchestration | SAP Help Portal

Title Goes Here and Here and Here

The enterprise Integration Suite for hybrid and heterogenous environments

sap_integration_suite_btp_series_202302.pdf

SAP BTP Cloud Integration

004b5af183614b93975c1addc755abac.pdf

SAP Cloud Integration Best Practices

This is another really nice document, it's buried down here, and it's a must read, it covers all kind of of subjects including performance, security, configuratiuon etc

cloud_integration_best_practices.pdf

here are some sample slides, the best is to read the document...

Integration Suite Cloud Integration Security Concepts and Principles

Feature Scope Description SAP Cloud Integration

CPI_HCI_FSD_Ext.pdf

Getting Started with Integration Flow Development

Get Started with Integration Flow Development (Cloud Foundry Environment)

BTP CI IFlows with AI Assistance

https://help.sap.com/docs/cloud-integration/sap-cloud-integration/creating-integration-flow#generate-integrations-with-ai-assistance

2903776 - SAP Integration Suite – Service Plans and Upgrade Paths

https://me.sap.com/notes/2903776

SAP Integration Solution Advisory Methodology

https://help.sap.com/doc/ac5a3b73452548cb887f3963877eb9ab/Cloud/en-US/sap.integration.solutions.advisory.pdf

https://help.sap.com/docs/cloud-integration

SAP Integration Solution Methodology

sap.integration.solutions.advisory.pdf

Connecting the Intelligent Enterprise with SAP Integration Suite... SAP Business Technology Platform

Pre-Packaged Integration with SAP ERP

C4C-ERPviaHCI-E2E-Guide.pdf

Section 5.3] AI & Intelligent Technologies

For me, AI and Automation and Intelligent Technologies are one of the biggest opportunities for improvements in efficiency across the whole Enterprise, across technical operation business.

All of us have an obligation to stay ahead of the game here and know about the available products and the roadmaps and where the integration of AI and Automation and in fact Analytics into Business Processes can improve efficiency and decision making across the Organisation end to end. We need to know what is currently available and possible and what the roadmaps and plans for the future are. There are already a lot of easy win easy to implement SAP AI enabled capabilities, from SAP Build Code AI to Intelligent Account Reconciliation and everything in between.

This section will combine AI and Automation together.

SAP Business AI PowerPoint Presentation

SAP AI Powered Queries for Analytics in Natural Language

SAP Business AI for SAP RISE Customers

SAP AI Ethics and Privacy Standards

Ensuring Data Privacy for Generative GenAI

PowerPoint Presentation

AI with the SAP BTP, from the above presentation SAP Business AI

SAP's Global AI Ethics Guiding Principles - 2024 document... Ethical AI

SAP’s Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence

SAP’s Global AI Ethics Guiding Principles and Governance Bodies

Presentation Title

SAP AI Ethics Handbook (2024)

This is a fantastic document and well worth reading and digesting

SAP-AI-Ethics-Handbook.pdf

The Future of Supply Chain with SAP Business AI

this is an excellent document which also goes in to ethics, and how to secure access to the Large Language Models LLM Security

Title Goes Here and Here and Here

SAP Business AI - Responsible AI - FAQ

SAP Business AI- Responsible AI FAQ

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to SAP Business AI

PowerPoint-Präsentation

SAP AI Core with Generative AI - Operationalize AI

SAP AI Core L1 (Public)

SAP AI Services List and Service Specifications

sap-ai-services-list-english-v10-2024.pdf

SAP Business AI Cheat Sheet – Your Quick Reference... - SAP Community

lots and lots of useful information and links thanks to @Raja_Gupta1

SAP AI Core for the SAP BTP SAP Discovery Center Service - SAP AI Core

Artificial intelligence for the real world | SAP

What is Artificial Intelligence? | AI in Business | SAP

SAP AI Strategy White Paper SAP Business AI

Artificial Intelligence for the SAP BTP sap_btp_ai_2022-09-21.pdf

SAP AI Launchpad User Guide

04ed96d5a9864b5a9b6f2be56d396a37.pdf

SAP BTP Gen AI Strategy and Vision Gen AI and SAP BTP

AI Cookbook - Easy Recipes with SAP BTP

SAP Generative AI Cyber Security Strategy

SAP Generative AI Cybersecurity Strategy

SAP GenAI Explore Workshop Guide

01_GenAI_ExploreWorkshopGuide.pdf

How to lean on GenAI for new product ideas | SAP

SAP Intelligent Asset Management Compendium

100 pages going through all of the Intelligent Asset Products

intelligent_asset_management_compendium.pdf

SAP AI Launchpad 2025 document

038a6194f65c4ef68885f6f16360dbc4.pdf

https://developers.sap.com/tutorials/ai-core-generative-ai.html

Intelligent Technologies and Business Processes Excel Sheet

https://d.dam.sap.com/a/hHzXdEW?rc=10

This Excel contains a comprehensive list of all of the integration of AI and Automation opportunities across all SAP Business Processes of the S/4HANA, where there is a possibility to improve decision making. When you click on the Excel it will download to your pc.

https://userapps.support.sap.com/sap/support/knowledge/en/3393699

SAP Automation Security Guide

loiod73799f694e8452a9a738a692b734c04.pdf

3523238 - Navigational and Transactional capabilities with Joule in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition 2023 - SAP for Me

The AI Copilot Joule | Artificial Intelligence | SAP

Financial Business Insights with SAP S/4HANA Cloud and Joule | Interactive Value Journey

SAP Joule Capabilities

c0bb884c3e27438695f4750b547aac77.pdf

Revolutionize ABAP development with Joule, our generative AI copilot

Integrating Joule with SAP Solutions

79bfc83ab386450c8cd9c7937ce26a3a.pdf

Introducing Joule - The AI copilot that truly understands your business

Hi, I'm Joule

SAP Analytics Cloud with Joule

SAP Generative Gen AI

openSAP_genai1_All_Slides_Presentation.pdf

3521432 - What is the AI Unit Estimator & how to use it in SAP for Me? - SAP for Me

3486683 - SAP Enable Now, cloud edition, AI-assisted authoring - SAP for Me

3437766 - Availability of Generative AI Models - SAP for Me

3413498 - Master Data Governance Framework AI functionalities (AI-generated Summary/AI-assisted changes) - SAP for Me

BIG NEWS: Joule in SAP Build Work Zone, standard edition

Joule is now integrated in to SAP Build Work Zone

Thanks to @Yumnahabbasi for sharing

Joule is Now Integrated into SAP Build Work Zone! - SAP Community

Great blog, Activate Joule with SAP Build Work Zone and SAP Mobile Start, by @nageshcaparthy

Activate Joule with SAP Build Work Zone and SAP Mo... - SAP Community

SAP Discovery Center - SAP S/4HANA PCE & Joule, this page also highlights a number of S/4 PCE AI enabled opportunities...

SAP Discovery Center AI Feature - SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, Joule

SAP Joule Capabilities Guide

c0bb884c3e27438695f4750b547aac77.pdf

SAP Joule Introduction and Overview

9d8c0ef2443b49f993a27de8f38f83af.pdf

SAP Business AI Q4 2024 Highlights:

SAP Business AI: Release Highlights Q4 2024 | SAP News Center

SAP Business AI Solution - AI built in to Business Processes

SAP Business AI Solutions | AI Built into Business Processes

SAP Discovery Center - Business AI Features and Capabilities and Opportunities

SAP Discovery Center Business AI Features

This is a very useful page and gives an overview all of the Business AI features...

SAP Learning - Roadmap for SAP Business AI

Exploring the Strategic Roadmap for SAP Business AI

SAP AI Missions in the Discovery Center

SAP Discovery Center - Missions

This is a really nice blog explaining SAP Business AI S/4 Embedded AI and S/4 Joule AI by @Giulio_Grandine76

Revolutionizing Enterprise Intelligence: SAP Business AI, Joule, and Embedded AI

SAP Business AI - SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud Edition - Joule

Digital Library

2025 SAP AI Artificial Intelligence Defining Themes

AI in 2025: 5 Themes | SAP News Center

SAP AI in 2025 Defining Themes

AI in 2025: 5 Themes | SAP News Center

SAP Enterprise Support Academy Newsletter January ... - SAP Community

SAP Enterprise Support Advisory Council

Presentation Title

SAP Learning Journeys..

Getting to Know Joule, SAP's Next-Generation AI Copilot

Integrating Joule with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition

Identifying Opportunities for SAP Business AI and Joule

Using the Embedded Support Capabilities and the Joule Generative

Operations Operational Situation Handling in SAP S/4HANA Cloud featuring GenAI and Joule

Digital Library

Introducing Joule in SAP Product Lifecycle Management

Joule in SAP S/4HANA Cloud and Supply Chain | SAP News

Meet Joule, the AI Copilot That Truly Understands Your Business

SAP Analytics Cloud with Joule

The AI Copilot Joule | Artificial Intelligence | SAP

The SAP Joule help.sap.com documentation page

What is SAP Joule, What is Joule

9d8c0ef2443b49f993a27de8f38f83af.pdf

Joule | SAP Help Portal

Feature Scope

https://help.sap.com/doc/0a1c2b2b16f843dca835b44a5db033be/CLOUD/en-US/9c3432ecab90406e99dbc987389334ed.pdf

Integrating with SAP Applications

https://help.sap.com/doc/de3af3c0f81642dbaa4d36172ed57a72/CLOUD/en-US/79bfc83ab386450c8cd9c7937ce26a3a.pdf

Integrating Joule with SAP Solutions

Introduction | SAP Help Portal

Joule Onboarding Guide | SAP Help Portal

SAP Business AI Learning Journeys

Exploring the SAP Business AI Portfolio

Grasping the Overview of SAP Business AI

SAP Discovery Center Joule

SAP Discovery Center Mission - Get Started with SAP Build Code and Joule using Generative AI (Trial and Enterprise Account)

Activating Joule and Running the Booster

SAP Video - Chapter 1 - Activating Joule and Running the Booster - Read Description for updated information

Joule for S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition - A Comprehensive Setup Guide

Joule for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition - A Co... - SAP Community

thanks @nageshcaparthy

SAP Unveils AI-assisted capabilities in the latest SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition Release

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition 2023 FPS02 | SAP News Center

SAP User Experience Q4/2024 News for SAP S/4HANA C... - SAP Community

thanks @ThomasReiss

What's New Viewer - SAP S/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition | SAP Help Portal

How to run a Business AI Workshop - how cool is that 🙂

SAP AppHaus • Business AI Explore Workshop – Identify AI use cases with business impact.

ABAP Platform GenAI RoadMap

GenAI | SAP Help Portal

3522010 - Activation of Generative AI features in SAP Datasphere - SAP for Me

3451415 - Initial Release of Joule in SAP Analytics Cloud stories - SAP for Me

3545050 - List of Business Objects Enabled for Joule in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition - SAP for Me

3541023 - Central Note for SAP Build Work Zone Navigation Service - SAP for Me

3523238 - Navigational and Transactional capabilities with Joule in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition 2023 - SAP for Me

This Note is extremely important, pay attention to the 3 Excel sheets attached to the Note as they outline the SAP Fiori apps and the transactional actions that Joule can execute on business objects of SAP S/4HANA 2023 Cloud Private Edition FPS01 and higher.

3519499 - Enhanced Joule Data Center Consumption - SAP for Me

SAP User Experience Q1/2025 Update – Part 1: Many New Innovations Available (AI, Joule and More) - thanks to @ThomasReiss

https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blogs-by-sap/sap-user-experience-q1-2025-update-part-1-many-new-innovations-available-ai/ba-p/14012822

Section 5.4] SAP Reporting and Analytics

This is a new section and will gradually be enriched....

We start with the,

SAP Data & Analytics Advisory Methodology Overview

SAP Data & Analytics Advisory Methodology Overview | SAP Help Portal

Download the Data & Analytics Advisory Methodology Overview

https://help.sap.com/docs/link-disclaimer?site=https%3A%2F%2Fd.dam.sap.com%2Fa%2FJ9MF5Fb%3Frc%3D10%26doi%3DSAP1125785

This presentation is 127 slides, and a MUST READ, here are a few of the slides to give a taster, the rest are in the presentation.... this document is golden there is information in here on Data Management Master Data, Data Governance everything...

Data Governance vs Data Management

Download the Data & Anayltics Advisory Methodology Templates

https://help.sap.com/docs/link-disclaimer?site=https%3A%2F%2Fd.dam.sap.com%2Fa%2FMghyakt%3Frc%3D10%26doi%3DSAP1125789

Section 6] SAP North Star Architecture and Customer Center of Excellence

(This section is a work in progress)

You might be asking yourself why in a SAP RISE Toolbox there are links to how to do a SAP CCOE ?

That's a great question, and the answer is that, most companies have been running/operating SAP the same way since 3.1h, and now with RISE the whole game is changing, the Roles and Responsibilities are changing and the Segregation of Duties is changing, between who does what, SAP, Customer, and if they have one the Customer's System Integrator.

And that's why, during the S/4HANA RISE Transformation, you will be best off, if you take the opportunity and redesign how you run/operate SAP, the way you have run SAP for the ECC generation will not fit to how you run SAP in the RISE generation, and on top of this, isn't it time for "The Business" and "IT/SAP" to get closer together ?

This will help with setting the scene.. SAP Learning Journey...

Discover Organizational Change Management for SAP Cloud Projects

S4H_632 OCM Customer Organisation Readiness Whitepaper.pdf

SAP offer a fantastic service for helping Customers on this journey, S/4HANA & RISE is not only an ERP Transformation, it's also an Organisational Transformation, and you should look at the SAP North Star Architecture Services, in my 25 years of doing SAP these are the most valuable Services I have seen as North Star Architectures brings the knowledge of all of SAP's Customers and Best Practices on how to run SAP.

In my opinion, if you have the money, then the North Star Architecture Service is a must have for helping ensure the success of the S/4HANA & RISE journey, from conception to delivery.

There was an amazing SAP North Star Architecture public event in December (2024) and the material is here, the presentation and the video recording:

SAP PE Session 'North Star service' (Virtual, Dece... - SAP Community

Title Goes Here and Here and Here

Digital Library

These are some of the slides from the presentation:

SAP North Star Architecture Service Value Proposition

SAP Enterprise Architecture to Enable Change

SAP North Star Architecture: Building Blocks

Modular Service Approach: SAP North Star Architecture Service

Iteration Cycles and Service Patterns

Pre-Defined Patterns

Pattern Overview: Target Architecture and Roadmap

Pattern Overview: Business Transformation

Pattern Overview: Roll-Out Strategy Assessment

Pattern Overview: Landscape Consolidation Strategy

Instance Strategy

RoadMap Design Dimensions

Transition Scenarios Determination and Evaluation

Approach for Transition Evaluation

Transition Strategy Decision

Assessment of Implementation Approach

Landscape Transformation Summary

Roll-Out Strategy Example Deliverable from the SAP North Star Architecture Service

Delivery Example: Consolidate First vs Consolidate on S/4

SAP ECC Landscape Consolidation and Move to S/4HANA potential scenarios

Migration to S/4HANA with Interim Systems

https://www.sap.com/documents/2023/11/c272ac9a-9b7e-0010-bca6-c68f7e60039b.html

Innovate with the latest S/4HANA Innovations Services and Recommendations during an S/4HANA Upgrade and Transformation - This also ties in to the Phase 0, the Prepararion, the North Star Architecture Services... a lot of useful information in here and definitely worth reading...

https://d.dam.sap.com/a/GZ736TT

SAP Transformation Navigator

Title Goes Here and Here and Here

Process Discovery for S/4HANA Transformation

Title Goes Here and Here and Here

Get to grips with Signavio - Accelerate and secure IT Transformations

Title Goes Here and Here and Here

The SAP Customer CoE Journey:

Where are you today ? And where do you want to be ?

The above pictures are publicly available and come from this document: https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/offerings-and-programs/customer-center-of-expertise/ccoe-document-store/ccoe_strategy_framework.pdf

Guides and Best Practices for Customer COE

https://support.sap.com/en/offerings-programs/ccoe/cio-customer-coe-guides.html

SAP Customer CoE Strategy, Governance, and Organisation

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/offerings-and-programs/customer-center-of-expertise/ccoe-document-store/ccoe_strategy_framework.pdf

Discover SAP Organisational Change Management

Discover Organizational Change Management for SAP Cloud Projects

How is SAP's Organisational Change Management structured ?

How is SAP’s Organizational Change Management Framework structure

Why does User adoption in Cloud Projects matter ?

Why does User Adoption matter in Cloud Projects

Why is the People Side of Cloud Projects important ?

Why is the People Side of Cloud Projects important

SAP Advanced Customer CoE

Advanced Customer COE

How do you set up Organisational Change Management for your Cloud Project

How do you set up Organizational Change Management for your Cloud

Landscape Management Process

This is a beautiful document, and inspirational in catalysing and inspiring discussion on to be Organisation and Management of the SAP CoE and the move to the Cloud. The material we can say is out of date because it talks in terms of Solution Manager, but nevertheless, the principles and approaches and thought processes can be applied to conversations regarding moving to S/4 on RISE and with the BTP...

https://support.sap.com/en/tools/software-logistics-tools/landscape-management-process.html?anchorId=section_175842419

https://community.sap.com/t5/enterprise-resource-planning-blogs-by-sap/business-transformation-requires-organizational-transformation/ba-p/13511386

CCOE Media Library

https://support.sap.com/en/offerings-programs/ccoe/media-library.html

https://support.sap.com/en/offerings-programs/ccoe/cio-customer-coe-guides.html

https://learning.sap.com/learning-journeys/discover-organizational-change-management-for-sap-cloud-projects/how-is-sap-s-organizational-change-management-framework-structured_c1708e6a-28f8-4245-8392-d83cbf48773b

https://learning.sap.com/learning-journeys/discover-organizational-change-management-for-sap-cloud-projects

https://support.sap.com/en/offerings-programs/ccoe/cio-customer-coe-guides.html?anchorId=section

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/offerings-and-programs/customer-center-of-expertise/ccoe-document-store/ccoe-hints.pdf

https://support.sap.com/en/offerings-programs/ccoe.html?anchorId=section_541877121_co

https://support.sap.com/en/offerings-programs/ccoe/cio-customer-coe-guides.html

https://learning.sap.com/learning-journeys/applying-the-sap-enterprise-architecture-framework

This is really useful

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/offerings-and-programs/customer-center-of-expertise/ccoe-as-service-provider/primary-ccoe/CCOE_GettingStarted.pdf

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/offerings-and-programs/customer-center-of-expertise/ccoe-document-store/ccoe_strategy_framework.pdf

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/offerings-and-programs/customer-center-of-expertise/ccoe-document-store/ccoe_licenses_framework.pdf

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/offerings-and-programs/customer-center-of-expertise/ccoe-document-store/ccoe_information_knowledge.pdf

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/offerings-and-programs/customer-center-of-expertise/ccoe-document-store/ccoe_supportability_en.pdf

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/offerings-and-programs/customer-center-of-expertise/ccoe-document-store/ccoe_continuous_success_en.pdf

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/offerings-and-programs/customer-center-of-expertise/media-library/general-information/continuous-improvement-and-innovation-with-a-ccoe.pdf

Section 7] Lessons Learned

(this section is an ongoing work in progress)

How to Avoid Delays in an S/4HANA Program

I am leading with this one, as in my opinion it is the most important and the mechanisms for avoiding delays drill down in to other areas.

Delays in the S/4 Programs can run into costs of millions per month, according to the cash burn rate of the Program. There are ways to avoid and reduce the chance of delays, and that's what we're going to discuss here.

Currently on my second S/4 Program and looking forward to the third one, this has given me a deep understanding of the "procedure", and the activities, and what works and what doesn't and enables reflection how to avoid problems, and the biggest problem in my opinion is DELAYS to the Program. The S/4 Program is huge, and it is very expensive, and has a hugely expensive monthly burn rate, and delays in the S/4 Program have at least two painful impacts, the first one is the monthly extended cash burn rate, and the second is the delaying of other Programs and Projects which are dependent on the on time success of the S/4 Program and it's Releases.

In my experience, Delays will become visible in SIT and UAT, this is where things will happen which will result in Delays.

That does not mean that SIT and UAT are the cause of the Delays, it means the gaps / weaknesses become exposed during SIT and UAT, which actually is the purpose of SIT and UAT.

The problem is that in SIT and UAT, I see the same pattern, Defects and even Design Changes are being exposed which could have, and should have become visible earlier, which means the prior phases were not executed properly.

The problem is, an S/4 Program is not a SAP Migration or Upgrade or Transformation in the classical sense, it is a Data Transformation, a Process Transformation, a Technical Basis Transformation, an Integration Transformation, a User Experience Transformation, an Operations Transformation, a User Interface Transformation, a Security Transformation.

Invest in Training, Education, and Preparation

Training - make sure everybody has as much training as possible and is on the same page

Skills - this document is an oldy, and a goody, from 2016 and goes through the 10 SAP Quality Principles, Driving Excellence in Implementations - and Beyond: The Underlying Quality Principles and one of the principles is:

Training and Education :

Get the Team to do the RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition learning journey...

Discovering RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, premium plus Implementation and Adoption

Send as many people as you can afford on the following training, this training is GOLDEN.

Regardless of what you think about methodologies, Activate is a Guided Procedure across all dimensions of the S/4 Program, which SAP have developed and evolved with continuous lessons from Customer experiences and will guide you through the journey you are about to embark on, your people need to have done these training courses:

ACT1CL_EN_Col11 SAP Activate Methodology Introduction

ACT2CL_EN_Col11 SAP Activate Methodology Cloud Implementation

ACT5CL_EN_Col12 Introduction to SAP Activate Methodology for SAP Cloud Implementations

ACT100.21.EN-US SAP Activate Methodology

S4C03_EN_Col21 RISE with S4HANA Cloud Private Edition Onboarding Fundamentals

Program / Project Management

Get the Leadership Team to prepare the plan and ideally have SAP sanity check it by using North Star Services, pay for a Service from SAP for them to sanity check the S/4HANA Program Plan

Clean Core and Cloud Mindset, before the Program, get everybody trained in these approaches

Embrace the Proactive Maintenance & Contractual Maintenance Periods CMP

RISE Leadership Guide - Everybody should read this https://www.sap.com/documents/2019/05/44b3ebd5-4b7d-0010-87a3-c30de2ffd8ff.html

S/4HANA Upgrades

Upgrades are recommended be done in a Project Dual Line Landscape - period

Releases and Upgrades should be clubbed together where possible

This will then...

Protect Production

Protect the Program

In anything you do, you must Protect Production and you must Protect the Program !

Program Team

Have a dedicated Team, don't have Operations People working on the S/4 Transformation part time as that can be a contributor to delays in the Program, and a Program wide delay of only 1 month will cover the cost of dedicated people

Other Non-SAP Teams in your Organisation

If the Program is depending on deliveries from other Non-SAP Teams in the Organisations, eg there will need to be a custom development on Service-Now or SalesForce or whatever other system then you need to make sure that those Teams have people/resource capacity, it has happened that the whole S/4 Transformation Program is delayed in one of the Releases because of Resource Capacity in a totally different Team which wasn't foreseen in the planning

Stick to the Plan

Protect Production

Protect the Program

If the Program is working and everything is going well, don't start trying to cut costs

FUE's

Rotating Keys

TLS Certificiates

When you Rotate Keys in S/4HANA make sure that all dependent systems have the new keys, eg MBC Multi Bank Connectivity has the S/4HANA certificate and you need to update it there too

Don't skip "Phase 0", plan to give Phase Zero the time it needs

Key Users

Key Users are one of the keys to a successful GoLive make sure they are trained and have all of the support they need

Key Users are your Ambassadors, make sure they have everything they need

Investment and Multi-Year Multiple Release/GoLive Transformations

Everything is relative, whatever you can afford, make sure to invest in the success of the first GoLive/Release,do not cut costs or corners on the first GoLive/Release, the first GoLive/Release MUST be a SUCCESS.

Subsequent GoLives/Releases will in general be a rinse and repeat of the template for how

the first GoLive/Release was executed and you can reduce costs on those GoLives/Releases

S/4 Data Transformation and Integration

We need to do Mapping and Transformations of Data, either at the SAP End or the other End - this is another challenge to the "Clean-Core" and the S/4 Transformations, there needs to be a principle, mappings/transformation must happen outside of the S/4

Technical GoLive should be separated / disconnected from the Business GoLive

Technical GoLive several months before Business GoLive

In your Release Planning, disconnect the Technical GoLives from the Business GoLives, separate the two, run the Technical GoLives a couple of months ahead of the Business GoLives, do not combine the Technical and Business GoLives

RISE Proactive Maintenance for S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition

Contractual Maintenance Periods

SAP and Customer agree regular periods where there can be downtimes for SAP to do Maintenance

Plan this in your Release Planning

S/4HANA Upgrades

In your multi-year Release Plan, make room for S/4HANA Upgrades to enable you to benefit from the latest SAP innovations

Capacity

You need to care for your Capacity and Data Volume Management

Basis Projects and Operations

You need to re-design your Project Basis Team and Operations Basis Team and methods of working according to the segregation of duties with the RISE ECS Team

Run SGEN straight after systems are delivered and before GoLives

Performance Tuning & House Keeping - that's your job

FUE Licensing Costs and SAP Roles and Authorisations

SAP RISE S/4HANA usage is measured and sized in what’s called FUE’s, Full Usage Equivalents, pay attention to this

SAP RISE AntiVirus

VSI is a extra service, not mandatory as of today

EWA Report

Pay very close to attention to it, it will become one of your best friends

S/4HANA FailOver and DR

Understand what you really get with 99.7 and 99.9 regarding Availability Zones and Regions

S/4HANA Preparation

Before installation, specify all Security Requirements and get them included in the installation and post installation

RISE is about Segregation of Duties on the Basis Team

RISE is about running Basis as a Factory with clear Roles and Responsibilities and Methods or Working

RISE is about Proper Planning an Preparation

Basis Trial and Error way of working evolves to Planning and Preparation way of working

Service Requests

Quality

Right First Time

SAP do not quality control Service Requests

Learn the Templates

RISE Technical Architecture

Is not the same as OnPremise

A RISE LoadBalancer or Application Gateway, does not necessarily work the same way on RISE as it does in your own DataCenter/HyperScaler even if they are the same

The SAP RISE Architecture View

Get from SAP as much technical architecture views of the RISE "Customer Setup" as possible

SAP Technical Architects are the an integral part of the new Basis Team

Basis Team benefits from being experienced and disciplined

RISE Architect from SAP

Get a SAP RISE Architect from SAP onboarded to the project from the beginning

SAP CALM is your new best friend

Sizing and Performance Testing better in than out

Trust and Verify

There are very useful RISE lessons learned here from @shaji_narayanan

Lessons Learned from SAP ERP Conversion to RISE wi... - SAP Community

Here is an excellent blog detailing the engine room lessons learned in a SAP S/4HANA RISE Migration with DMO by @savithakumar thank you...

SAP RISE - Key Learnings - SAP Community

And most of all, enjoy the RISE Journey 🛫

Andy Silvey.

SAP Technology Architect [Contractor]

Author Bio:

Andy Silvey is a 26 years SAP Technology veteran [15 years SAP Basis and 11 years SAP Tech Arch including Tech, Integration, Security, Data from 3.1H to S/4HANA PCE on RISE and the BTP and everything in between, and former SCN Moderator and Mentor alumni].

Introducing Warehousing Concept in SAP S/4 HANA Supply Chain Execution

2024-11-28T11:41:09.513000+01:00

Hi All

I am explaining warehousing in Supply Chain Execution in SAP S/4 Hana

Brief Overview to SAP S/4 Hana and Features

With SAP S/4HANA, SAP is providing a product that represents the next generation of business applications. Simple enterprise software that is designed to help you run simple in the digital economy. SAP S/4HANA supports

Customer in dealing with challenges like integrating business data with data outside of our company and supporting our business processes with artificial intelligence (or AI). The SAP S/4HANA family is completely built on the in-memory platform SAP HANA. Using the potential of the SAP HANA platform, SAP S/4HANA is designed for customer digital business. It provides an instant insight into where your business currently stands. It does this by combining a single source of truth with dynamic planning and analysis capabilities and real-time process support.

With the SAP Fiori user experience and a less complex data model, SAP S/4HANA is designed to run simple. In parallel, it reduces the data footprint of your company.

The SAP S/4HANA system is also already connected to business networks and company internal collaboration networks like SAP Build Work Zone. And it also prepares us for supporting your processes with SAP Business AI. All of these aspects protect your investment into SAP software by facilitating the next generation of business applications.

SAP S/4 Hana comes with following Product Versions

SAP S/4 Hana on premises

SAP S/4HANA On-Premises managed by SAP (HEC)

SAP S/4 Hana Public Edition

SAP S/4 Hana Private Edition

SAP S/4HANA contains the below elements

SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Management.

SAP S/4HANA Line-of-Business Products.

SAP S/4HANA Line-of-Business (LoB) Products for specific industries.

SAP S/4HANA Compatibility Packs.

Supply Chain Management Capability in S/4 Hana

SAP S/4HANA enables companies to integrate and visualize all supply chain processes from supplier to customer. Intelligence can also be embedded in these processes. Digital supply chain and mission-critical business processes are supported across the enterprise with one single source of live information such as

Reduce Days of Inventory
Reduction in Revenue Loss Due to Fulfilment Issues
Reduced Overall Supply Chain Planning Costs
Improved Supply Chain Planning, increasing Productivity
Reduced TCO Through Landscape Simplification

Digital Supply Chain Execution

The core functionality provided by SAP S/4HANA can be extended with other (sometimes Cloud based) SAP products, to support the complete logistics network of a company.

Additional SAP products that support the complete supply chain

SAP Global Batch Traceability

SAP AI Core

SAP Yard Logistics

SAP User Experience Strategy

The use of mobile devices (smart-phones and tablets) to perform certain work tasks, is no longer reserved to a special group of experts. Ease of use is a very important characteristic for the end user of such a device. The focus of the user interface (UI) of the device is no longer maximum functionality, but rather a comfortable user experience and thus a focus on the consumer of the device. With this in mind, the business software running behind the device must be adapted and transformed so that it supports the user interface (used within the business roles of an enterprise) to a maximum. In practice this means that SAP S/4HANA and SAP Fiori as its user interface go hand-in-hand, and should be developed hand-in-hand.

Different User Types — Different Requirements

SAP Fiori

SAP Fiori is a collection of apps, which is created based on a specific set of guidelines and rules and that can be started using the SAP Fiori launchpad.

Available Warehouse Management Solutions in SAP S/4 Hana

Warehouse Management LE-WM

The classic SAP ERP solution for warehouse management LE-WM is part of SAP S/4HANA through a Compatibility Package (CP). This provides customers with a limited use right which expires on December 31, 2027. The inclusion of LE-WM in SAP S/4HANA helps customers migrating from SAP ERP to SAP S/4HANA to start using some of the advanced features of SAP S/4HANA without having to also immediately migrate their warehouse management solution at the same time. For existing customers that do not require complex warehouse processing in their SAP S/4HANA system, with release 1909 of SAP S/4HANA a basic warehouse management solution has been introduced in SAP S/4HANA called Stock Room Management.

Stock Room Management

The main reason for adding Stock Room Management to SAP S/4HANA is to give existing customers of LE-WM an opportunity to keep their existing LE-WM warehouses after 2027 that do not benefit immediately from moving to (embedded) SAP EWM. Stock Room Management is relevant for small warehouses with manual operations that manage stocks on storage bin level. this deployment allows customers to upgrade to SAP S/4HANA without performing a full-fledged WM transformation.

LE-WM features that are not supported in Stock Room Management include

Task and Resource Management (WM-TRM)
Warehouse Control Unit interface (WM-LSR)
Value Added Service (WM-VAS)
Yard Management (WM-YM)
Cross-Docking (WM-CD)
Wave Management (WM-TFM-CP)
Decentralized WM (WM-DWM)

SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM)

SAP EWM first emerged as a successor to SAP Logistics Execution Warehouse Management (LE-WM), with added advantages and advanced features such as material flow system (MFS) and Labor Management. The earliest versions of SAP EWM were only available as separate standalone applications until 2016 when SAP embedded the EWM functionality in the SAP S/4 Hana Suite. SAP EWM can be installed as standalone or be connected to an SAP S/4HANA system.

The solution can be deployed as Embedded or Decentral. In both case for On Premise or running SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private Edition.

Embedded EWM in SAP S/4HANA

Embedded SAP EWM is also available. Embedded means that no separate system is required and therefore SAP EWM can be used as a direct replacement for LE-WM. EWM is in such a set-up completely embedded within the SAP S/4HANA system. By embedding EWM on SAP S/4HANA, clients could take advantage of the SAP HANA in-memory database and execute high-speed transactions for their warehousing operations. With each new version of SAP S/4HANA, more functionality was added to embedded EWM, including an ever-growing list of innovative SAP Fiori apps and a stripped-down version called stock room management.

The license type differentiation for Basic or Advanced is only applicable for embedded deployment cases.

To Choose Basic or Advanced Please customized under IMG-EWM-Master Data -Acknowledge Use of Advance Function

Basic Extended Warehouse Management

Basic license type, customers are able to perform the main process end to end such as, Inbound, Outbound, Production Integration, Quality management integration, etc. Below you can find all the process included on basic license:

Inventory Management

Inbound Processing

Outbound Processing

Internal Warehouse Movements

Physical Inventory

Reporting (Warehouse Management Monitor, Analytics)

Resource Management

Quality Management

Production Integration

Integration with Transportation Management (ASR)

IDOC Integration to third-party MFS systems (SAP Note 2873423)

Advanced Extended Warehouse Management

The advanced license might be required in case of customer would use some features enclosed of the main process, for example, the outbound process designed is required to use Wave management or, the production integration is required to use JIT - Just in Time. It means that the Advanced license type is required in case of use some specific SAP EWM features, such as

Material Flow System (MFS)

Wave Management

Transportation units

Yard Management

Labor Management

Cross Docking

Value Added Services (VAS)

Warehouse Billing

Kitting

Dock Appointment Scheduling (DAS)

Slotting

Cartonization planning

Distribution Equipment

JIT

WIP Tracking

Warehouse Zones for advanced interleaving

License Management for SAP EWM Embedded

The list of the extended objects for SAP EWM embedded is technically found on table /SCWM/EXT_OBJ. SAP Product Solution Team provide 2 reports for customers perform in their system in order to know which objects is being used on their warehouse system with usage detail

Report /SCWM/RP_COMPLIANCE_CHECK is available since S/4HANA 2016 (and higher) and provides the information if the customizing or the licensing is compliance or non-compliance for each warehouse system.
Report /SCWM/RP_LICENCE_SELF_AUDIT is available since S/4HANA 2022 (and higher) and provides by warehouse number a view by month of usage of Basic and Advanced features by total number of items per month, number of average items per day and active working days, compliance or non-compliance from the customizing perspective

Decentralized EWM in SAP S/4HANA

After SAP launched embedded EWM in SAP S/4HANA 1610, there were a lot of customers who realized that they wanted to use their existing systems but also embedded EWM features in another SAP S/4HANA physical server. The reasoning was this would ensure higher performance levels and warehouse business process continuity in case of any downtime. To cater to such a requirement, SAP introduced a new deployment option known as decentralized EWM in SAP S/4HANA 1809, FPS 01. Prior to this version, embedded EWM used to share the same master data objects which were loaded as part of the same SAP S/4HANA instance and could not interact with the master data of other SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA instances. With the new decentralized deployment, clients can take advantage of current and new innovations in embedded EWM but keep on using separate SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA core systems.

Note- The Decentralize deployment always requires the advanced license type

Types of SAP EWM Warehouses

Types of warehouses and their main tasks could be

Production Warehouse

Raw-materials handling
Integration of quality management
Production supply
Receipts from production
Materials staging and consumption

Distribution Center

Complex process and high volume
High degree of automation
Wave management
Slotting and rearrangement
Replenishment

Service Parts Warehouse

Low to very high complexity
Kitting and value-added services
High volatility
Serial numbering
Heterogeneous product ranges

Cross-Dock or Transit Warehouse

Regional hubs, gateways, and container freight stations
Air and ocean freight handling
Unit-load devices and containers handling
Receive from and sent to airport or seaport (drayage)

Conclusion- It will give a brief idea about the products and warehouse Management which will help to utilize knowledge to choose correct option for warehouse in Supply chain Management.

Reference https://community.sap.com/t5/supply-chain-management-blogs-by-sap/understanding-license-type-basic-vs-advanced-for-sap-extended-warehouse/ba-p/13580547

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Architecting Email Approval without My Inbox for SAP Build Process Automation Workflows: Part 3

2024-11-30T09:01:16.528000+01:00

This is the third and final blog of the series, in which we would like to explain the testing part in detail.

We have kept testing separate in this blog to provide a comprehensive explanation of all scenarios and steps from a technical perspective.

We have prepared the content for this series in three blogs, where we will be diving deep into Design, Development, and Testing.

In the previous blog, @Adwait_Fadnavis walked you through the complete development process. Now, I would like to start with the testing part.

Detailed Example of the Testing Process

To illustrate the testing process in more detail, let’s walk through an example:

Automation Scheduling: The automation is scheduled to run every 15 minutes. The desktop agent is set up on a virtual machine to ensure it runs in unattended mode.
Dummy Workflow Setup: A dummy workflow is created with fields such as “Request ID,” “Requester Name,” and “Approval Status.” Upon submission, an email is sent to the approver.
Email Response Handling: The approver receives the email and responds with “Approve.” The automation script checks the email subject line and sender’s email address to validate the response.
1. Invalid Response / Invalid Approver Handling: If the response is not valid or from an unauthorized approver, the system logs the incident and notifies the relevant parties for further investigation.
2. Approver Handling: If the response is valid or from an authorized approver, Workflow task will be approved.
3. Rejection Scenario: If the approver responds with “Reject,” the workflow status is updated to “Rejected,” and an email notification is sent to the requester and other stakeholders.
Workflow Update: The workflow status is updated to “Approved,” and an email notification is sent to the requester and other stakeholders.
Sending Notification Emails: Email Notification to all stake holders involved.

Let's Deep dive above steps in Detail:

Step 1: Automation Scheduled as Background Job

In a real-time scenario, this automation can be scheduled as a background job at intervals of 15 minutes, 30 minutes, or any custom-defined time interval.

The frequency can be adjusted based on the volume of approval tasks. This scheduling ensures that the system checks for new approval requests regularly and processes them in a timely manner.

As mentioned in the first blog, it is mandatory to have the desktop agent running in unattended mode. This setup is crucial for ensuring that the automation runs smoothly without manual intervention.

For real-time business scenarios, we recommend installing the desktop agent on virtual machines to ensure continuous operation and to handle high volumes of approval tasks efficiently.

Job scheduling : SAP Build Process Automation

Step 2: (Optional) Triggering the Workflow - Prepare the Dummy Workflow for Quick Testing

To facilitate quick testing, we prepared a small workflow using SAP Build Process Automation with a few fields. This dummy workflow simulates the real-time process and helps in validating the automation setup. Although in real-time, the workflow will be triggered via a valid application, here is a snapshot of our dummy workflow for demonstration purposes:

Workflow Trigger: Upon clicking the submit button, the workflow is triggered.
Email Notification: An email is sent to the approver for approval. This step involves configuring an SMTP outbound email, as mentioned in the previous blog post.

This setup allows us to test the end-to-end process in a controlled environment before deploying it in a live scenarioriggering the Workflow - Prepare the Dummy Workflow for Quick Testing (Optional)

Test for Sending Email for Task Creation

Sample Email Body

Triggering Workflow : Testing Demonstrations:

Process Triggered and Sent for Approval

Step 3: Handling Email Responses

Upon receiving the email, the approver will have three options: a) Approve b) Reject c) Not a valid response

Let’s say the approver starts with “ok” and responds with this in the email.

Upon receiving the response, our automation running as a background job will check if the response is coming from a valid approver and if the subject line is correct (the subject line should not be modified).

This validation step is crucial to ensure that only authorized responses are processed.

Validating Correct ApproverValidating Correct Approvers Response will be send if the Approver is not valid.

Response will be send if the Approver is not valid.

Validating Correct response: Validating Correct response

Step 4: Workflow Update on Approval

If the work item is approved, the workflow will move forward and update the task accordingly. This involves:

Updating the Workflow Status: The status of the workflow is updated to “Approved” in the system

Workflow Update on Approval

Notifying Stakeholders: All relevant stakeholders are notified about the approval via email.

Notifying Stakeholders

Workflow Update on Rejection

Similarly, if the response is “no” or “Rejected,” the work item will be updated, and the workflow will proceed with the rejected branch. This involves:

Updating the Workflow Status: The status of the workflow is updated to “Rejected” in the system.

Updating the Workflow Rejection Status

Notifying Stakeholders: All relevant stakeholders are notified about the rejection via email.

Step 5: Sending Notification Emails

An email notification will be sent to all involved parties to inform them of the status of the workflow request. This step ensures transparency and keeps everyone informed about the progress of the approval process.

rejection via email

We hope you enjoyed reading our blog series by me and @Adwait_Fadnavis on Architecting Email Approval for SAP Build Process Automation Workflows. We trust that this approach provides valuable insights into managing workflow approvals efficiently without relying on manual My Inbox / Task Center approvals.

Thank you for following along with us.

Regards,

Mohit Bansal l, SAP BTP & S/4HANA Architect , Linkedin

Situation Handling in Handling Unit Management In S/4 Hana

2024-12-13T13:53:17.669000+01:00

Hi Readers

Today I am here with new features in Handling Unit Management which is called situation handling. Here I will explain only conceptual knowledge for it. Please go through it and advise me to improve if it is required.

Brief Introduction to Handling Unit and its features

Handling Unit

A handling unit is a physical unit consisting of packaging materials and the goods contained on it. A handling unit is always a combination of materials and packaging materials

Nested Handling Unit

Handling units can be nested, and we can create a new handling unit from several other handling units.

Note- A handling unit has a unique, scannable identification number that we can construct according to industry standards such as GSI-128 or SSCC. For Example, Label Printing for EAN128 and Adapting the Label Layout.

We can use Handling Unit Management to map packing-controlled logistics in the SAP system. Here, we do not consider the movements of the individual materials, instead we map the movements of the handling unit that contain these materials. Using handling units to map logistical processes simplifies processing of goods movements and thus optimizes logistics processes.

This simplified process includes the existing packing function in shipping and the storage unit processing in the Warehouse Management system, which have been enhanced here.

Some Handling Unit Features

A handling unit has a unique, scannable identification number that we can construct according to industry standards such as GSI-128 or SSCC.
The movability of the handling unit can be restricted if the quality inspection is active. Changes to the stock category as a result of a quality inspection are carried out through a transfer posting of the handling unit.
Reporting is available with which handling units can be found and displayed according to various selection criteria, such as material, packing instruction, or storage location.
Handling Unit Situation

Handling Unit Integration

Handling units can be used in all processes within the supply chain.

Sales and Distribution
Production
Purchasing
Goods receipt
Quality Management
Warehouse Management
Inventory Management
Shipping

Processes are supported

Goods Movements with Handling Units
Packing for Inbound and Outbound Deliveries
Handling Units in Production
Handling Units in Warehouse
Handling Units in Inventory Management
Physical Inventory management

Situation Handling Concept in Handling Unit in S/4 Hana

The consuming app is a business app for which this template is designed, and which displays a situation message. For some products shipped with handling units it is critical, that during the delivery certain basic conditions are met, for example, regarding the temperature, the humidity, or vibrations. To monitor these handling units, we can attach sensors to the handling unit before it leaves our warehouse to make sure that we get informed when defined thresholds are exceeded. The sensors send their data to a third party Internet of Things (IoT) system, which then creates a situation using the Handling Unit API to inform the shipping specialist. The person receives this notification, which leads to the relevant entry in the Monitor Handling Units (SAP S/4 Hana Cloud) or My situation (S/4 Hana on Premises) app. In the app, the shipping specialist can see, for example, which handling unit is affected and what the sensor detected. We can adapt the displayed texts to our own business purposes.

Important Instruction-If a situation has been created for a specific handling unit and the situation has been resolved by the shipping specialist, no further situation can be triggered for the same handling unit. In the situation message displayed in the app, please consider the following:

The external handing unit number is displayed with leading zeros. If we copy the number, make sure to omit these leading zeros
The unit of measure is displayed as internal SAP code or ISO code only.

Role of Handling Unit IOT

Template used for Situation Handling that informs users about what is happening with a handling unit. The information is based on SAP Internet of Things sensor values, for example, an exceeded temperature or humidity value for a product packed in the handling unit that must be handled with care. We want your shipping specialists to be informed automatically when somethings happen to a handling unit.

How Handling Unit IOT works

In SAP Internet of Things, we can configure sensors. Before a handling unit leaves your warehouse, we can attach these sensors to monitor your handling units. The sensors can,

For example, measure the temperature, the humidity, the force that is exerted on the unit, or vibrations. These values usually indicate that the goods could be damaged (because, for example, the temperature or humidity is too high, or the package was dropped).

Whenever these measured values exceed the threshold that we define in the rules, this information is sent back to SAP S/4HANA. In SAP S/4HANA, we can set up conditions to trigger a notification in the system. 

The shipping specialist receives this notification, which leads to the relevant entry in the Monitor Handling Units /My Situation app. In the app, the shipping specialist can see, for example, which handling unit is affected and what the sensor detected. You can adapt the displayed texts to your own business purposes. Since the shipping specialist receives this information as soon as the defined situation occurs, it is possible to react fast and immediately send a substitute product to the customer while the original delivery is still on the way. This saves time, reduces the risk of customer dissatisfaction while boosting your reputation as a reliable supplier.

Situation Display

When situations occur, users are informed about them by various texts, such as in-app situation messages or notifications on SAP Fiori launchpad. In this section, we can see all preconfigured texts.

Conclusion - Situation handling is an alert for handling unit which can be sent to concerned team to spoil the product. It benefits to business and reduce the damages.

Reference https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_S4HANA_ON-PREMISE/25a41481f62e469ba0e61015a0d39d20/4134bb536b13b44ce10000000a174cb4.html

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Test Automation Tool vs. Tricentis Test Automation: A Comparative Analysis

2025-01-07T20:28:57.292000+01:00

Test automation is crucial for efficient implementation and maintenance of SAP landscapes. This article compares the SAP S/4HANA Cloud Test Automation Tool (TAT) and Tricentis Test Automation (TTA) to help you choose the right tool for your business needs.

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Overview

Feature	SAP S/4HANA Cloud Test Automation Tool (TAT)	Tricentis Test Automation (TTA)
Availability	Pre-installed in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Quality Systems	Requires installation and integration with SAP Solution Manager
SAP Role Requirement	SAP_BR_TEST_ADMIN_AUTOMATION role	SAP Solution Manager user roles
Scope	Focused on SAP S/4HANA Cloud applications	Supports SAP on-premise and cloud products (e.g., Ariba, SuccessFactors)
Pre-built Test Scripts	330+ SAP-delivered automated scripts available	No pre-built scripts; users must create from scratch
API Testing	Limited to specific areas (Finance, Sales, Procurement, Manufacturing)	Supports all APIs
Post-Upgrade Testing	Supported	Not available
Supported UIs	Limited to SAP S/4HANA Cloud UIs	Supports a broad range of UIs (e.g., WebDynpro, GUI, UI5, mobile)
Integration with Non-SAP Systems	Not supported	Supports integration with non-SAP applications
Integration with Cloud ALM	Supported	Planned for future updates

Use Cases

Scenario	Recommendation
Focused solely on SAP S/4HANA Cloud	TAT is the best option
Complex integration with other SAP products	TTA is more suitable
Extensive API testing	TTA provides more flexibility
Regression testing for upgrades	TAT supports Post Upgrade Test (PUT) functionality
Integration with non-SAP applications	TTA is the ideal choice

Detailed Feature Comparison

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Conclusion

Choosing between SAP S/4HANA Cloud Test Automation Tool (TAT) and Tricentis Test Automation (TTA) depends on your organization’s testing scope, integration requirements, and automation needs. For simpler SAP S/4HANA Cloud-focused landscapes, TAT offers a streamlined solution with pre-built scripts and Post Upgrade Testing support. For diverse and complex environments, TTA’s flexibility and wide-ranging integration capabilities make it a powerful choice.

Can a Free Chrome Extension Transform Your SAP S/4HANA Experience?

2025-01-15T22:37:31.600000+01:00

Hello folks,

in this blog post, I will explain the main functionalities of my Chrome browser extension. Although I am a software developer at SAP, this browser extension was developed in my free time. So it's not an official SAP product. But I'll promise it will work as smooth and with high quality, as if it was one 😎

So who can benefit from this browser extension? Basically all SAP S/4HANA user, so all customers, but also consultants who have to configure certain processes in the same fiori apps but different systems. As well as testers or developers who need to test their processes or features in different systems.

The design is kept in SAP UI5 (Fiori) style to have a smooth integration for new S/4 user but also experienced S/4 user. It should feel as one software to you.

What is the main purpose of this browser extension? Let's say you have 20 Fiori apps that you use frequently. Now you could of course just go ahead and create bookmarks in your browser, like you do for other web pages. But usually you will use these apps also in different systems, it could be a sandbox system, could be a Q-system and of course in your productive system. So if you have three systems, you would save 60 bookmarks.

Using my browser extension, you create a "dynamic" bookmark which opens the Fiori app in any system. That means you come down to 20 "dynamic bookmarks". On top of that, you can save your most favorite systems as well.

You find the major features in this short clip that I recorded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu012cdXyFc

So where do you get the extension? In the official chrome store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/nelmoakcfgfgkigcjgkmibhmgfpbhcbh?utm_source=item-share-cb

or in the Microsoft Edge Add-On Store: https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/fiori-launchpad-for-sap-c/kfbfaeokdhfbeikhofemeboc...

After you have downloaded the extension and also pinned it in your browser, you should see the extension icon in your browser.

So let's get started now with our new Chrome extension. For that, we log in to a SAP S/4HANA system. I am using an internal test system.

Now we can add the S/4HANA System to our favorite list. For that we will click on the extension logo in our browser. It opens a popup, here we click on the 'Favorite' button in the top right corner.

A menu opens up, we can either add a Fiori app or an S/4 system to our favorite list. So we click on S/4 System.

Now we can decide how we want to name this new favorite system. In this example, we name it TEST/100. As we work on client 100 in that internal test system.

Now we save the S/4 System, by confirming and pressing save.

We open the 'Manage Bank Statements' app. And click again on the extension logo. We click again on 'Favorite'.

This time we click on 'Fiori App'. To add the current Fiori app to our favorites.

Fiori App name is already proposed as 'Manage Bank Statements' as have the Fiori app already on my favorite list, I change the name to "MBS DEMO". We click on 'save'.

If we right-click on the extension logo, we have an option to click on 'Options'.

Now the options page opens up. In the top left corner, we have three buttons (segmented buttons). With the labels 'Current', 'Tab', 'Window'. These are the same settings you do also see on the popover, which opens from the extension logo. These settings are the settings how you wish, to open the new S/4 system or Fiori app.

'Current' means it stays in the current browser and tab, and will navigate to it. 'Tab' means it will open the new site in a new tab. 'Window' means, accordingly, it will open in a new browser window. On the top right of the table you have actions, with which you can delete, edit or adjust the position of your favorite apps or systems. A bit below the three segmented buttons for the browser settings. You have two table tabs. One with 'Fiori Apps' and one with 'S/4 Systems' as label. With this, you can change the view on your favorite lists. On the bottom right you have an upload and download functionality. Keep in mind, you have to pre-select the correct table tab. You can't upload Fiori apps into your extension, when the S/4 Systems tab is selected, and vice versa.

The browser settings can also be found on the bottom left of your popover.

The system settings can be found on the bottom right. Whatever is selected here will the be only valid for your next navigation. Other than the browser settings which we have seen in the steps before.

Now we can navigate to a new app. By just clicking on our newly added favorite 'MBS DEMO'. The browser settings, are set that the new app will be open in a new window.

By the way, you also have the possibility to share your favorite fiori apps or systems with other colleagues. For that you open the options page of the extension and click on download, to download the fiori apps. You hand over the JSON file to your colleague, who can then click on "Upload" and import your list.

One small hidden gem: if you want to use the extension also in your incognito window, you have to enable this extension in your settings.

Click on the three dots, then on Settings.

Navigate to the Extension settings:

Almost there! Click on "Details".

Now click on the switch button to enable the extension also for the incognito mode:

Any further questions? Then please comment below. Feel free to share the extension to whoever might be interested.

More information about the extension can be found here.

Best,

Edrilan Berisha

Unlocking the Power of Version Management in SAP Analytics Cloud for Planning

2025-01-29T00:45:15.221000+01:00

Version Management within SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) for Planning is an area that needs to be organized and pristine. This blog explores the differences between Private and Public versions and how to manage versions effectively using examples from best-practice business content, such as the Rapid FP&A Suite for SAP S/4HANA.

Understanding Private and Public Versions in SAP Analytics Cloud

Private Versions and Public Versions serve distinct purposes in SAP Analytics Cloud:

Private Versions are individual workspaces where planners can experiment with scenarios and updates without affecting others. Private Versions allow users to test different planning approaches in isolation.
Public Versions are shared, organization-wide Versions that serve as the official source of truth for FP&A data. When a planner inputs data into a Public Version, their inputs are captured in a Private Version. The planner must then actively choose to "publish" their changes so that they appear in the Public Version.

Establish a Single Planning Version

The process within the Rapid FP&A Suite uses a single, write-enabled, public PLAN version—the Working Plan—for all active planning activities. This approach minimizes confusion by avoiding multiple editable Plan Versions simultaneously. Multiple editable Versions (e.g., Plan_1, Plan_2) upfront, can:

Confuse planners about where to submit their data.
Require constant updates to input forms and associated security settings for each Version.
Introduce excessive variability into workflows, leading to errors.

To simplify the process, the SAP consultants behind Rapid FP&A suggest:

Focus on a Single PLAN Version: Using a single PLAN Version ensures planners always know where to input their data. This reduces confusion and eliminates the administrative burden of maintaining multiple editable Versions.
Pre-Configured Input Forms in Rapid FP&A: Input forms in the Rapid FP&A Suite are pre-configured to filter on the PLAN Version, ensuring planners work in the "Working Plan" Version.
Leverage Data Actions: The Rapid FP&A Suite includes pre-configured Data Actions that allow you to copy any PLAN data into finalized, version-specific names like Target2025 or Budget2024. Once copied, these versions become read-only and are naturally referred to by their specific names (e.g., Forecast2025) for clarity and consistency.

Why does this approach work? It focuses planners on completing one version of the Plan before moving to another, avoiding the complexity and errors of managing multiple editable versions simultaneously.

Managing Data Within Private Versions

Private Versions offer a flexible environment to refine and validate planning scenarios before publishing to Public Versions. Here are some best practices:

How to Use Private Versions Effectively

Planners must flow their plan inputs through Private Versions, regardless of how Public Versions are managed, so educating Planners on how to use Private Versions optimally is crucial. Proper use of Private Versions ensures accurate updates to the plan and provides flexibility:

Experiment and Refine: Use Private Versions to model scenarios, refine your inputs, and validate changes without impacting others.
Publish with Purpose: Once all updates are finalized, publish the changes to the Public Version to make them available for organizational use. Under the Rapid FP&A Suite, published updates flow into the PLAN Version (Working Plan), which admins can later archive into specific Version names (e.g., Budget2026) once all plans are collected.
Utilize Tools for Confidence: Features like the “Revert” function and “Version History Panel” provide a safety net to undo mistakes during refinement of your Private version. Remember: Reverting is unavailable after publishing it in the Public Version.

Tip: The Rapid FP&A Suite includes pre-configured input forms and sample data, allowing you to practice updating and publishing Private Versions in a "practice" environment.

Best Practices for Managing Public Versions

Creating multiple specific Version names (e.g., Budget2026, Forecast2025) at the start of every planning cycle can be problematic. This approach requires updating all input forms and reports to align with each new Version name, creating inefficiencies and potential confusion. Additionally, frequent changes to Version names can leave users unsure where to input their plan data, causing unnecessary delays and errors.

Use Categories to Organize Your Versions

You can use the category property to organize your versions by type. Categories help distinguish versions and streamline management. The following categories can help organize versions:

Actual, Budget, Plan, Forecast, Rolling Forecast

A model can have one public Actuals version, typically updated via import from a data source like S/4HANA. However, private copies of this version can be created for analysis or testing. Categories like Forecast allow you to create multiple forecast versions to explore optimistic, baseline, or worst-case outcomes.

Under Best Practices in the Rapid FP&A Suite, planners will focus on one scenario at a time (e.g., baseline) within the PLAN Version. Once the scenario is finalized, it can be archived under a version-specific name such as Baseline2025 or Optimistic2025, and then the planner can move on to the following scenario. This approach ensures planners complete one scenario before moving to another, avoiding confusion and streamlining the process.

Hold Actual Data in a Read-Only Version

Store finalized Actual data in a read-only ACTUAL Version. This ensures the integrity of historical data and provides a clear baseline for variance analysis.

Archive Specific Versions for Reporting

Instead of constantly updating input forms and security for new write-enabled Versions, take snapshots of the working PLAN Version at key points in the planning cycle. Archive these snapshots into finalized, read-only Versions (e.g., Budget2026, Forecast2025) using pre-built Data Actions from the Rapid FP&A Suite.
This approach preserves the integrity of snapshot data while avoiding the repetitive task of reconfiguring templates and security for every user or group needing write access to a plan version.

How Rapid FP&A Suite Supports Version Management

The Rapid FP&A Suite for SAP S/4HANA is a valuable toolset for:

Testing and Experimentation
- Use sample data to explore how updates to Private Versions flow into Public Versions.
Streamlined Workflows
- Discover how we maintain a single write-enabled PLAN Version for all planning activities.
- See how admins can create finalized, locked-down Versions efficiently by copying a version from PLAN
Reducing Administrative Overhead
- You will see how pre-configured input forms align with the active working PLAN Version.
- With only one active PLAN version all the time, you simplify security and configuration management
Preserving Data Integrity
- Finalized Versions like Budget2026 or Forecast2025 are clearly labeled and locked for accurate reporting.
- Any other interim snapshots of PLAN can be archived for reviews or status meetings.

Benefits for FP&A Teams?

Planners: Clarity on where to input data with a single active Version.
Admins: Efficiency in managing Versions with reduced maintenance effort.
Stakeholders: Reliable, finalized Versions ready for variance analysis and decision-making.

Getting Started

Ready to unlock the full potential of Version Management? Leverage the Rapid FP&A Suite for SAP S/4HANA as a toolset to test and refine your planning processes. Explore its pre-configured content, including input forms, data actions, and sample scenarios, to simplify and standardize your workflows. The best part? You can download the suite in minutes and review these processes using sample data—no integration is required during your discovery phase.

How do you Download the free Rapid FP&A Suite?
Downloading the Rapid FP&A Suite is straightforward and hassle-free.
Follow these steps to get started:
1. Log in to your SAP Analytics Cloud account. Please don't use a production tenant.
2. Navigate to the "Content Network" on the left-hand side panel of SAC
3. Select "Business Content"
4. Search for "Rapid" in the upper right-hand 'Search' box - you should see Rapid Finance, Workforce, Sales
4. Follow the instructions to complete the download and installation of each of the Rapid modules (Rapid Finance, Rapid Sales, Rapid Workforce).

Let’s make planning Rapid, Simple, and Standard with SAP Analytics Cloud!

How Signavio Process Analysis and Mining helps to deal with shortage of SAP ERP consultants

2025-06-06T10:48:07.814000+02:00

Many people argue about the shortage of S/4 consultants and limited knowledge and how to run and optimize SAP processes in an ever changing IT world.

The answer is an app which is simply accumulating and structuring the insights and knowledge of thousands of consulting hours, out-of-the-box, for every SAP solution.

Signavio Process Analysis and Mining provides even two apps for this problem which are leaders in Gartner's magic quadrant since 3 years in a row:

Below you find a demo how to leverage both solutions including the out-of-the-box analysis content from SAP and partners.

Here you can learn more about Process Analysis and Mining: