New Implementations of

SAP S/4HANA with SAP Activate

Holger Steffens
VP, SAP S/4HANA Product Management & Packaging
End-to-End Implementation Experience

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New Implementations of SAP S/4HANA with SAP Activate

Summary
Simplify and accelerate your SAP S/4HANA deployments with ready-to-run business processes based on SAP Best
Practices, leverage on-premise trial options to get first hands on experience with SAP S/4HANA. Get an overview of
the implementation roadmap for each deployment phase, integration options, and extensibility opportunities - all
available as part of SAP Activate for SAP S/4HANA.
Speaker: Holger Steffens
Holger is vice president, SAP S/4HANA Product Management, Co-Innovation and
Packaging at SAP Products & Innovations.
As part of SAP P&I, he is accelerating the adoption of SAP S/4HANA through SAP
Activate, aiming at faster, less service-intensive implementations and rapid
adoption of innovations throughout the entire product lifecycle, in the cloud or onpremise.
Holger works closely with customers and cooperates with partners on coinnovation for packaging to accelerate time-to-value and reduce the total cost of
implementation for SAP S/4HANA deployments. Hes heading the End-to-End
Implementation Experience for the Sales to Contract and Upgrade phase within
SAP S/4HANA Product Management.
Overview
Title: New Implementations of SAP S/4HANA with SAP Activate
Date: Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Time: 11:00 AM Central Daylight Time
Duration: 1 hour

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Simplify Your Innovation Adoption with SAP S/4HANA

I wish I could quickly do a proof

of concept without big upfront
investments.

What guidance do I can get

from SAP to implement
SAP S/4HANA?

How do I manage my
SAP S/4HANA
implementation project?
Are there any best practices
for SAP S/4HANA?

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SAP Activate the innovation adoption framework for SAP S/4HANA

Business Value
New
Implementation

SAP Best Practices

Faster, less service intensive initial

implementation in the cloud or onpremise

Rapid adoption of innovations

throughout the entire product
lifecycle

Extensible framework for partners

SAP S/4HANA
Cloud

System
Conversion

Guided Configuration
SAP S/4HANA

Methodology

Accelerated Time-to-Value
Landscape
Transformation

(initial and ongoing)

Reduced Total-Cost-of-Ownership
(over total lifecycle cloud and on-premise)

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Transition to SAP S/4HANA with SAP Activate

New Implementations

Project
Lifecycle

Discover

Prepare

Explore

Realize

Deploy

Run

SAP S/4HANA

SAP S/4HANA

Experience
Trial

Fit to Standard
Analysis

Scope and
configure

Migrate, integrate,
extend, test

Onboard and
deploy

Operate,
monitor, support

Cloud

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SAP Activate Building Blocks

: cloud only

Tools

SAP Best Practices

Delivered with
SAP S/4HANA

SAP Best
Practices for
S/4HANA

Methodology

for a Guided Configuration

Self-Service Configuration
Migration
Content

Cloud and on-premise

Integration
Content

One agile
implementation
methodology

Expert Configuration

Solution Builder
Solution Manager

SAP Activate Enablement and Certification Program

openSAP
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SAP Learning Hub

Classroom
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SAP Best Practices for SAP S/4HANA

Scope of 1511 release, RTC of 1610 release planned for October 31st
SAP Best Practices base scope for SAP S/4HANA in 2015

SAP Best Practices for SAP

S/4HANA are tailored specifically to
accelerate and simplify the adoption
of SAP S/4HANA
Processes delivered with SAP Best
Practices support core industry
requirements and cross enterprise
priorities
Key capabilities

Manage multiple geographies,

divisions, subsidiaries, and
ledgers
Global and country-specific
content
Analytical content included

Business Priority

Core Finance

Professional
Services Cloud

x
x

Core Human Resources

Streamlined Procure to Pay

Accelerated Plan to Product

Optimized Order to Cash

Project and Managed Services

Marketing Cloud

Enhanced Request to Service

Strategic Marketing

Integration with Ariba

Integration with SFSF

Integration with hybris

Integration with C4C

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On premise

Enterprise
Management
Cloud

x
x

x
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Example: Materials Requirements Planning

Scope Item

supporting SAP S/4 HANA highlights

and the way its delivered with the product

SAP FIORI-based MRP cockpit

Reduce cycle time by optimizing material flow for internal
requirements (MRP). Performance improvements up to 10
times faster (depending on scenario)

Central access to
all MRP-related
tasks

Instant feedback on issues with MRP runs

Real time alerting based in current stock requirements situation

/ Gather real-time stock & material flow insight with

Real-time identification of critical demands and supplies and

evaluation of their consequences. System generated solution
proposals to solve shortages

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View material
shortages

Solution proposal
to solve shortages

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SAP Best Practices for SAP S/4HANA Integration

Employee
Central
SAP Ariba

PEOPLE

S/4HANA Marketing

PROCUREMENT

WS

HCI

PO

CUSTOMER

WS
SAP S/4HANA

HCI

PO

SAP Fieldglass

SAP S/4HANA Cloud

LABOR
ERP on premise

Financial Services Network

FINANCE

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Integration capabilities via:

PO SAP Process Orchestration
HCI SAP HANA Cloud Integration
WS Web Services

TRAVEL

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SAP Best Practices for SAP S/4HANA Migration

New
Implementation

ERP System
Non-SAP
System

SAP S/4HANA

SAP S/4HANA
Cloud

System
Conversion

ERP System

SAP S/4HANA

ERP System
- Region A SAP S/4HANA

Landscape
Transformation

ERP System
- Region B ERP System
- Region C -

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SAP Data Services (SAP DS) with

SAP Rapid Data Migration content for
on-premise
SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit for
Cloud
Rapid Database Migration of SAP
Business Suite to SAP S/4HANA (all
one step migration, including SAP
S/4HANA Finance and SAP S/4HANA
Logistics conversion) using SUM with
DMO

SAP Landscape Transformation (SAP

LT)

SAP S/4HANA
Cloud

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SAP Best Practices Introduction of Content Structure

SOLUTIONS

SCOPE ITEMS

BUILDING BLOCKS

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Definition

Bill of Material

A selection of scope items that cover the scope of preconfigured ready-to-run business processes for SAP
S/4HANA solutions. Solutions are available on cloud (e.g.
SAP S/4HANA Professional Services Cloud, Marketing
Cloud) or on-premise (e.g. SAP S/4HANA) and can be
implemented fully or partially.

Customer presentation
Sales supplement
Software and delivery

requirements
Project schedule
Solution scope
Organizational data overview
Master data overview

Typically a pre-defined business process, such as sales

order processing. They represent a Best Practice
implementation choice for a customer. Each scope item
has a set of accelerators delivering detailed documentation
that is used during the implementation project. Scope
items require specific building blocks to be implemented.

Scope-item fact sheets

Process diagrams
Test scripts
Scope-item simulations

A set of customizing and master data steps for a piece of

business content such as credit management. The
accelerators include the configuration content to
implement the scope item(s) and project documentation
for the building block.

Building-block fact sheets

Configuration guides
Activation content

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Discover and Download SAP Best Practices Content

Explore SAP Best
Practices for
SAP S/4HANA
SAP Service Marketplace for
Portfolio of SAP Best
Practices for SAP S/4HANA

Get your own proof of

concept system onpremise
SAP S/4HANA 1511 FPS01
software appliance (fully
activated)

Implement with the

guidance of SAP

SAP Roadmap Viewer for

SAP S/4HANA
implementation roadmaps

Manage your
implementation
SAP Solution
Manager

Solution
Deployment Center

The Customer

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Discover and Download SAP Best Practices Content

Bill-of-Material of Documentation

S/4HANA Guided
Configuration App

Standardized Documentation
of Best Practices Processes

SAP Solution Manager

SAP Best Practices in

SAP Service Marketplace

SAP Best Practices

solution builder

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SAP Best Practices Explorer

Discover and Download SAP Best Practices Content
SAP Best Practices Explorer - The New Web Channel
Experience to Search, Browse and Consume SAP Best
Practices
Key Benefits
Simple and Easy Navigation - Built using SAP UI5
technology, SAP Fiori like navigation
Access via Tablet and Mobile Devices Access the Best
Practices content anytime anywhere
Powerful Search Mechanism In-app search/filter, search
from popular search engines like Google, browse packages
via catalog and A-Z index
Quick access to accelerators based on user authorization
One click access to key accelerators, SAP Cloud Identity
Management based authorization, download accelerators for
offline usage

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SAP Best Practices Explorer

Integration into Web Channels and Navigation Flow
Solution Pages sap.com

Yahoo!
Google
Bing
The
Customer

Solution Finder
sap.com

Direct Access

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Discover and Download SAP Best Practices Content

SAP Solution Manager 7.2
Process models

Define your solution by selecting from a SAP

Best Practices process library complete with
process models, process diagrams, test scripts,
and links to executables, such as SAP Fiori
apps, in your solution.

Configuration

Understand and document how SAP Best

Practices are configured in the configuration
guides and activate or adjust the configuration
in your solution.

Project guidance

Import (WBS) templates based on SAP

Activate to understand the typical project tasks
and prepare your own projects.
Import SAP Best Practices easily and at no extra cost in the Solution
Administration app in your SAP Solution Manager 7.2 system.

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Supporting Tools
Discover

Experience
Trial

Prepare

Explore

Fit to Standard
Analysis

SAP Roadmap
Viewer

Realize

Scope and
configure

Deploy

Migrate, integrate,
extend, test

Onboard and
deploy

Run

Operate,
monitor, support

Leverage end-to-end deployment roadmap

S/4HANA Trial
System

Discover Sample
Processes

SAP Best Practice

Explorer

Evaluate available
Best Practices

Capture your requirements and adapt process diagrams

Solution Manager
Manage changes in your
implementation project

Solution Builder

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Kick start your implementation

with preconfigured content
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SAP Best Practices Sandbox System

Sandbox System Using the SAP S/4HANA On-Premise 1511 software appliance

Technical Components of the SAP S/4HANA software appliance

SAP S/4HANA
ABAP Server
S/4CORE 1511 FPS 01

SAP NW JAVA / ADS

JAVA Server

Gateway
+ Fiori

Adobe Document Services SP01

SAP NetWeaver 7.50 ABAP

SAP NetWeaver 7.50 JAVA

SAP HANA 1.0

SAP Sybase ASE 16.0

Remote Desktop
MS Windows Remote Desktop

Mozilla Firefox
SAP GUI 7.40
ABAP Dev Tools / HANA Studio
SAP Lumira 1.29
SAP Design Studio 1.6
MS Windows Server 2008

Remote desktop only via SAP CAL *

(*) Note: Windows remote desktop is only available when using the SAP Cloud Appliance Library (SAP CAL). Blu-Ray shipment only contains (1) & (2).
For detailed software releases, please check the detailed documentation of the appliance in SAP note 2032086 (http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/2032086)

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Prepare SAP Best Practices Sandbox System

Client Setup of the software appliance 1511 OP

SAP Best Practices: What ABAP client is used for what ?

ABAP Client

Description

100

Pre-activated Best Practices configuration & sample master data (Germany, USA)*
SAP Fiori applications
Additional configuration for end-to-end sample business process**
Transactional data in company code for Germany

Pre-activated content for SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) for Finance

Pre-activated Best Practices configuration & sample master data (Germany, USA)*

Technical preparation activities prior to Best Practices content activation

Exploration client

200
SAP BW client

300
Best Practices reference client

400
Ready-to-Activate client

(*) Integration with SAP Ariba, SAP Financial Services Network & SAP BI platform not included but can be configured by customer / partner.
Processes localized with sample master & transactional data for Germany. US localization requires customer-specific Vertex integration and comes without transactional data.
(**) Order-to-Cash; Procure-to-Pay; Plan-to-Production; Self-service Procurement w. Catalog

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Scoping and Content Activation in Development System

Overview

Import Reference Content

Solution scope file(s)

Installation data file(s)

Select Scope

Choose solution
scope items to be
activated

Activate

Start activation
Manual steps
Exception handling

Prepare SAP Best Practices

client in Development
System according to
Administration Guide for the
implementation of SAP
S/4HANA on-premise
edition

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Scoping and Content Activation in Development System

Import Reference Content

Import Reference
Content*
Solution scope file(s)
Installation data file(s)

Reference content embraces

Installation data files
Solution scope files

Download
most recent
content

Installation data file

Contains installation settings
(configuration settings and master
data) of the solution

Solution scope file

Contains the technical structure for
each solution (scope items, building
blocks, and technical objects)

Upload it to
system

Import into
Solution
Builder

(*) Procedure described in SAP Note 2226371

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Scoping and Content Activation in Development System

Select Scope

Scoping
x

Choose solution scope

items to be activated

Period end
closing

x
Revenue
Planning

x
Accounts
Receivable

Business
Network
Integration

x
Accounts
payable

x
Make-to-Stock
Production

x
General Cost
Center Planning

x
Accounting and
Financial Close

x
Material
Requirements
Planning
Return to
Vendor

Repetitive
Manufacturing

Align Scope

Select Scope

Customer Solution

Scope items to be
activated

SAP Best Practices for SAP

S/4HANA, on-premise edition
Selected solution scope for Activation
Scope items not required
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Configuration and Transport Management

Detailed Technical View
Legend

optional
Use client copy
profile
SAP_CUST

SAP Note 2292425

SAP Note 2309549

Adjust
language files
to be installed

Download
most recent
best practice
content

Activate best
practice
content

= System Status
= Activity
= Involved Role

Reduced Copy from Client 000

Create best
practice client*

SAP Best
Practice Content
provides good
coverage
regarding
customer
requirements?

(configuration by
table
/FTI/T_NOCLN000)

yes

/n/SMB/BBI

/n/SMB/BBI

SAP Note 2226371

no

Client with C/G-tables

filled from
best practice
content

Adaptation of
best practice
content in IMG

SAP Note 2272406

Full Copy from Client 000

Create
"classic" client

Application Consultant

Client with
strongly
reduced
content of C/G-tables
from client
000

Technology Consultant

Client with
with complete
content of C/G-tables
from client
000

"Classical"
customizing
project in IMG

Technology Consultant

Application Consultant

(*) Further Details: http://help.sap.com/s4hana S/4HANA Edition Link "About administrating SAP S/4HANA solution implementation" PREREQUISITE settings Setting up a new best practice client

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Enablement Offerings for SAPActivate

Content

Tools

Technical Content

Technical Configuration

Process diagrams
Configuration guides
Test scripts
Migration & Integration
Guides

Tools

SAP Best Practices

Methodology

for a Guided Configuration

Assets

Reference
Business
Content

Migration
Content

Integration
Content

Getting Started Guides

Self-Service Configuration
Expert Configuration
SAP solution builder tool

One agile
implementation
methodology

SAP Best Practices

Solution Builder

Documentation

SAP Solution Manager

Admin Guide
SAP Solution Manager
Reference Guide

SAP S/4HANA on openSAP

Registration required
SAP S/4HANA Deep Dive
SAP S/4HANA use cases
Implementing SAP
S/4HANA (Part 1)

SAP Activate Enablement and Certification Program

openSAP

SAP Activate Learning

Room for Prof. Users
Configuration Learning
Room for Key Users

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Methodologies

Classroom

SAP Roadmap Viewer

Learning Maps /
eLearning

Learning Rooms

SAP Learning Hub

EKT Learning Maps for

Technical and Application
Consultants
Partner Edge Program

Classroom

One unique
implementation
methodology
Reflecting different
implementation scenarios

SAP S/4HANA Trainings

Analytics
Finance
Materials Management and Operations

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Resources

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Find out more

Implementing SAP S/4HANA with
SAP Best Practices

http://bit.ly/S4BPRefguide

SAP S/4HANA Trial Page

http://www.sap.com/s4hana-trial

SAP Service Marketplace

http://service.sap.com/solutionpackages

SAP Best Practices Explorer

http://rapid.sap.com/bp

SAP Roadmap Viewer

https://roadmapviewersupportportal.dispatcher.hana.ondemand.com/

SAP Solution Finder

http://go.sap.com/services/rapid-deployment/finder.html

Hybrid Integration Page

http://service.sap.com/hybrid

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