SAP Upgrade Success Story @ YASH

SAP Upgrade Success Story @ YASHSAP Upgrade Success Story @ YASH

Industry

Manufacturing

USA

Geography

“Partnering with YASH has provided an efficient, flexible, cost-effective solution for SAP upgrade. We are impressed with the contributions YASH has made and have found a true partner for our IT needs.”

Director, IT - Colder Products Company

The Client

Project Objectives

SAP Version Upgrade to meet the increasing demand of the business

Implement new functionality available with new version

Hardware Migration from 32 bit server to 64 bit

OS Upgrade from 32 bit OS to 64 bit OS

Colder Products Company is the leading provider of quick disconnects couplings for industrial, biopharmaceutical, medical, chemical, and packaging markets.

Services Offered

Pathfinder road map, anexcellent Upgrade Assessmentservice to reduce time and costof upgrade significantly

Hardware Migration from 32 bitto 64 bit server

Solution manager setup

ABAP/4 adjustments

Basis support

R/3 Security adjustments

Load Monitoring

Performance Tuning

System Maintenance tasks

Knowledge Transfer

Pathfinder, an UpgradeAssessment Accelerator

YASH SAP Version UpgradeInstallation guide

Colder Specific Upgraderoad map document

Upgrade checklist

Onsite–Offshore responsibilitychecklist

Timestamp checklist

Performance analysis report

Upgrade related risk mitigationplan

YASH Accelerators

Key Challenges

Commitment of 30 Hour downtime to minimize business impact

Due to unavoidable reasons, security consultant was not available from the client’s side

YASH consultant helped the Colder onsite team in solving the security issues

Unexpected connectivity error in the new cluster environment

Engagement Model

YASH performed the production upgrade successfully. Entire upgrade was done at offshore development center. YASH employed a team of four consultants which includes two ABAP consultants, one Basis consultant, and one security consultant. There was one onsite Project Manager provided by Colder.

Resources

SAP Version

Database

Operating System

Landscape

Before Upgrade

4.6C

MSSQL 2000

Windows 2003 (32 Bit)

3 System Landscape (Dev, QA, Prod) Two Application server for Production Box .Cluster in Production environment

After Upgrade

ECC 6.0

SQL 2005

Windows 2003 (64 bit)

Cluster Environment -3 System Landscape

Environment Details

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Solution

Completely executed from Offshore

Downtime minimized methodology followed

45 man days taken for completing the upgrade

Solution Highlights

Cost benefits to tune of 60% because of offshore model

Reduced downtime through proactive upgrade and resource planning

Safeguarded against future issues and problems by engaging post-upgrade support

Cost-effective and minimized time of doing upgrade with identified best practices and using YASH Accelerators, such as PathFinder