SAP Implementation Process

1. Project preparation
There are 2 main activities involved
1.1 Design and initially staff the SAP TSO
To design the technical support organization (TSO) which is the organization that is charged
with the addressing designing, implementation and supporting SAP solution. High level
project team like database administrator and solution architect next step would be choosing
internal staff and external consultant.
1.2 Craft solution vision
Addressing both business and functional requirement. The main focus within the vision
should be on companies core business and then figure out the short coming of the existing
system in terms of availability(uptime), security, manageability and scalability.
2. Sizing and Blueprinting
2.1 Perform cost of ownership analysis
Perform total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis to determine how to get the best business
solution at a lowest cost. This means to compare SAP solution stack option and alternatives
and to determine the cost of each stack and at what stage will this be incurred. Parts of the
stack are hardware, operating system and database which forms the acquisition cost. Next
to it would be recurring cost such as maintenance and downtime cost.
Suggest to perform delta analysis where the difference between solution (stack) are
identified and analysed.
2.2 Identify high availability and disaster recovery requirement
Downtime of the SAP system caused by hardware failure, application failure and it is also
very important to calculate the cost of downtime and the organization will have a best idea
of the availability requirement.
3. Engage SAP solution Stack vendor
4. Staff TSO
5. Functional development
5.1 Address Change Management
5.2 SAP system and operation management
5.3 Functional integration and regression testing
6. Final Preparation
6.1 Prepare for cutover
7. Go Live




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mySAP BI
mySAP CRM
mySAP Enterprise Portal
mySAP Financials
mySAP Human Resource
mySAP Marketplace
mySAP Mobile service
mySAP PLM (Project Life Cycle)
mySAP SCM (Supply Chain)
mySAP SRM (Supplier Relation Management)
mySAP Workplace
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SAP infrastructure planning
The solution stack references the layers of infrastructure and technology that sits on top
of each other in support of an SAP solution.
Physical space (like the computer room or other data centre facilities)
Power, cooling and other utility based infrastructure layer
Server and disk subsystem hardware layer
Front End
Internet/
intranet
(Web AS/
ITS)
Middleware
(Enterprise
portal/ work
space)
Backend
R/3
BW
APO
EBP
CRM
Firmware layer associated with specific hardware
OS layer
OS driver, service packs, updates, patches and fixes,
Database layer
Database driver, service packs, updates, patches and fixes
Application layer (which by itself consist of many layers)
Internet enabling layer
SAP accessibility layer, including desktops, laptops and other devices used to access
mySAP solution
SAP system landscape for each component should take into consideration the following
factors
Simplification
High Availability
Disaster Recovery
Training
Performance
Scalability
Total cost of ownership
Security Requirement
Manageability
Accessibility


SD Benchmark


Abbreviation
SAP Components R/3, BW, APO, CRM, EBP, PLM, SEM
BW Business Information Warehouse
APO Advance Planner and Optimizer
CRM Customer Relationship Management
EBP Enterprise Buyer Pro
PLM Product Lifecycle Management
SEM Strategic Enterprise Management
R/3 Client server based online transaction
processing system
3 system landscape Each SAP solution required development
environment, quality/test environment and
production environment
CI Central Instance is responsible for managing
locks, inter-server messaging, queuing.