SAP Cutover Activities Management Certification Training

A warm welcome to the SAP Cutover Activities Management course by Uplatz.

SAP Cutover Activities are the phase wise activities that need to be finished before the start of every phase of a project. Cutover activities are done in both implementation and roll-outs. These are performed during final preparation phase of a project as per ASAP implementation methodology.

In essence, you complete preparations including testing, end user training, system management etc. You also need to resolve all open issues in this phase. At this stage you need to ensure that all the prerequisites for your system to go live have been fulfilled. Some of the important activities done during SAP cutover are balance upload from legacy to sap system, sign off from end users for training completion, and the like.

In simple words, Cutover is the process of planning, managing, and executing all of the tasks and activities that allow the impacted business function to 'cutover' to the SAP system. The key components of the Cutover Plan include business preparation activities related to cutover and legacy integration/shutdown.

Cutover data includes data on financial and materials balances that SAP must carry forward, and also how to handle open transactions from the legacy system. Open transactions are those business transactions that are still under process when the company switches from the legacy system to the SAP system.

Uplatz provides this comprehensive training on SAP Cutover Management covering the full range of Cutover activities in any SAP project implementation, deployment, and migration that need to be performed for a successful project execution or change management.

This SAP Cutover Training will provide you a deep-dive into the key topics of SAP Cutover strategy:

What is Cutover
Introduction to Cutover
Plan for the Plan
Cutover Planning Process
Cutover Plan vs. Business Readiness Plan
Contingency Planning
Must Get Right

SAP Cutover Activities course curriculum

Learn the process and steps to be aware of while creating the cutover plan and cutover activity sheets. The dedicated trainer will guide you through all the activities for this phase. As each activity is completed, the aforementioned Cutover Activity Sheet is signed by the executor of that activity and turned into the project management function before any dependant activity can be started.

Training into different Areas of the Cutover Phase Training covers

Freezing and releasing of legacy data
Exportation of legacy data into the conversion database input layer
Understanding of Master and Transaction Data
Writing the Data Migration Load programs through LSMW
Transposition of legacy data into the conversion database
Reconciliation of the production data to the Conversion Database
Copy converted data to different SAP System Landscapes
Manual conversion of non-converted accounts

Following is a practical scenario for SAP Cutover plan and management:

1. Preparation for Cutover

During the time of cutover and migration to SAP, system will not available for almost a week. It is essential from business point to inform all the business partners about the down time in advance. Therefore as a part of preparation it is recommended to send this information in advance to all the customers and vendors.

2. Prepare Production Environment

In this step production machine will be prepared and tested in advance for all the application components. Since production machine will be connected to client network it is necessary to test this connectivity in advance. In addition all printers will also be installed and checked in this step.

3. Setup Application

In this step SAP application will be setup on Production system, after taking all the transports to production SAP AG will verify the system is ready to go live.

4. Convert and Verify Data

In this step data will be downloaded from legacy system and converted into required format to upload into SAP. After verification data will be loaded into SAP.

5. Verify production readiness

This is the final step before Go Live, in this step final review for cutover will be done to make sure all activities related to Go Live have been performed and system is ready to go in Production.

6. Support after Go Live
To support the users after Go Live, helpdesk will be established. All the calls from users will be received by helpdesk and issues will be categorized into HIGH, MEDIUM or LOW. After creating the ticket support desk will assigned it to the respective team (FI, CO, MM, SD, BW) for the solution. Support team will then look into the issue based on priority.

SAP Cutover Planning and Execution activities are organized and managed under the below mentioned categories:

System Build (technical and functional)
Data Migration/Validation
Business Preparation
Legacy Integration/Shutdown
Business Startup Activities

System Build