guide your sap s/4hana project to success unit 3: steps to
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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?”
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Steps to Business Partner and Customer Vendor Integration (CVI)
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
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Steps to Business Partner and Customer Vendor Integration (CVI)
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
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Steps to Business Partner and Customer Vendor Integration (CVI)
Business partner information in SAP Readiness Check
Indicators for Complexity
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Steps to Business Partner and Customer Vendor Integration (CVI)
Question 2
“What are the steps to
introduce business
partners and customer
vendor integration?”
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Steps to Business Partner and Customer Vendor Integration (CVI)
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
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Steps to Business Partner and Customer Vendor Integration (CVI)
Question 3
“Does SAP provide
any tools to support
this exercise?”
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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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/4H
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SUM
* After GO-Live
BPCreate*
Change*
Steps to Business Partner and Customer Vendor Integration (CVI)
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
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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*
Steps to Business Partner and Customer Vendor Integration (CVI)
CVI phases, checks, and useful reports (incl. latest developments)
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
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Steps to Business Partner and Customer Vendor Integration (CVI)
CVI phases, checks, and useful reports (incl. latest developments)
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
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Steps to Business Partner and Customer Vendor Integration (CVI)
CVI phases, checks, and useful reports (incl. latest developments)
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
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Steps to Business Partner and Customer Vendor Integration (CVI)
CVI phases, checks, and useful reports (incl. latest developments)
CVI Cockpit(Transaction: CVI_COCKPIT)
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TCode:
CVI_COCKPIT
Steps to Business Partner and Customer Vendor Integration (CVI)
CVI phases, checks, and useful reports (incl. latest developments)
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*
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Steps to Business Partner and Customer Vendor Integration (CVI)
CVI phases, checks, and useful reports (incl. latest developments)
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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