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Friday, January 29, 2010

Data Migration and Cut-over Activities

Question: Explain about Data Migration and Cut-over Activities in SAP

Answer:

A. Data Migration:


Data migration involves transferring the legacy data into SAP system

Those who are implementing SAP solutions, legacy data is exported into a spreadsheet format, and the LSMW generates the input file to load the data into SAP.

The Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW) is a tool recommended by SAP that you can use to transfer data from legacy systems into an R/3 System.

The LSM Workbench carries out the following tasks:

- Reads the transfer data from one or more files (for example, spreadsheets, sequential files etc.)

- Converts the data from the source format into the target format



B. Cut-over Activities

Cutover Activities are Master/Transaction Data uploading strategies depending upon the when we are going live. As per that, you have to give the information to your core team. If you going live at the middle you have to upload the all P&L Account items and B/S Items. If you going live at the financial year start, you have to only upload the B/S Items.

Pre-Go live Activities:

a. Master Data uploads into production system

1. G/L Master Upload thru BDC or LSMW (FS00 & FS01)

2. Vendor Master Upload thru BDC or LSMW (Will be Taken Care by MM)

3. Customer Master Upload thru BDC or LSMW (Will be Taken Care by SD)

4. Asset Master Upload (AS90)

5. Cost Element Master Upload

6. Cost Center Master Upload

7. Profit Center Master Upload

b. Transaction data upload

1. G/L Balances (F-02)

2. Vendor Balances (F-43)

3. Customer Balances (F-22)

4. Customer Advances (F-29)

5. Vendor Advances (F-48) - Before uploading Vendor Balances you have to take care of TDS Information.

6. Asset value uploads (AS91).

c. Controlling area related upload

1. Upload Cost center plan

2. Execute the allocation cycles within cost center accounting

3. Update planned activity

4. Calculate Activity prices

5. Execute product costing run.

d. Other Pre-Go live activities

1. Ensure all the customizing request is in the production system

2. Ensure all the number ranges for all the modules have been maintained in the production system

3. Ensure that Operating concern has been generated

4. Ensure all material masters (all material types) have been loaded

5. Upload Open purchase orders

6. Stock upload

7. Mark and Release the cost estimates.

6 comments:

naren said...

dear sir,
kinldy let know how opening balances were uploaded into sap

naren said...

1) how to upload opening balances into sap
2) how to deal with bad debts, reserves and suplus in sap

NILESH said...

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Pavan Challa said...

Very good information. Thank you very much Murthy Garu.

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