System Landscape Optimization (SLO)

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The System Landscape Optimization (SLO) service, part of the QS&S’s portfolio of consulting services, provides the customer with specialized tools & techniques to manage complex system landscape.

Business Drivers

Are these changes caused by divestitures, acquisitions and/or mergers?

Are you in the process of reorganizing your corporate landscape?

Are you planning to implement centralized master data management (MDM)?

Are you striving towards a uniform system landscape?

Are you interested in lowering system downtime in upgrade projects and Unicode conversions?

If you find yourself in one of the scenarios above, then you need to:

Use QS&S’s SLO service and SLO workbench to optimize your SAP systems.

Business Dynamics

Special Business challenges require special solutions

The System Landscape Optimization services are SAP’s answer to the increasing need for implementing major changes to productive SAP Solutions.

They are designed to ease and fully leverage customers’ business driven change by effectively aligning system landscapes.

Business-driven changes such as mergers, the restructuring of business organizations, the alignment of best-of-industry business processes and the reduction of IT-complexity can become necessary

Reducing the system complexity by streamlining and standardizing IT and ERP systems.

Harmonizing master data and minimizing redundant data

Automating data migration between the systems involved

Consolidation of the SAP infrastructure (server, operating systems, databases) and technology (NetWeaver)

Adapting the SAP operational aspects in terms of performance, high availability and scalability

Internationally available shared service models for support and operation

QS&S SLO Service Offerings

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QS&S SLO - Analysis & Optimization

Services & Tools to analyze and optimize SAP system environment

Technical process and data analysis to evaluate restructuring measures

--System assessment with regard to the use of the implemented processes, scope and use of objects, data volumes.

--Analysis to establish the feasibility, associated workload, and expected benefits of a planned consolidation/conversion

--Evaluation of possible implementation approaches and alternative scenarios.

System analysis for project budgeting and planning

--You would like to take concrete technical restructuring measures in your SAP system landscape?

--The analysis provides you with fundamental information to help with project planning and budgeting: Determine the relevant quantity structures and dependencies, the relevance of company-specific objects and enhancements, decision criteria for sequence planning, estimations of expected downtime, and so on.

Technical analysis and optimization of custom developments

--Determine the level of utilization of custom developments (at user, department, and cost center level), identify performance-critical applications and jobs.

--Optionally archive unused custom developments, optimize the performance of critical applications.

QS&S SLO - System Landscape Consolidation

Technical consolidation & optimization of the system landscape (SLO)

SLO analysis

--Analyses to establish the feasibility, associated workload, and expected benefits of a planned system consolidation

Consolidation of SAP systems and SAP clients

--Client transfer - Relocating an existing client to another SAP system environment

--Splitting clients and systems- Removing a client from an existing system. Splitting an existing client into different clients in one or a range of SAP system environments

--Merging clients and systems - Merging SAP clients and systems from the same or different release levels

Transfer legal entities and processes

--Transfer of legal entities - Transfer legal entities, for example a subsidiary, to a new or existing SAP system/client.

--Removal of processes - Transfer business processes to another SAP system, including prior analysis of dependencies, for example transfer sales processes to a central SAP sales and distribution system

QS&S SLO - Conversion Services

Data Restructuring and Harmonizing

Adjusting organizational units

--Standardization, merging, and separation (Company code, controlling area, Sales and purchasing organization, Plant, Cost centers, profit centers, Changes to product hierarchy)

Harmonizing master data

--Removal of duplicates

--Cross-system harmonization of master data (for example, standardization of materials, vendors, customers)

Standardizing application customizing

--Cross-system standardization of application customizing, including adjustments to referencing master data and transaction data, for example: Payment Terms, Chart of accounts, Product hierarchy

 

QS&S SLO - Migration Services

System & Data Migration

System Migration

--SAP ECC Introduction

--R/2 De-commissioning

--R/2-ECC migration

--R/3-ECC conversion / migration

Data Migration

--Migrating data from non-SAP systems

--Reconsolidation of SAP R/3 systems

--Tool-based process, e.g. with SAP SLO

--Concurrent data cleansing and harmonization

QS&S - SLO Features

Phased methodology for managing whole cycle with step-by-step guidance

Mature, revision-secure procedure to migrate and convert big amounts of data

Minimal system downtime

Migration and conversion of complete data sets, including historical data

Little project effort needed because of extensive object libraries

Tools for the verification of system consistency

Self-developed tool for the technical implementation of SLO projects

Extensive analysis functions for the different services

Application package with predefined business objects

System wide consistency & based on domains

Able to resume processing after disruptions and system errors

Logging of migration runs

Migration without release borders / Unicode capability

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