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New Installation of SAP S/4HANA 2020 FPS1 – Part 3 – Best Practices Content Activation
This blog is created with joint team work between Hanuma Rupakula and Mahesh Sardesai.
Please refer SAP Note 3018654 – Jump Start Your SAP S/4HANA 2020 Implementation by Activating SAP Best Practices which will guide you in preparing for implementation of S/4HANA using SAP Best Practices content.
WARNING: This blog provides guidance for activating S/4HANA 2020 FPS1 Best Practices when a client is setup as Best Practice client. If you set up a merged client as per Alternative 2 – Setting up a merged client (all client 000 reference settings), follow the activation guidance as per SAP Note 2962939 – Implementation of SAP S/4HANA SAP Best Practices 2020 (on premise) – Activation in a merged client. (steps shown in this color)
NOTE: for Best practices activation purpose, In case you are using SapGui version 7.50, you need to uncheck “Accept Belize theme”. Once the Best practices activation is completed, you can activate the SAP Fiori visual theme back. This is shown later under SAP SAPGUI settings.
Please find other blogs as follows at S/4HANA SQUARE ONE
SAP S/4HANA SQUARE ONE |
NEW INSTALLATION | PART1 – MP | PART2 – Installation |
PART3 – BP Activation |
PART4 – Fiori Activation | PART5 – DATA MIGRATION |
S/4HANA 2020 | fps1 fps0 | fps1 fps0 | fps1 fps0 | fps1 fps0 | fps0 |
S/4HANA 1909 | fps2 fps1 fps0 | fps2 fps1 fps0 | fps2 fps1 fps0 | fps2 fps1 fps0 | fps0 |
S/4HANA 1809 | fps2 fps1 fps0 | fps2 fps1 fps0 | fps2 fps1 fps0 | fps2 fps1 fps0 | |
S/4HANA 1709 |
fps2 fps1 fps0 | fps2 fps1 fps0 | fps2 fps1 fps0 |
SYSTEM CONVERSION | t2 – RC | t3 – MP | t4 – SIC |
t5 – CCM | t6 – SUM |
S/4HANA 1909+ | rc2 bsr |
link | link | link | prepare EHP6/mss |
S/4HANA 1809 |
rc2 | link | link | link | EHP7/hdb EHP6/db6 EHP5/ora EHP6/mss |
SAP S/4HANA ON-PREM APPLIANCE | INSTALL USING MEDIA | ACTIVATE FROM CAL |
S/4HANA 1909+ | link custom link standard | link |
SAP S/4HANA CERTIFICATION | |
S/4HANA Certification Exams through SAP Certification Hub | link |
Here is the Video for this blog for SAP S/4HANA 1909 FPS0 (Not 2020 FPS0 but process is similar):
This blog includes installation of SAP S/4HANA 2020 FPS1 and will focus on creating Sandbox type instance with co-deployed (embedded Fiori gateway).
The step by step procedure for Best Practices Content Activation on SAP S/4HANA 2020 FPS1 has only two base languages EN & DE and Country= USA. The BP Activation process runtime is 4 Hrs. Please refer Admin Guide.
Adding further language translations later is not supported once the solution is activated, therefore, identify and install all the required languages you may need in future (if possible). You can check the following blog post for information on how to import a large number of languages efficiently.
Since 1709 release, the Solution builder automatically identifies your installed languages and imports only those translations required while importing the installation data.
A new Solution Builder profile has been created with ALL scope items but in case you have finalized scope items you can select only the needed scope items. Depending on how many selected scope items, activation procedure will need less time The status of system before starting this procedure is clearly defined before starting.
Tax calculation for US sales and purchases:
The US solution for SAP S/4HANA 2020 (BP_OP_ENTPR_S4HANA2020_USV7.XML) is delivered with internal tax calculation. It includes sample Jurisdiction codes and sample rates so that you can execute the best practices test scripts out of the box. For productive purposes, you must replace the sample jurisdiction codes and rates with the your own user defined jurisdiction codes and actual tax rates. If you prefer to use an external tax provider, you must configure the required settings
STEP 1: SAP S/4HANA 2020 FPS1 is installed and SPAM checked as per previous blog Part 2 link.
STEP 2: All Notes should be applied after complete installation of SAP S/4HANA 2020 FPS1 as per SAP Note 3015516 – SAP S/4HANA 2020 Feature Package Stack 01: Additional Release Information. Apply all the SAP Notes mentioned in the above Note.
In addition please review SAP Note 2977583 – SAP S/4HANA 2020 – SAP S/4HANA 2020 FP-Stack 01 (02/2021) SAP Best Practices Content activation note
TIP on Note 2987015 for VCH AFL installation: In this note it is mentioned that you have to download and install VCH AFL. This is S/4HANA release specific (for example 2020) as well as database specific (for example HANA 2 rel 54). Use the link to select your release 2020 and then download the specific file for the combination of S/4H and DB for example VCH202000_2054_0-80005463.SAR.
After you download install and follow SAP Note 1650957 – SAP HANA Database: Starting the Script Server. Excute SQL statement with SYSTEMDB@HDB – ALTER DATABASE HDB ADD ‘scriptserver’
(If you have multiple tenant databases please use SID of db that contains S/4HANA schema) and
then on tenant db HDB – GRANT AFL__SYS_AFL_VCH_2020_EXECUTE to SAPHANADB
After you have installed VCH AFL please login to S/4HANA system and run in SA38 report VCH_HL_AFL_CHECK and it should show green status.
also review note SAP Note 2914416 SAP S/4HANA 2020 collective note for content activation
and note SAP Note 2962939 – Implementation of SAP S/4HANA SAP Best Practices 2020 (on premise) – Activation in a merged client
STEP 3: Using SFW5, Enterprise Business Functions are activated as per list in Admin Guide – Required Enterprise Business Functions
FIN_FSCM_CLM
FIN_FSCM_BNK
FIN_REP_SIMPL_2
FIN_REP_SIMPL_3
FIN_REP_SIMPL_4
FIN_LOC_SRF
LOG_EAM_SIMPLICITY
LOG_EAM_SIMPLICITY_2
LOG_EAM_SIMPLICITY_3
LOG_EAM_SIMPLICITY_4
LOG_EAM_SIMPLICITY_5
LOG_EAM_SIMPLICITY_6
LOG_EAM_SIMPLICITY_7
LOG_EAM_SIMPLICITY_8
LOG_EAM_CI_8
LOG_MMFI_P2P
STEP 4: Register client in table /FTI/T_NOCLN000 (for merged client do not register client in this table) so that Client Copy is done with tables defined in whitelist table /FTI/TWHITEL01.
If you want to perform client copy using new tCode SCCLN, if you get error message please create ticket using component SV-CLD-ACT. (We used SCCL)
Then perform the client copy using profile SAP_UCUS, SAP_CUST, SAP_CUSV or SAP_UCSV as per the Admin Guide.
TIP: Use the new tCode SCCLN to perform Client copy which is 10 times faster and you can do it form Client 000 or any other client than the target client and don’t need user SAP*/pass to perform client copy. If you use the new Client copy procedure you have to define logical system for Client 000 like S4HCLNT000 also besides the logical system for client 100. Otherwise you will get error – “Dedicated logical system is not defined”.
Please see the screenshot below:
Copied client to have no currency in tCode SCC4.
After Client copy is completed, for white listed client check using tCode SE16 that the table (1) T001, click on (2) Number of entries to check there are (3) zero entries as below. For Merged Client you should have records in this table.
STEP 5: You may like to add Solution Builder to your Favorites in SAP Menu.as this is the transaction you will use until the activation is complete. Also add transaction SECATT. You can remove them from favorites after activation if not needed.
Upload zip file from URLs in the above note to server.
Add transport request to buffer ERBK116775 with steps below tCode STMS, Import Overview,
After the transport is in buffer, select the transport and import, In the Options tab checkmark Ignore Invalid component version
STEP 6: Create users for content activation as per admin guide with details:
STEP 7: Change SAP Profile parameters as below and restart SAP:
abap/heap_area_dia = 6442450944
sapgui/user_scripting = TRUE
rdisp/scheduler/prio_high/max_runtime = 18000 <== NEW
USER SETTINGS:
Click on Favorite to make the solution Z_MY_SOLUTION_US as your favorite.
From the menu, choose
STEP 10: If only you need to remove scope items, double Click (or click on Change Icon) on Z_MY_SOLUTION_US to unselect the scope items from the list.
Descope the Decentralized EWM scope items: 4RO, 4RP, 4RQ, 4RR, 4RS and 4UA as they are required only in a decentral EWM system.
STEP 11: Enter tCode /n/SMB/SCOPE, Click button (1) New Entries, (2) Customer Solution and (3) select the Country and Solution as below:
Choose Save.
STEP 12: enter tCode SCC4 and ensure below values – Logical System – S4HCLNT100 (needed for EWM steps as per 3.5.1.4 of Admin Guide AdminGuideS4HANAImpl_HELP_EN.pdf in link), Currency – blank, Client role – Test.
STEP 13(OPTIONAL): Best Practices content activation for any solution will populate the client currency as USD by default. In case you want to have a different client currency, you should change the currency before activation starts.You should not change client currency once the first solution in the client is activated. The procedure is as follows:
Enter tCode /N/SMB/CD_MAINT
In the All Central Data Entities section, use (1) search to find (2) DSC in the table and double-click it, Click (3) Change and change the (4) ID field.
When activating several SAP Best Practices country solutions please follow the procedure provided in 2020 OP Admin guide.
STEP 14: Please do all the steps needed for Pre-activation settings for EWM scope items as per Admin Guide 3.6.1.4 as per the admin guide in the link pages 64-76 as below. Please replace S4HCLNT100 with your <SID>CLNT<CLIENT> and S4HEWM100 with <SID>EWM<CLIENT>
STEP15: Depending on scope items you have selected, you may get less errors than shown in steps below. The timings are based on Cloud based Virtual Machine with 256GB RAM x 32 Cores. In the SECATT transaction there are certain number of log entries which are sown against each stop.
REMINDER: If you are activating in merged client please perform the pre-requisite steps as provided in the note follow the activation guidance as per SAP Note 2962939 – Implementation of SAP S/4HANA SAP Best Practices 2020 (on premise) – Activation in a merged client (steps shown in this color)
STEP16: Enter tCode /n/SMB/BBI and go to Solution Builder. Select the Solution and click on Implementation Assistant and Click on button Activate.
After 3 minutes you will be prompted with screen below.
You can select Skip this screen if you don’t want this screen from popping up everytime.
TIP: In case you would like to migrate data to the new system then please uncheck “With Demo Data“. You can use blog – New Installation of S/4HANA 2020 FPS0 – Part 5 – Direct Data Transfer using Migration Cockpit for rapid data migration using direct data transfer.
If a message pops up “To activate the project, the client settings need to be changed to eCATT and CATT allowed” please choose Yes. This would come up if you didn’t follow the earlier step in SCC4.
FIRST STOP:
SECOND STOP:
You will get Notification Dialog as shown below:
No steps to be done here, just click on on OK to continue.
THIRD STOP:
Click OK to continue
FOURTH STOP:
Click OK to continue
FIFTH STOP:
Click Yes to continue
SIXTH STOP:
LAST STOP:
STEP17: COMPLETION OF ACTIVATION At the end of activation you should get message “Solution Z_MY_SOLUTION_US is activated”. CONGRATULATIONS !!!!
Please revert the parameter for rdisp/scheduler/prio_high/max_runtime, abap/heap_area_dia and adjust SAPGUI scripting as well as remove SAP_ALL authorization from functional users if granted separately.
LANDSCAPE CONSIDERATIONS:
STEP18: POST ACTIVATION – EXECUTING MANUAL REWORK ACTIVITIES:
This step should be done in DEV to create a solution for manual rework activities to general xml file for manual rework activities. This is simply a list of steps to be performed in Q just like a word document.
Please follow procedure as described in Admin Guide section 3.5 Executing manual rework activities.
Access tCode /n/SMB/BBI, select the solution you activated and set it to favorite. In the menu bar choose Solution -> Procedure -> Start a procedure. In the Execute a Solution Processing Procedure dialog box choose procedure Manual Rework Required and choose OK.
STEP19: SYSTEM LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENT FOR QAS AND PROD:
Recommendation is not to do Content Activation of best practices in QAS and PROD. You have to move the transports as below in graphic.
- SAP Best Practices client is set-up with specific client copy profile
- SAP Best Practices customizing after initial activation
- Manual extension of business configuration using IMG
- Additional client 000 customizing for customer adaptation (Note 2838358)
(not needed for merged client)
In The QAS system, move transports to QAS first n above sequence.
CONFIGURATION GUIDES:
Please note that as of release 1909, configuration guides will be deprecated in the SAP Best Practices for SAP S/4HANA package.
https://help.sap.com/viewer/S4HANA2020_AdminGuide
COMPONENT FOR INCIDENTS:
As per the error message in the activation.
OTHER REFERENCES:
Administration Guide for Implementation
This blog has been created with joint team work between Hanuma Rupakula and Mahesh Sardesai.
Hanuma Rupakula
Delivery Manager (LOB Finance Content)
hanumachastry.rupakula@sap.com
and
Mahesh Sardesai
Product Expert – SAP S4HANA Solutions
Brought to you by the SAP S/4HANA Regional Implementation Group
Hi thank you for your blog , please can You help me to find the french language package for these release
Best regards
Hi Yasmine,
In STEP 8 you can try importing the file with FRV6
Hi Mahesh Sardesai thanks for your great work with this series of blogs.
I've done the whole process without a problem until step 14, when I try to activate via Solution Builder I've been getting the message: "Number ranges for grouping S100 and account group 0100 are different Message no. FLBP020" and I cant continue from that point.
Error
I try to apply the note 2875829 - Number ranges for grouping XXX and account group XXX are different (Message FLBP020) but it's not working or maybe I need some functional support to change that number range, but it's strange because I didn't change anything in this system since the installation.
If you have some advice it would be very appreciated.
Thanks, in advance.
Hi Pablo,
Are you trying to activate merged client ? In that case there are some presteps to be done and are mentioned in note 2962939 - Implementation of SAP S/4HANA SAP Best Practices 2020 (on premise) - Activation in a merged client.
You can create a ticket so somebody can take a look at the system
Thanks for the answer, Mahesh.
It was that case, my bad. I made the corrections and I could fix the problems.
Thanks again.
Thanks Mahesh for this article.
I have been waiting for the release of note
2981621 (dependent note for 3025001 mentioned in SAP Note 3015516 – SAP S/4HANA 2020 Feature Package Stack 01: Additional Release Information )
and SAP Note 2977583 – SAP S/4HANA 2020 – SAP S/4HANA 2020 FP-Stack 01 (02/2021) SAP Best Practices Content activation note
since many days. I am getting "SAP Note/KBA 2977583 is being updated".
When are they likely to be released for customers?
Hi Sumit,
Sorry for delayed reply.
The Note is released and was updated on 26th May when you posted this message.
If this occurs again on any note please click on "Share Your Feedback" at the bottom of the scree to provide feedback to the team.
Thanks Mahesh,
It was released soon after I posted 🙂
Thank you Maresh for this blog.
Just want to know if there is a way to change the transport request after activation of solution? I need to activate an additional one scope item in a different client, but it gives me this error. No problem type 5 in the diagnosis.
activate 3LQ scope item
Hi Michelle,
Please create a ticket as somebody will have to take a look at the system.
You will have to mention if you did any configuration after activating previous scope items in that client as in that case it may not be supported for additional activation.
- Mahesh
Thanks Maresh for sharing this useful information.
I've completed the steps 1, 2 and 3.
I had built client (100) which configure as Best Practice content.
I have some doubt on STEP 4: Register client in table /FTI/T_NOCLN000 (for merged client do not register client in this table) so that Client Copy is done with tables defined in whitelist table /FTI/TWHITEL01.
Is there any specific tables require to maintain in whitelist table (/FTI/TWHITEL01)? Or, just leave it as default ?
I've maintained the client 100 in /FTI/T_NOCLN000 table. Using SCCLN to perform the client copy.
Trying to run the task list in background, it was getting error.
Exit: CL_SFW_CLIENT_COPY | Message: Interval /SAPAPO/PP overlaps with interval 01 0000 | Program Name: CL_SCCR_EXITPROCESSOR_REM
Exit: CL_SFW_CLIENT_COPY | Long Text: @0S@ | Message: Errors occurred during post-handling AFTER_IMP_SNUMS for SNUMS T | Program
Exit: CL_SFW_CLIENT_COPY | Long Text: @0S@ | Message: The errors affect the following components: |Program Name: CL_SCCR_EXITPRO
Exit: CL_SFW_CLIENT_COPY | Long Text: @0S@ | Message: BC-SRV-NUM (Number Range Management) | Program Name: CL_SCCR_EXITPROCESSOR
Exit: /FTI/CL_WHITELIST_CC_EXIT | Message: Exit MDG_TR_CC_EXIT (Copy) and /FTI/CL_WHITELIST_CC_EXIT(Clear Target) return differe
From the SCC3 log, it show completed. But the "Highest Message Severity" column is Error. Should I proceed with next step ? or, need to fix the error first ?
Regards,
Steve
Hi Steve,
You do not have to do anything with ta ble /FTI/TWHITEL01. It is mentioned just for information in STEP4.
There are issues with tCode SCCLN and that is the reason I have mentioned - "If you want to perform client copy using new tCode SCCLN, if you get error message please create ticket using component SV-CLD-ACT. (We used SCCL)". Most probably these errors can be ignored but the time spent in chasing tickets is much more than time saved by using SCCLN.
Hi Mahesh,
Thanks for your confirmation.
Refer to the STEP 8: Import solutions from SAP Best Practices content. Enter tCode /N/SMB/BBI. Choose menu Solution -> Import -> Solution (XML) -> From reference content.
Should I perform this step in client 100 ? or client 000 ?
regards,
Steve
Hi Steve,
Thanks for asking, STEP8 should be performed in the client where you want to activate Best Practices.
Thanks,
Thanks Mahesh for your feedback. And, Thanks for your blogs. It was very helpful.
I managed to reach STEP17: COMPLETION OF ACTIVATION. Able to complete the best practice content activation on target client (100). I selected all the business functions except for the EWM as mentioned in STEP 10. I deselect the EWM scope items of 4RO, 4RP, 4RQ, 4RR, 4RS and 4UA.
During the content activation, (In step 16), it was getting a lot of stop due to activation stopped with an error - Message No /SMB/BBPRJ_INST123. As checked the SAP note 2830521, it just mentioned that the client role need to set to "Test" in SCC4 which I already did. But, still getting the activation error. I just skip and continue, do you experience this issue ? will it cause any issues later on ?
Another question is, how can we verify and confirm it whether the best practice content is successfully activated. I tried to check in AS03 and VA02, but, it doesn't show any demo data. Is there any program/report/transaction code to verify it ?
Regards,
Steve Chai
Hi Steve,
If you get error/warnings other than the ones shown in this blog please create a ticket as somebody will have to take a look at the system.
Hello Mahesh,
I built a BP client and client copied into it using SAP_UONL profile from client 000. However when I executed OVK1 on the BP client all 3 tax codes were present. This was supposed happen only if SAP_ALL profile is used.
Is my understanding correct?
Thanks in advance.
Kiran
Hi Kiran,
For the client copy for Best Practices content you should use only the profiles provided as mentioned in Admin Guide as below:
Thanks for the reply Mahesh. I did use SAP_UCUS. But I still ended up having 3 entries in OVK1.
Hi Kiran,
Sorry, the investigation will require more detailed analysis of the system, Please create a ticket and mention the sequence of steps.
Hi Mahesh,
This is indeed a very nice detailed blog.
We followed the Admin guide and your blog to setup our Dev system process was absolute smooth.
However faced some challenge in QAS, where the SAP Standard Business Partner Role (MKK) went missing.
Here the only change we did was setting a working client in QA first then imported the BF Activation TR from DEV directly into QAS working client and followed by Best Practice TR import.
Could you please let us know the cause of this, if aware of this scenario. Or would like to suggest steps / execution steps for setting QAS system with Best Practice.
Regards,
Himanshu
Hi Mahesh,
Thanks for putting this detailed blog, it's very simple to understand the execution.
We performed our DEV system using your blog and it went smooth.
However faced few hiccup in setting QA S4 system, the SAP standard Business Partner Role (MKK) went missing.
The only thing different in QA System setup was we created the working client first (using profile SAP_UCUS) then imported the SFW5 node Activation TR, followed by Best Practice TR etc other steps as is.
Also tried with SAP_ALL profile still the same. Have you come across this scenario of Business Partner Role went missing ?
Or would you like to suggest us on chronology of execution steps to setup the QA System.
Regards
Himanshu
Hi Himanshu,
Thanks for reporting the issue.
This would require check into the system with detailed error/warning logs, etc. Please create a ticket if you want this to be investigated.