Support Packs - Business Case

[Former Member]

I support the SAP instance at a small SME. We run ECC6 for FICO SD MM & HR (but not payroll or BI). It has been two years since the last support pack update. The support packs are 13 & 15 and HR is on 32, the Kernel for 700_REL is 175.

To build a business case for patching to later releases I need to find where SAP gives a broad description of the support Packs and a description of the improvements made. Am I correct that these shall only include note changes but no enhancements to business processes.

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[markus_doehr2]

> To build a business case for patching to later releases I need to find where SAP gives a broad description of the support Packs and a description of the improvements made. Am I correct that these shall only include note changes but no enhancements to business processes.

Exactly - that's what support packages should be, theoretically. Usually they also contain small improvements or "backports" of newer releases.

I wonder that you were able to run your HR so long without any support package updates, usually HR contains critical legal changes for each country, especially on (fiscal) year changes.

To see what happened between source and target SP level check

http://service.sap.com/sp-stacks

--> SP Stack Download & Side effect report

and

http://service.sap.com/side-effect

Markus