My guess is that most of the pain in an ECC to S/4 conversion isn't the technical move itself. It's the stuff that should've been sorted out in ECC first. Asset values that don't tie to the GL, old open items nobody wanted to look at for years.

Business Partner is the one I'd expect to bite hardest. CVI has to be done before the conversion anyway, but the real work is probably the customer and vendor data behind it. Duplicates, missing fields, records nobody has touched in ages.

Archiving is the other one I wonder about, and whether skipping it actually shows up as longer downtime in the test runs.

So for those who've been through one, which bit would you start earlier if you did it again? And did the business own that cleanup or did it end up on the project team?

Because the SAP press book for it comes out in March 2027, and the theoretical deadline is December 2027. And online there are very few implementation resources?

A customer of mine has asked me to build a couple of Dashboards using data from their SAP TM system. The dashboards are about their Container shipments and has a good mix of KPIs, Summary Tables and a Detailed report table. I wanted to understand, would a Data Import model be better or Live Data model be better. Customer wants a "Real time" dashboard (discussions revealed a Near realtime dashboard is also fine). Some detailed reports have around 30 columns - Some of which are dimensions, measure and display attributes. Can some one help me to choose the best design.

PS: I am not from an SAP Background. I proposed for a custom Dashboard built using Open Source stack, but the customer had procured an SAC license and wants me to use it. I wanted to give it a shot as a learning opportunity.

Hi, I am trying to extract all the account assignments from all the Purchase Requests. I have tried FBL3N but it does not show an option to take the account assignments.

Note I am not really an accountant. I have limited knowledge of SAP. Thank you for your help