The SAP Activate Roadmap for SAP S/4HANA Upgrades

In this blog post, we’ll introduce the SAP Activate methodology roadmap for planning and conducting an upgrade from one release of SAP S/4HANA to a newer or latest release of the product.

This upgrade roadmap also provides information about the implementation of additional capabilities that are embedded in the SAP S/4HANA solution. Customers upgrading to a new release of SAP S/4HANA usually want to add new capabilities to their solution, so this roadmap covers both the functional upgrade and implementation of additional capabilities. The following selections can be made in the roadmap to select a company-specific scenario:

Technical Upgrade
Upgrade with Functional Enhancement
SAP Transportation Management
SAP Extended Warehouse Management
SAP S/4HANA Service
Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling
Advanced ATP

Users of this methodology can access it in the Roadmap Viewer via http://s-prs.co/v502741. Once there, click on the Explore All Roadmaps button, and then select the Upgrade Methodology tab. Finally, click on SAP Activate Methodology S/4HANA Upgrades in the list of available roadmaps.

To select the specific scenario, you’ll need to continue navigating as follows:

Select the Content tab on the screen shown below.

SAP Activate Methodology for SAP S/4HANA Upgrades

Scroll down to see the Tags option in the selection of filtering options on the left side, as shown in the next figure. Select the desired option, and the roadmap content will adjust based on your selection.

Selecting a Scenario Suitable to Your Scope

You can filter the content by specific business scenarios, by a selection of products, or by a combination of the two.

Editor’s note: This post has been adapted from a section of the book SAP Activate: Project Management for SAP S/4HANA Cloud and SAP S/4HANA by Sven Denecken, Jan Musil, and Srivatsan Santhanam. Sven is the senior vice president and chief marketing and solutions officer for Industries & CX, SAP SE. He drives product marketing across SAP’s Industry & CX solutions, enabling customers’ digital transformation. Jan is the SAP Activate chief product owner at SAP. He leads a team of seasoned product managers responsible for SAP Activate, the innovation adoption framework aiding SAP customers and partners in deploying SAP solutions like SAP S/4HANA, SAP SuccessFactors, SAP Ariba, SAP Integrated Business Planning, and SAP Business Technology Platform. Srivatsan has been with SAP Labs, India, since 2004 where he is the head of the SAP Concur engineering product unit. He has two decades of industry experience and is one of the early pioneers and thought leaders in hybrid cloud/two-tier ERP landscapes within the SAP S/4HANA Cloud product space.