SAP S/4HANA® Selective Data Transition Engagement

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Key Takeaways

⇨ Flexible Migration: Selective Data Transition offers flexibility in choosing the speed and scope of your SAP S/4HANA® migration, allowing for a single go-live or phased approach.

⇨ Data Management: Migrate only relevant historical data, leaving behind obsolete information, and adapt business processes while protecting previous investments.

⇨ Reduced Disruption: Near-zero downtime approach enables a smooth transition to SAP S/4HANA®, minimizing business disruption.

A SAP S/4HANA® Selective Data Transition goes beyond a standard New Implementation or System Conversion. It includes a host of options, related to the handling of software & data provisioning, requiring additional expert services and tools to accomplish.

The Benefits

The benefits of the Selective Data Transition approach are diverse and often customer specific.

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As a starting point, we defined the typical key benefits of this approach suitable for most SAP customers:

Avoid business disruption when moving to SAP S/4HANA® and go live in a way that suits business needs. This approach allows for a single go live, moving a high number of organizational units or roll-out in multiple phases (e.g., by country).
Migrate your relevant historical data only and retain a consistent process chain / document flow. Leave obsolete data behind, such as outdated company codes.
Define your own speed and combine single projects, including a new go live implementation, finance harmonization, or others with the move to SAP S/4HANA® in one single step—or separate them in a phased approach.
With your journey to SAP S/4HANA®, you may introduce new business processes and adapt / harmonize your historical data, while protecting good practices and previous investments (e.g., custom applications).
Near-Zero Downtime approach provides the ability to restrict the technical downtime to a couple of hours only.
Possibility to change your landscape (e.g., split or consolidate existing systems).

The Approach

The term “selective” is often used to describe a restrictive migration of current data, including master data, open items, and balances. This is not what the SAP S/4HANA® Selective Data Transition approach is about in terms of methodology, scope, and disruption to the business.

The SAP S/4HANA® Selective Data Transition is an alternative to a System Conversion and New Implementation to move to SAP S/4HANA®. This option is all about combining the benefits of both approaches without their limitations: use the innovations in S/4HANA®, while selectively leveraging / re-using your investment. Selective Data Transition gives you the flexibility to adapt customization, data, and processes in your new SAP S/4HANA® system.

This transition methodology maps your current system’s data and processes to a new setup. All relations and interdependencies between the different items stay intact. It also enables a direct further-on processing of partly delivered sales orders migrated from ECC without any cutover effort in SAP S/4HANA®. The complete reporting and lookup functionalities can be used in the new system, and the ECC system will not be needed anymore for daily business.

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The Experts

To provide SAP customers with a reliable and proven migration approach in their migration to SAP S/4HANA®, SAP established an expert group of partners – the SAP S/4HANA® Selective Data Transition Engagement. Formed in 2018, this working group unites the system landscape transformation experts of five companies: cbs, Datavard, Natuvion, SAP, and SNP.

The mission of this working group is to establish and adhere to joint standards, methods, and processes that are co-developed with SAP for a secure, yet flexible migration to SAP S/4HANA®. This alignment of the five companies aims to ensure high quality, reduced risk, shorter time to value, and cost-reduction of moves to SAP S/4HANA®, through effective standardization.

The joint standards mainly focus on three areas:

Quality standards regarding solution and project management methodology.
Transition scenarios and solution patterns for company-by-company go live, object dependencies, and retro-active implementation of new SAP S/4HANA®, features (e.g., document split in the new General Ledger).
Define a common approach for migration content and procedures, while each member continue using their own migration tools.

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Key Takeaways

⇨ Flexible Migration: Selective Data Transition offers flexibility in choosing the speed and scope of your SAP S/4HANA® migration, allowing for a single go-live or phased approach.

⇨ Data Management: Migrate only relevant historical data, leaving behind obsolete information, and adapt business processes while protecting previous investments.

⇨ Reduced Disruption: Near-zero downtime approach enables a smooth transition to SAP S/4HANA®, minimizing business disruption.

The Benefits

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The Approach

The Experts

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Vendors Mentioned

Key Topics Discussed

SAP S/4HANA® Selective Data Transition Engagement

Key Takeaways

⇨ Flexible Migration: Selective Data Transition offers flexibility in choosing the speed and scope of your SAP S/4HANA® migration, allowing for a single go-live or phased approach.

⇨ Data Management: Migrate only relevant historical data, leaving behind obsolete information, and adapt business processes while protecting previous investments.

⇨ Reduced Disruption: Near-zero downtime approach enables a smooth transition to SAP S/4HANA®, minimizing business disruption.

The Benefits

Explore related questions

The Approach

The Experts

More Resources

Capgemini to acquire Syniti for greater data management reach

Keynote | Key Learnings from Hilti’s Move to SAP S/4HANA

SAP S/4HANA Migration – Ensure Success with User Analytics

Top 5 Tips to Prepare Your Organization for S/4HANA

Become a Member

Become a Partner

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