High-quality customer data is the key to effective business process.
Planning on migrating to SAP S/4HANA? If you’ve already started, great! If you haven’t, you need to start soon as the current version reaches its end of life in 2027, forcing customers to migrate to the new system. Do it now before the pressure becomes unbearable and you’re forced into making migration errors.
As you may know, S/4HANA uses a new data model where all entities (customers, vendors, etc.) become the same type of data object – the SAP Business Partner.
When choosing a migration tactic, you need to determine how you’re going to process your data based on whether you’ll be completely redesigning from scratch with all new processes and settings (a “Greenfield” migration) or simply moving your current data and systems into S/4HANA (a “Brownfield” migration). You can also convert using a hybrid tactic, keeping some parts of your old system while creating some new systems from scratch (a “Bluefield” migration).
Once you’ve decided on a migration strategy, you can begin the actual execution of the process. There are 4 basic steps required for upgrading, with preparation being one of the most important. Preparation of your current data is a critical step in upgrading to S/4HANA. All the data in your system needs to be cleaned, corrected, and synchronized to guarantee a successful upgrade.
Ensuring that your data for your new business partners is correct is critical for a successful upgrade. Correcting mistakes, validating addresses, and removing duplicates is required before you start to bring your current data into the CVI (Customer Vendor Integration) tool for conversion into SAP Business Partner data objects. Our Identity for 4HANA combined with our Customer Data Hub can help you synchronize and clean your data in preparation for loading into the DVI and conversion using our advanced fuzzy matching and search logic. Our SAP data solutions are specifically designed to provide the highest level of accuracy across all of your business systems.
Anchor and Uniserv have been providing SAP-certified solutions for worldwide address validation and duplicate identification for over 20 years. Speaking with Anchor/Uniserv before your migration can help guarantee the error-free conversion of your data into your new SAP S/4HANA system. Want to know more? Contact us!
