Roles of Functional Consultant in upgradation from 4.6b to ECC 6.0.

[Former Member]

Hi

I need the Roles of Functional Consultant and Technical Consultant in upgradation from 4.6b to ECC 6.0.

Thanks

Anto

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello Friend,

Actually lots of responsibilities are there.

1. To map the business process in the new enviornment.

2. To map the document types and their number ranges to the new system.

3. Forms and outputs and their layouts in the new system.

4. Data Migration of both static and dynamic data.

[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.

Hope this may give better clarity in the involvement of the Functional Consultant in the Updgrade project.

[jpfriends079]

As per my knowledge, the technical consultant is responsible for basis-tasks like DB upgrades, installing new version, implementing new patches, OS, ...

Whereas, the functional consultant should be responsible for all application related topict like cleaning up the system before the upgrade, setting new functionalities productive, user training in the new frontends, ...

To add further, the technical upgrade only cares about the technical process of the upgrade (bringing the system from 3.5 to 7.0). It is not necessary to use any new functionalities. You can still use BI with the 3.x frontends, you do not have to use new transformation, Portal or new authorizations. And the functional upgrade also handles new functionalities.

May be its helpful for you.

Thanks & Regards,

J Prakash