For SAP ERP customers, transport management is the "control" that they have to decide when and what functionality in SAP system they'd like to introduce to their business users. With the introduction of 3-system landscape, S/4HANA public cloud customer can also have more flexibility when moving configuration settings and developments to their productive system.
To help our S/4HANA public cloud customer to get used to the these new features and take advantage of the flexibility that these features bring, SAP Activate has the following tasks on transports to help with our customer's journey.
In the beginning of Realize phase, upon receiving notification of provisioned Development system, customer needs to use SAP Central Business Configuration to setup the Customizing and Development tenant in their Development System. This initial transport created from SAP Central Business Configuration includes the reference configuration setting of selected scope for the selected country/region, mandatory organization structure that needs to be maintained per the result of fit-to-standard workshop for the selected scope items, and critical financial settings like fiscal year variant and group currency. It is important to note that this transport should be the first transport to be deployed from Customizing Tenant of S/4HANA Development System to Test and Production System upon receiving of the respective provisioned systems before any activities or transactions in these systems, including user creations.
Subsequently, configuration activities can be carried out via SAP Central Business Configuration. Although accessed from SAP Central Business Configuration, settings maintained are stored in Customizing Tenant of S/4HANA Development System, which can then be moved across system landscapes after successful testing. Development of key user extension and creation of custom business roles starts in the Customizing Tenant of Development System; while the developer extension starts in Development Tenant of Development System. It is common to have incremental addition of scope item or country/region after the initial activation.
The diagram below shows a sample sequence of transport cycles of an implementation project. It is important to note that not all configuration activities accessed from SAP Central Business Configuration are transportable. There are settings and data used in configuration settings need to be replicated or created manually in each respective S/4HANA system. Very often, in order to enable business process, there are more than one type of transports are needed. It is the best to group them into sprint of 1 to 2 weeks and move related transport requests together to avoid errors caused by dependency issues.
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If you want to learn more and actively engage with SAP subject matter experts on SAP S/4HANA Cloud, join our SAP S/4HANA Cloud Community. This community brings together SAP S/4HANA Cloud customers, partners and SAP experts and has a clear mission: deliver an interactive community to engage with one another about best practices and product solutions. We invite you to explore the new SAP S/4HANA Cloud Community ‘one-stop shop’ as the central place for all resources, tools, content questions, answers and connect with experts to guide you through your SAP S/4HANA Cloud journey.
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To help our S/4HANA public cloud customer to get used to the these new features and take advantage of the flexibility that these features bring, SAP Activate has the following tasks on transports to help with our customer's journey.
Summary of SAP Activate tasks on Transport Management
In the beginning of Realize phase, upon receiving notification of provisioned Development system, customer needs to use SAP Central Business Configuration to setup the Customizing and Development tenant in their Development System. This initial transport created from SAP Central Business Configuration includes the reference configuration setting of selected scope for the selected country/region, mandatory organization structure that needs to be maintained per the result of fit-to-standard workshop for the selected scope items, and critical financial settings like fiscal year variant and group currency. It is important to note that this transport should be the first transport to be deployed from Customizing Tenant of S/4HANA Development System to Test and Production System upon receiving of the respective provisioned systems before any activities or transactions in these systems, including user creations.
Subsequently, configuration activities can be carried out via SAP Central Business Configuration. Although accessed from SAP Central Business Configuration, settings maintained are stored in Customizing Tenant of S/4HANA Development System, which can then be moved across system landscapes after successful testing. Development of key user extension and creation of custom business roles starts in the Customizing Tenant of Development System; while the developer extension starts in Development Tenant of Development System. It is common to have incremental addition of scope item or country/region after the initial activation.
The diagram below shows a sample sequence of transport cycles of an implementation project. It is important to note that not all configuration activities accessed from SAP Central Business Configuration are transportable. There are settings and data used in configuration settings need to be replicated or created manually in each respective S/4HANA system. Very often, in order to enable business process, there are more than one type of transports are needed. It is the best to group them into sprint of 1 to 2 weeks and move related transport requests together to avoid errors caused by dependency issues.
Inside SAP S/4HANA Podcast
As always, I would like to encourage you to subscribe to our new podcast “Inside SAP S/4HANA.” This podcast leverages the unique knowledge and expertise of SAP S/4HANA product experts, partners and customers to address your needs by sharing product insights and project best practice. There is no customer success without product success and project success; we help you get to the next level and make your SAP S/4HANA projects a success. Subscribe now and benefit from the shared knowledge.
openSAP Microlearnings for SAP S/4HANA
We also have openSAP microlearnings for SAP S/4HANA offers exciting learning opportunities. What began with a small batch of 20 videos, has now become a channel with more than 50 microlearnings that have generated over 20,000 views since then. Today we cover multiple lines of business, like Finance and Manufacturing & Supply Chain, and key technology topics like Master Data Management, Extensibility, User Experience, and Upgrade Management. We are continuously adding new microlearnings to the SAP S/4HANA channel, so make sure you check them out.
Your Voice Matters!
If you want to learn more and actively engage with SAP subject matter experts on SAP S/4HANA Cloud, join our SAP S/4HANA Cloud Community. This community brings together SAP S/4HANA Cloud customers, partners and SAP experts and has a clear mission: deliver an interactive community to engage with one another about best practices and product solutions. We invite you to explore the new SAP S/4HANA Cloud Community ‘one-stop shop’ as the central place for all resources, tools, content questions, answers and connect with experts to guide you through your SAP S/4HANA Cloud journey.
Click the Follow button on our SAP Activate Community page to get the latest updates or follow me personally via y4huang2003.
Check out the Q&A section of our community for some frequently asked questions, or raise your own.
Follow us via @Sap and #SAPS4HANAValueSeries
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