SAP S/4HANA Training (Migration & System Conversion)
SAP S/4HANA conversion training teaches you to plan and execute the move from SAP ECC to S/4HANA.
- 40 hours
- Intermediate
- Live online
- E_S4HCON2023
What is SAP S/4HANA Training (Migration & System Conversion)?
SAP S/4HANA conversion training teaches you to plan and execute the move from SAP ECC to S/4HANA. You compare the three transition paths (new implementation, system conversion, selective data transition), run the readiness check and work through simplification items, adapt custom code, handle the mandatory business partner conversion and the finance data migration, execute the technical conversion with Software Update Manager and DMO, then plan testing, cutover and hypercare. It maps to the SAP Certified Specialist exam for S/4HANA conversion and system upgrade.
What you get
- Compare the three S/4HANA transition scenarios and recommend one with reasoning
- Run and interpret the SAP Readiness Check
- Work through simplification items and build a remediation backlog
- Plan and estimate custom code adaptation
Who this course is for
New to the field
- Consultants on or joining an S/4HANA programme
- Basis and technical consultants owning the conversion
- Functional consultants who must adapt their module
Working professionals
- Project managers and architects planning a transition
- AMS teams preparing a customer conversion
- Anyone targeting the conversion specialist certification
Prerequisites
- Existing SAP experience is required, functional or technical.
- This is not a first SAP course; it assumes you know what an ECC system looks like.
What you will be able to do
- Compare the three S/4HANA transition scenarios and recommend one with reasoning
- Run and interpret the SAP Readiness Check
- Work through simplification items and build a remediation backlog
- Plan and estimate custom code adaptation
- Execute and validate the business partner conversion
- Explain the finance data migration and its reconciliation points
- Describe the SUM DMO conversion run phase by phase
- Build a cutover plan and hypercare structure
Salary range
- India
- 12-38 LPA
- United States
- 120k-175k
Market ranges for S/4HANA Conversion Consultant, not a guarantee. Actual pay depends on experience, location and employer.
Curriculum
S/4HANA fundamentals and what actually changed
Establish exactly what is different, because the conversion effort is driven by these changes.
- S/4HANA versus ECC: architecture and data model
- The Universal Journal and the end of separate finance tables
- Business partner as the single customer and vendor object
- Simplified logistics: MATNR length, MM and SD changes
- Fiori as the primary user experience
- Embedded analytics and the virtual data model
- Deployment: on-premise, private cloud, public cloud
- Release strategy and maintenance windows
Transition scenarios and roadmap
Choose the right path, because this decision shapes budget, risk and timeline more than anything else.
- New implementation (greenfield): when it wins
- System conversion (brownfield): when it wins
- Selective data transition: the middle path
- Cost, risk and downtime compared
- SAP Activate methodology and phases
- Building the business case and the roadmap
- Landscape strategy during the transition
- Common reasons conversions fail
Readiness check and simplification items
Find out what the system will refuse to convert before you start, not during the weekend.
- SAP Readiness Check: running and reading it
- Simplification item catalogue and relevance
- Simplification item checks (SI checks) and consistency
- Custom code impact analysis in the readiness check
- Sizing the target system
- Add-on and business function compatibility
- Third-party interface inventory
- Producing a prioritised remediation backlog
Custom code adaptation
Deal with the customer's own developments, usually the largest single work package.
- Custom code migration worklist (ATC on S/4HANA)
- Remote ATC setup and check variants
- Simplification database and where-used analysis
- Fixing MATNR length, table access and obsolete function modules
- Decommissioning unused custom code
- Clean core positioning during conversion
- Testing and evidence for adapted objects
- Estimating custom code effort realistically
Business partner conversion
Handle the mandatory master data conversion that trips up most first-time projects.
- Why business partner replaces customer and vendor
- Customer vendor integration (CVI) explained
- BP roles, groupings and number ranges
- Data cleansing before conversion
- Synchronisation cockpit and error handling
- Duplicate and inconsistent master data
- Post-conversion validation
- Ongoing BP governance after go-live
Finance data migration
Convert the financial data correctly, since finance is the area with the least tolerance for error.
- The finance conversion phases
- Preparation: open items, ledgers, currencies
- Customising migration for finance
- Data migration and enrichment steps
- Reconciliation before and after conversion
- Asset accounting conversion specifics
- Controlling and margin analysis changes
- Sign-off criteria for the finance team
Technical conversion with SUM and DMO
Run the conversion itself and keep downtime inside the agreed window.
- Maintenance Planner and the stack XML
- Software Update Manager phases
- Database Migration Option (DMO) explained
- Downtime-optimised DMO and near-zero downtime options
- Pre-processing, downtime and post-processing phases
- Monitoring the run and handling errors
- Rollback and fallback planning
- Repeating the run: cycles and dress rehearsals
Testing, cutover and hypercare
Prove the converted system works and get the business through go-live weekend.
- Test strategy: unit, integration, regression, UAT
- Automated regression testing options
- Cutover plan construction and rehearsal
- Freeze periods and transport management during cutover
- Go-live weekend runbook and command centre
- Hypercare structure and ticket triage
- Post go-live optimisation backlog
- Lessons learned and the next wave
Projects you will build
Readiness assessment
Run a readiness check on a sample ECC system, analyse simplification items and custom code findings, and produce a prioritised remediation plan with effort estimates.
Business partner conversion
Cleanse a customer and vendor data set, configure CVI, run synchronisation, resolve errors and validate the resulting business partners.
Cutover plan and rehearsal
Build a detailed cutover runbook for a conversion weekend with tasks, owners, timings, checkpoints and a rollback decision point, then walk it through as a rehearsal.
Tools you will use
- SAP Readiness Check
- The assessment that tells you what the conversion will cost before you commit. You run and interpret one in the first project.
- Maintenance Planner
- Where the target stack is planned and the stack XML for SUM is generated.
- Software Update Manager with DMO
- The tool that performs the conversion. You walk through every phase and the monitoring screens.
- ATC with remote check
- Custom code analysis against the S/4HANA simplification database, producing the developer worklist.
- CVI synchronisation cockpit
- Customer vendor integration monitoring, used throughout the business partner conversion.
- Finance migration cockpit
- The guided finance conversion steps and their reconciliation reports.
Certification
- Exam
- SAP Certified Specialist, SAP S/4HANA Conversion and SAP System Upgrade
- Code
- E_S4HCON2023
- Level
- Specialist
- Exam fee
- US$260 (specialist exam)
What learners say
The readiness check and cutover sessions are the two things I wish my first conversion project had understood. Genuinely practical.
DMO explained phase by phase, including what actually happens in downtime. That removed a lot of fear from our first cycle.
The finance migration module was the most valuable. Reconciliation points and sign-off criteria are rarely taught anywhere.
Fees and training modes
Choose how you want to learn. No-cost EMI is available on the live and 1-to-1 modes.
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What a day looks like
- Programme standup
- Status across workstreams: custom code remediation, master data cleansing, test defects and the next dress rehearsal.
- Remediation review
- Working through simplification items with the functional leads and deciding what is fixed, what is deferred and what is descoped.
- Technical coordination
- With Basis on the next SUM cycle, runtime measurements and whether the downtime window is achievable.
- Data validation
- Reconciling converted finance or business partner data with the business owners, item by item.
- Cutover planning
- Refining the runbook, timings and rollback criteria, which is revised after every rehearsal.
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We run this course as private corporate training, tailored to your systems and scheduled around your team. Tell us your group size and what you need to cover.
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