cutoff activities

[Former Member]

hi ,

This satya i am just fresher for SAP FI/CO, i hope this site may useful for me..

Can any one help me on below..

1. what are cut-off activities for an FI/CO consultant.

2. I expect some important interview tips

3. suggest me some sites for SAP FI/Co study material

thanks,

satya

[kishore_babu15 · Accepted solution]

Hi satya,

Check the below link hope it may help to you.

http://www.saptechies.com/sap-pdf-books-download/SAP_Go_live_strategy11248141773.pdf

Regards,

Kishore K

[Former Member]

Hi

Cutover strategy depends upon how the organizations design their data load strategies. Normally, you decide the sequence of Data loads for Configuration settings, Master data, Transaction data which follows whom and then you make a copy of the system as a Production system a day before and after checking the successful data loads, you go-live 100% or partial again depending upon organizational setup and policies.

Cutover planning is highly site specific. There's no thumb rule. The stock data as on the date of going live should be correctly entered. But stock being a highly dynamic quantity, the strategy for loading should be crystal clear. Then you have to load all the back dated transaction on the stock. Some stock comes into your plant/storage location as return and some stock is actually delivered to your customer through sales orders of various kinds.

Cutover is actually a very crucial term for any team. It mainly is the period to finalize your readiness to go live as production.

From a security standpoint- We have to create a cutover baseplan!

We have to ensure the roles are transported to PRD, the end users are setup with proper access and validity, and also the other cutover/config/ manual config teams are setup with proper access. A dry run of this is helpful in determining and documenting the pre-defined access for various teams. Since the dependency of tasks are very high, that is, one task is dependant on the other, the cutover baseplan is expected to give time critical and time accountable tasks allotment to various teams.

The security team not only is responsible for their own tasks, but also is responsible to support any authorization failure to any team.

Go-live checks have to be performed, like the super users are secured, the security parameters and profile parameters for the system are setup as desired. Earlywatch checks by SAP have been done. Background security jobs have been scheduled.

Regards

Edited by: Dublin on Dec 1, 2009 10:51 AM