ECC to S/4HANA Migration

ECC to S/4HANA Migration

One of the biggest challenges of planning an SAP S/4HANA migration project is to gather a highly skilled team of SAP experts, including both internal and external resources. The bottom line of the matter is that the technologies involved change so rapidly that most organizations running on legacy SAP systems have never experienced a modern SAP transformation.

Apart from the SAP S/4HANA subscription, an enterprise should consider the cost of hiring a highly expert SAP S/4HANA migration team. The MAP360° team has all the necessary resources that an organization planning to migrate to S/4HANA would require to succeed with their project.

The MAP360° strategy is to build a Project Team

Primarily is to get connected the Project Stakeholders. Which involves the persons who are directly affected by the outcome of the SAP S/4HANA upgrade project and can influence the execution of the project either positively or negatively. The success of an SAP S/4HANA migration project hinges on the right combination of tech expertise and stakeholders. A typical S/4HANA implementation project team requires both internal and external stakeholders.

Internal stakeholders include:

Executive Stakeholder:

An executive stakeholder is a key decision-maker who sponsors the project. Although the executive stakeholder keeps a close track of all significant migration activities, he does not get involved in the implementation’s nitty-gritty.

Project Coordinator:

The Project Coordinator handles the customer-owned parts of the project. The Project Coordinator is deeply involved in activities like scoping the project, ensuring project readiness, and verifying that the migration meets all the objectives and necessary benchmarks at each stage.

Functional Team:

The Functional Team is responsible for assessing what tools and functionality the client requires. The team is also responsible for building a solution that can be implemented by the technical team. In addition to functional experts (mostly from an outside SAP partner), the team requires internal stakeholders at multiple company levels. These internal stakeholders work with the functional SME to ensure the solution covers all the tasks the employees need to accomplish.

External stakeholders include:

Project Manager:

A person who has overall responsibility for the delivery of the project. A project manager is responsible for working with the clients and managing established ERP project goals and objectives. The role includes implementing project management guidelines, managing project standards, timeline, scope, risk identification, quality management, project budget, ensuring documentation, and reporting throughout the project lifecycle. The S/4HANA Project Manager leads teams that deliver ECC to S/4HANA upgrade, integrating other applications into S/4HANA, helps define technology roadmaps and solutions, and takes a leading role in SAP-enabled analysis and design of business processes.

Migration Architect:

The role of the Migration Architect is to assess the current system and plan and oversee the architecture to support the functional solution along with supervising the actual SAP transformation process.

Project Infrastructure Build Team:

It is a team of people in charge of building the scaffolding system and assembling the tools required to construct your IT landscape. A typical SAP migration project requires provisioning environments at various stages, assembling and testing system components, and refining them until the system is fully customized.

Migration Engineer:

From a single to a few migration engineers, depending on the need, perform the actual migration. The migration engineer works closely with the migration architect throughout the project and is responsible for executing the go-live.