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System Landscape Optimization

Enabling a Smooth Company


Code Merge with SAP® Landscape
Transformation Software
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Merge company codes with


reduced effort
Merge company codes with reduced effort Constantly changing global markets demand that international companies
identify and integrate business requirements into their daily business
practices. Successfully operating your business in these conditions may
call for transformation requirements that could impact your system
landscape. SAP® Landscape Transformation software helps reduce the
effort to merge company codes.

When facing mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, •• Cut administrative costs and tap the
or internal reorganizations, companies need competitive synergies generated through
innovative business solutions to help align org­ mergers and acquisitions
anizational structures and processes within
their system landscapes. During a corporate The merger of legal entities can result in the
restructuring, SAP Landscape Transformation need to merge company codes on your sys­
software can help you: tem landscape, for example, to meet financial
•• Realize and support integration of newly accounting, tax, or trade law requirements, and
acquired legal entities into existing organi­ facilitate the management of legally indepen­
zational structures and system landscapes dent business units. Changes must be applied
•• Merge several subdivisions within formerly consistently and with as little manual work as
disparate companies or organizational possible in all affected SAP components that
structures are in use in your company.

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Deep dive into the company code


merge solution
Deep dive into the company code merge The company code merge solution is part of •• The company code currency and the other
solution SAP Landscape Transformation software and is local currencies must be identical for all par­
designed to merge company codes that belong ticipating company codes; if this is not yet
Results of SAP Landscape Transformation to the same system and the same client. the case, the System Landscape Optimization
software group from SAP offers a comprehensive set of
The transformation approach has the following services using SAP Landscape Transformation
Smooth data transformation with a project prerequisites: software
road map •• The company codes that you want to merge •• Valuation must be done at the plant level for
must be assigned to the same controlling all participating company codes
area; if they aren’t, the software includes
a controlling area merge solution In case you need to move and merge your
•• The company codes that you want to merge existing company codes to another system, we
must use the same chart of accounts and offer the company code transfer scenario to
the same fiscal year variant; if this is not yet complement the company code merge solution.
the case, SAP Landscape Transformation
offers a chart of accounts and fiscal year
conversion

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Results of SAP Landscape


Transformation software
Deep dive into the company code merge solution Deploying SAP Landscape Transformation When initiating your transformation project,
software affects the following: make sure that you discuss the plans of your
Results of SAP Landscape Transformation •• All master data, transaction data, and company code merge project with your audi­
software customizing is automatically changed – tor beforehand. If you want to merge multiple
including all the historical data; after the company codes within one client, it is possible
Smooth data transformation with a project successful company code merge, the entire to combine this in one single project.
road map system looks as if it has never been
transformed Antonio Carlos Cesco, planning and IT project
•• Substructures, such as plants, sales manager at Brasil Foods S.A., says, “Through
organizations, and so on, are automatically the group of SAP experts, we managed to
linked to the new company code guarantee a reduction of the effort related to
•• All processes are still available and can be the conversion of master and transactional
continued after the transformation data, thus allowing us to meet the required
•• Document flow is still accessible and fully deadline.”
continued
See the figure on the next page for sample
results of a company code merge.

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Deep dive into the company code merge solution Client Client
030 030

Results of SAP Landscape Transformation


software Controlling area Controlling area
K001 K001
Smooth data transformation with a project
road map

Company code Company code Company code Company code Company code Company code Company code
B001 B00n B002 B00m B001 + B00n B002 B00m

Plant Plant Plant Plant Plant Plant


W001 W002 W003 W001 W002 W003

Figure: Results of a company code merge using SAP® Landscape Transformation software

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Smooth data transformation with


a project road map
Deep dive into the company code merge solution Combining step-by-step technical guidance with SAP Landscape Transformation includes a range
best practices, SAP Landscape Transformation of important analysis functions. The company
Results of SAP Landscape Transformation software is designed to provide everything you code merge analysis examines whether the
software need for a smooth data transformation. When prerequisites for a company code merge apply
integrated with SAP Solution Manager, the in your project, and it recommends the most
Smooth data transformation with a project software provides a dedicated company code suitable approach based on the analysis results.
road map merge transformation road map that guides Additionally, you get a list of objects that need to
you throughout the entire project. It also con­ be harmonized before the company code merge.
tains in-depth background information to help
you accelerate and streamline your project.
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Deep dive into the company code merge solution For example, the same general ledger accounts Vaclav Svub, head of the ERP Center at ABB,
in different company codes can only be merged says that with SAP Landscape Transformation,
Results of SAP Landscape Transformation if they are identical with regard to their most “We were able to fulfill business requirements
software important characteristics. The company code very quickly and execute our project smoothly.
merge analysis checks the required setup With coaching from SAP experts, we were able
Smooth data transformation with a project and provides the information with which G/L to run the project using only internal resources.”
road map accounts need to be harmonized beforehand.

In addition, you can benefit from employing


other standard analyses such as analyzing
number range objects, archive information,
and technical system details.

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Tap into the synergies of mergers


and acquisitions
Tap into the synergies of mergers and Companies facing merger and acquisition scen­ To streamline your company’s business
acquisitions arios strive to make the most of acquisition- processes, you may need to combine several
related synergies. For example, you may plan transformation scenarios – such as control­
Partner with the System Landscape to merge several subdivisions from formerly ling area merge, including cost center and
Optimization group separate companies to cut administrative profit center merge and company code merge.
costs and enhance competitiveness. Using SAP Landscape Transformation, you
can accomplish all this with only one system
SAP Landscape Transformation lets you better downtime and without interrupting your
plan, analyze, sequence, and realize your trans­ day-to-day business.
formation project with standardized solutions
that address mergers and acquisitions, divesti­ Thanks to its use of proven, standardized tech­
tures, internal reorganizations, and other proj­ nologies and methodologies, the software
ects that require you to harmonize existing enables you to not only safeguard all historical
business processes. data but also maintain the document flows.

Whether you are selling, buying, or restructuring a


business, SAP Landscape Transformation can help
you merge your company codes.

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Partner with the System Landscape


Optimization group
Tap into the synergies of mergers and Over the last 20 years, the System Landscape with proven and standardized methodologies.
acquisitions Optimization group has engaged in thousands Prior to the transformation of the productive
of migration, harmonization, and consolidation system, each project includes multiple test
Partner with the System Landscape projects worldwide. This group of experts pro­ cycles that are carried out in a copy of the pro­
Optimization group vides both a high degree of standardization and duction system – helping to ensure data secu­
the flexibility to fulfill each customer’s special rity, consistency, and integrity. By engaging the
requirements. System Landscape Optimization group to trans­
form your SAP landscape, you are selecting a
The System Landscape Optimization group partner who is reliable, efficient, and experienced
uses SAP Landscape Transformation software in all aspects of system transformation.

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Tap into the synergies of mergers and Moreover, the group’s services can be tailored Prof. Dr. Matthias Mehrtens, vice president
acquisitions specifically to meet your individual require­ at Alfred Kärcher GmbH & Co. KG, says, “The
ments, no matter how complex the transfor­ U.S. company’s merger was implemented very
Partner with the System Landscape mation needs are. To help successfully realize successfully in terms of budget and time. . . .
Optimization group your transformation scenario, our experts Everything went smoothly and stayed under
guide you through every phase of the trans­ control thanks to the SAP team from the System
formation project – from selecting the best Landscape Optimization group.”
approach, setting up a project plan, and imple­
menting a blueprint to helping you design
your system landscape in a structured way.

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Summary Solution
Business-driven changes to corporate struc­ •• Merge company codes to align organizational
tures such as mergers, acquisitions, and reorga­ structures and processes at system level
nizations require adaptation of your existing •• Combine transformation scenarios, such as
SAP® system landscapes. Your company must controlling area merge and company code
harmonize its data and optimize processes merge, with one system downtime
for accurate, reliable data, and consolidate •• Use predefined analyses to enable technical
disparate IT solutions and centralize system feasibility for transformation projects
landscapes to cut costs. SAP Landscape •• Apply the project road map to help ensure
Transformation software helps you reach guided execution
these objectives without disrupting business.
Benefits
Objectives •• Undisrupted business operations due to
•• Integrate and tap synergies of acquired standardized methodologies
companies •• Greater ability to meet legal and
•• Adapt system landscape to meet changing business-driven requirements
business and legal requirements •• Fast, flexible solutions using proven
•• Transform data in affected SAP components technologies to accelerate transformation
quickly and consistently and reduce costs
•• Realize complex reorganization scenarios
without impacting business operations Learn more
To find out more, call your SAP representative
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