Dear Prabhu,

When Golive has happend at that time

all master data will be upload. Eg: Customer Master Data, Material Master Data, CMIF, Condtion
Masters, Tax Related masters,Promotion Scheams,Bonus Buy,etc.,
from above Master if any perticular data if not maintained document will show wrong information.
The Issues will be come only on Sales Order, Delivery, PGI,Billing, Account Determination ,
Determination(plant,shipping point,text,route, pricing,freegoods,etc.,)
Issues will also come Lack of User training also because they are not aware with sap so firstly they will
face problem they doesnt know about sap thats why they dont know what is issue also they put in
issues tracker.
if configuration is correct the issues will come very rare.
if the issues wil come only based on masters only.
regards.

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Re: Go-live issues (SD perespective)

Murali Mohan May 31, 2008 4:21 PM (in response to sam prabhu)
Hi Prabu,

These are some issues

1.Material extensions
2.Customer extensions
3.Pricing related issues ,price may not come correctly,or the condition records may not avail for some
customers and materials.
4.Tax may not calculate properly.
5.Stock related issues.
6.Zreports may not give proper data
7. Outputs of the sales documents ,delivery and invoice
I hope it will help you,
Regards,
Murali.

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Sri Naveen Dasari dasari Jun 1, 2008 11:14 AM (in response to sam prabhu)
Hi,

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Please go through the golive phase in te following link.

[Golive|http://sapsdforum.com/]
Assign Points if helpful.
Thanks and Regards,
Naveen Dasari.

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Gaurav Arora Jun 2, 2008 4:28 PM (in response to sam prabhu)

Hi,
Major issues you will be facing will be of:

1)Pricing related(wrong price or taxes picked).

2)Customer and Material related (Extension or views not maintained).
3)Number range related.
4)If the output is configured then the issues will come.
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Gaurav

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Guest Jun 2, 2008 4:38 PM (in response to sam prabhu)

Hi Sam,

Pls find the below mentioned issues

1.Account determination problems (VKOA).
2.Master data maintaining (CMR and MMR)
3.Condition records pertaining to pricing, output,taxes etc.,
4.Open orders.
5.Smart forms pertaining to invoice layouts.
6.Fetching of data for Z reports.
7. number range problems.
8.process flow in the user manuals.
9.Inconsitency in the process due to non maintaining of the copy controls between the document
types.
10.check whether all the transport requests are released.
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Balanarendra Prasad Jun 2, 2008 4:55 PM (in response to sam prabhu)

Dear Prabhu,
When Golive has happend at that time
all master data will be upload. Eg: Customer Master Data, Material Master Data, CMIF, Condtion
Masters, Tax Related masters,Promotion Scheams,Bonus Buy,etc.,
from above Master if any perticular data if not maintained document will show wrong information.
The Issues will be come only on Sales Order, Delivery, PGI,Billing, Account Determination ,
Determination(plant,shipping point,text,route, pricing,freegoods,etc.,)
Issues will also come Lack of User training also because they are not aware with sap so firstly they will
face problem they doesnt know about sap thats why they dont know what is issue also they put in
issues tracker.
if configuration is correct the issues will come very rare.
if the issues wil come only based on masters only.
regards.

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Andreas Miltenberger Jun 4, 2008 5:40 AM (in response to sam prabhu)

The other posters before me already listed the most important issues that you will encounter.
Just want to make you aware that you need a good and consistent process for your users to record
issues, and a efficient way to assign them to the correct IS person. Your IS team will be very busy at go
live and you do not want multiple people to look at the same issue without knowing it.
We fared well with intranet sites where users could log problems and a knowledgable team that assign
them to the developers.
Also, many of your go live issues will NOT be SAP issues, but rather business process issues as
processes will change. Here, it is important to have your key users involved in resolution.

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ANIL KUMAR Jun 4, 2008 10:19 AM (in response to sam prabhu)

Hi,

Once your testing is done thoroughly in Development and Quality systems there will be hardly any
issues in Production after go-live. The chance that user does a mistake is very high as he will be new to
the SAP system.
But still i suggest you to check the following.
1. Check your Zreports in the pre-printed formats (if any)
2. Make sure you do not miss any Customer/Material Master
records
3. Check your Sales order in different coditions to check
whether all the condition records are maitained.
4. Sometimes Client may want to have different No. Ranges for
Credit and Debit notes check whether the same is
maintained if required
5. Check whether Accout determination is carried out after the
Invoice is Saved.
I will list out few of critical issues in
Implementation :
1 . Ensure 100% mapping of business process for all modules with SAP(avoid customization in support phase)
2. Unit & Integeration testing should be through with all validations
3. Master datas(Vendor,Customer) care must be taken will uploading datas thru LSMW,
If there are common vendors for all plants,Create a vendor for a plant extend it to other plants
4. Check tax procedures are customized according to requirements.
5. Complete all print document customizations before go live
6. Complete end user training(2 or more cycles) should be top priority before go live(This will avoid
cancellation/reversal of documents after post go live)
7. Ready with standard MIS reports & customized reports for business decision making
8. Excise opening balance updation in tables for RG1 register in tables(Note 951955) on go live
9. Check all tables datas are updating correctly
10. Declare go live to SAP Support
11. Check All user authorization should be correct according to their roles.
12. Centeralize all master datas creation(avoid duplication)
13. Create transaction variants to avoid entires in unnecessary fields & make certain fields mandatory.
14. Ensure document numbering is completed for all documents
15. Validate accounting entries are hit properly according to requirement in quality client with FI CTM(Core team
member).
After Go live :
1. Missing authorization for users will play key part here,For ex : PGI while doing delivery,Excise capture & post in
MIGO/J1IEX.
2. Do internal audit every month,identify transactions if there will possibility for misuse or wrong entries,requires
validation,identify users weak in certain areas.
3. Identify there is enhancements to be done in transaction process(By step-2)
4. Prepare a list of month & year end activities to be performed for all modules give to users
5. Prepare a list of frequently used transaction codes module wise give it to users

6. If there is subcontracting,ensure challan creation,GR,reconcillation should be done regulary(monthly)

7. Train the users,take reports in respective modules.
8. Additonal customization might be done in print documents.
9. Instruct users/CTM's to adapt SAP Standard practise
10. Update excise tax rates after every indian budget