SAP New GL Migration

With the advent of New GL many existing companies on SAP would like to go for SAP New GL. Migrating to SAP New GL is a project in itself.

Why would companies want to go for New GL Migration is a questioned asked by many ?

1) Organization which have upgraded to ECC 6 from SAP R/3
2) Finance team of the company seeking benefits of New GL functionality
3) Finally Organization seeking better Return on Investment from technical upgrades

New GL Migration Phases:-


Phase 0         --->                            Phase  1             --->           Phase  2

Old fiscal year                           New fiscal year                   Run New GL

Run Classic GL                         Run Classic GL
                                                    Close fiscal year 

SAP New GL Migration Strategy:-

1) Date of migration is at the beginning of a fiscal year.
2)  Year end closing of old fiscal year must be completed prior to migration and activation of New 
     GL
3) After successful data migration, New GL will be activated.

SAP New GL migration steps:-

1) Planning and Configuration (Phase 0)
1a) Test complete New GL configuration in test system with active New GL
1b) Start of migration cockpit and test migrations in test system
1c) Transport New GL customizing in production system (New GL not active yet)

2) Migration testing (Phase 1)
2a) Test migration on a recent copy of production system

3) Go live (Phase 1)
3a) Perform migration of production system
3b) Activation of new gl after successful migration

4) New GL is live (Phase 2)
4a) Execute activation phase in migration cockpit in production system
4b) Activity in migration cockpit: Finish migration

The SAP New GL migration service is an obligatory service to be conducted by SAP.

The SAP New GL migration service is only for quality assurance.

Since the migration performs a fundamental changes on the database and with various business scenarios for migration from classic to New GL, the SAP GL migration service provided helpful guidance to customer.

There are various scenarios supported by SAP  General ledger migration service:-

1) Merging Financial Ledgers  (Classic GL,  Consolidation staging ledger, Cost of sales ledger)
2) Merging of FI, PCA and Special purpose ledger
3) Scenario 2 + Document split
4) Scenario 2 + Change to ledger solution for parallel accounting
5) Subsequent implementation of document splitting
6) Subsequent implementation of an Additional ledger
7) Subsequent change from Account to Ledger solution