Guide Your SAP S/4HANA Project to Success Unit 3: Steps to

Guide Your SAP S/4HANA Project to Success

Unit 3: Steps to Business Partner and Customer

Vendor Integration (CVI)

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Steps to Business Partner and Customer Vendor Integration (CVI)

Question 1

“Do I have to create

business partners? What

would be the scope for

my conversion project?”



Evolution

→ In SAP S/4HANA, Business Partner is the leading object and single entry point to maintain

business partner, customer, and supplier master data.

BP

ERP SAP S/4HANA

Customer

Vendor MM – Purchasing

SD – Sales

Specific applications (RE-FX,

FSCM-…, TRM, …), industries

BP

Customer

Vendor MM – Purchasing

SD – Sales

Specific applications (RE-FX, FSCM-

…, TRM, …), industries

SAP S/4HANA for customer

management

SAP Credit Management

(FIN-FSCM-CR)

Embedded EWM



Business partner information in SAP Readiness Check

▪ Overall status (system)

▪ Key figures per customer

and vendor master data

▪ Number of account groups

▪ Key figures for contact

persons

▪ Data quality



Business partner information in SAP Readiness Check

Indicators for Complexity



Question 2

“What are the steps to

introduce business

partners and customer

vendor integration?”



CVI phases

Conversion + Go-Live

ERP SAP S/4HANA

BPCreate

Change

Preparation

BPUpdate

Tasks:

▪ Data Cleansing

▪ Setup

▪ Test Runs (Sandboxes)

Customer

Supplier

Contact

Clean up PPO!

Synchronization Remaining time to

SAP S/4HANA

CVIMass Synch.

(MDS_LOAD_COCKPIT)

Customer

Supplier

Contact

Customer

Supplier

Contact

Activate

CVI:

C/V →

BP



Question 3

“Does SAP provide

any tools to support

this exercise?”


After Conversion During

Business Downtime

ERP SAP S/4HANA

Preparation

BPUpdate

Tasks:

Customer

Supplier

Contact

Clean Up PPO!

Synchronization Remaining Time to

SAP S/4HANA

Customer

Supplier

Contact

Data Cleansing

Setup (IMG)

Test Runs

(Sandbox)

C/V → BP Link Check

Prepare BP to C/V

CVIMass Synch.

(MDS_LOAD_COCKPIT)

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BPCreate*

Change*


CVI phases, checks, and useful reports (incl. latest developments)

Activate

BP → C/V

Customer

Supplier

Contact

Activate

C/V → BP

Latest Notes

Master Data Cleansing (ERP):

CVI_MIGRATION_PRECHK

Setup (IMG) C/V and BP bi-directional and CVI-link check (ERP and SAP S/4HANA):

CVI_UPGRADE_CHECK_RESOLVE

as of 2019


After Conversion During

Business Downtime

ERP SAP S/4HANA

Preparation

BPUpdate

Tasks:

Customer

Supplier

Contact

Clean Up PPO!

Synchronization Remaining Time to

SAP S/4HANA

Customer

Supplier

Contact

Data Cleansing

Setup (IMG)

Test Runs

(Sandbox)

C/V → BP Link Check

Prepare BP to C/V

CVIMass Synch.

(MDS_LOAD_COCKPIT)

Te

ch

nic

al D

ow

ntim

e

Co

nve

rsio

n S

/4H

AN

A

SUM

SUM

* After GO-Live

BPCreate*

Change*



Activate

BP → C/V

Customer

Supplier

Contact

Activate

C/V → BP

Latest Notes

Disable Checks:

New IMG node

Master Data Cleansing (ERP):

CVI_MIGRATION_PRECHK

Completeness CVI-links:

/nCVI_COMPL_CHK

Setup (IMG) C/V and BP bi-directional: /nBP_CVI_IMG_CHK

TCI

Conversion prechecks:

CVI Cockpit




Check Master Data Quality: report “Master Data Consistency Check”

(CVI_MIGRATION_PRECHK)

▪ Transaction Master Data Consistency Check: CVI_PRECHK

▪ Supports checking customer and vendor master data before conversion to business partner




Check Customizing for Synchronization:

Report CVI Customizing Checks for

Synchronization

(CVI_CUSTOMIZING_RESOLVE)

▪ Transaction CVI Customizing-Checks:

BP_CVI_IMG_CHK

▪ Report is to check and adjust customizing for

synchronization

Individual

results

Completeness

of customizing

activityCollection of

IMG nodes

and checks

Start

customizing

activity




CVI Cockpit(Transaction: CVI_COCKPIT)


TCode:

CVI_COCKPIT



CVI Cockpit

▪ Reflects the phases of a CVI project to

prepare an SAP S/4HANA conversion

▪ Status: tracking changes

− Overall (automatically set when 100%)

− Per phase

− Per activity

▪ Additional information, links to important Notes

(TCI will be included)

▪ Planned to be standard with ECC 618 SP13

and higher and to be downported to ECC 600*




SAP Note 2820678 – CVI SAP_APPL TCI

▪ CVI corrections are bundled into the Transport-

Based Correction Instruction (TCI) to ease

the Note implementations required for the CVI

migration

▪ Provides “vertical correction bundles“ delivering

all corrections from an application area across

support package boundaries

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