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title: The SAP Activate Roadmap for SAP S/4HANA Upgrades
description: Discover the SAP Activate roadmap for upgrading SAP S/4HANA, including technical upgrades and functional enhancements to optimize your business processes.
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# [The SAP Activate Roadmap for SAP S/4HANA Upgrades](https://blog.sap-press.com/the-sap-activate-roadmap-for-sap-s4hana-upgrades)

 Written by [SAP PRESS](https://blog.sap-press.com/author/sap-press) | Apr 3, 2025, 1:00:00 PM

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](https://learning.sap-press.com/sap-s4hana) 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](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:

1. Select the **Content** tab on the screen shown below.

1. 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.

 

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

 

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*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](https://www.sap-press.com/sap-activate_5966/?utm_source=sappressblog&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=Blogs&utm_term=2650_chapter11&utm_content=2650) *by [Sven Denecken](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sdenecken/), [Jan Musil](https://www.linkedin.com/in/musiljan/), and [Srivatsan Santhanam](https://www.linkedin.com/in/srivatsansanthanam/). 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](https://blog.sap-press.com/sap-project-release-planning-with-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](https://learning.sap-press.com/sap-successfactors), [SAP Ariba](https://blog.sap-press.com/what-is-sap-ariba), [SAP Integrated Business Planning](https://blog.sap-press.com/what-is-sap-ibp), and [SAP Business Technology Platform](https://learning.sap-press.com/sap-btp). 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.

 

This post was originally published 4/2025.

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