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The SAP S/4HANA Cookbook covers the most important aspects of implementing SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA (SAP S/4HANA).
The Cookbook consists of three main pages: ''What is SAP S/4HANA'', 'SAP S/4HANA Finance, 1605' and 'Implement with SAP Activate' (this page).
Each main page includes a small set of subcategories that provide abstracts for specific topics, along with links for further deep-dive information.
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SAP S/4HANA: Overview What is available now:
Further capabilities Transition options Extensibility and Adaptation Best Practices and enablement by SAP | SAP S/4HANA Finance 1605: Overview Technical implementation Functional implementation
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SAP Activate, Overview
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Getting Started with SAP Activate
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SAP Best Practices for SAP S/4HANA are integrated with other SAP cloud solutions, such as SuccessFactors Employee Central or Ariba Network, bringing guidance for all transition options. (for more info, check the SAP S/4HANA: Transition Options section in the Cookbook). The knowledge and accelerators consolidated in SAP Activate help SAP partners and customers to be well-positioned to adopt new innovations faster than ever before
The SAP Activate methodology is a modular and agile framework for implementation or migration to SAP S/4HANA and other SAP solutions. The SAP Activate methodology supports project teams in the deployment of SAP solutions in the cloud, on-premise, or hybrid environments. You can choose to follow it yourself, with an SAP partner, or with SAP directly. The SAP Activate methodology follows six phases to provide support throughout the project life cycle of SAP solutions. Underlying these phases is a series of value delivery and quality checks, reflected in the approach as quality gate checkpoints, to make sure that the solution delivers the value you expect. The SAP Activate phases are: Discover, Prepare, Explore, Realize, Deploy, Run. The SAP S/4HANA implementation and specific methodology are extensively covered in the SAP S/4HANA roadmap. The methodology content is organized into a three-level hierarchy: phases, deliverables, and tasks. Each node in the hierarchy has a description that provides SAP’s advice and guidance. Each node also links to documentation accelerators that may be generic, for example, an open issues template or solution specific, like the administration guide for SAP S/4HANA on-premise. You can view the roadmap in the roadmap viewer (link on the right side). It is also possible to download the roadmap as a Microsoft Project plan, Excel or XML that can be uploaded into SAP Solution Manager 7.2.
As an added benefit, SAP Digital Business Services offers Value Assurance Packages for SAP S/4HANA projects that are built on the foundation of SAP Activate and enrich the approach. Value Assurance Packages provide services for analysis, advisory, and safeguarding, plus the functional and technical implementation of your SAP S/4HANA solution.
The Implement S/4HANA with SAP Best Practices Reference Guide describes how SAP Activate, SAP Best Practices and SAP Solution Manager 7.2 are used together to implement SAP S/4HANA on-premise or hybrid projects. It provides detailed technical information based on what is possible with the current releases of software. It provides granular knowledge for administrators of SAP Solution Manager 7.2, SAP Best Practices and the SAP S/4HANA systems. Administrators might use content from this guide to brief project team members and some sections can be used by project team members directly. It provides a recommended sequence of tasks organized into the SAP Activate phases. It also includes annotated demonstrations that walk you through some of the key steps in the tools.
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The following assets will guide you through SAP Activate helping you make the best and leverage all the accelerators available to make your SAP S/4HANA implementation project a success. The assets are structured in the SAP Activate project phases:
SAP Activate - Discover
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Access the SAP Activate Use Cases ans Project Recommendations to learn what is the recommended approach to deploy SAP S/4HANA with SAP Activate and what are the covered use cases. Read this asset that asset outlines recommendations for decision support on the implementation approach for S/4HANA on-premise installations using SAP Best Practices content for:
Secondly, this document discusses manual processes and recommendations for Content Lifecycle Management for SAP S/4HANA 1511 FPS01 and higher.
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SAP Activate - Prepare
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Find out useful information and tips on topics like how to set up the S/4HANA appliance, how to access the SAP CAL (cloud appliance library), how to setup of the initial system or how to setup users.
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SAP Activate - Explore
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Access How to approach Fit/Gap Analysis (on-premise) to get a detailed approach of conducting a fit/gap analysis from preparing the environment for Fit/Gap to validating the solution, conducting Delta Design Workshops and preparing the Release and Sprint plan.
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SAP Activate - Realize
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SAP Activate - Deploy
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Deploy. Now you set up the production environment. When you’re ready, you conduct the cutover activities and switch business operations to the new system. |
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SAP Activate - Run
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You’re ready to run! With the new system operational, you apply SAP operations standards and SAP Solution Manager 7.2 to run the environment and optimize operations. |
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