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Leveraging SAP S/4HANA Cloud with SAP Central Business Configuration
Unit 1: Vision and Customer Value

Vision and customer value
Target picture and business value (1/2)
SAP Central Business Configuration is a tool

designed to let you configure a business process
spanning different SAP cloud solutions from one central
place based on your business needs.
Key Objectives
▪ SAP Central Business Configuration conceived as
central configuration tool for the Intelligent
Enterprise, starting with SAP S/4HANA Cloud,
public edition
▪ Increased business process flexibility and reduced
configuration efforts
▪ Reduced time to value and total cost of ownership
thanks to faster implementation
▪ Flexibility through go-lives in smaller iterative steps
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Target picture and business value (2/2)
Key Solution Characteristics

▪ Scoping via business adaptation catalog (BAC) and
end-to-end processes
▪ Quick access to a preconfigured, ready-to-run
system
▪ Option to adapt preconfiguration to customer needs
▪ Extended configuration for areas not equipped with
preconfiguration content
▪ Enable delta deployment of scope extensions
(for example, additional countries/regions with
preconfiguration)
Preconfiguration Content Strategy

▪ Built on foundation of SAP Best Practices for
SAP S/4HANA Cloud preconfiguration content
▪ Open for partner content

Key target components
Project Scoping and Central Business Configuration

Experience Organizational Structure Configuration Workspaces
Guided SAP cloud Scope your solution – select Configure integrated end-to- Manage parallel projects
implementations countries/regions, business end business processes
processes, and solution across cloud solutions Manage company rollouts via
capabilities from SAP templates
Set up and maintain your Ability to set up additional

organizational structure localizations
Content
Fueled by SAP Best Practices preconfiguration content and the business adaptation catalog (BAC)

Target key benefits
Central Configuration Fast Company Reduced

of Business Processes Rollouts Configuration Efforts
Across the IE
Organizational structures and other Parallel implementation projects are Start from a pre-scoped workspace
central configuration values are planned to be supported, along with (via processes, roles, industries,
stored and maintained only once, the deployment of configuration into functional capabilities) with fine-
centrally in SAP Central Business different data centers (template granular scoping allowing a higher
Configuration, and used across the approach) grade of preconfiguration, reducing
Intelligent Enterprise (IE) the need for configuration

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Unit 2: The New Implementation Experience for
SAP S/4HANA Cloud
The new implementation experience for SAP S/4HANA Cloud
Process overview
SAP Central Business Configuration allows you to manage your configurations for SAP cloud implementations
and ongoing operations centrally via Project Experience.
Scope Organizational Product-Specific Production System

Structure Configuration Settings*
▪ Define scope ▪ Specify primary finance ▪ Perform configuration ▪ Maintain current settings*
▪ Assign deployment settings activities
targets ▪ Set up organizational ▪ Release transports**
structure
* Maintaining current settings in the Production System Settings phase via SAP Central Business
▪ Deploy
Configuration is only relevant in a 2-system landscape. In a 3-system landscape, dedicated apps are
settings available within SAP S/4HANA Cloud to grant access to such production-system-specific settings.
** Releasing transports takes place in SAP Central Business Configuration (2-system landscape) or in
SAP S/4HANA Cloud (3-system landscape).
SAP Activate implementation methodology
Discover Prepare Explore Realize Deploy Run
Continuous Innovation
Discovery Setup and Fit-to-Standard Migrate, Onboard Users Innovate,

Configure Extend
Assessment Enablement Analysis Integrate, Test and Deploy Operate, Support
SAP Central Business Configuration is the tool that you use to carry out the configuration-related
tasks of the proven SAP Activate implementation methodology for SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public
edition.
All of the SAP Activate tasks are available in SAP Roadmap Viewer
(https://go.support.sap.com/roadmapviewer/).

Summary of key features and advantages
SAP Central Business Configuration is the central place for customers and partners to look at SAP cloud business
processes, learn about their value, and select the suitable processes for their business.
Customers and partners can manage SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition implementation projects centrally, with the aim to
deploy the configurations to the target systems. The implementation project experience includes:
Scoping
▪ Scoping of the SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition solution
▪ Multi-country scoping
▪ Country-dependent scoping of non-standard scenarios
Organizational Structure Management

▪ Supports customers in modeling their organizational structure
▪ Graphical, scope-dependent, and guided creation of organizational units
Configuration
▪ Configuration activities during the Product-Specific Configuration phase
SAP Central Business Configuration is intended to make project implementations for SAP cloud solutions easier and
more efficient, and enable customers and partners to run their projects more autonomously.
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Unit 3: Project Experience
Project Experience
What is Project Experience?
The Project Experience app is the main user interface of SAP Central Business
Configuration and guides you through your evaluation and implementation
projects, as well as ongoing operations. Every project is structured into phases,
which contain specific activities that you need to carry out.
Project Experience gives you information about:

▪ Project type
▪ Phase
▪ Milestones
▪ Activities and their status
Project Experience enables you to:

▪ Create a project
▪ Switch between projects
▪ Add team members to your project
▪ Maintain the status of project and configuration activities
▪ Access all applications (for example, Define Scope, Deployment Targets,
Set Up Organizational Structure, or Configuration Activities)

Project Experience
Prerequisites
Before you can access Project Experience, the

following steps must be completed.
Prerequisites:
▪ You’ve requested the provisioning of your SAP
Central Business Configuration and SAP S/4HANA
Cloud tenants via SAP for Me
▪ You’ve finished the user setup and access via the
identity authentication service (IAS) and identity
provisioning service (IPS)

Project Experience
Project types
▪ You typically start with an evaluation project to explore

your business processes before you create a separate
implementation project to tackle your actual
implementation.
▪ The evaluation project offers preconfigured content
and demo data that you can use to test and evaluate
business processes.
▪ In the evaluation project, you prepare the settings that
will be deployed to the starter system.
Evaluation Project Implementation Project

Limited scope selection with the Enterprise Management Free scope selection from the available scope
bundle preselected
Preconfigured and preconfirmed organizational structure Free setup of the organizational structure
with the option to add further units
Project Experience
Gateway to other apps
Project Experience Define Scope
Configuration Activities Set Up Organizational Structure

Project Experience
Demo of Project Experience

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Unit 4: User Assistance
User assistance
User assistance deliverables for SAP Central Business Configuration
Provide user experience with state-of-the-art

user assistance: context-sensitive,
embedded in screen, interactive
▪ User Interface (UI) Texts
▪ In-App Help: User information when and where
you need it
▪ Learning Tutorials: With click-through screen
recordings
▪ What’s New: Short, concise information about
new and changed features
▪ User Guides: For Project Experience
▪ Expert Guides: User setup and access,
security information
▪ FAQ for customers and partners

User assistance
In-app help: What’s New
What’s New banner

▪ Appears on first logon
What’s New topics on the user interface

▪ Highlighted screen elements with short explanations

User assistance
In-app help: learning tutorials
Click-through video tutorials
Context-sensitive
▪ Depending on your current screen
Link to Learning Center

▪ Overview of all learning tutorials
▪ Option to search or filter by role
Getting Started tutorials and Tutorial

Library linked from SAP Help Portal page

User assistance
What’s New on SAP Help Portal
Get an overview of the new features for

every release:
▪ Table format with filtering and sorting
possibilities
▪ Harmonized user experience across the
Intelligent Enterprise at SAP
▪ Same attributes across many products:
title, description, validity date, action
▪ Additional information like software version,
lifecycle information
▪ Downloadable
▪ Personalization (hide columns)

User assistance
Demo

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Unit 5: Scoping and Deployment Targets
Scoping and deployment targets
Scope phase activities
The Scope phase in SAP Central Business

Configuration consists of:
▪ Scoping-related project activity, which guides you in
selecting the capabilities of your solution
▪ Assign Deployment Target activity, in which you connect
your project to the dedicated SAP S/4HANA Cloud
system
▪ Confirm Scoping is Completed milestone
SAP Central Business Configuration ensures the consistency of the scope selection.
What to scope
Mandatory Selections Optional Selections Optional Selections (via ticket)

▪ Countries/regions (directly by the customer) ▪ Locked non-standard and license-
▪ Scope bundles ▪ IFRS or/and US GAAP non- dependent scenarios can be added
standard group ledger scenarios to the scope by the SAP support
team
▪ Additional standard scenarios
▪ Non-standard scenarios that do not
require additional manual steps to
be performed by SAP
Assign deployment target
A deployment target represents a dedicated system of the

solution being implemented.
A list with all deployment targets that are available and
provisioned by the SAP operations team will be displayed
on the Deployment Targets tab:
▪ One deployment target can be assigned to only one project
▪ You can assign or remove a deployment target only during the
Scope phase
▪ The data from SAP Central Business Configuration will be
deployed to the assigned target SAP S/4HANA Cloud system
After initial deployment to the target system, you can

check the deployment and activation details using the
navigation button on the Deployment Targets tab.
Demo of scoping and deployment targets

How to scope (1)

How to scope (2)
Select one or multiple countries/regions.

We strongly recommend limiting the number of countries/regions to be activated in an
implementation wave to no more than five at a time.

How to scope (3)

How to scope (4) – Adjust country scope

Features (1)
Scenarios that cannot be selected directly will be displayed with a grayed-out selection box and a lock.
On mouse-over, additional information on how can they be added to the scope is displayed.
You can search by scope item ID or text.

Features (2)
Make use of the different filter options (Industry, Line of Business etc.) to be able to narrow down the results in
the Scenarios section.
Then you can use the Add All / Remove All buttons to easily add / remove the filtered selectable scenarios to
scope all at once.
Features (3)
As well as country/region selection, you can select public sector scope for certain countries/regions.
For public sector projects, a specific Public Sector Management (PSM) bundle is available. It includes sector-
independent content from the private sector and content specific to the public sector. Optional scenario
selections are available on top of the bundle.

Features (4)
My Selected Scope serves as an overview of all

scenarios in scope.
▪ Scenarios can also be filtered by country in this view
▪ Read access for this view is possible from any
project phase

Assign deployment target
Assign the SAP S/4HANA Cloud system to your implementation project.

Depending on the systems which have been provisioned and on the project type (evaluation or
implementation), different deployment targets may be displayed.

Confirm scoping milestone
Based on the scope

selection, relevant
customizing and configuration
activities are identified.
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Unit 6: Organizational Structure Management
Organizational structure management
Set Up Organizational Structure app
The Set Up Organizational Structure app

supports you in modeling your organizational
structure with predefined organizational units
and templates before activating any content.
The tool supports you in:
▪ Defining your org structure and then
activating the content data
▪ Enhancing your org structure as per the
business requirement when you have
already been using an activated solution,
for example by adding a new plant to the
existing org structure

Organizational completion rules (OCR)
▪ The Set Up Organizational Structure app is closely

connected with the scoping. The selected scope
specifies which organizational units are required to
run the underlying processes.
▪ Units to Create and Units to Confirm indicators:
These indicators show the number of org units you
need to create and confirm. You can choose them
to see the detailed list of org units. When there are
mandatory org units to be created and confirmed,
these indicators are red and the Complete
Activity button is grayed out.

Creation of org units
▪ The Set Up Organizational Structure app can

be used to create org units along with their
addresses
▪ You can enter the names of the units in
multiple languages

Creation of org relations
▪ The Set Up Organizational Structure app can be

used to create relationships between the units
▪ You can use the tree view in conjunction with the
graphical view to see the complex relationships

Confirmation of org units and relations
▪ After careful review of the organizational structure, it needs

to be confirmed. The dependent units for a relationship to
be confirmed are also automatically selected.
▪ After all mandatory org units are created and confirmed,
you can choose Complete Activity to complete the Set Up
Organizational Structure activity.
▪ After completing all project activities of the Scope and
Organizational Structure phase, choose the Confirm
Scope and Organizational Structure Phase is
Completed milestone. In the dialog box, choose Confirm
Milestone.

Demo of org structure setup

Product-Specific Configuration phase and configuration activities
▪ The Organizational Structure milestone icon in the Milestones timeline turns to green and the project will
move to the Product-Specific Configuration phase.
▪ Configuration activities in the Product-Specific Configuration phase cover detailed settings of the solution
process.

Summary
Key features of the Set Up Organizational

Structure app and its benefits for
customers:
▪ User experience: In the Set Up
Organizational Structure app, you can
− switch between graphic view and table view
− use the filter bar to filter the org units
▪ Organizational confirmation rules (OCR)
▪ Deletion and changes of IDs / assignments
possible before activation
▪ Organizational setup in staged
environment – org structure can be set up as
draft and reviewed before activation

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Unit 7: Configuration Activities
Configuration activities
Lifecycle of configuration content in SAP Central Business Configuration
Content Import Scoping Org Completion Deployment
SAP Best Practices Customers select Customers create Configuration

content is imported scope, which results organizational units content is deployed
into SAP Central in the selection of to the target tenant
Business pre-delivered
Configuration content as per the
chosen scope

Activity list and target business adaptation catalog (TBAC)
▪ The target BAC is a structural representation of business areas

and subareas with constraints that define the selection of BAC
entities. Target BAC
▪ This structure is maintained manually along with the
configuration activities which belong to specific BAC entities.
▪ After scoping is performed, the configuration activities are
shown in a hierarchical representation, following the structure of Migration
the BAC.
▪ The configuration activities within a hierarchy are arranged in
the sequence of performing configuration changes. Hence, it
acts as implicit guidance for customers, who can follow the Configuration
sequence and execute. Tree/Hierarchy
▪ With the hierarchical representation, customers can find a
configuration activity by searching with business scenarios.
▪ Each configuration activity also has a status that can be set to
“In Progress” or “Completed”, depending on the state of
completion of the activity.
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Unit 8: Configuration Localization Tool
Configuration Localization Tool
What’s it all about?
▪ Business is more global and changing faster than ever. Customers want to
use SAP S/4HANA Cloud in the countries/regions in which they operate.
Localization
▪ SAP already provides localized business configuration for 51 countries/
makes a regions, with 8 more planned.
difference
▪ Big demand to be even more flexible in creating new countries/regions –
often requested by partners and customers.

Purpose
Approach
▪ The Configuration Localization Tool (CLT) is a technically easy-to-use approach for
partners and customers to create a new local version.
It generates localized configuration settings for a target country/region from a
selected source country/region (Germany).
CLT – ➢ Business configuration content to jump start localization
What is it?
▪ Basically, CLT ensures that localized configuration for a target country/region is
generated consistently with preconfigured configuration settings and can be adapted in
an implementation project.
Purpose
▪ With CLT, SAP and partners can expand the coverage of SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public
edition to countries which haven’t been possible so far (also not with the private edition)

SAP delivered vs. customer local versions (localization as a self-service)
Early Adoption
SAP Delivered Local Versions Customer Local Versions3 Program
Countries/ 51 1592
Regions Supported 8 more on roadmap1
Languages 32 Use SAP delivered languages

1 more on roadmap1
Best Practice Included Derived (Country-specific adaptation via SSCUI)
Preconfigured Content Country-specific content included Use SAP CBC – Configuration Localization Tool 3 (part of
Further adaptations via Self-Service Configuration UI localization as a self-service for SAP S/4HANA Cloud) to create
(SSCUI) configuration content by copying/transforming from a selected
“source” local version – see scope item list supported
Further adaptations via SSCUI
Country/Region-Specific Included4 Use localization Not Included

as a self-service
Functions Meet a wide range of local financial
for SAP
Localization
Use localization as a self-service
as a self-service forCloud to
for SAP S/4HANA
reporting standards, legal frameworks, tax manage regulatory requirements
calculations, logistics scenarios (eWay Bill,
S/4HANA Cloud SAP S/4HANA Cloud
to further
stock transfer), customs forms, electronic
extend/adapt on
document exchange, and statutory
project-basis
reporting requirements as mandated by
regulatory authorities
Provide Legal Changes SAP Customer Customer

1 Refer to roadmap for specific timelines, subject to change
2 Belarus, Venezuela, embargo countries and SAP delivered/planned local versions are excluded. .
3 Currently in early adoption program for customers with 3-system landscape environment. Current customers using solution builder or CBC with 2-system
landscape, first needed to be converted to 3-system landscape with CBC to utilize CLT(more specific timelines to be shared in due course; subject to change)
© 2023 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 4 May require additional subscriptions/licenses
4
Localization as a self-service for SAP S/4HANA Cloud
Accounting Tax Payments Invoicing Reporting

Configuration
Content
Configuration Localization Tool1 (SAP Central Business Configuration) – Create Customer Local Versions Early Adoption
Extensibility Integrated in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Side-by-Side Extensibility
SAP S/4HANA Cloud ABAP Environment SAP Business Technology Platform4
Key User Developer Side-by-Side

Country/Region-Specific Functions
Extensibility Extensibility2 Extensibility
▪ UI field layout, custom forms and templates ▪ Develop custom ABAP code Integration with SAP BTP services
▪ Custom business objects ▪ Extensions of SAP S/4HANA Cloud solutions ▪ AI business services
▪ Custom CDS views ▪ Partner extensions ▪ Data marts and analytics
▪ Custom business logic using cloud BAdIs ▪ Directly on SAP S/4HANA stack ▪ IoT and Big Data
Localization Extensibility Develop custom code

▪ Taxes: Tax ID format validation | Calculating indirect taxes | Determining tax code automatically in ▪ Develop extensions and SaaS solutions in
purchase orders ABAP, Java, or Node.js
▪ Payments: Create, copy and extend payment medium formats
▪ Invoicing3: Print billing document forms with custom field | Extending Electronic Outgoing invoices
▪ Statutory Reporting3: Creating a new Withholding Tax report using Document and Reporting Compliance 1
2
Currently in early adoption phase for 3-system landscape installations
Only available for 3-system landscape installations
| Creating new Cash Flow Report 3 Requires additional subscription of SAP Document and Reporting Compliance
▪ Many more 4 May require additional subscription

Important to know
▪ Using CLT is a pure implementation approach. No features specific to the target country/region are delivered.
▪ Country-specific legal requirements need to be achieved with the generated localized configuration, the
configuration capabilities of the chosen source country/region, or by using the localization extensibility
possibilities to extend the solution.
▪ The localized business configuration is the responsibility of the partner or customer. This also applies to
keeping the solution legally compliant in the future (“legal changes”).
Key success criteria:

▪ Plan your localization carefully in advance.
▪ Be aware of the legal and business requirements.

Configuration Localization Tool 99.9% equal to the
Basic process flow1 project experience of a
standard country
Generate Set up org. Do Upgrade/

Define scope
configuration structure configuration update
▪ Source ▪ Localized business ▪ Separate ▪ Use configuration ▪ Based on source

country/region configuration organizational activities as for any country/region,
▪ Target generated units for the target country/region including technical
country/region automatically country/region ▪ Adjust values or corrections and new
▪ Based on ▪ Local address create new records scope
▪ Bundles and
scenarios expressions from formats where possible ▪ No legal changes
SAP provided by SAP for
target country/region
1 Currently in early adoption

Selecting source and target countries/regions

Current considerations
Not a template approach. Result cannot be transferred to other countries/regions
Local specific functionality needs to be realized with extensibility
Currently, just Germany released as a source country. More countries/regions under evaluation
No mix-and-match of standard localizations and CLT countries/regions available
CLT is currently in early adopter mode (controlled shipment) – limited seats available
Responsibility of legal compliance implementation is fully on partner/customer side
Currently, set of 400+ scope items are available with SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2308 release and more planned

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Unit 9: SAP Cloud ALM
SAP Cloud ALM
What is SAP Cloud ALM?
SAP Cloud ALM

is cloud-native and open
For the Intelligent Enterprise In the public cloud

▪ For cloud-centric customers ▪ Rethought, newly designed, and built
▪ Manages cloud and hybrid solutions on modern cloud technology
▪ Supports all components of the Intelligent ▪ Immediate consumption, always up to date
Enterprise ▪ Cost-efficient for customers
Supporting 3500+ customers and partners in implementation and operations* * July 2023

SAP Cloud ALM
Introduction – SAP Cloud ALM for implementation
SAP Cloud ALM provides the harmonized implementation experience for the Intelligent
Enterprise, covering all relevant SAP solutions for all customers
Build Test
Design Deploy
Open
Out-of-the-Box
Integrated
Cloud-Native Traceable
SAP Standard Content

SAP Cloud ALM
Design, Build, Test and Deploy with SAP Cloud ALM
Design
▪ Start with SAP Best Practices content to run your fit-to-standard
workshops
Cloud-Native
▪ Create own processes with integrated authoring capabilities
Out-of-the-Box ▪ Collect requirements as an initial backlog
Build
SAP Standard Content ▪ Based on the SAP Activate methodology with template roadmaps
for agile implementation projects
▪ Extended by your own tasks and user stories
▪ Integrated planning and reporting
Open Test
Integrated ▪ Manage all tests from user acceptance to regression
▪ Manual testing with test-step-based approach
Traceable ▪ Integration of automatic execution engines
Deploy
▪ Plan your releases and orchestrate consistent deployment to
production
▪ Enable change and provide traceability and audit trails
SAP Cloud ALM
Capabilities in detail
Deployments to production in releases

Agile implementation in sprints
Go Live
Manual
Testing Deployment
Rich Text-Based Planning
Documentation Project & Task Test Integration of
Management Orchestration Test Automation Change Feature
Process Status & Approval*
Requirements Providers Enablement Delivery
Management Document Refinement Test
Management Defect Deployment
Project Planning
Integration* Configuration* Planning* Management Change Automation &
Task Distribution Documentation & Confirmation*
Extension Test
Task Templates Preparation Reporting
Fit-to-Standard Management*
Workshops Gantt Chart Traceability &
Integration
Audit Trail
Process Scoping Landscape Management*
& Viewer SAP Standard
Process Test Cases
Authoring Documentation Deployment
SAP Activate Test Execution Orchestration
Requirements Roadmaps
Collection
Project Execution
SAP Process & Tracking
Content
Project
Start
* Planned for future releases, roadmap may change

SAP Cloud ALM
SAP Cloud ALM for implementation and the SAP Activate methodology
Discover Prepare Explore Realize Deploy Run
Continuous Innovation
SAP Activate
Discovery Fit-to-Standard Scope and Migrate, Integrate, Onboard and Operate, Monitor,
Access Analysis Configure Extend, Test Deploy Support
Onboard Design Build Test Deploy Innovate
SAP for Me
Integrated Tools

SAP Cloud ALM
Ready-to-use integration in SAP tools, services, and external APIs
APIs exposed via SAP Business Accelerator Hub
Onboard Design Build Test Deploy Innovate
SAP for Me
Project Initiation Scoping Configuration, Test Automation Deployment

Integration & Extension Orchestration
▪ SAP for Me ▪ Digital Discovery ▪ SAP Central Business ▪ Local test automation tools ▪ Local deployment tools:
Assessment (DDA) Configuration − Test automation tool for − On-premise Transport
▪ Cloud Integration SAP S/4HANA Cloud Management
▪ SAP Central Business
Automation services − Tricentis Test − Cloud TMS
Configuration
Automation for SAP − Deployment for
SAP S/4HANA Cloud,
public edition
* Planned for future releases

SAP Cloud ALM
Overview of SAP Cloud ALM and SAP Central Business Configuration
Configuration of the Implementation and

Intelligent Enterprise Operations of the Intelligent
▪ Central business-driven Enterprise
scoping Business Scope ▪ Processes & requirements
▪ Org structure setup & and Tasks ▪ Implementation tasks
configuration SAP Central
Business ▪ Manual & automated tests
▪ Configuration deployment Configuration ▪ Deployment orchestration
Based On Based On
▪ Business adaption catalog ▪ Intelligent Enterprise scenarios
References ▪ Best practice process content
▪ Intelligent Enterprise scenarios ▪ SAP Activate methodology
▪ Best practice process content

▪ SAP Activate methodology
Customer Solution

SAP Cloud ALM
Demo

SAP Cloud ALM
SAP Cloud ALM for implementation – Customer benefits
Fast time-to-value through guidance and task-driven implementation

Harmonized implementation experience across cloud solutions
from SAP
Instantaneously available, no deployment or configuration activities
Fast onboarding of your project team
Automated collection and assignment of tasks to the project team
Comprehensive workspace for fit-to-standard workshops
Built-in transparency about implementation progress
Implementation Methodology Operations

Operation Automation
Collaboration
Design Build Test Deploy
Integration Detect Analyze Correct Automate

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Unit 10: SAP S/4HANA Cloud 3-System Landscape
SAP S/4HANA Cloud 3-system landscape
Overview
What is the 3-system landscape (3SL)?

▪ The abbreviation 3SL refers to the 3-system landscape of SAP S/4HANA Cloud, which
consists of a Development tenant (DEV), a Test tenant (TST), and a Production
tenant (PRD)
▪ Clear separation between configuration / development and testing (separated into two
dedicated tenants)
▪ With this separation, advanced development projects are supported and developer
extensibility options are enabled as well
▪ With SAP S/4HANA Cloud 3-system landscape you are not getting an on-premise
solution, but you get all the benefits of a cloud solution along with extra flexibility on top
For whom is 3SL available?
▪ The 3-system landscape is generally available for new customers with an SAP
S/4HANA Cloud contract since September 2022 and generally requires SAP Central
Business Configuration as a mandatory tool
▪ In future, existing customers will be converted from Manage Your Solution/Solution
Builder to SAP Central Business Configuration and from a 2-system landscape (2SL)
to a 3-system landscape
Provisioning process for CBC tenant and SAP S/4HANA Cloud starter tenant
SAP Request Request

CBC S/4HC
for Me Tenant Tenant
Trigger Trigger
Tenant Tenant
SPC Setup
Handover
Setup
Handover
E-Mails E-Mails
Trigger
CBC On- Start
CBC boarding Project
… Content
Deploy
S/4HC
S/4HC Content
On-
Starter Activation
boarding
Manual Steps
▪ Customer needs to actively request the SAP Central Business Configuration by Customer
(for reasons of space abbreviated to CBC) and SAP S/4HANA Cloud (S/4HC) tenants
▪ Automated procedures in the service provider cockpit (SPC) do the provisioning and integration
▪ Handover e-mails for the CBC and S/4HC tenant are sent to the customer
▪ The S/4HC tenant is ready to use once the first content deployment is done
Demo 1 – SAP for Me

Landscape overview
SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2SL
SAP S/4HANA Cloud 3SL

Demo 2 – Configuration

Summary of main differences between 3SL and 2SL
Landscape
▪ 2SL: Starter, Q, P tenant all with client 100
▪ 3SL: Starter and DEV tenant with client 080 & 100,
TST and PRD tenants with client 100
▪ Only for 3SL: developer extensibility
▪ No client 050 / 051 for lifecycle calculation
SAP Central Business Configuration
▪ Overall two starter (new term: evaluation project) and
two implementation projects for Starter and DEV tenant
▪ Backsync only from Starter and DEV tenant
▪ No interaction with TST and PRD tenant
▪ No System tab but app for assigning deployment targets
SAP S/4HANA Cloud
▪ Transport from DEV → TST → PRD via ATO tool (Adaptation Transport Organizer)
Tenant Provisioning & Lifecycle
▪ Tenant provisioning always triggered by customers via SAP for Me
▪ Content update is triggered manually by customers after the SAP S/4HANA Cloud software upgrade is complete (will be improved with next
releases)
▪ Calculated only for Starter and DEV tenant (both clients)
▪ Customers are in charge of transporting settings to TST and PRD
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Unit 11: Parallel Project Line
Parallel project line
Business challenges with single line projects
Parallel Testing: A single line project does not facilitate parallel work. With parallel projects,
users can perform scoping, org creation, and configuration changes in parallel such that all
decisions made in the parallel project do not impact the ”main” line. For example, users can
validate CLT in a parallel line and accordingly decide if they wish to use the same scope in the
main line or discard the project if not required.
Traffic Distribution: The parallel project enables parallel processing, which reduces the traffic in
the single line.
Risk for Production: The parallel project provides the opportunity to test configuration changes
in parallel such that the user has the flexibility to move these changes to the main line (connected
to production) only if the tests were successful.
Note that the Parallel Project Line feature is not yet generally available.

Process overview and definitions
Branching
Main Line
Product-Specific
Scoping Org
configuration
Project Line
Scope Org Product-Specific

Extension Extension configuration
▪ Main Line: This is the project via which configuration is deployed to the SAP S/4HANA Cloud development (dev) system that is connected
to the test system, which is further connected to production. Customers go live with the main line and work productively with it.
▪ Project Line: This is the project that is created as a “copy” of the main line, wherein the customer can add (extend) scope on top of what is
copied from the main line. Customers can also extend the org structure and perform configuration changes. The project line is connected to
the SAP S/4HANA Cloud dev, which is further connected to test but does not have any connection to production.
▪ Branching: This is the process by which the project line is created as a copy of the main line. The project line is created when the customer
is already in the state of performing configuration changes in the main line.
Demo: Creating a project line

Managing parallel projects
Merge Main Line SAP S/4HANA

Cloud
Project Line
Rebase
▪ Rebase: All changes done in the main line since the creation of the project line or the last merge are brought into the project line by this
process. It is a necessary step before moving changes in the project line to the main line.
▪ Merge: All changes done in the project line since the creation or the last rebase are moved into the main line by this process.
▪ Scoping Conflicts: Scope decisions made in the project line that invalidate or defy the scope decisions made in the main line are reported
as scoping conflicts.
▪ Configuration Conflicts: Configuration changes made in a configuration activity for the same record in both main line and project line,
such that the changes are not the same.
▪ Conflict Resolution: For successfully moving changes between project line and main line, it is mandatory to resolve the conflicts.
Managing configuration conflicts
▪ Configuration conflict scenarios

− When a customer modifies a value of a record of a
configuration activity in main line and project line, such that the
changed values are not the same
− When a customer deletes a record in one line and modifies the
same record in another line
▪ When are configuration conflicts detected?
− Configuration conflicts are detected during rebase or merge.
▪ How to resolve a conflict?
− Customers can review the conflict details in SAP Central
Business Configuration. They can then launch the configuration
activity in the main line or project line to change the different
values to being the same or handle deletion accordingly.
− Once the conflict is resolved, the changes are received by SAP
Central Business Configuration. Once all conflicts are resolved,
the customer can proceed with a rebase or merge operation.

Demo: Configuration conflicts

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Unit 12: Recap and Future Outlook
Recap and future outlook
Recap
Unit 1: Vision Unit 2 – 7: Project Experience and its tools Unit 12: Outlook
Unit 11: Parallel project line
Unit 8: Configuration Unit 9: Unit 10:

Localization Tool SAP Cloud ALM SAP S/4HANA
3-system landscape

Outlook
Extend Solution Coverage to

Intelligent Enterprise Suite
Strengthen
Provide further
Project Experience
Capabilities for Partners
Processes
Onboard SAP S/4HANA Cloud

Customers using Manage your Solution

Outlook
Strengthen Project Experience Processes

▪ Improved user experience and toolchain integration
Project
▪ Capabilities to handle multiple projects in parallel
▪ Increased granularity and flexibility

Scoping
▪ Fully customer-driven
▪ Org-dependent scoping
Org Setup
▪ Mass handling and copy functionality
▪ Additional structure and guidance

Configuration
▪ Customer templates
▪ Further transparency about new and updated configuration

Upgrade
▪ Enhanced flexibility to apply delta content

Outlook
Extend Solution Coverage to Intelligent Enterprise Suite
…
SAP Central Business
Configuration
SAP Business Technology Platform apps
1st
SAP S/4HANA Cloud

Outlook
Provide further Capabilities for Partners
Configuration localization toolkit allows
Today
a one-off copy of an SAP-provided
localization to a country/region outside
SAP’s localization scope
Mid Term Template-based authoring functionality

provide capabilities to reuse
configuration settings across multiple
customer project instances
Partners are enabled to create their

Future
own reference content to provide new

scope (industry or processes) as well
as localizations on top of SAP’s content

Outlook
Onboard SAP S/4HANA Cloud Customers using Manage your Solution*

SAP Central Business Configuration
Lifecycle Layer
SAP S/4HANA Cloud Quality System SAP S/4HANA Cloud Dev. Quality System
Lifecycle Layer Lifecycle Layer
Active Configuration Active Configuration
Transactional & Master Data Transactional & Master Data
SAP S/4HANA Cloud Test System

Active Configuration
Transactional & Master Data
SAP S/4HANA Cloud Prod. System SAP S/4HANA Cloud Prod. System
Active Configuration Active Configuration
Transactional & Master Data Transactional & Master Data
* Applicable only for customers who started their SAP S/4HANA Cloud journey prior to the availability of SAP Central Business Configuration

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Leveraging SAP S/4HANA Cloud with SAP Central Business Configuration

Unit 1: Vision and Customer Value

SAP Central Business Configuration is a tool

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Key Solution Characteristics

Preconfiguration Content Strategy

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Project Scoping and Central Business Configuration

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Scope Organizational Product-Specific Production System

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Organizational Structure Management

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Project Experience gives you information about:

Project Experience enables you to:

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▪ You typically start with an evaluation project to explore

Evaluation Project Implementation Project

Project Experience Define Scope

Configuration Activities Set Up Organizational Structure

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The Scope phase in SAP Central Business

Mandatory Selections Optional Selections Optional Selections (via ticket)

A deployment target represents a dedicated system of the

After initial deployment to the target system, you can

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You can search by scope item ID or text.

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