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Agenda
Solution Manager Overview & Capabilities Solution Manager Roles & Responsibilities Realization Management Realization Configuration Realization BPP

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SAP Solution Manager

From ASAP to SAP Solution Manager

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SAP Solution Manager

Pre-2000: ASAP 2000: Kick-off SAP Solution Manager 2002: Releases 2.1 & 2.2 2003: Release 3.1

2004: Release 3.2

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SAP Solution Manager

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SAP Solution Manager is the central platform for efficient implementation and operation of SAP solutions:

Can service all SAP Technologies. Integrates with SAP/Non-SAP Products. Provide Centralized. 1. Documentation 2. Configuration and Customization 3. Landscape Definition 4. Testing 5. Monitoring 6. Service Delivery & Execution 7. Note Handling
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SAP Solution Manager Use In Implementation

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SAP Solution Manager in Implementation

Project
phase

Project Preparation
Project definition

Business Blueprint
Define Business Blueprint

Realization

Final preparation

Go Live & Support

Customizing synchronization Configuration Developments Authorization

Project

activities

Define system landscape

End user Training and documentation Data transfer

Focus of tool support

Testing

Project Administration Cross

functions
Issue Tracking / Status Monitoring / Reporting

Roadmaps

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SAP Solution Manager Use in Operations

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SAP Solution Manager in Operations

Recom-

mended

sequence

functions

Define/Import System Landscape Define/Import Business Processes

SAP EarlyWatch
Alert

Service Level Reporting System Monitoring Central System Administratio n

Business Process
Monitoring

Service Delivery Enabling

Upgrade

Best Practices Documents

Support desk/ SAP Note Assistant

Cross
functions

Issue Tracking Microsoft NetMeeting

SAP Service

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System Landscape
Sandbox Development Quality Assurance

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Production

B W XI

SRM SCM Legacy XI

B W

SRM SCM Legacy XI

B W

SRM SCM Legacy XI

B W

SRM SCM

Lega cy

ECC

GTS

ECC

GTS

ECC

GTS

ECC

GTS

Select your Processes

Do your customizing

Do your Testing

Final Transport to Production

SAP Solution Manager The Fundament of all functions of the Solution Manager is the Definition of the System Landscape. Define the System Landscape, Products, Systems and related RFC destinations in System Landscape Maintenance transaction (SMSY)

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Solution Manager System Landscape

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Solman till now..

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Scenario

Purchase to Pay Direct Procurement (End-to-End-Process)

Process

Purchase Order Processing

Process Step

Create Purchase Order

Transaction

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Process steps are selected from the Business process repository Process steps can also be selected manually. Transactions are populated automatically based on the process step selected from the business process repository. TARAKESH Technologies, Inc
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Roles & Responsibilities (contd..)

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Task - Adding/Changing blueprint documents to blueprint structure SOLAR01

Go to General documentation tab at the Process level

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Roles & Responsibilities (contd..)

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Task - Adding/Deleting BPML transactions to the Blueprint Structure SOLAR01

Add/delete transactions BPML transactions at the Process step level

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Roles & Responsibilities (contd..)

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Task Changing the scope of the blueprint structure at the Process level SOLAR01

Go to Structure tab at the Process level

Change Structure at the Process level

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Roles & Responsibilities (contd..)

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Task Executing detailed configuration of the CI Templates documents SOLAR02 (contd..)

Critical requirements are captured in the BPML at each process step level in Solution Manager. (e.g.) Process step level Create/process Purchase orders.

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Roles & Responsibilities (contd..)

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When all the requirements are captured in the BPML, all configuration objects associated with this process step are captured at the same process step level in SOLAR02 -Configuration. (e.g.) All config objects associated with this Process step Create/process Purchase orders are pulled from the business process repository and are listed in the Configuration tab

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Customizing Synchronization & Distribution

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Central system

Customizing data

ECC DEV

Transport

ECC QAS

Transport

ECC PRD

Predefined list of synchronizing objects

SRM
Customizing Distribution

Transport

DEV

SRM
QAS

Transport

SRM PRD

Ensures that customizing in In-Sync across systems Reuses customizing in other systems

SCM

Transport

SCM

Transport

SCM QAS

DEV

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Configuration SOLAR02

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In Configuration transaction, you have to assign the configuration structure that is needed for your implementation scenario.
The entry screen of the Realization phase looks similar to the Business Blueprint transaction. The Business Scenario structure you selected in the scope is taken over from the previous transaction

From here you can select individual parts of the maintained configuration structure content that are required to configure your scenarios. In the business process repository, select the configuration structure for SAP component and confirm it. The Configuration content is divided into different sections. You should at least select the basic settings for mySAP component to configure the overall solution. In the second step choose basic settings for your key capability.

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Steps for Building Configuration Structure (SOLAR02)

Create Configuration Structure Manually create configuration structure

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Created automatically when you select specific processes from the business process repository Assign objects to the configuration elements (e.g. IMG objects and documents)

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Steps for Building Configuration Structure

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Click the drop down selection and select IMG Object selections

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Steps for Building Configuration Structure (contd..)

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The Logical Component will default in based on the component selected for the Business Process Step

Select the drop down selection in the Object field to navigate to the IMG of the applicable system.

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Steps for Building Configuration Structure (contd..)

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IMG for the ECC Development system

Select the IMG Objects to be configured for the process step.

Click the Copy Selected Nodes (Enter) button

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Steps for Building Configuration Structure (contd..)

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Selected IMG Objects nodes are copied into the Configuration Structure
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Creating Configuration Guide Document

Steps for Creating Configuration Guide

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Execute transaction SOLAR02

Follow the menu path Configuration > Generate Configuration Guide

Select the structure items to be included in the Configuration Guide Execute the macro within the generated word document.

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Configuring IMG Objects

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Go to Configuration tab at the Process step level

Select the configuration object and click on the configure icon. This will directly go to the configuration node of the desired target system box.

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Configuring IMG objects (contd..)

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You are now right at the config node of the config object. This is where the necessary configuration settings are done.

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Documenting the Configuration

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Documentation should be inserted directly below the configured node.

Document name should mirror that of the IMG node configured.

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Administration Activities

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Processing Status for the Document and IMG Object should be added as well as the person responsible for completing the configuration should be added

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Adding BPPs to Solution Manager

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One BPP will be added under the Training Materials tab per t-code listed under the Transactions tab
All completed BPPs will be added under the Training Materials tab at the process step level

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Questions

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