SAP NEW GENERAL LEDGER & MIGRATION
The new general ledger (new G/L) encompasses some of the most important and exciting new functionality to become available in the SAP ERP Financials application in recent years. Where traditional general ledger solutions have required the reconciliation of multiple applications, SAP ERP Financials now provides a unified structure that includes individual ledgers, such as the cost of sales ledger, profit center accounting and the consolidation staging ledger. As a result, it speeds reconciliation, ensures transparency and auditability, and enables customers to meet both internal and external reporting requirements.
The implementation of the new G/L is a project that should not be underestimated; and the technical migration of data from the classic general ledger to the new general ledger is a central part of such a project. Depending on each customer’s individual scenario, this migration could mean a significant change to the live database, which must be safeguarded to ensure that historical data is kept intact. For this reason, SAP will accompany your migration with a service to address the technical aspects of such a project and help guide you safely through the migration process. The service is intended to complement your overall new G/L implementation project.
Did you know.....
…That all new implementations have to have new general ledger if they are at
ERP2004 or above but that current customers upgrading to these versions can stay on classic GL?
…That if you switch on new GL it is for all the company codes in the client?
…That if you don’t activate document splitting at go live you cannot do it subsequently without a migration?
…That SAP does not recommend doing a migration at the same time as an upgrade? And do you know why?
Given the importance of some of these issues, it is imperative that consultants know the full story of the new GL and migration before they get involved in a potential project. There is a lot of planning time
required for a migration project as it may uncover other subsidiary projects that need to be realised before a migration takes place. The migration itself can only take place at certain times of the year for any business as all previous fiscal years have to be closed for all company codes. In addition, the configuration mainly has to be completed before the start of the current fiscal year, which has a knock on impact on when the project needs to start. It may even mean the difference between upgrade and reimplementation!
Often these are things that both customers and partners are not aware of until they start the project itself at which point it is too late. This can lead to very large slippage times in go live dates (up to 12 months) which could have been prevented. It also leads to unrealistic expectations of how long a migration project is in fact going to take.
Given the number of upgrades in the pipeline at the moment, background information on what could be expected of a migration project is essential.
The AC210 course covers the configuration for the new general ledger. It does not cover the migration topics, these are covered separately in the AC212 New GL Migration course.
More information on new GL migration is available on http://service.sap.com/GLMIG
To access the course descriptions for AC210 please click here.
To access the course descriptions for AC212 please click here.