Erp implementations in industries

ERP Implementations Activities - Analysis

Keshav Trehan, Keyur Shah, Narayanan Palani

Tools used along with ERP Applications:

Category Software / Tool / Technology

SAP Applications

SAP BusinessObject

SAP Business Suit

SAP Netweaver

SAP Reporting Tool

46.c, 4.7, ECC5.0, ECC 6.0

GRC 5.2, 5.3( AE, RAR, Firefighter, Role Expert)

CRM, SRM, HR

SAP IDM, EP and XI

SAP Solution Manager

SAP Implementation at Copart U.S.A:

Steps: Design, blueprint, architecture and landscape development for SAP systems for Copart SAP

Implementation Program.Basis related Activities for System Landscape setup. Security and GRC

configuration, Implement and Configuration of GRC5.3. , Designing CUA setup, Role Matrix, User

Provisioning and facing the Client challenges. Design SOD Matrix for each Component for SAP.

Activities during SAP Upgrade and Support at Varian Medical Systems-UK / USA:

Client Maintenance

Transport Management

Applying Support packs through SPAM, SDM and JSPM

System Monitoring

Kernal Upgrade

System Copy

Scheduling Background Jobs

System Trouble shooting

Printer Management

User Management

Role Management

Applied the Enhancement Packages.

Creating of New User accounts and assigning roles to users in Production via VIRSA (AE 5.2 version)

Checking the SOD Conflicts (Risk Violations) via SAP GRC tool (AE 5.2 version) and forwarding to IT security stage.

Mitigating the requests having SOD conflicts and approved to production

Cancelling AE requests and Re-routing AE requests to next stage

Forwarding AE requests to other role owners

Uploading newly created roles into AE request system

Uploading new company codes into AE request system

Changing the role owners for existing roles in AE request system

Creating new firefighter ids and Mapping firefighter ids to regular uid Mapping firefighter ids to Firefighter ID owner

Generating report for SOD Conflicts in Firefighter

Generating Log report for Firefighter Ids in Production systems

User Authorization & Profile Management

Role Administration and Management

Up loading and down loading the roles

Assigning Licensing type to users depending on assigned roles for dialog Users in Production systems.

Sent Users License reporting, audit and management data to SAP for all Production systems (via USMM)

Maintained the Portal user profiles

OSS Note search for system problems and coordinating with SAP support.

Retrieved the License information from Varian SAP systems and sent to SAP for License audit.

Support Activities at Siemens – UK:

User Profile management

Roles Management

Handled OSS related issues((like license, keys, connections, User Creation ,Reset password, message creation ,etc.,)


Client Management

DB Refresh

Printer Management

Background Jobs Scheduling

Applying Support packs

Applying Kernal Upgrade

System Monitoring

Applying notes using SNOTE

SAP Implementation (End to End) at WIMCO- India:

Installed ECC 5.0 and Solution Manager on HP UNIX.

Applied support packages

Kernel Upgrade

Printer Management

Applying notes using SNOTE

Transport Management System across the R/3 system Landscape

Daily Check List

Database Administration using BRTOOLS


Trouble shooting System problems by analyzing system log, ABAP Dump

Client Management

Analysis updates monitoring and locks entries

GUI Maintenance

Activity of SAP Basis & Security Consulting profiles at Mittal Steels- UK & Netherlands:


Roles Maintenance

Created Master and Derived Roles

Maintained Org Level for FICO and MM Modules

Maintained SAP system in support of finance and security policies.


Activities of SAP Basis Associate Consultants at AP POWER GENERATION CORP:


Roles Maintenance

Scheduled Background Jobs

System Monitoring

Client Maintenance

Applying Support Packs


Support Activities at Lapp India Pvt, Bangalore:

System Refresh (Database copy from PRD to QTY)

Performed Post system installation

Upgrading Kernel for three system Landscape.

Applying Latest Support packages

Environment: SAP ECC6.0 , Database Oracle 10.2, OS Suse-Linux

Up gradation activities at Falcon Tyres Limited, Mysore:

Combined Upgrade and Unicode Conversion from 4.7 to ECC6 + EHP4 (Stack 06)

Hardware migration for Production and Development System from Windows 2003 IA64 server to Windows 2003 X64 server with Service pack 3

Database Upgradation from MS-SQL2000 to SQL2005 SP3.

Perform the System Copy of Development and Production Using Homogeneous System Copy

Performed Post system installation

Solution manager 7.0 installation and Configuration.

Integration Projects Analysis

SAP Integration project details at SABMiller Group:

The SABMiller Group is the world’s 2nd largest brewing company with turnover of $21bn and operations

in 60 countries (30 primary markets).Businesses across in Europe, Latin-America, South Africa, Africa and

Asia [specifically India]. The main reason for Project Triumph is to improve the efficiency of processes

and quality of information that we have available to make the right decisions, globally, regionally and

locally. The R/3 modules being configured are SAP FI, HR, CO, Procurement and MDM .SABMiller Head

quarter is located at South Africa.

It has engaged With Accenture India for SAP R/3 Upgradation and ongoing support an enhancement.

Responsibilities of SAP Basis Consultants during Integration Phase:

Design/Development /correction of roles with appropriate authorization for the various users across SAP FI, CO, Procurement and MDM modules of SAP

Run and analyze trace for missing authorization and take corrective action using tcode SU53 and ST01.

Creating (Child and parent role), Adjustment, deletion and role copy based on client request are worked on Accenture SWB automation tool.

Portal (NWBC) access control support for SA region and Global Template.

Month-end we are doing GRC - PC Job scheduling and monitoring.

Creating CHARM request and Transport change requests from the DEV server to QAS and Production Server using CHARM

Implementation activities of ECC 6.0 , BI,CRM,SRM,SCM,Solution managers at JSW-Ispat Ltd

during SAP Integration:

System Refresh from production servers to Quality servers.

EHP upgrade using SUM tool.

DR Server configuration.

Oracle upgrade from 10.2.0.2 to 10.2.0.5 .

ADS Configuration and Digital Signature configuration.

Performed the Configuration of Early Watch alerts, System Monitoring and Central System

Administration in SOLUTION MANAGER 7.0.

Upgrading kernels in HP-UX servers and Windows servers (Development, Quality, and Production) for

ECC, CRM, BIW, SRM, SCM, and Optimizer. Applying Support packs and Add-ons, SNOTE in Development, Quality, and Production servers for

ECC, CRM, BIW, SRM, SCM.

Created RFC Destinations between ECC to CRM, BI, SRM, SCM (Development, Quality, Production

servers). Queues Administration with using SMQS, SMQ1, SMQ2, SMQ3, and SM58.

Configuring Transport Management System for ECC, CRM, BIW, SRM, and SCM.

Moving request in SAP level and OS level.

Scheduling and Creating Background jobs and creating variants, assigning variants to background

jobs.

Creating clients and Assigning logical system to clients.

Client copy within the same system (local), remote systems and Client export/ client import and client

deletion.

Configuring the parameters in System profiles

Experience in Installation of SAP dialog instances on Production servers & ECC 6.0 IDES on Windows

Platform. Having the knowledge of Live Cache, TREX, and Optimizer.

Maintaining and Scheduling File system backup online backups and Archive backups using Data

Protector.

Maintaining the Disaster Recovery Server at remote site.

Maintaining backups and restoring with using Data Protector.

Starting and Halting clusters, Sap Instances, HP-UX servers.

Starting and stopping Java instance in EP.

Maintenance of Transport Management System.

Client Administration.

Queues Administration.

Background Job maintenance.

SAP License Management.

CCMS (Profiles, Operation modes, Monitoring).

Spool maintenance.