Difference between ECC 6.0 AND ERP 4.7

[Former Member]

Hi gurus,

What is the difference between ERP 4.7 AND ECC 6.0.

Now we are going to ECC 6.0.Please send me SD configuration .

Regards,

T.Murugu

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Dear,

Please refer below mention links: -

Regards,

Mahesh Wagh.

[Former Member]

hello friend,

Some of the differences ABAP Module side:

1. For installing ECC 6.0 you required a solution manager key. With out solution manager key you cannot install ECC6.0.

2. ECC 6.0 is called net weaver component here you have ABAP+JAVA stack & for installing 4.6 you don't require solution manager key. It only having ABAP stack.

3. ECC6.0 supports UNCODE & 4.6C supports NONUNICODE.

4. Major difference is ECC6 is net weaver product having WASJAVA+ABAP - secondly support Unicode apart from this we have other diff. you can get from master guide from service.sap.com/instguides.

5. In terms of ABAP some function modules are obsolete in 4.7. e.g. WS_UPLOAD, WS_DOWNLOAD etc. You can find the list of obsolete FMs in the table RODIR. These need to be replaced in the ECC System.

6. Also ECC is very strict in case of EPC Errors. You need to check the EPC and remove the call function interface errors where it says SLIN observes catching of a runtime error. These might work with no issues in 4.7 but will short dump in ECC.

7. If you are doing to a Unicode conversion also. You need to check the transaction UCCHECK for Unicode errors. You also need to replace obsolete statements like >< and => , =< etc.

8. If you want to know more ABAP changes go to transaction ABAPDOCU and there is a node ABAP Changes by Release. You can see more ABAP Changes version by version here.

9. ECC is more towards OOPS concepts, ECC is very developer friendly

10. It has new debugger.

11. New Enhancement Framework is introduced in ECC.

12. It is more efficient to use Adobe forms in ECC.

13. 5.0 ECC - Build in Net Weaver Platform & 6.0 ECC - Build in Net Weaver Platform with Solution Manager

14. ECC has new options in BADIs where you can create your own badis and implement it.

15. You have new concept called Implicit and explicit source code plugins in ECC.

16. Has webdynrpo component accessible from SE80 transaction Itself.

[former_member184555]

Hi

Please check the below link for the differences between the two releases..

http://solutionbrowser.erp.sap.fmpmedia.com/Default.aspx

Select the source and target versions of release and the solution area and the module...you will get the list of all the differences.

Thanks,

Ravi

[Lakshmipathi]

Dear Murugu

In simple terms I can say that it is entirely basis head ache when you switch over from 4.7 to ECC. Once they finished their job, from SD side, we only have to ensure that whatever we done in 4.7 are migrated correctly or not. This we can identify by doing vigorous integration test in development and quality. At times, even a normal transaction running in 4.7 will not work after this data migration. So you need to double ensure that everything is in order b4 moving on it to production client.

thanks

G. Lakshmipathi

[former_member204513]

Dear Murugu,

These are the functionalities additionally available in ECC6.0 for the SD/LE module.

1.Functionality

Archiving Objects

The most frequently used archiving objects have been reworked so that they now correspond to a uniform standard.

Business Benefit

This has two main advantages: The archiving objects can be used uniformly in archiving projects, and accessing archived data across different applications has been improved.

2.Functionality

E-Commerce

SAP ERP provides powerful e-commerce capabilities that can be expanded in an easy, cost-effective manner in line with business growth. Organizations can run a complete sales process on the Internet, and provide business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) customers with personalized and interactive online self-services.

Business Benefit

- Increased revenues

SAP ERP enables businesses to use the Internet as a profitable channel for sales and interaction. Web shops can be easily integrated.

- Improved customer service

SAP ERP provides a convenient, easy-to-use experience, supporting customers with online product configuration, shopping basket features, product availability checks, and secure transactions as well as order status and tracking.

- Simplified sales processes

SAP ERP supports a variety of end-to-end sales processes with easy-to-use interactive self-services for customers.

- Reduced total cost of ownership

E-commerce in SAP ERP is fully integrated with existing SAP ERP processes and systems, making it possible to leverage existing investments to support e-commerce activities.

3.Functionality

Mobile Sales for Handhelds

SAP ERP enables sales professionals to access front- and back-office business processes and to manage critical sales activities in the field using standard PDAs or other handheld devices (including those with bar code scanners). In this area, SAP ERP provides the following functions:

- Customer management

With SAP ERP, sales professionals may enter, view, and modify detailed customer information, and view sales order history for each customer.

- Sales order management

SAP ERP enables sales staff to take sales orders via bar code scanners; search, create, and modify sales orders; and list or sort sales order partners.

- Material management

Support for material management for mobile sales enables staff to view material lists or details for a specific material, search material, and display customer-specific prices.

Business Benefit

- Increased data entry accuracy

Using bar code and RFID technologies instead of keystrokes ensures that data is entered rapidly and without errors.

- Simplified and accelerated processes

By enabling sales professionals to create orders in the field, SAP ERP speeds order entry and fulfillment.

- Reduced data maintenance and administrative burden

Because data from the field is entered directly in SAP ERP, it is not necessary to reenter field information in back-office or other systems.

4.Functionality

Resource-Related Down Payments and Billing

- Supports creation of down-payment requests analogous to the functions offered by resource-related billing

- Enables organizations to bill the requesting company code for services provided via a resource-related billing document

Business Benefit

This new feature simplifies billing of services between different organizational units.

5.Functionality

SAP Beverage Functions Available for the Consumer Products Industry

As of SAP ERP Central Component (SAP ECC) 5.00, the following functions from the SAP beverage industry solution are available for the consumer products industry:

• SAP ECC 5.00, consumer products (EA-CP 500)

- Material sorting

- Extra charge

- Empties management

- Part load lift orders

- Pendulum list indirect sales

- Sales returns

- Excise duty

• SAP ECC 5.00, supply chain management extension (EA-SCM 500)

- Direct store delivery back-end

- Master data

- Visit control

- Transportation planning (including loading units, aggregation categories)

- Vehicle space optimization

- Output control (including valuated delivery note)

- Route accounting (including tour data entry, cash payer, route settlement)

• SAP ECC 5.00, industry-specific sales enhancements (EA-ISSE 500)

- Extended rebate processing

Business Benefit

SAP beverage functions available.

6.Functionality

Credit Management

Integrating sales and distribution (SD) credit management with SAP Credit Management application:

With SAP ERP 6.0 application, you can also use SAP Credit Management in SAP Financial Supply Chain Management set of applications (FIN-FSCM-CR) to perform all credit checks and commitment updates for all areas of sales (SD-BF-CM).

In SAP Credit Management, you can update the data from multiple systems. This enables you to execute credit checks with consistent data in distributed systems, too. Furthermore, you can connect to external credit information providers by extensible markup language (XML) interfaces. Alternatively, you can continue to use SD Credit Management (SD-BF-CM).

Business Benefit

Integrated SD Credit Management with SAP Credit Management.

7.Functionality

E-Commerce: Catalog Management

As of SAP ERP 6.0 application, you must carry out product catalog replication from your ERP solution to the Text Retrieval and Information Extraction (TREX) server for use in the Web shop, using the report ISA_CATALOG_REPLICATION.

Business Benefit

Improved catalog management

8.Functionality

E-Commerce: Quotation and Order Management

• Order creation with reference to a contract that has been displayed

• Lock of sales documents to avoid concurrent access during the order change process

• Display of bills of material in the shopping basket

• Free goods processing

• Processing of grid products for the SAP Apparel and Footwear application

• One-step business order processing

• Selection of multiple transaction types in the shopping basket

• Credit card support in business-to-business (B2B) Web shop

• Material number format conversion

• Maintenance of delivery priority in the shopping basket (B2B)

• Document search for all documents across all sales areas

• Interprocess communication-characteristic value display in basket and order confirmation

Business Benefit

• Reduces errors and offers better data consistency

• Faster order creation process

• Encourages use of profitable sales interaction channel

• Reduces administrative tasks by automating quotations and orders management

• Improves customer satisfaction and retention by delivering accurate information to customers

9.Functionality

E-Commerce: Selling Over eBay

Creation and management of product listings on eBay leverages the e-commerce order management and fulfillment capabilities of the SAP ERP application by easily tying existing tax, pricing, shipping, and payment configurations to post-auction processing. Enhancements in 2005: * You can use the business-to-consumer (B2C) checkout instead of the eBay checkout. With the B2C checkout, you can maximize cross-selling and up-selling opportunities by leveraging B2C functionality, determine tax and shipping using the elaborate methodologies available through condition techniques in SAP ERP 6.0. * E-mail notification scenario: winner notification to keep the auction winner updated with the status of the auction and of his or her order * Monitoring through features such as single-activity trace (SAT), heartbeat, and logging * Creation and publishing of multiple-item auctions and manual retraction of winners

Business Benefit

E-Commerce selling over eBay offers organizations integration of their existing SAP ERP applications with the worldu2019s largest online marketplace to create and manage listings on eBay. The new feature helps: - Increase e-commerce revenues - Streamline and leverage existing order management and fulfillment capabilities

10.Functionality

E-Commerce: User Management

- Web-based user management for business-to-business internet users

- Assignment of authorization roles to users in web-based user management

- Automatic migration of SU05 to SU01 internet users

Business Benefit

Improved user management

11.Functionality

Enterprise Services in Sales Order Management

Please check in the Enterprise Services Workplace site which enterprise services are available for sales order management on the SAP Developer Network site (www.sdn.sap.com).

Business Benefit

Enterprise services available for sales order management.

12.Functionality

Internet Pricing and Configurator (IPC)

The IPC is enhanced and integrated to allow configuration within the sales documents of the SAP ERP application reusing existing model data while leveraging its improved functionality and advanced user interface within SAP ERP.

Business Benefit

Use one configurator across mSAP ERP andSAP CRM application scenarios including Internet sales scenarios to allow for improved functionality and an optimized user interface while reducing total cost of ownership.

13.Functionality

Price Catalog (PRICAT) u2013 Inbound Processing (Retail)

Inbound message processing of PRICAT essages:

As of SAP ERP Central Component enterprise extension retail 6.0 (EA-RET 600) component, you can create and change article data automatically, or in an interface for mass data handling. The system takes both single and generic articles and bills of material and prices into account.

Business Benefit

Improved PRICAT inbound processing

14.Functionality

Rebate Condition Records Using Scales

As of SAP ERP 6.0 application, you can set up rebate agreements so that the scale base value and the rebate scale level is derived from the total sales volume of multiple condition records. You do this by grouping condition records in the rebate agreement.

Business Benefit

Improvement in using scales for rebate agreements

15.Functionality

SAP Role u2013 Internal Sales Representative

SAP role u2013 internal sales representative

This role delivers all the functions to fulfill the requirements of an internal sales representative. This includes tasks such as answering phone calls from customers and prospective customers, processing incoming inquiries and sales orders, and preparing quotations and sales contracts.

Target group

The responsibilities of an internal sales representative (or customer service representative) include the following:

- Answering phone calls from customers and prospective customers

- Answering product, price, and order status related questions

- Processing incoming inquiries and sales orders

- Preparing quotations and sales contracts

- Taking sales orders and ensuring successful order processing u2013 for example, taking care of the completeness of sales documents, releasing delivery-blocked orders, and so on

- Support for the outside sales force u2013 for example, checking on quotations, updating customer master data, and so on

- Preparing reports and sales analyses for the sales manager and the sales team

Work overview

This work center gives you an overview of your daily work and gives you easy access to your most important tasks.

Sales documents

This work center allows you to work on all your sales documents. You can create and maintain inquiries, quotations, sales orders, sales contracts, scheduling agreements, and billing documents.

Order fulfillment

This work center allows you to monitor order fulfillment. You can display deliveries, backorders, and shipments, and can check product availability.

Master data

This work center enables you to work on all your master data. You can create and maintain business partners, customer agreements, prices and conditions, and products.

Business Benefit

- Improves efficiency and effectiveness through the personalization of the information

- Accelerates sales order entry

- Accelerates access to current workload

- Accelerates sales analyses

I hope this will help you,

Regards,

Murali.

[Former Member]

Dear muruga,

1.Main difference is data base , ie , from informix to oracle , here we need to check for data accuracy after migration.

2.If u are using BDC for Sales order , delivery , billing and excise invoice in your prog , then record again and get it changed in your ECC6.0 version as some screens are changed , ex transaction J1II is changed to J1IIN .

3.If any Z progs are there , run it properly as some syntax error can occur ( ex : if STOP is used , it will give dump in run time )

4.Some of the function got changed ( ex : for file upload , read file function changed from KD_GET_FILENAME_ON_F4 to GUI_FILE_LOAD_DIALOG .

Once test server is provided , check real scenerio's , as long as if you do not get error or dump , everything is ok .

As far as config concern , no changes are there.

saravanan