ACT100

SAP Activate Methodology

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PARTICIPANT HANDBOOK
INSTRUCTOR-LED TRAINING
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Course Version: 12
Course Duration: 2 Day(s)
e-book Duration: 15 Hours 40 Minutes
Material Number: 50151918
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Contents

vii Course Overview

1 Unit 1: Introduction to SAP Activate

2 Lesson: Outlining the Scope and Goals of ACT100

4 Lesson: Describing the Factors that Influence SAP S/4HANA
Implementation

13 Unit 2: SAP Activate Overview

14 Lesson: Describing the Elements of SAP Activate

17 Lesson: Describing SAP Activate Transition Paths
21 Lesson: Outlining the Key Characteristics of SAP Activate

38 Unit 3: SAP Activate Elements

39 Lesson: Exploring SAP Activate Elements

59 Unit 4: Workstream Overview

61 Lesson: Introducing the Project Management Workstream

124 Lesson: Introducing the Design and Configuration Workstream
170 Lesson: Introducing the Analytics Workstream
173 Lesson: Introducing the Customer Team Enablement Workstream
180 Lesson: Introducing the Solution Adoption Workstream
189 Lesson: Introducing the Extensibility Workstream
195 Lesson: Introducing the Testing Workstream
203 Lesson: Introducing the Integration Workstream
210 Lesson: Introducing the Operations and Support Workstream
217 Lesson: Introducing the Data Management Workstream
231 Lesson: Introducing the Technical Architecture and Infrastructure
Workstream

244 Unit 5: Transition Paths

245 Lesson: Understanding New Implementation S/4HANA Cloud Multi-

Tenant Edition
253 Lesson: Understanding New Implementation S/4HANA On Premise
260 Lesson: Understanding New Implementation S/4HANA Cloud
Single-Tenant Edition
268 Lesson: Understanding System Conversion
278 Lesson: Understanding Selective Data Transition

287 Unit 6: Appendices

288 Lesson: Appendix: SAP Methodology Learning Journeys

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300 Glossary

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Course Overview

TARGET AUDIENCE
This course is intended for the following audiences:

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UNIT 1 Introduction to SAP
Activate

Lesson 1
Outlining the Scope and Goals of ACT100 2

Lesson 2
Describing the Factors that Influence SAP S/4HANA Implementation 4

UNIT OBJECTIVES

● Understand the scope and goals of ACT100

● Factors Influencing SAP S/4HANA implementation

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Unit 1
Lesson 1
Outlining the Scope and Goals of ACT100

LESSON OBJECTIVES
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:
● Understand the scope and goals of ACT100

Scope and Goals of ACT100

Figure 1: Scope and Goals of ACT100 Course

Figure 2: SAP Activate: Information Structure

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Lesson: Outlining the Scope and Goals of ACT100

Figure 3: SAP S/4HANA is the Cornerstone of Intelligent Enterprise

SAP S/4HANA was introduced as a re-imagined Business Suite that is a foundation for the
Digital Core for customers’ business. It is based on a SAP HANA platform with SAP Fiori UX,
making it easy for people to access and use the solution.
SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Management integrates Lines of Business functions and delivers
End-to-End, day-to-day processes of an enterprise, for example, order-to-cash, procure-to-
pay, plan-to-product, request-to-service as well as industry solutions.
Integrated business processes in SAP S/4HANA are further enhanced by innovative solutions
which provide:
● Real-time online interaction in the world behind the company firewall with customers,
suppliers, employees through online services, social and business networks (for example,
SAP Hybris, SAP SuccessFactors , SAP Concur, SAP Fieldglass, SAP Ariba)
● New business capabilities through Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning, big data,
modern analytics, Blockchain, and data intelligence

LESSON SUMMARY
You should now be able to:
● Understand the scope and goals of ACT100

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Unit 1
Lesson 2
Describing the Factors that Influence SAP S/
4HANA Implementation

LESSON OBJECTIVES
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:
● Factors Influencing SAP S/4HANA implementation

Concentration on Value-adding Processes

Figure 4: In Focus: Efficient Business Process Operations and New Business Models

Customers, business partners and shareholders expect from the company:

● Efficient business process operations , which deliver repetitive and reliable results
(products)
● Introduction of new business models leveraging new IT technologies.

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Lesson: Describing the Factors that Influence SAP S/4HANA Implementation

Figure 5: Intelligent Enterprises Concentrate on Value-adding Processes

Efficient business process operations rely heavily on commodity processes (repetitive tasks),
which deliver repeatable and reliable results for customers and business partners. New
business models are emerging from value-adding tasks which focus on improving customer,
vendor, and employee experience, and provide new business capabilities.
Since the 1960s, business applications' coverage of commodity processes areas has
increased significantly. This supplies companies with data and rule-based processes, which
provide real-time insights into operations. This also creates a foundation for using such
innovative concepts as Predictive Analytics and IoT.
These innovative concepts , in turn, enable employees to perform value-adding tasks, which
were not possible before. With this shift, companies start taking commodity processes for
granted, which should support ongoing company operations at optimal costs.

Figure 6: Growing Market Maturity in Using Business Software

Over the years, market experience with implementing and operating business solutions
delivered two important outcomes:
● Low-value, must-have, and commodity processes should be automated with lowest efforts
and cost, so that company concentrate on implementing more value-adding processes.

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