Cut over Plan in SAP Implementation

This is an example of a Cutover Plan from a live SAP implementation:

Preparation for Cutover 

During the time of cutover and migration to SAP, system will not available for almost a week. It is essential from business point to inform all the business partners about the down time in advance. Therefore as a part of preparation it is recommended to send this information in advance to all the customers and vendors. 

Prepare Production Environment 

In this step production machine will be prepared and tested in advance for all the application components. Since production machine will be connected to client network it is necessary to test this connectivity in advance. In addition all printers will also be installed and checked in this step.

Setup Application 

In this step SAP application will be setup on Production system, after taking all the transports to production SAP AG will verify the system is ready to go live. 

 

Convert and Verify Data 

In this step data will be downloaded from legacy system and converted into required format to upload into SAP.  After verification data will be loaded into SAP .

Verify production readiness 

This is the final step before Go Live, in this step final review for cutover will be done to make sure all activities related to Go Live have been performed and system is ready to go in Production.

Support after Go Live 

To support the users after Go Live, helpdesk will be established. All the calls from users will be received by helpdesk at Tel No: 99999999, issues will be categorized into HIGH, MEDIUM or LOW. After creating the ticket support desk will assigned it to the respective team (FI,CO,MM,SD,BW) for the solution. Support team will then based on priority look into the issue.