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Table of Contents

Versioning ..............................................................................................................................................................................4 Author Bio ..............................................................................................................................................................................4 Landscape Preparation: ....................................................................................................................................................5 Create the Project ................................................................................................................................................................5

Solar Project Admin .......................................................................................................................................................5 Scope.........................................................................................................................................................................................6

Template Selection:........................................................................................................................................................7 Roadmap Select Tab ......................................................................................................................................................7 Industry Selection Tab:.................................................................................................................................................8 Country Selection: ..........................................................................................................................................................8

Project Team Member Tab: .............................................................................................................................................8 System Landscape:..............................................................................................................................................................9

Systems Tab:.................................................................................................................................................................. 10 Central Objects Tab:.................................................................................................................................................... 10 IMG Projects Tab:......................................................................................................................................................... 10 Change Request Tab: .................................................................................................................................................. 11

Milestones tab:................................................................................................................................................................... 11 Organizational Units: ...................................................................................................................................................... 11 Project Standards ............................................................................................................................................................. 11

Status Value Tab........................................................................................................................................................... 12 Keywords Tab ............................................................................................................................................................... 12 Documentation Types Tab ....................................................................................................................................... 12 Tabs Tab .......................................................................................................................................................................... 13

Roadmap. ............................................................................................................................................................................. 13 Accelerator Tab ............................................................................................................................................................ 14 Reference Tab: .............................................................................................................................................................. 14 Status/Notices Tab:..................................................................................................................................................... 14 Project Team Member Tab:...................................................................................................................................... 14 Issues/Messages Tab: ................................................................................................................................................ 14 Project Documentation: ............................................................................................................................................ 15 Keywords Tab: .............................................................................................................................................................. 15

Blueprint Phase ................................................................................................................................................................. 15 Creation manually. ...................................................................................................................................................... 16 Searching in a previous project.............................................................................................................................. 17

Organizational Units........................................................................................................................................................ 17 Master Data......................................................................................................................................................................... 17 Business Scenarios........................................................................................................................................................... 18

Structure Tab: ............................................................................................................................................................... 19 General Documentation Tab: .................................................................................................................................. 19 Project Documentation Tab:.................................................................................................................................... 19 Administration Tab:.................................................................................................................................................... 20 Transactions Tab: ........................................................................................................................................................ 20 Issues/Messages Tab: ................................................................................................................................................ 20 Graphic Tab:................................................................................................................................................................... 21 End User Roles Tab:.................................................................................................................................................... 21



Configuration Phase ........................................................................................................................................................ 21 Configuration Tab:....................................................................................................................................................... 22 Development Tab: ....................................................................................................................................................... 22 Test Case Tab: ............................................................................................................................................................... 23 Training Material Tab: ............................................................................................................................................... 23



Versioning Version Change Date

1.0 Original 10/06/2008

2.0 Webpage Link. 23/06/2008

Author Bio

My name is Wenceslao Lacaze and I’ve been working as a SAP basis

Administrator and Solution Manager Consultant for the last 8 years.

I’m a Techno-Functional SAP Solution Manager Subject Matter Expert (SME), I

Design, Build and Implement the product using “Run Sap” Methodology.

I have developed a very extended experience with medium and large scaled

SAP installations in several (multi)national environments.

I am based in Argentina, but work all around the World.

I work directly for clients or via an agency.

I do speak Spanish, Italian and English fluently.

You can contact me at:

Email: [email protected]

http://www.linkedin.com/in/solutionmanager

You can found more papers at :

http://wlacaze.googlepages.com/home



Landscape Preparation: For this Demo we use 1 Solution Manager and 1 IDES ERP.

810 Development

811 Quality

812 Productive

Create the Project

Solar Project Admin

To create the project and run the transaction SOLAR_PROJECT_ADMIN.

You need to select the Project Name, Type of Project

and the solution if you have.



The General Information releated to the Project is:

• Title : Description of the Project

• Projet Management : Person Responsible for Customer and Consultant side and wo lead the

project.

• Project Lenguage and Description.

• Status of the Project: All the Dates, Solution Manager calculate Remaining day automaticly.

In the Project Mamagement Details you need to identify the users and the OSS Usernames,

Scope:

In the Scope you need to identify the scope of the project, you have diferent options.

• Template Selection:

• Roadmap Select:



• Industry selection

• Country Selection:

Template Selection:

In the Template Selection you can select the template from SAP or you can create your own

template.

Roadmap Select Tab

In the Roadmap you need to Select the correct Roadmap Flavour of your project, you can create

your own roadmap or download the new version from Sap Marketplace.

.



Industry Selection Tab:

In Industry you select the right industry of your implementation, you can leave the project to take

all the industries, this is used during the blueprint phase.

Country Selection:

In Country selection you need to select the country of the project

Project Team Member Tab: In the Project Team Member you need to identify the Project Members and the Partner of the

implemetaion.

In the Project Member you need to put the roles in the project too.



In the Partner you select wich kind of partner and in wich phase of the project work (Before

golive,After Golive), and the Customer username in Sap Marketplace.

System Landscape: In the System Landscape Tab you put all the information releated to the Landscape and Changes in

the Projects.



Systems Tab:

you select the Logical Component created for this project. Is important to select the rigth role of

the System/Client.

Central Objects Tab:

You force the repository of the Test Cases.

IMG Projects Tab:

You Identify the IMG Projects in the Satellite Systems, the red indicator if becouse the IMG don’t

have a View created. You can Create views with the Create Button.



Change Request Tab:

In the Change Request Tab you can Activate and monitoring the Change request management.

Milestones tab: In the Milestones Tab you need to put all the Dates of the milestones in the project.That is

important for the advance reporting.

Organizational Units: In the Organizational Units you need to identify all the OU affected for the project.

Project Standards In the Project Standards you put all the implementation standards of you company like:



Status Values

Keywords

Document Type.

Tab in SM.

Status Value Tab

In the Status Value you can insert Staus values personlized like SignOff, Review for the Client, Etc..

Keywords Tab

You use the Keyword for identify better all the documents load in the SM.

Documentation Types Tab

In the Documentation Type Tab you load all the template documents for this project.



Tabs Tab

In the Tabs you select wich tab you want to see in the diferent step of the project

Roadmap. The radmap is the tools who give as all the ASAP Metodology for the project, you can create your

own Roadmap or use the Standart roadmaps who came with SAP.

To use the roadmap you use the transaction RMMAIN

In the Roadmap you have the roadmap Structure, this are all the step for use ASAP Metodology

during the implementation of the Project.

In every single step you have information and you can used for change the status of the step.



Accelerator Tab

In the Accelerator tab you have information proposted by SAP for facilitate your work.

Reference Tab:

Here you have links if this step is releated to another step in the roadmap

Status/Notices Tab:

In this tab you can put some coments releated to the Status of this step.

Project Team Member Tab:

In the Project Team Member you assign this step to the Project member.You can only use the

Members Definened in the Project Creation Phase.

Issues/Messages Tab:

Here you can create Message or Issue releated to this step in the roadmap.



Project Documentation:

Here you put the documentation of this Single Step.

Keywords Tab:

In the Keywords Tab you select the Keywords created during the Creation project phase.

Blueprint Phase During the Blueprint Phase you need to identify all the process of the company and map inside

Solution Manager.

For do that you use the transaction SOLAR01.

In solar01 you identify:

• Organizational Units

• Master Data

• Business Scenarios.

a. Business Process

i. Process Step

In this phase you can add the information in different way:

• Creation manually.

• Searching in SAP Business Process Repository

• Searching in a previous project.



Creation manually.

Just type your definition in the structure Tab

Searching in Business Process Repository

You Start to search inside the different Organizational Areas � Process � Valid From.

The predefined process from sap maybe are in different sap Versions.



Searching in a previous project.

You change the source to Solutions or Project and you can see all the process defined before to

reused

Organizational Units. In Structure Tab you identify the Organization unit Related to the project and in which Logical

component is.

Master Data Xxxx

Xxx



Business Scenarios In the Business Scenarios you need to map the Full Process in to the different Business Process

and Process Step. One Business Scenarios is compose for different Business Process, and have his

own OU and Master Data.

Every business process has several process step.

• You Have for every single Business Process:

• Structure

• General Documentation

• Project Documentation

• Administration

• Transactions

• Issues/Messages

• Graphic

• End User Roles



Structure Tab:

In the Structure tab you identify all the Steps required to do the Business Process.

General Documentation Tab:

General documentation have papers from Sap or from the template for this Business Process.

Project Documentation Tab:

In Project Documentation you insert the documentation of the project for this Business Process



Administration Tab:

In the Administration Tab you put the status of the business process, the assignation and the

dates.

Transactions Tab:

Here you identify the transaction for this Business Scenarios

Issues/Messages Tab:

Here you can create Issues or Messages when you have problem during the map of this business

process.



Graphic Tab:

In the Graphic you create a graphical definition of the Business Process, you have the logical

component, the OU and all the process step defined in the Business Scenario.

End User Roles Tab:

Here you map the business scenario with the User, Organization Units or jobs created before.

Configuration Phase During the configuration phase, you need to map all the configuration, test and training activates

identified to the Solution Manager.

The tabs are similar, you have 4 new tab:

Configuration

Development

Test Cases

Training Material.



Configuration Tab:

In the configuration tab you need to identify all the task related to setup the environment for this

Business Process like IMG Activities,BcSets,eCATT Configuration,programs,etc, Status and Person

responsible.

Development Tab:

If you make development you need to identify and document in this tab all the information related

like:

• Type

• System

• Status

• Development

• Program.

• Documentation



Test Case Tab:

In the Test case you select the test cases created for this Process Steps.You identify the Test

documentation too.

Training Material Tab:

In the Training Material you Create and upload all the training material related to this Business

Process.

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