upgrade treasury module (4.6C) to erp 6.0

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Hi,

We will perform a technical upgrade from 4.6C to ERP 6.0. According to the information I get from the web, treasury functions have been modified a lot and need to perform data conversion and configuration changes (something like parallel valuation). Can anyone give me the steps required on this aspect or where to get this information ?

Our usage on treasury module (4.6C) is simple, just fixed-term deposit and loan transaction, no Foreign Exchange, Derivatives or Securities.

Edited by: michael lee on Jan 6, 2009 4:32 PM

[former_member581688 · Accepted solution]

Michael,

Here is a link to SAP's Migration Guide for upgrading Treasury:

https://websmp109.sap-ag.de/~form/sapnet?_FRAME=CONTAINER&_OBJECT=011000358700001114782007E

This document contains general information for all Treasury upgrades as well as sections for specific versions (from and to versions). Make sure to read the general information and then find the section that applies to your upgrade and follow the steps.

I found this guide invaluable when my company upgraded from 4.7 to ERP6.0 two years ago.

Also, as your first step, you're going to want to take a look at SAP Note # 914585 - Converting to Release ERP2005. This is a composite note of all the correction notes needed for the TPM_MIGRATION transaction that you'll use as a part of the conversion. Depending on what support pack you're upgrading to, you may not need all of the notes.

Hope this helps!

Shannon

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Shannon,

Thanks for your reply. Actually I have downloaded the migration guide you mentioned. Also, today I find another one on Business Partner conversion.

I have read the guide briefly and find it not easy to understand. Moreover, most of the topics is on securities or OTC which is not used in my case.

Therefore it would be great if someone can provide some simpified steps such as:

1. Activate the Financial Services Extension Set (I don't know i need to initially)

2. ......

on just using Fixed-term deposits and Loan.

Regards,

Michael

[former_member581688 · Accepted solution]

Michael,

By "fixed-term deposit" are you talking about Money Market product types with product category = 510 (Fixed-term deposit). If so, then you do need to do the steps in the Migration guide for OTC. The term "OTC" in the document covers not just "OTC Derivatives", but also all Money Market and Foreign exchange product types.

See page 22 of the guide:

"If you do not use Securities, you do not have to execute the security-specific steps.

And you do not need to work through the OTC-specific steps if you do not use Money

Market, Foreign Exchange or OTC Derivatives."

Reversing the last sentence to make it positive instead of negative - If you use Money Market, Foreign Exchange or OTC Derivatives you need to work through the OTC-specific steps.

So, you are correct that since you do not use Securities, that you do not need to do the Securities steps. But if you are using Fixed-term deposits within SAP's Money Market config then you need to run the OTC steps.

If your "Loans" are within "Loans Management" and not within Money Market, then you are correct that there are no conversion steps related to Loans. However, I would still suggest thoroughly testing your configuration as we ran into some "bugs" in Loans as a part of the upgrade.

Since we upgraded from v 4.7 (Enterprise 1.10), we did not have to do any Business Partner conversion, so I can not offer any assistance with that.

The Financial Services Extension Set (EA-FS) is activated via the SPRO -> IMG-> Activate Business Functions. The IMG documentation provides the steps for activation.

Regards,

Shannon

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Shannon,

Thanks again for your reply. Actually after reading your reply I have re-read the migration guide and it seems not so complicated this time. Yes I know I need to execute the step labelled OTC:.

The most confusing part for me is on what modification through IMG is required. I'm not clear about what is "Valuation Area/Classes", "Update Type". Will this be generated automatically during migration (since we just have loan/deposit) ? We don't need parallel valuation, is just define one valuation class enough?

Sorry for so many problems.

Regards,

Michael

Edited by: michael lee on Jan 8, 2009 7:36 AM

[former_member581688 · Accepted solution]

Michael,

Valuation Areas and Valuation Classes are two different things.

Valuation areas are used for parallel valuation. If you're not going to use parallel valuation, then you only need valuation area 001 (Operative Valuation Area). I think this one is delivered - I don't remember having to set it up.

Valuation classes are used for classification. They will be assigned to product types. You only need one, but if you multiple product types that you want to group together (for example, for reporting), you may want to consider more than one. For example, at my company we have different product types for short-term, mid-term and long-term investments - so I created 3 valuation classes for these 3 types of product types and assigned the classes accordingly.

Update types will be used in parrallel to flow types in ERP. You'll still see flow types, but they all will have to be assigned to update types now. In standard reports (such as TPM13 - Subledger Cash Flow), you'll only see update types, not flow types. If I remember correctly, the update types for Money Market product types will be created as a part of the conversion steps.

Regards,

Shannon

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Shannon:

Thank for your answer. I think next step is to do the migration/customization and seek your advice when encountered problem. (actually just find another issue on erp 6.0, cash budget management no longer support, need to study the implementation on Liquidity Planner).

Michael