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Data Migration Is on Your Critical Path: How to Move It Off the Schedule
In an SAP S/4HANA program, no integration test, user acceptance test, or dress rehearsal can start until someone has extracted, cleansed, and loaded the data it runs on. That makes data migration a prerequisite for every test cycle in the plan. When a load slips, the cycle slips with it, and the go-live date follows.…
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Cutover Weekend Costs Real Production: What a Good Rehearsal Tests
When an SAP S/4HANA cutover begins, transactions stop in the legacy ERP before they start in S/4HANA. For a manufacturer, every hour of that window is production that either stops or runs on contingency procedures, with a backlog to post once the new system opens. A rehearsal must show that the plant can stop, migrate,…
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Why SAP Requirements Documents Lead to Change Orders, and What a Running System Changes
At LeapGreat’s September 30, 2026, LinkedIn Live (watch the replay), a panel argued that SAP programs run into change orders because the business signs off on a design before it has seen the future system. The panelists proposed starting with a running SAP S/4HANA development system loaded with the company’s own data, so users can…
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What SAP Clean Core Actually Requires From Your Business, Not Just Your IT Team
Clean core means keeping the SAP core close to its standard, vendor-provided state, with differentiation handled through APIs and SAP BTP rather than changes to the core itself, per SAP’s own definition. Achieving that state is not merely an IT decision; while technology teams can establish the guardrails, only business leaders can distinguish between genuine…
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Why Does Continuous Improvement Stop After an SAP Go-Live?
One of the most powerful drivers of value is a good Center of Expertise with a mandate and budget for measurable continuous improvement. Yet it is seldom seen. Go-live is a clear target and goal, and so it gets all the budget. Yet Going Live doesn’t necessarily mean Getting Value. In fact, often Go-Live is…
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The two findings auditors cite most are two controls an SAP build suspends
Published ITGC guidance describes controls in steady state. This report covers the build period, when the implementation suspends them and the auditor still arrives. No form.
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Why are so few ERP Transformations on time and on budget? Or worse, need to be reset?
Five outside studies on how SAP ECC and S/4HANA transformations actually finish, with every source printed and linked. No form.
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From Gut Feel to Signal: How AI Is Changing the Way SAP Programs Are Run
AI is changing what “testing early” actually means for SAP programs. When early results are clear, validated, and stakeholder-backed, it fosters confidence and trust in the process, which is essential for project success. Early visibility only works if the early data is real. A design-phase issue is cheap to fix. The same issue found during…
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SAP S/4HANA Global Rollout Challenges: Why the Global Template Often Breaks
The standard approach to rollout is a global template that is derived from an initial implementation. (Rather than independent of a first implementation and then piloted) A team builds the SAP system at headquarters first, then copies the template to each subsidiary and adjusts it for local tax rules, languages, and reporting requirements. That…
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Why SAP Program Teams Stop Trusting the Documentation
SAP program directors describe the same complaint in different words: the documentation says one thing, and reality says another. So people stop reading the documentation. They ask someone else who has been around for a while, or they start exploring the systems by themselves. That behavior is rational. A document that has been wrong three…
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