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Join this this free open online course to learn how to convert an SAP ERP system into an SAP S/4HANA system. After completing this course, you’ll have a good understanding about the benefits of a system conversion compared to a new implementation, which tools support a system conversion, and what essential changes are required in the Finance and Logistics areas.

Self-paced since March 14, 2019
Language: English

Course information

Course Summary

The early adopters of SAP S/4HANA were new SAP customers. They therefore started their journey with a new implementation. With the release of 1610, an increasing number of our installed based customers started considering a system conversion as their preferred transformation option.

The SAP S/4HANA Regional Implementation Group gained a lot of insight by supporting the first customers on their journey to SAP S/4HANA. In each of these projects, similar questions were raised around how to best approach such a project. With this course, we want to share our experience and the key topics that should be considered for each conversion project. We hope this will help you better prepare yourself and avoid some of the challenges we noticed.

In the first week, we’ll talk about the advantages of a system conversion compared to a new implementation and we’ll show you how to plan your project and which roles and skills are required. We’ll also show you some technical tools that will support your system conversion.

In Week 2 we’ll provide you with best practices on how to adopt changes in Finance and what changes to the system landscape are required. You’ll also learn about the new data model for Business Partner and, based on this, how to execute the customer-vendor integration.

Week 3 is about essential changes in the user experience and the importance of the simplification list. Another focus of this week will be on changes in the Logistics area, for example, replacing the storage location with the MRP area.

In the last week of the course, you'll learn how to prepare your bespoke developments for the new architecture and the new UI innovations based on SAP Fiori. We’ll also provide you with guidelines for testing and show you how to check whether a downtime optimization is required in your project. Finally, we’ll discuss the impact of a system conversion on analytics.

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Course Characteristics

Course Content

Week 1: Fundamentals and Technical Tooling
Week 2: Converting Finance and Business Partner
Week 3: UX and Main Impacts on Functional Side – Logistics
Week 4: Technical Topics and Project Management
Week 5: Final Exam

Target Audience

  • Project teams
  • Technical consultants
  • Functional consultants

Course Requirements

Basic understanding of SAP implementation projects

Development Systems

You do not need access to an SAP S/4HANA system in this course.

Further Learning

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About Further Content Experts

Tom Arne Altmüller

Tom Arne Altmüller

Tom Arne Altmüller is a business processes principal consultant and solution architect in SAP S/4HANA plan-to-product.
He is currently working as an SAP S/4HANA product expert for the SAP S/4HANA Regional Implementation Group EMEA.  

Masaaki Arai

Masaaki Arai

Masaaki Arai is an analytics senior consultant and part of the SAP S/4HANA Regional Implementation Group (RIG) in APJ and Digital Business Services Japan, based in Tokyo Japan.
Masaaki has been with SAP for more than 16 years and has worked in SAP BW and analytics consulting and support.
He has experience in a product management role, as well as an SAP BW and SAP HANA project lead. He is now focusing on SAP S/4HANA architecture and development.

Pierre Cassano

Pierre Cassano

Pierre Cassano is a principal analytics and solution architect and part of the SAP S/4HANA Regional Implementation Group (RIG) in APJ and APJ Digital Business Services. He is based in Melbourne, Australia.
Pierre has been with SAP for more than 23 years, spanning training, consulting, and management roles throughout this time.
With a strong software development background and specialization within the analytics space with the introduction of SAP BW in the late 1990s, Pierre has seen many of the SAP analytics innovations some of us take for granted. Now he focuses on SAP HANA Analytics, IoT, and Big Data, including developing customer-specific architecture and strategy solutions for the APJ region.

Andi Mauersberger

Andi Mauersberger

Andi Mauersberger is a process consultant with a focus on Business Partner and customer-vendor integration. He has worked for many years in the Business Partner area.
Andi supports several SAP S/4HANA project teams in introducing the Business Partner concept and provides hints based on his experience. As part of the RIG (Regional Implementation Group) team, he works as a connector between SAP S/4HANA projects and development/ consulting.

Previous Version of This Course:

Previous version of this course is available here:
- System Conversion to SAP S/4HANA (October 10, through November 15, 2018)

Course contents

  • Week 1:

    Fundamentals and Technical Tooling
  • Week 2:

    Converting Finance and Business Partner
  • Week 3:

    UX and Main Impacts on Functional Side – Logistics
  • Week 4:

    Technical Topics and Project Management
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  • Final Exam:

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Certificate Requirements

  • Gain a Record of Achievement by earning at least 50% of the maximum number of points from all graded assignments.
  • Gain a Confirmation of Participation by completing at least 50% of the course material.

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This course is offered by

Lars Rueter

Lars Rueter drives co-innovation with customers and partners for SAP S/4HANA and leads the Regional Implementation Group for SAP S/4HANA in APJ and Greater China.

Lars joined SAP in 1999. He has since held various positions in development and product management, including SAP Master Data Governance and SAP NetWeaver, as well as architecture roles across a variety of programs.

He is a frequent speaker at conferences and other industry events on SAP S/4HANA and digital transformation strategy.

Hendrik Luetjohann

Hendrik Luetjohann is a principal business consultant and part of SAP’s Business Transformation Services, based in Australia. He is part of the SAP S/4HANA Regional Implementation Group (RIG) in APJ and the product expert for SAP S/4HANA Cloud. He has been working for SAP for more than 20 years and leads the procurement team within the RIG.

Hendrik has supported numerous successful SAP S/4HANA (on-premise and cloud) customer projects in the APJ region and provides enablement activities for customers, partners, and other stakeholders.

Jocelyn Dart

Jocelyn Dart is a user experience strategist and solution architect with the SAP S/4HANA Regional Implementation Group for Asia-Pacific Japan. She is based in Sydney, Australia.

Jocelyn has been with SAP for more than 28 years in a wide range of roles and industries. Her current focus is user experience – primarily SAP Fiori in SAP S/4HANA. She has a special passion for accessibility.

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Dr. Christian Rainer

Dr. Christian Rainer is senior business process consultant at Digital Business Services in the Finance LoB, and is part of the SAP S/4HANA Regional Implementation Group in EMEA, based out of Vienna, Austria.

Christian started as an SAP consultant in 1996 and joined SAP in 2014. Before that, he was also a lecturer at universities for business management and information systems. He has done research and his doctorate on knowledge-based approaches for production planning and has also published scientific articles about data mining.

Alexander Röbel

Alexander Roebel is a principal consultant with the SAP S/4HANA Regional Implementation Group (RIG) in EMEA, and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Alex has been in consulting with SAP for more than 22 years. With a strong business process and development background, his current focus is on business partner and customer-vendor integration, as well as procure-to-pay topics.

As a product expert in the RIG, Alex has supported numerous successful SAP S/4HANA customer projects in the EMEA region.

Dr. Boris Rubarth

Boris Rubarth works as a product manager in the area of Software Logistics and is responsible for the Software Update Manager (SUM).

Boris has written numerous blogs and training courses on SAP topics and is the author of several books.

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Van Vi

Van Vi serves as an SAP S/4HANA product expert in the Regional Implementation Group for the Americas region. He is also a practice engineer in Digital Business Services.

He has been working in the SAP industry for 21 years. His specialty lies in the areas of SAP architecture, integration, SAP HANA migrations, and SAP S/4HANA projects.

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Ivan Ramirez

Ivan is currently an SAP senior business processes consultant for the Consumer Industries hub in Latin America.

He is also an SAP S/4HANA product expert in the SAP Regional Implementation Group, helping customers facilitate their road to SAP S/4HANA through customer care.

Ivan has been involved for the past 9 years as a functional logistics consultant on local, regional, and global projects for SAP customers.

Gilbert Wong

Gilbert Wong is an SAP S/4HANA product expert in the Regional Implementation Group for the Americas region. He is also a platinum consultant in Digital Business Services – Services Delivery in North America.

Gilbert has been working at SAP for over 21 years, and specializes in the areas of SAP architecture, integration, SAP HANA migrations, and SAP S/4HANA projects.

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Kusiel Camargo

Kusiel Camargo is a senior business consultant and expert in the Production and Quality modules for SAP S/4HANA. He has worked as a consultant and business architect on SAP projects in Brazil and abroad for more than 16 years.

Kusiel joined the SAP S/4HANA Regional Implementation Group (RIG LATAM) in January 2016. As an SAP S/4HANA product expert and Plan-to-Product team lead, he supports SAP S/4HANA implementation projects in Latin America and accelerates SAP S/4HANA adoption through enablement and content creation.

Jorge Baltazar

Jorge Baltazar is a user experience consultant and architect in the SAP S/4HANA Regional Implementation Group and SAP UX/Mobile Services in the Americas region. He is based in Mexico City, Mexico.

Jorge has been working with SAP for 12 years, interacting with the support, training, and consulting areas.

With a strong background in development, integration, and SAP architecture, he works on local, regional, and global SAP customer projects, focusing on helping customers adopt SAP Fiori, SAP S/4HANA, and SAP BTP services.

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Dirk Holzhausen

Dirk Holzhausen is a chief enterprise architect focusing on SAP S/4HANA. Dirk guides customers through the development of SAP S/4HANA target architectures and roadmaps to the delivery and execution of an SAP S/4HANA project. He has guided a number of customers on their way to SAP S/4HANA, including big SAP S/4HANA conversions.

As an SAP S/4HANA project coach in the SAP S/4HANA Customer Care program, Dirk was part of the SAP S/4HANA story from the very beginning. He is based at SAP headquarters in Walldorf, Germany.