Migrating Data to SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Public Edition

Unit 2: The Tool of Choice: SAP S/4HANA Migration

Cockpit
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Agenda

Introduction to SAP S/4HANA migration cockpit

Overall migration process

Data migration objects

Mapping

Simulation/Migration

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Your way to SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition

Bring your business processes to the new platform

System • A complete technical in-place conversion of an existing SAP ERP
Conversion system to SAP S/4HANA
SAP S/4HANA migration
SAPcockpit
ERP • Adopt new innovations at your speed
system → Delivery model: included in SAP S/4HANA shipment

▪ Part of SAP S/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA Cloud (included in these licenses)
▪ Supports customers with the “new implementation”
Partly scenario
re-use, partly re-implementation
▪ SAP’s tool for the migration of business data to• Covers
SAPthe
S/4HANA
migration of relevant business data from SAP ERP to SAP
S/4HANA Cloud, public edition
Hybrid
Selective • Allows to combine redesign of business processes with retaining historical
Hybrid
Transition
Data data
SAP ERP • Realized by a combination of standard functions used for a new
Transition
Transition system(s)
implementation or system conversion together with complementing expert
functions which are not released to general availability
→ Delivery model: as a service / consulting project

New implementation
▪ Reengineering and process simplification based on latest
New innovations
Implementation ▪ Highly standardized, fueled with best practices and based on
a clean core
SAP ▪ Implement innovative business processes with preconfigured
or non-SAP system(s) best practice content on an innovative platform
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Capabilities

Out-of-the-box, included in Guidance and simulation

SAP S/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA for the migration process
Cloud license and shipment

Preconfigured SAP S/4HANA- Automated mapping

specific migration content SAP S/4HANA between source and target
migration cockpit

Integrated into SAP Lower migration time and costs,

Activate methodology no developer skills required

Migration Object Modeler for

custom requirements*

* reduced scope for SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition

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What it is designed for (in/out of scope)

Designed for:
▪ Initial load of data (master data, open transactional data, no historical data)
▪ Use in the context of a new implementation of SAP S/4HANA, SAP S/4HANA Cloud,
private edition and SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition
▪ Ensuring full coverage with migration objects for SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition
because the SAP S/4HANA migration cockpit is the only option to load data

Not designed for

▪ Keeping data in sync across systems
▪ Realizing a continuous exchange or flow of data
▪ Cleansing data
▪ Migrating data directly from SAP S/4HANA or SAP S/4HANA Cloud to SAP S/4HANA
(currently not supported)

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No migration of historical data

Do you remember the last time you moved house?

▪ An SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition implementation is by
definition a new implementation.
▪ No migration objects for historical data in migration cockpit*:
▪ Only the data necessary for a smooth business start is migrated.
▪ A comprehensive customer-specific evaluation makes sense.
Solutions like business warehouse or side-by-side extensibility
can be considered.

Examples:
▪ The migration of closed documents leads to postings which are already included in the balances; there are no open items
for those documents any more.
▪ For partially open items, only the remaining quantities or values should be migrated.

* Exception: FI – Historical balance migration object see SAP Note 2943035

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Process overview

SAP S/4HANA Cloud,

public edition

SAP S/4HANA Cloud,

private edition
Select Get data Map and transform data Simulate Migrate
migration objects
Model and design to reflect custom SAP S/4HANA
requirements*

SAP Business Legacy

Suite
*Migration Object Modeler available for SAP S/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private
edition.
For SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition limited functionality – check SAP Note 2999428.
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Step: select migration objects

Preconfigured SAP S/4HANA-specific migration content

What is a migration object?

▪ Represents a business entity in SAP S/4HANA, such as a customer, sales order, or invoice
▪ Encapsulates the logic to create the specific business entities through the corresponding APIs offered by SAP S/4HANA
▪ Delivered by SAP based on SAP Best Practices configuration and ready for immediate use
▪ Categorized in master data and transactional data (no historical data)
▪ Contains rules for handling values from source to target – called “mapping”

What is migration content?

▪ Migration content is the sum of all migration objects

What about updates on migration objects?

▪ Updates are shipped automatically by SAP (e.g. a standard field was added)
▪ You are prompted to perform an update in your migration project

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Step: select migration objects – Details and documentation

Download
migration object list

Documentation available Use filter options

Migration object list in SAP Help Portal (SAP S/4HANA Cloud) – http://help.sap.com/S4_CE_MO
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Step: map and transform

Automated mapping between source and target

What is a mapping?
▪ Data transformation or data mediation between a data source and a destination. Here, you map the source values
which were extracted from the source system to the values and formats of the SAP S/4HANA system.

Example Source Country Key Target Country Key

Deutschland DE
USA US

▪ The migration cockpit automatically provides proposals for mapping values, if possible. 1:1 mappings and rules are
predefined by SAP.
▪ The mappings have to be maintained only once. They are used for all objects within a project.
Example You maintain the country key for migration object BANK, then
all other objects in your project will use the same mapping.

Check the object-related documentation for details on mapping.

It is not necessary to provide the extracted data the way SAP S/4HANA would expect.
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Step: simulate and migrate

Guidance and simulation for the migration process

▪ Data is posted to the SAP S/4HANA system using standard APIs. Therefore, data is created like it would
be created when entered manually in the SAP system.
▪ All logical and semantic checks are done in the API.
▪ During the simulation process, no data is written to the target SAP S/4HANA system, but you can view
all the messages that would occur during an actual data transfer (for example, information about a cost
center that does not exist).
▪ Objects can be simulated/migrated one by one – keep dependencies in mind.
▪ There is no migration at database table level.
▪ It is possible to simulate/migrate only specific migration object instances (single instances or a set of
instances).

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Key takeaways

In this unit you have learned

▪ About the migration process in the SAP S/4HANA
migration cockpit
▪ What the migration cockpit is used for
▪ Where to find information on migration objects

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