Upgrade of R/3 & VMS

[Former Member]

We have SAP R/3 4.6C with an industry specific package for Vehicle Management System( IS-AUTO VMS3.0 ) installed in the setup .

We are currently looking to upgrade our SAP R/3 4.6c platform to ERP6.0 and the required industry extension for VMS.

Would like to know if someone has experience in this kind of upgrade where SAP R/3 & the industry solution were upgraded together.

Any pointers in this topic is appreciated

Regards

Anoop

[Former Member]

In Technical SAP,Upgrade from 4.6 to 6.0- the role of any fucntional consultant would involved integrated with the technical Consultant.

The phase starts with the technical Patches apply to the latest stack level which will done by the BASIS Consultants.

Once the System preparation is happened, the next phase is with SPDD phase, Thru this transaction the dictionary Objects-Database elements, database tables and structures of teh latest system can be

compared with the old system.

This results in the version modification results between the old and New versions. During this phase the involvement of the Functional Consultant needed for the tech guy, to identify the functional chnages between the two version (Old and New). Which helps for him either to Reset to Original(ie., adopting the new one) or Adopt Modification in previous system(ie., adopting to older functionality)

Once this is done, the System Upgradation will be done by the BASI, the system will be replaced with new system. At teh end of this phase SPAU phase starts, which inturn reults with version difference in the field namely, Programs, Reports, Screens, Messages, Notes an Function Modules. Here too the involvement of functional consultant neede to determine either reset to original or to go with Adopt modification from the older design, as explained earlier.

At teh end of the, moreover the functional consultant role involved in testing the Entire processes and transactoin in the system for system dump and bugs, in necessity to correct teh same and results with nil errors in production client.

Also the Zprograms invloved in the older versions, needs to be examined for the actual need, and to be justified with adoption in the newer version or by adopting to the updated functionality in the newer version.

[Former Member]

Hi Anoop,

i worked on 14 upgrade projects.

my first question is your doing technical upgrade or as well functional upgrade??

As per my experience concern first R/3 will be happends then only ur VMS extension will be possible. bcs based R/3 only ur specific package works.Together upgradation is not possible.

Please feel free to ask me if any queries.

Regards

Arani Bhaskar

[Former Member]

In Technical SAP,Upgrade from 4.6 to 6.0- the role of any fucntional consultant would involved integrated with the technical Consultant.

The phase starts with the technical Patches apply to the latest stack level which will done by the BASIS Consultants.

Once the System preparation is happened, the next phase is with SPDD phase, Thru this transaction the dictionary Objects-Database elements, database tables and structures of teh latest system can be

compared with the old system.

This results in the version modification results between the old and New versions. During this phase the involvement of the Functional Consultant needed for the tech guy, to identify the functional chnages between the two version (Old and New). Which helps for him either to Reset to Original(ie., adopting the new one) or Adopt Modification in previous system(ie., adopting to older functionality)

Once this is done, the System Upgradation will be done by the BASI, the system will be replaced with new system. At teh end of this phase SPAU phase starts, which inturn reults with version difference in the field namely, Programs, Reports, Screens, Messages, Notes an Function Modules. Here too the involvement of functional consultant neede to determine either reset to original or to go with Adopt modification from the older design, as explained earlier.

At teh end of the, moreover the functional consultant role involved in testing the Entire processes and transactoin in the system for system dump and bugs, in necessity to correct teh same and results with nil errors in production client.

Also the Zprograms invloved in the older versions, needs to be examined for the actual need, and to be justified with adoption in the newer version or by adopting to the updated functionality in the newer version.

[Former Member]

Hi Arani

We are planning for a technical upgrade.

As far as I know, Industrial packages like IS-AUTO(VMS3.0) comes along with ERP6.0.

This needs to be activated after ERP6.0 system is setup.

The challenge faced by us is that scope of our upgrade is not limited to Standard R/3 upgrade (from 4.6c to ERP6) .Scope also include upgrade of VMS3.0 to VMS5.0 or above. Needless to say this isto be done in a single shot.

Regards

Anoop

[Former Member]

Hi Manish

Thanks for the input.

Any pointers related to the specific scenario (of Industrial package upgrade) will be welcom

Regards

Anoop