Our client is a university founded in 1889 and counts about 10,000 students today. It is a multi-disciplinary institution: arts, humanities, economics and management, law, theology, science and medicine.
Context & Challenges
Our customer’s initial SAP implementation was carried out in 1996. The versions of the modules installed at the time have become obsolete in S/4HANA, such as the FM module (public sector budget accounting), where only the FM-BCS version is maintained in S/4HANA.
Our customer wanted to take advantage of the innovations brought by the new solution, while retaining the benefits of investments made in SAP over more than 20 years.
During the migration analysis phase, the “Bluefield Shell Conversion” scenario was shown to be the most suitable.
Our approach
- The “Bluefield” scenario involves copying the ECC production environment, without data, and migrating it to S/4HANA.
- This new S/4HANA environment is the basis for building a new DEV, QAL, PRD chain in S/4HANA.
- Master data, work-in-progress data and some historical data for reporting purposes can be transferred to the new S/4HANA solution.
- Finally, the ECC system serves as an archive for subsequent or legal consultation.
The solutions
- SAP S/4HANA (FI, CO, FM, MM, SD)
Benefits
Merge all preparatory projects (archiving, EHP8 migration, FM migration, Business Partners migration) with the S/4HANA migration project:
- Using new axes, such as the financing program (FM).
- By using the Funds axis in the FM and CO modules to model the funding source, so that cost coverage (primary and secondary expenses by funding source) can be extracted from SAP.
