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SAP S/4HANA Fully-Activated Appliance: Demo Guides
This blog gives information on the pre-configured sample demo scenarios in the SAP S/4HANA Fully-Activated Appliance. If you stumbled across this blog “by accident” and are interested in bringing up your own preconfigured SAP S/4HANA sandbox system within a few hours, please see this overview for the SAP S/4HANA Fully-Activated Appliance.
Direct links to the most recent appliance releases in SAP CAL are:
2022 FPS01 / 2022 SP00 / 2021 FPS02
Known issues for recent releases are listed here:
2022 / 2021 / 2020
Table of content
A) Demo guides (valid for various appliance releases)
B) General remarks on the demo guides (scope, support, ….)
C) Post-deployment steps
D) System log-on
E) Archive: Demo guides for earlier appliance releases
A) Demo guides
Below are links to the pre-configured demo guides of the most recent appliance releases (FPS = Feature Package Stack).
Demo guides for older appliance releases can be found in the archive at the end of this blog.
Important: Before you start with these guides , please be sure to read sections B), C) and D) below at least once to prepare your system in the best way.
Overview
- Overview pages for Sales / Finance / Procurement
2022 & 2021 (all FPS)
Logistics
- Sell from Stock with Outbound Delivery Processing
2022 / 2021 (all FPS) / 2020 (all FPS) / 1909 (FPS01_02) - Warehouse Inbound Processing from Supplier
2022 & 2021 (all FPS) & 2020 (all FPS) & 1909 (FPS01&02) - Plan to Produce using Advanced Planning for Capacity Utilization
2022 / 2021 (all FPS) / 2020 (all FPS) - Predictive Material & Resource Planning (pMRP)
2022 / 2021 (all FPS) & 2020 FPS02 - Demand-driven MRP (DDMRP)
2022 (all FPS) / 2021 (all FPS) & 2020 FPS02 - Order Management using Advanced Variant Configuration
2022 & 2021 (all FPS) - Asset Management (Calibration Processing)
2022 & 2021 (all FPS) - Advanced Intercompany Sales
2022 (all FPS) - Advanced Available-to-Promise, Back Order Processing (aATP, BOP)
2022 (all FPS)
Finance
- Accounting, Financial Close & Closing Cockpit
2022 & 2021 (all FPS) & 2020 (all FPS) - Group Reporting
2022 & 2021 (FPS02 & FPS01) / 2021 (SP00) - Lease-In Accounting
2022 & 2021 (all FPS) & 2020 FPS02 - Investments
2022 & 2021 & 2020 (all FPS) - Universal Allocation for Finance & Controlling
2022 & 2021 & 2020 (all FPS) - Basic Bank Account Management
2022 & 2021 & 2020 (all FPS) - Treasury – Bank Guarantee Management
2022 & 2021 (all FPS) - Provisioning of Overdue Receivables
2022 & 2021 & 2020 (all FPS) - Basic Credit Management
2022 & 2021 (all FPS) & 2020 FPS02 - Miscellaneous (overview style only)
- Purchase Order Accruals: 2022 & 2021 (all FPS) & 2020 (FPS02 & FPS01)
- Financial Planning & Analysis: 2022 & 2021 (all FPS) & 2020 FPS02
- General Ledger Allocation Cycle: 2022 & 2021 (all FPS) & 2020 (FPS02 & FPS01)
Further LoB & generic scenarios
- Service
- Service: 2022 FPS01 / 2022 SP00 & 2021 (all FPS)
- In-house Repair: 2022 FPS01 / 2022 SP00 / 2021 (all FPS)
- Presales: 2022 & 2021 (all FPS) & 2020 (all FPS)
- Maintenance Service: 2022 FPS01 / 2022 SP00
- Portfolio & Project Management
2022 (all FPS) / 2021 (all FPS) & 2020 (FPS02&01) - Master Data Governance, MDG (separate blog with multiple scenarios)
Latest release - Human Capital Management
- Absences & Own Data: 2022 (all FPS) / 2021 (all FPS), 2020 (all FPS), 1909 FPS02
- Processes & Forms, Timesheet, Benefits Enrollment: 2022 FPS01 / 2022 SP00 / 2021 (all FPS) & 2020 FP02
Analytics & AI
- Embedded Analytics / Smart Business, SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP BusinessObjects
2022 (all FPS) / 2021 (all FPS) - Working with predictive applications and machine learning (ML) models
2022 FPS01 / 2022 SP00 / 2021 (all FPS) & 2020 FPS02 & FPS01
Data Migration & Migration Cockpit (not offered in 2022 SP00, please use the 2021 FPS01 release)
- Staging Approach
- Migrating Bank Master Data (prior to 2020, a file-based approach was used):
2022 / 2021 FPS02 / 2021 (FPS 01 & SP00) - Migrating Product / Material Master Data (prior to 2020, a file-based approach was used):
2022 / 2021 FPS02 / 2021 (FPS01 & SP00) - Migrating G/L Accounts: 2022 / 2021 (all FPS)
- Migration Object Modeler Cost Center Texts:
2022 / 2021 (all FPS)
- Migrating Bank Master Data (prior to 2020, a file-based approach was used):
- Direct Transfer from SAP ERP (requires a separate ERP system, see guides)
- Activity types: 2022 / 2021 FPS02 / 2021 (FPS01 & SP00)
- Vendors / Suppliers: 2022 / 2021 SP00
- Products / Materials: 2022 / 2021 FPS02 / 2021 (FPS01 & SP00)
- Migration Object Modeler Cost Center Texts: 2022 / 2021 FPS02 / 2021 (FPS01 / SP00)
User Experience & Extensibility
- Situation Handling / Fiori Notifications
2022 & 2021 (all FPS) & 2020 (all FPS) - SAP Fiori Rapid Activation & Content Management
2022 & 2021 (all FPS) & 2020 (FPS02 & FPS01) - Extensibility for Key Users & Developers
2022 (all FPS) / 2021 & 2020 & 1909 (all FPS) - Application Interface Framework (AIF)
2022 (all FPS) / 2021 (FPS02 & FPS01) / 2021 (SP00) - Print Form Customization
2022 FPS01 / 2022 (SP00) / 2021 & 2020 & 1909 (all FPS) - SAP Screen Personas
2022 / 2021 & 2020 & 1909 (all FPS)
Technical
- Apply a fully-qualified domain/host name & SSL certificates to your instance
All releases (1909/2020/2021) - Change the Web Dispatcher port from 44301 to 443 (if a firewall allows only 443)
2021 & 2020
B) General remarks
What does fully-activated and pre-configured mean ?
The appliance is largely based on the fully-activated scope of SAP Best Practices.
SAP Best Practices provide a suggested pre-configuration for a large variety of business processes so that these processes can be executed “out-of-the-box” in the described way (see https://rapid.sap.com/bp/#//BP_OP_ENTPR for details; note that this site will be deprecated during the course of 2023 and replaced by a tool called “Process Navigator by SAP”).
In addition, some further capabilities that are not covered by the SAP Best Practices have been pre-configured in the appliance (such as Master Data Mgmt., Portfolio Mgmt., Human Capital Management, Migration Cockpit, etc.).
The demo guides take you on a “guided tour” through some of the pre-configured areas but your are also free to step away from these tours.
However, if you explore additional features of the SAP S/4HANA system beyond what is provided in the demo guides (or the more comprehensive test scripts of SAP Best Practices, see link above), you might find functions or processes that are not pre-configured and, hence, will not provide a meaningful system response. In this case, you need to configure those scenarios or functions using SAP standard procedures (e.g. via transaction SPRO) to make them work.
You might also find errors and bugs as you explore the appliance. In this case, please search for SAP Notes and corrections and decide if you want to apply them. The system behaves like a regular customer system once you have your own instance and will not be updated automatically by SAP i.e. you will need to implement these fixes in your system.
Where to get support ?
If you are using the appliance as part of a 30-day trial (the default if you don’t close any contract with SAP), support is offered via the SAP Community. There, SAP employees, customers and partners will do their best to help you, however, there is no service level agreement attached to it.
For support of appliances within the SAP CAL subscription license (i.e. appliances that are running longer than 30 days), please report an incident on components BC-VCM-CAL (for SAP CAL & connectivity issues) or the respective functional components (e.g. FI-* or LO-*).
Master data structure in the appliance
The SAP Best Practices customizing and sample master data have been activated in client 100 of your SAP S/4HANA system. Typically, the demos flows use the company code 1710 (US-based) since only this contains transactional data for the demo scenarios.
Details for the organizational and master data structure of SAP Best Practices can be found on https://rapid.sap.com/bp/#//BP_OP_ENTPR
Initial system performance
When you access the system for the very first time, you will need to wait some time (can be as much as a few minutes) until the Fiori Launchpad or the SAP GUI show up. Using system functions such as the Create Sales Order Fiori tile for the first time will be significantly slower.
This is a normal behavior since the system needs to cache certain areas for first use after startup. The performance will improve significantly if you continue working with the system (note to administrators: SGEN has been performed).
Also, if the system has been re-activated after a “Suspend” period in SAP CAL , the system response will be slower during the first clicks on applications.
Browser messages about certificates & pop-ups
When accessing the Fiori Launchpad for the first time, you will be prompted about missing / unsigned certificates that might be rated as a security thread (exact message depends on the browser version). This behavior happens since the appliance doesn’t contain signed root CA certificates for the connection between browser and backend, but only certificates that are self-signed by SAP.
Please ignore these messages and add the Fiori Launchpad URL to the list of secure sites in your browser. If this is not possible (restricted corporate proxy/browser settings, etc.), please see if the above technical demo guide for fully-qualified host/domain names and SSL certificates might be an option.
Also, some of the Fiori apps will open in a separate browser tab/window. If you have a pop-up blocker activated, please confirm that you always would like to open pop-ups from vhcals4hcs.dummy.nodomain.
C) Post-deployment steps
When you start an instance for the very first time, certain time-based settings are still at the date when the appliance was assembled for shipment. For the appliance to fully work, you should adapt these settings to the actual date when you use the appliance.
Below you can find a list of the most important settings to change, but depending on how you use the appliance, you might need to touch further areas.
Open Inventory Management Period
To post any goods movements (goods receipts for procurement or goods issues for outbound processing), the inventory posting period must be the same as the goods movement date.
When you start an instance for the very first time, the open period is the month where the development of your appliance release was finalized, e.g. 11/2019. If you want to post goods receipts or goods issues in the current period (let’s say 03/2020), you must first close all previous periods and open the period for the current month. This action must be performed sequentially and only once for each month.
The procedure below uses SAP GUI (TCode MMPV) but you can also use the Fiori Launchpad (user S4H_MM_DEM, tile Close Periods). If you are using the system for a longer period, you might also consider creating a scheduled job that automatically adapts the MM period each month.
| What to do | What you will see |
Sequentially repeat this for all periods in MMPV until you have reached the current month. Hint: If you change a period of a previous year (e.g. changing from 11/2019 to 12/2019 during January 2020), you will see a warning saying “The specified year 2019 is not the current calendar year”. |
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D) Log-on to the system
To logon, open the Fiori Launchpad via the following link: https://vhcals4hcs.dummy.nodomain:44301/sap/bc/ui5_ui5/ui2/ushell/shells/abap/FioriLaunchpad.html
IMPORTANT:
The URL above uses the system alias vhcals4hcs. To make this link work on your local computer, you need to maintain your local Windows ‘/etc/hosts’ file.
If you access the trial via the included remote desktop of the appliance, these settings have been maintained already on the remote desktop.
Both methods as well as the access via SAP Logon are described in detail in the Step-by-Step Guide on the SAP S/4HANA Trial Page , or in the Getting Started Guide that is linked from the respective solution/instance details page on cal.sap.com.
E) Archive: Demo guides for earlier releases of the fully-activated appliance
Known issues are listed here: 1909 / 2020
Overview
- Overview pages for Sales / Finance / Procurement
2020 (all FPS) / 1909 FPS02 / 1909 FPS01 / 1909 SP00
Logistics
- Sell from Stock with Outbound Delivery Processing
2021 (all FPS) / 2020 (all FPS) / 1909 (FPS01&02) / 1909 SP00 - Warehouse Inbound Processing from Supplier
2021 (all FPS) / 2020 (all FPS) / 1909 (FPS01&02) / 1909 SP00 - Plan to Produce using Advanced Planning for Capacity Utilization
2021 (all FPS) / 2020 (all FPS) / 1909 FPS02 / 1909 FPS01 / 1909 SP00 - Demand-driven replenishment
2020 & 1909 (all FPS) – no separate guides for 2021 anymore - Predictive Material & Resource Planning (pMRP)
2021 (all FPS) & 2020 FPS02 / 2020 FPS01 & SP00 / 1909 FPS02 - Demand-driven MRP (DDMRP)
2021 (all FPS) & 2020 FPS02
Finance
- Accounting, Financial Close & Closing Cockpit
2021 (all FPS) & 2020 (all FPS) / 1909 FPS02 / 1909 FPS01 / 1909 SP00 - Group Reporting
2020 (all FPS) / 1909 FPS02 / 1909 FPS01 / 1909 SP00 - Lease-In Accounting
2021 (all FPS) & 2020 FPS02 / 2020 (FPS01 & SP00) / 1909 FPS02 / 1909 FPS01 / 1909 SP00 - Investments
2021 & 2020 (all FPS) / 1909 FPS02 / 1909 FPS01 / 1909 SP00 - Universal Allocation for Finance & Controlling
2021 & 2020 (all FPS) / 1909 FPS02 / 1909 FPS01 - Basic Bank Account Management
2021 & 2020 (all FPS) - Provisioning of Overdue Receivables
2021 & 2020 (all FPS) - Basic Credit Management
2021 (all FPS) & 2020 FPS02 / 2020 FPS01 - Miscellaneous (overview style only)
- Purchase Order Accruals: 2021 (all FPS) & 2020 (FPS02 & FPS01)
- Financial Planning & Analysis: 2021 (all FPS) & 2020 FPS02 / 2020 FPS01
- General Ledger Allocation Cycle: 2021 (all FPS) & 2020 (FPS02 & FPS01)
Further LoB & generic scenarios
- Service
- Service: 2020 FPS02 & FPS01 / 2020 SP00 / 1909 FPS02 / 1909 FPS01 / 1909 SP00
- In-house Repair: 2020 FPS02 & FPS01 / 2020 SP00
- Presales: 2021 (all FPS) & 2020 (all FPS)
- Transportation Management
2021 (all FPS) & 2020 (all FPS) / 1909 FPS02 / 1909 SP00 & FPS01 - Portfolio & Project Management
2021 (all FPS) & 2020 (FPS02&01) / 2020 SP00 / 1909 FPS02 / 1909 FPS01 / 1909 SP00 - Master Data Governance, MDG (separate blog with multiple scenarios)
All releases - Human Capital Management
- Absences & Own Data: 2021 (all FPS), 2020 (all FPS), 1909 FPS02
- Processes & Forms, Timesheet, Benefits Enrollment: 2021 (all FPS) & 2020 FP02
Analytics
- Embedded Analytics / Smart Business, SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP BusinessObjects
2020 (all FPS) / 1909 (all FPS) - Working with predictive applications and machine learning (ML) models
2021 (all FPS) & 2020 FPS02 & FPS01 / 2020 SP00 / 1909 FPS02 / 1909 SP00 & FPS01
Data Migration & Migration Cockpit
- Staging Approach
- Migrating Bank Master Data (prior to 2020, a file-based approach was used):
2020 (FPS02 & FPS01) / 2020 SP00 / 1909 FP02 / 1909 FPS01 / 1909 SP00 - Migrating Product / Material Master Data (prior to 2020, a file-based approach was used):
2020 (FPS02 & FPS01) / 2020 SP00 / 1909 FP02 - Migrating G/L Accounts:
2020 (FPS02 & FPS01) / 2020 SP00 / 1909 FPS02 / 1909 FPS01 - Migration Object Modeler Cost Center Texts (prior to 2020, a file-based approach was used):
2020 (FPS02 & FPS01) / 2020 SP00 / 1909 FPS02 / 1909 FPS01
- Migrating Bank Master Data (prior to 2020, a file-based approach was used):
- Direct Transfer from SAP ERP (requires a separate ERP system, see guides)
- Activity types: 2020 (FPS02 & FPS01) / 2020 SP00 / 1909 FPS02 / 1909 FPS01
- Vendors / Suppliers: 2020 (FPS02 & FPS01) / 2020 SP00 / 1909 FPS02
- Products / Materials: 2020 (FPS02 & FPS01) / 2020 SP00 / 1909 FPS02
- Migration Object Modeler Cost Center Texts: 2020 (FPS02 & FPS01) / 2020 SP00 / 1909 FPS02
User Experience & User Interface
- Situation Handling / Fiori Notifications
2021 (all FPS) & 2020 (all FPS) - SAP Fiori Rapid Activation & Content Management
2021 (all FPS) & 2020 (FPS02 & FPS01) / 2020 SP00 / 1909 (all FPS) - Extensibility – Fiori custom fields & applications
2021 & 2020 & 1909 (all FPS) - Print Form Customization
2021 & 2020 & 1909 (all FPS) - SAP Screen Personas
2021 & 2020 & 1909 (all FPS)
Technical
- Apply a fully-qualified domain/host name & SSL certificates to your instance
All releases (1909/2020/2021) - Change the Web Dispatcher port from 44301 to 443 (if a firewall allows only 443)
2021 & 2020
hello Joerg,
When will the demo guide for BI Platform & SAP Analytics be ready?
Thanks,
Kelvin Ng
Hello Kelvin,
first of all, apologies for the late reply.
Re. the BI platform, the demo scenario hasn’t changed compared to 1809 SP00 (see the 1809 SP00 demo guide referenced in the “Archive” section above.
Re. the SAC (I guess that is your main interest):
We were hoping to have an extensive public SAC demo guide (based upon the exact data in the S/4 appliance) that we could reference here.
Unfortunately, this dedicated demo guide is available for SAP employees only as of now, so what I would recommend is that you surf the web (e.g. sapanalytics.cloud) for tutorials e.g. for a live connection based on S/4HANA CDS views.
We have configured the technical boundary conditions (CORS / Whitelist…) in the appliance already but you can also check e.g. the SAC documentation: https://help.sap.com/doc/00f68c2e08b941f081002fd3691d86a7/release/en-US/index.html
The only potential caveat is the missing trusted browser connection between SAC and S/4HANA (since we don’t ship a trusted root certificate with the appliance).
Recommendation here would be to install Chrome on the remote desktop of the appliance and do the demo scenarios there (since the remote desktop has the required certificate pre-installed already and with that there is trust between Chrome running on the remote desktop and the SAC server).
I hope to outline this in detail within the next two weeks in a guide and publish it here.
Best, Joerg
Hi Jörg
Yeah and I noticed as well that the link to the Fiori Launchpad logon page doesn't work: https://vhcals4hcs.dummy.nodomain:44301/sap/bc/ui5_ui5/ui2/ushell/shells/abap/FioriLaunchpad.html
Regards
Abdu
Hello Joerg,
Please could you kindly advise if we can integrate Demo21 with Analytics (other solutions) or Ariba ?
Also, the Demo21 guide talks only about AWS...can we set it up on GCP or Azure (like the FA Appliance)...
Thank you !
saba.
P.S.: Since Demo21 is akin to the FA Appliance, I’m asking this question here…
Hi Saba,
apologies for the late reply, this slipped through during my vacation.
The fully-activated appliance is indeed used as basis for DEMO21 but the best place to ask these questions would be the DEMO21 JAM forum where you are invited if you take part in DEMO21.
Generally, you can connect the appliance to other environments as well, but you might need to take care of host name resolution or certificate handling in certain cases.
The appliance is offered in AWS, Azure and GCP.
Best, Joerg
Hello
I think I have the answer but :
Is it possible to install an Add-on in this Demo Environment ?
Is it possible to connect this Demo to SAP Cloud Connector ?
Regards
Emmanuel
Hi Emmanuel,
technically, you can install add-ons (respective download authorizations & maintenance certificate is needed, though).
An SAP Cloud Connector can be connected.
As of 1809 SP00 there is one included in the appliance anyway (see the Getting Started guide of the appliance for access & default users).
Since you are an SAP employee, please contact me via email if you have additional questions for SAP-internal usage,
Best, Joerg
Hi Jörg,
Is there any news when a 1909 version will be available?
Kind Regards,
Dominik
Hi Dominik,
fully-activated is planned for December, the "plain vanilla" 1909 (no config, no demo data) is out in CAL since last week.
Best, Joerg
Hi ,
Can we provision the trial system in Johannesburg in South Africa?
Thanks,
Kyoungho
Hi Kyoungho,
cloud-based deployment would be in one of the supported cloud provider regions.
If network bandwidth / latency is a problem, you could also install the appliance on your own hardware.
SInce you are an SAP employee, please contact me and we can talk it through.
Best, Joerg
Joerg Wolf
Thanks for this. We are interested in using it to do a Fit/Gap workshop with SAP Consultants to validate business scopes & processes (based on S4 HANA Enterprise Core on-prem edition). However our SAP Consultants are concerned about the functional limitations of this CAL and also how to extend beyond 30 days (our Fit/Gap workshop is planned for 2 to 3 months).
Q1: Are there any functional limitations please?
The other blog you wrote indicates this CAL is suitable for Fit/Gap
Q2: How can we extend it beyond 30 days? This SAP site indicates we should be able to extend for 750 Euros a month
Hi Darron,
"functional limitations" is a very wide term and hard to answer without details (there are e.g. no pre-configured industry add-ons in the solution). You have full administrative rights in the system so you can also enhance the scope if needed.
Re. extension beyond 30 days: as mentioned on the above site, you can order the extension for SAP Cloud Appliance Library (SAP CAL) via SAP Strore (https://www.sapstore.com/solutions/99007/SAP-Cloud-Appliance-Library).
In addition, you would need the respective (trial) S/4 license that you might have anyway already if you are thinking about a PoC.
And last not least: there's also the option to install the appliance image on your own on-prem hardware (e.g. if you want to connect systems behind your firewall without having to allow connectivity, ...). SAP Note https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2041140 mentions the details.
Best,
Joerg
Hi Joerg Wolf ,
Thanks. I notice in your other blog that there is no mention of Solution Manager which is typically how SAP does it Fit/Gap workshops.
Have you tried using this 1809 FPS2 build with SolMan? If so, how please?
Could we create another cloud instance (in addition to those defined on slide 7 of the step by step guide for 30 day trial instructions you shared) and use “SAP CAL – Focused Build SP03 for SAP Solution Manager 7.2” ?
Also, the VM information on the SAP CAL website does not include the SDD/HDD sizes (just the instance type for each cloud provider). Where can we find the default sizes for those please?
Hi Joerg,
Is there an Industry solution enabled CAL available for Fashion and Retail? With 1709 looks like there were CAL appliances for industry best practices, will this be available for 1909 also?
Thanks.
Deepu
Hi Deepu,
the S/4HANA fully-activated appliance doesn't contain Fashion / Retail, but there are SAP Model Companies (incl. a dedicated service offering) for it: https://www.sap.com/germany/services/implementation/preconfigured-industry-solutions.html
Best,
Joerg
Thanks for the great demo Scripts! 🙂
Hi Joerg Wolf,
as far as I understand, it is possible to execute full Abap-functionalities on this appliance? How to register the user for developping?
Thanks and regards
Uli Gauweiler
Hello Uli,
you will need to bring your own license / developer key for the system. The trial license per se doesn't include this.
BTW: If you have questions in the SAP community, it's often quicker (and easier to find for others) if you ask a separate question e.g. like here on the same topic: https://answers.sap.com/questions/12930821/custom-abap-addon-development.html
Best, Joerg
Hi Joerg,
The activated content of SAP BP are country specific, which countries are included in the activated appliance?
if a customer want to activate more countries how can they do that?
Hi Marise,
In Client 100, the US and DE configuration are activated. In that client, the transactional content that has been created for demo purposes is done with the US configuration, using company code 1710.
In client 400, all generally available SAP BP localization have been activated (one client, multiple company codes to reflect each localization).
Additionally, there is client 200 which is empty and ‘ready to activate’, so there are several options.
SAP Best Practices Country localizations that have been activated in Client 400 include:
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States
many thanks Marian for the detailed reply... Much appreciated
Is there any installation steps available?
Hi Joreg,
Good day and thank you for the blog.
Could you kindly share the demo guide for HCM payroll for the fully activated 1909 appliance please.
Regards
Mahmoud
Hi Joerg,
is there any restriction on technial backup and restore functionality?
During an inital test a HANA DB restore was failing because of "last" unsuccessful restore from the initial HANA DB media itself. A new backup after setup of S4HANA Fully activated appliance was successful but could not be used for restore.
Cheers,
Marc
Hi Marc,
could you describe what exactly you tried (backup from the CAL console, directly in HANA ...) and what error messages you got ?
Could you please do this in a separate thread on https://answers.sap.com/questions/metadata/24005/sap-cloud-appliance-library.html since that is easier to handle and searchable later on ?
Best, Joerg
Hi Joerg,
thx for the reply. I will create a new post for this topic and go a little bit more into detail once I have clarified some misunderstandings internally...
For you, we have requested the media from SAP and did setup the system on AWS for testing. Backup has been taken using HANA DB studio, but restore with successful backup was not possible due to past recent restore before we even setup this appliance from SAP media as it comes in tar'ed archives.
Cheers,
Marc
Hello Joerg Wolf -
I am trying to activate S/4HANA 1909 from cal.sap.com, and getting an error message.
The operation Resume is not allowed for the solution instance "SAPS4HANA". Can anyone provide inputs on this and appreciate your help.
thanks,Veeraiah
Hello Veeraiah,
this could have a variety of reasons (as one hint: do you have enough quota in your cloud provider subscription ?).
In either case, please open up a separate post in https://answers.sap.com/questions/metadata/24005/sap-cloud-appliance-library.html since this is much easier to track and answer than via comments to a blog post.
Thanks, Joerg
Thanks Joerg for your response. I have opened separate post and here is the reference.
https://answers.sap.com/questions/13089139/sap-s4hana-1909-fps01-fully-activated-appliance-ac.html
Regards,
Veera.
Hi Jörg,
Thanks for this excellent blog. I currently have installed SAP S/4 HANA 1909 FPS01 Fully Activated Appliance on premise and would like to try the latest one SAP S/4 HANA 1909 FPS02 Fully Activated Appliance on premise.
As per the SAP Note:2041140, I have to create a ticket under the component XX-SER-SWFL-SHIP to get the required media.
The ticket requires me to mention the Material Number for SAP S/4 HANA 1909 FPS02. As per the note: 2041140, the material numbers should have been mentioned in the note attachment (Available_Software_Appliances_2020_04.pdf), but I don't find it in Available_Software_Appliances_2020_04.pdf. Do you know where I could get the material numbers required for SAP S/4 HANA 1909 FPS02?
Best Regards,
AK
Hi AK,
the on-premise installation shipment of SAP Note 2041140 is in process (this takes some additional steps), should be available in the next days.
Please avoid cross-postings in the future 😉 Thx !
Best, Joerg
Hello Joerg,
Thank you for the detailed blog.
in 1901 FPS01(on-prem), the activation is completed as per
https://blogs.sap.com/2020/02/15/new-installation-of-s-4hana-1909-fps1-part-1-maintenance-planner/.
However in CC 1710, transaction data(sales orders etc) is not loaded. Master data is available. Is there any additional steps needed bring transaction data to CC 1710 for US ?
Viele Gruesse,
Kiri
Hi Kiri,
did you install the fully-activated appliance or a plain S/4HANA system ? Only in the appliance, the demo data will be pre-configured.
If you face issues, Please create a separate thread in the S/4HANA forum (comments to blogs are a bit hard to support).
Best,
Joerg
Hi Joerg,
When will the fully-activated appliance system for s/4hana 2020 fps01 be released?
Hi Wenjie,
it's planned for April, probably around the 20th.
Best, Joerg
Hi Joerg,
one more question over here. Above you provided a list of demo guides. For example this one in the area of logistics (which is covering the best practice process 1V9 if I am not mistaken): https://www.sap.com/documents/2020/04/6c032fd1-8f7d-0010-87a3-c30de2ffd8ff.html
Questions -
Thanks a lot for your help!
Hendrik
Hi Hendrik,
some of the appliance demo scripts use the BP test scripts to certain extent but there is no 1:1 mapping.
The idea of the appliance demo scripts is to provide basic entry processes for business areas / modules so that customers get an idea where to extend and leave the pre-configured scenarios.
The BP tests scripts are much more comprehensive but harder to execute in a trial system at least for novices in a specific topic.
Best, Joerg
...ok - I think I got the idea now. As we are focussing on warehouse-internal processes we will probably concentrate on the BP scripts.
Thanks again for helping out here. I think I can stop bothering you now 😉
Regarding the 2020 FA FPS00 CAL, we noticed something and I wanted to mention it.
SAP brings a role in the CAL 2020 FA: Z_S4CM_FLP
I had a user challenge me because they got an authorization issue on Fiori app F2570. From their SU53, it looked like the “01” value was needed on the C_VC_MODEL section of the role.
I created a copy of the SAP Z and added the 01 value, then the user was able to work, at least past the authorization error.
Hello Joerg,
thank you for providing the Demo Guides and the detailed blog.
We had some issues when testing our system, as in many cases we were not able to upload any data, especially in the demo guide for the group reporting. Whenever trying to do so, a pop-up window appears requiring a new log on to the system, however the site just reloads and no upload is present. An example is shown in the screenshots below:
Demo Guide Group Reporting Kapitel 3.2 Initial Consolidation
This is the pop-up shown, trying to log on will just refresh the log-on window and nothing happens.
Log-On Pop-Up Window
Do you have a possible solution to this?
Thank you for your time.
Kind regards,
Hendrik
Hi Hendrik,
from the 2nd screenshot it seems that you have changed the URL / host name of your system (this could be a potential root cause especially if you encounter this in other modules / apps as well).
Is that a local on-prem installation or did you change it in CAL ?
Since blog comments are not suited for individual support issues, please create a separate post in the CAL community and provide more information there (e.g. what you did to adjust the host name, etc.).
Best, Joerg
Hi,
is there already a timeline for the S/4HANA 2021 Fully-Activated-Appliance?
Thanks,
Mark
Hi Mark,
it's planned for December.
The "plain" S/4 image (without business configuration) is planned to be available much earlier.
Best, Joerg
Hi Joerg,
first of all, thanks for your answer. Is there a document where I can find the planned release date? If not, do you have an update for me?
Thanks,
Mark
Hi Mark,
we're planning to have it on cal.sap.com within the next two weeks.
Best,
Joerg
Hello Joerg Wolf,
My team is planning to have a SAP S/4HANA Fully-Activated Appliance on AWS cloud for 1 year via license. This is to demo to the management and subsequent training to the few team members? Will this demo system allow 20-30 users creation for training purposes only?
Best regards,
Amit
Hi Amit,
from a technical perspective, this would work (create users in SU01, etc.). Also the system load should be ok in the smallest hyperscaler sizing (you can increase on the fly if needed).
From an S/4 contract perspective (S/4 license incl. license key generation needed) I can‘t judge for your case, so please check with your account executive.
Best Joerg
Hello Joerg,
Thank you so much with the suggestions. A/c executive will talk to SAP for license procurement.
Best regards,
Amit
Hi Amit,
you're welcome.
One thing to keep in mind besides the S/4 license:
After the 30-day trial phase (where no SAP licenses at all are needed), you will also need to acquire the SAP CAL subscription. see here for details.
Best, Joerg
Hi Jörg,
any change in plans? Thanks for a short update.
Best regards,
Mark
PS. Wish you & your colleagues a happy holiday season!
Hi Mark,
the 2021 Fully-Activated is available (I guess that's meant with "change of plans" ?):
Overview blog / Direct link to SAP CAL / Demo Guides / Known Issues
Best, Joerg
Hi Joerg,
that was really strange. I used the search on cal.sap.com and didn't find it, so I was thinking it was not available, yet. But thanks to your direct link, if found it.
Best, Mark
Hello Joerg,
Thank you for the informative article about the demo system. We are in the process of installing the system on our AWS. I had a couple questions for you.
Looking forward to hearing back from you.
Regards,
Abhi
Hi Abhi,
connectivity to BTP is possible, the guide for "Extensibility – Fiori custom fields & applications" has some generic information.
I can't comment on the other Middleware questions but if they work in general with S/4HANA it should be possible to configure the integration as well.
Best, Joerg
Hello Joerg,
Thanks for the quick response. Had another quick question, does the demo system have process orders (not production orders)?
Regards,
Abhi
Hi Abhi,
there are a few process orders (~ 25) in tCode COR3 (if that fits to your needs) but you could probably also create your own ones.
Best, Joerg
Hi Joerg Wolf,
I have a quick question regarding VPN access and external IPs. We want to access our solution via VPN, thus we do not want it to have an external IP. The guide mentions the following:
4.2 from getting started guide
Once the Instance is started, the CAL however seems to trigger the creation of an external IP.
IP overview in instance view on SAP CAL
How can we disable the external IP?
Thanks & best regards,
Mark
Hi,
I am looking for EH&S scenarios. IN RDS I find this one: https://rapid.sap.com/bp/#/browse/packageversions/BP_CHEM
Do we deliver CAL with BP_CHEM?
Do we have official one page with list of functionality (as listed in this BLOG) in each CAL option?
BR,
Benni
Hi Benni,
as you are an SAP colleague, please check with the CAL colleagues on this (or contact me via email and I will relay it to them).
Best, Joerg
Hi
When will be released for s/4hana 2021 fp01 Fully-Activated Appliance ?
Hello Wenjie,
we just released it yesterday: https://cal.sap.com/catalog#/solutions/a954cc12-da16-4caa-897e-cf84bc74cf15
Best, Joerg
Hi Joerg,
When will be released for op ,I checked the note 2041140 - Order an SAP S/4HANA fully-activated appliance for on-premise deployment,it is not updated for s/4hana 2021 fp01.
Hi Wenjie,
the on-prem delivery preparation will take a few more days, should be there by beginning / mid next week. If you want, you can already create an incident for ordering it.
Best,
Joerg
Hello, can someone help with finding the demo guide for CPM (Commercial Project Management)? Thanks.
Hello Gelb,
there is no dedicated CPM demo guide for the appliance (onty the EPPM guide listed above).
Maybe you can configure it on your own ?
Best,
Joerg
Hello Joerg,
Today in the last version : 2022 SP00, the component SAP Personas is on version 12 which is quite old...
SAP Screen Personas Versions | SAP Community
Is there a plan to deliver in a next release a updated version of SAP Personas?
Thanks and best regards,
Emmanuel.
Hi Emmanuel,
we'll check to include it in the upcoming 2022 FPS01 release (planned for April 2023).
Best, Joerg
After clicking the Demo scripts link, I don't see any files to download. Does anyone know what's wrong with SAP Documents?
Hi Elvin,
yes, there's currently a problem with displaying the documents, under investigation.
UPDATE: problem is fixed, document access works again.
Best,
Joerg
Hi Georg,
I'm trying to run the presales scenario in a SAP S/4HANA 2022, Fully-Activated Appliance.
Logging with sls_man (as requested in the scenario) works. But when you run an option you get an error message either via fiori or business client.
Any idea ?
Many thanks for your support
BR
PAscal
Hello Pascal,
can you please post a separate question in the CAL forum and provide some more details about the error ?
Thanks,
Joerg
Thanks Jeorg,
A colleague of mine, - consultant - found the cause of the error.
In the Firori URL he replaced the IP address by the name of the VM
BR
PAscal
Joerg,
Thank you for the info!
I have tried to follow your instruction on my newly created SAP S/4HANA 2022, Fully-Activated Appliance to close periods but it does not work. I have started with closing 12/2022 (clicked several times on Execute), then I went to closing 01/2023 but then I have got the message: "Incorrect period in control rec. of CoCd 1710; no conversion The current period (month/year) of the control record is112022"
It did not even execute closing 112022! Could you please check this? Thank you.
Br,
Zoli