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How To Use SAP Activate Content in SAP Solution Manager 7.2: Draft
How To Use SAP Activate Content in SAP Solution Manager 7.2: Draft
3.3. Configuration 15
4. CONCLUSION 16
5. RELATED INFORMATION 17
1. Investigate SAP S/4HANA Best Practice Content in SAP Solution
Manager 7.2
This chapter explains how you can analyze SAP Activate content for SAP S/4HANA to check if it fits to
your requirements.
Select the Solution Administration tile in the group Project and Process Management of the SAP
Solution Manager launch pad. (your launch pad might look different, since every user can customize
his/her own launch pad):
In Solution Administration, click on the Create New icon in the top-right corner: Enter a solution
name and a technical name for the solution and click OK.
On the system landscape tab, right-click in the (empty) list of logical component groups at the bottom
of the screen and select new to create a new logical component group. Enter the name of the new
logical component group and a description before clicking OK.
After the logical component group has been created successfully, open the Technical System
Management of the group and click the Edit button to assign technical systems and maintenance
roles.
Click the Assign Technical Systems button to define the systems. For each system within the group,
enter the Technical System Type (Application Server ABAP for SAP S/4HANA), system ID, client
number and system role (development, quality assurance, production …) and click OK.
Finally click the Save button in the Logical Component Group Editor to save your settings.
On the SAP Best Practices Packages tab, click on the link to Import SAP Best Practices Package.
A list of available packages shows up. Currently (January 2016) four different packages are available:
SAP Best Practices for SAP S/4HANA, On premise enterprise edition 1511 US
SAP Best Practices for SAP S/4HANA, cloud enterprise edition 1511 US
SAP Best Practices for SAP S/4HANA, cloud enterprise edition 1511 DE
SAP Best Practices for SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition 1511 DE
Select the package you want to import, specify the import branch that shall include the package, and
start the import.
Finally, you have to confirm the mapping of the best practice package to the right logical component
group. As result, the SAP Activate content will be available in the selected branch of your solution.
Click on the link to the project for the imported SAP Best Practices package in solution administration.
IT PPM provides the project management functionality within SAP Solution Manager 7.2. The project
has a hierarchical structure, which consists of phases – deliverables – tasks. You will find all related
information for an element if you select it in the left-hand navigation area and look at the available
tabs, like basic data, dates and work, solution documentation, notes …
Besides the project structure, the SAP Activate content provides multiple documents that help to
accelerate individual tasks. These documents are accessible by switching to the Documents tab and
selecting the corresponding task in the work breakdown structure on the left-hand side.
You can view project flow information in a GANTT chart. Select the graphic view to show this.
All details of the different tasks are available in the table view.
The process diagram displays the flow of process steps of the corresponding business process in
BPMN notification.
A right-click on the symbol of a business process step in the BPMN model displays the executable
assigned to this step.
If you select the link to the corresponding documentation at the bottom of the screen,
The process documentation includes a process diagram as well. (Currently there are some processes
with different process diagrams in SAP Solution Manager and the process documentation. This will be
fixed in the future.)
Another element of the process documentation are test scripts. They describe for each Best Practice
Business Process how it would be executed to check if the process runs as required. In the discovery
phase the process has not been configured yet. Anyway, the test script might help you to explain the
process in detail and to discuss with your customer if the standard process is sufficient or if some
adaptions are required.
Configuration information is available in solution documentation as well. If you select any of the
configuration objects (building blocks) at the bottom of the screen, a new tab will show up displaying
the elements of the building block.
The elements contain links to the IMG objects, transactions, … to do the individual configuration steps
required.
One of these elements is a document describing the entire configuration that is required to do the
configuration of this building block. This is called the Building Block Configuration Guide.
All this information will help you to investigate if the SAP Activate Best Practices Processes fit to the
customer requirements and to create a first indication regarding the related effort to be expected.
2. Deploy the Best Practice Content (New Implementation)
This process description explains how you can implement business processes of SAP Activate Best
Practices for new implementations of SAP S/4HANA.
Move relevant business processes to project scenario (44 – 50)
Deploy the pre-configured configuration.
Adjust Best Practice content (process flow)
Adjust Best Practice content (configuration)
Now, drill down the SAP Best Practices Import scenario until you come to the business process(es)
you want to move. Right-click the corresponding business process, and select the ‘Move’ action.
Then you navigate to the scenario/folder of your project and right-click the business process column to
select Insert ‘xxx’. This protects the content to be overwritten when you import later versions of the
SAP Activate content.
After confirming this action, the process step will vanish in the column browser. In the Graphical
Browser it is only greyed.
Here you have to select the corresponding graphical element and click Remove in the actions bar
to delete the element and related connections to other objects.
To repair broken connections between elements, click on the source element for the connection, take
the Connection symbol from the displayed symbols, and move it to the target element.
In a similar way you can add additional process steps to your process. This might be necessary if
some business process steps, which are important for the execution of the business process at your
company, are not part of the pre-configured best practices process. Either you add the new process
step in the column browser via right-mouse click in the process-step column and selecting New ->
Process Step
Then you can select a process step from available libraries or specify a new one.
In the graphical browser, you can select additional elements in the left-hand navigation and drag them
to the process diagram. Afterwards connect them and save the new diagram.
3.3. Configuration