Before conducting the first Fit-to-Standard workshop in an SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition implementation, the consultant's primary responsibility is to thoroughly prepare by understanding the customer's specific requirements. According to the SAP Activate methodology, this involves two key activities. First, the consultant must review all outputs from the Digital Discovery Assessment (DDA), including the initial scope and integration requirements. Second, the consultant evaluates the customer's responses to the Business-Driven Configuration Questionnaires (L2 level). These inputs are fundamental for tailoring the workshop discussions, preparing system demonstrations, and identifying potential gaps early in the Explore phase.

A. Deactivate scope items that are NOT part of the Statement of Work/Digital Discovery Assessment.

This activity is incorrect because scope validation and confirmation happen during the Fit-to-Standard workshops. Deactivation of scope items is performed after these workshops confirm they are not needed.

B. Upload customer master data in the Starter system using migration templates.

While preparing the starter system with sample customer data is a recommended practice, it is a subsequent system preparation task. The foundational analysis of requirements (options C and D) must happen first.

1. SAP Activate Roadmap Viewer for SAP S/4HANA Cloud

public edition:

Reference: In the Explore Phase

the task Prepare for Fit-to-Standard Workshops explicitly lists the following procedures: "Review the Digital Discovery Assessment output to understand the customer's requirements and priorities" and "Review the Business-Driven Configuration Questionnaires filled in by the customer business process experts." This directly supports answers C and D as prerequisite activities.

2. SAP Learning Hub Course S4C01e - "SAP S/4HANA Cloud Implementation with SAP Activate":

Reference: Unit 4: Explore Phase

Lesson: Fit-to-Standard Analysis. This official course material details the preparation steps for workshops. It emphasizes that the key inputs for the consultant are the Digital Discovery Assessment results and the completed configuration questionnaires

which must be analyzed before the workshops commence.

3. SAP Activate Methodology Content:

Reference: The official description for the deliverable Fit-to-Standard/Solution Validation within the Explore phase states that the process begins with the outputs of the Discover phase (i.e.

the DDA) and utilizes questionnaires to gather detailed information prior to the workshops. This confirms that reviewing these documents is a pre-workshop activity.

For integrating SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition with another SAP public cloud solution, the strategic approach involves using SAP's designated cloud-native tools. The SAP Integration Suite, part of the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), is the recommended Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) for all cloud-to-cloud scenarios. It provides the necessary tools and runtime for process integration. To facilitate this, SAP solutions expose their functionalities through Predelivered APIs (e.g., OData, SOAP). These stable, documented APIs are the foundational building blocks that the SAP Integration Suite uses to connect systems and orchestrate data exchange, often through pre-packaged integration content available on the SAP API Business Hub.

C. SAP Process Orchestration: This is an on-premise integration middleware. It is not the strategic or recommended solution for a pure cloud-to-cloud integration landscape.

D. SAP Cloud Connector: This component is specifically designed to establish a secure connection from SAP BTP to on-premise systems. It is not required for cloud-to-cloud communication.

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1. SAP S/4HANA Cloud

Public Edition - Integration Strategy: The official documentation states

"For cloud-to-cloud integration scenarios

SAP Integration Suite is the preferred choice." It also emphasizes that integration is based on released APIs.

Source: SAP Help Portal

SAP S/4HANA Cloud

"Integration Strategy".

2. SAP Integration Suite Documentation: This documentation defines the platform's purpose: "SAP Integration Suite is an enterprise integration platform as a service (iPaaS) that allows you to seamlessly integrate on-premise and cloud-based applications and processes..." This confirms its role as the primary tool for cloud integrations.

Source: SAP Help Portal

SAP Integration Suite

"What Is SAP Integration Suite?".

3. SAP API Business Hub: This is the central

official catalog for all pre-delivered APIs and integration packages for SAP solutions. The description on the portal confirms its role in discovering and consuming APIs and pre-built integrations for platforms like SAP Integration Suite.

Source: SAP API Business Hub (api.sap.com).

4. SAP Cloud Connector Documentation: The official documentation explicitly states its function: "The Cloud Connector serves as a link between SAP BTP applications and on-premise systems." This confirms it is not used for cloud-to-cloud scenarios.

Source: SAP Help Portal

Cloud Connector

"Cloud Connector".

For developing custom applications that integrate with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition (a pattern known as side-by-side extensibility), the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) is the designated platform. SAP provides two primary development environments for this purpose:

1. SAP Business Application Studio (BAS): This is the standard cloud-based Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for professional developers. It is tailored for building Fiori applications, full-stack applications using the SAP Cloud Application Programming Model (CAP), and other extensions.

2. SAP Build: This is SAP's strategic low-code/no-code (LCNC) platform. It empowers citizen developers and business users to rapidly create and extend applications, automate processes, and design business sites with minimal to no coding, accelerating development.

A. SAP Cloud Portal Service: This service is used to create and manage business sites (portals) that provide a unified access point to applications, not for developing the core application logic itself.

D. SAP HANA Cloud: This is a database-as-a-service (DBaaS). While a custom application would use it for data persistence, it is not a tool for building the application's user interface or business logic.

1. SAP Learning Hub: In the course S4CPB1 - SAP S/4HANA Cloud

public edition - Onboarding Fundamentals

Unit 5: Extensibility

Integration

and Data Migration

the lesson on "Side-by-Side Extensibility" explicitly identifies SAP Business Technology Platform as the environment for such developments

highlighting tools like SAP Business Application Studio for pro-code and SAP Build for low-code scenarios.

2. SAP Help Portal - SAP Business Technology Platform Documentation: The official documentation for "SAP Business Application Studio" describes it as "a modern development environment...tailored for the efficient development of business applications for the SAP Intelligent Enterprise." (See SAP Business Application Studio product page on help.sap.com).

3. SAP Help Portal - SAP Business Technology Platform Documentation: The official documentation for "SAP Build" describes it as a "unified low-code offering... to create and augment enterprise applications

automate processes

and design business sites with drag-and-drop simplicity." (See SAP Build product page on help.sap.com).

In SAP Central Business Configuration for SAP S/4HANA Cloud, the Group Currency and the Fiscal Year Variant are foundational, system-wide (client-level) settings. They are determined during the initial system setup in the "Set Up Organizational Structure" phase. Due to their fundamental impact on all financial transactions and reporting across the entire system, these settings are irreversible once confirmed. Any change would require a complete system re-provisioning, as they ensure the core consistency of financial data.

B. Scoping: Scoping is not permanently fixed; it can be modified after the initial confirmation through a "Scope Extension" process to add new business capabilities or country localizations.

C. Configuration activities: These are the detailed settings within scoped processes that are meant to be defined, refined, and transported throughout the project lifecycle; they are not unchangeable.

1. SAP Help Portal

SAP S/4HANA Cloud

"Organizational Structure": "Certain settings that you make in your organizational structure are permanent and can't be changed later. [...] For example

the fiscal year variant of the group ledger

the group currency

and the group valuation..." This document explicitly states the immutability of these core settings after initial confirmation.

2. SAP Help Portal

SAP S/4HANA Cloud

"Initial System Access to SAP S/4HANA Cloud in a 3-System Landscape": In the section detailing the initial setup steps performed by the administrator

it is specified that the "group currency" and the "fiscal year variant for the group ledger" are defined. The documentation emphasizes that these settings cannot be changed later in the project.

3. SAP Activate Roadmap Viewer

SAP S/4HANA Cloud

public edition: The task "Organizational Structure Definition" in the Explore phase highlights the creation of the organizational structure and the finality of key decisions like group currency. In contrast

separate tasks exist in later phases for "Scope and Organizational Structure Changes

" detailing the process for scope extensions.

Before the "Confirm Scoping" milestone is completed, the project is in the initial Scoping phase. During this stage, activities are focused on defining the business scope and managing overall project settings. Configuration of the target system itself has not yet begun. Therefore, administrative tasks related to the project definition, such as renaming the deployment target's label within the project or assigning a different target system altogether, are still possible.

Conversely, tasks like defining the group currency and creating a company code are core configuration activities. These are part of the "Set Up Organizational Structure" and subsequent configuration steps, which belong to the Realize phase. Access to these activities is granted only after the scope has been finalized and the "Confirm Scoping" milestone is passed.

B. Define the group currency. This is a financial configuration task performed in the Realize phase, which begins only after the "Confirm Scoping" milestone is completed.

D. Create a company code. This is a fundamental step in setting up the organizational structure, an activity that occurs during the Realize phase, after scoping is confirmed.

1. SAP Help Portal

SAP Central Business Configuration

"Project Phases in SAP Central Business Configuration": This document outlines the project lifecycle

clearly delineating the activities of the Scope phase from the Realize phase. It confirms that organizational structure setup (including company codes) and product-specific configuration (including currency settings) occur in the Realize phase

which follows the "Confirm Scoping" milestone.

2. SAP Help Portal

SAP Central Business Configuration

"Project Settings in SAP Central Business Configuration": This section details the administrative settings that can be managed for a project. It describes how to edit project details and manage deployment targets

which are activities independent of the configuration milestones like "Confirm Scoping".

3. SAP Help Portal

SAP Central Business Configuration

"Assigning a Deployment Target": This documentation explains the process of assigning and

if necessary

changing the deployment target for a project. This action is a project-level setting managed before configuration is deployed

making it available prior to the completion of the "Confirm Scoping" milestone.

The 'Manage KPIs and Reports' Fiori app is the central tool for key users in SAP S/4HANA Cloud to create and manage embedded analytical content. This application allows for the creation of various analytical artifacts based on underlying Core Data Services (CDS) views.

Among the options, users can create:

Object Views (or Object Pages) to display detailed information and context for a specific business object.

Multidimensional Reports for classic slice-and-dice analysis, often presented in a grid format.

SAC Stories, which leverage the embedded SAP Analytics Cloud functionality to build modern, interactive dashboards and visualizations directly within the S/4HANA Cloud environment.

C. Review Booklets: This term is associated with financial consolidation or disclosure management tools (like SAP Group Reporting), not a standard output of the 'Manage KPIs and Reports' app.

D. Lumira Dashboards: SAP Lumira is a separate, legacy BI tool. Dashboards from Lumira are not created using the 'Manage KPIs and Reports' app, which focuses on embedded analytics technologies.

1. SAP Help Portal

SAP S/4HANA Cloud

"Manage KPIs and Reports": In the section "Creating Applications

" the documentation explicitly lists the types of applications that can be created

which include "Story" (for SAP Analytics Cloud)

"Multidimensional Report

" and "Object Page" (which functions as an Object View). This directly supports answers A

B

and E.

2. SAP Learning Hub

Course S4C80 "Analytics in SAP S/4HANA Cloud": Unit 4

"Key User Extensibility for Analytics

" details the functionality of the 'Manage KPIs and Reports' app. It describes the process of creating different report and application types

including Stories

Multidimensional Reports

and Object Pages

confirming these as valid outputs. The course materials do not mention Review Booklets or Lumira Dashboards as creation options within this app.

The 'Maintain Business Roles' SAP Fiori app is a central tool for identity and access management in SAP S/4HANA Cloud. Its primary purpose is to define the scope of access for a specific business user. This is achieved by first assigning relevant business catalogs, which are collections of apps and UIs for a particular functional area. After assigning catalogs, administrators must define restrictions (authorization values) for the access categories within those catalogs, such as limiting access to specific company codes, plants, or cost centers. The system then automatically generates the underlying technical authorizations (PFCG profiles) based on these configurations.

C. Maintain technical catalogs: Technical catalogs are SAP-delivered content and are not maintained via the 'Maintain Business Roles' app. This app consumes business catalogs, which are based on technical catalogs.

D. Assign PFCG profiles to a business role: The 'Maintain Business Roles' app abstracts the underlying technical layer. PFCG profiles are automatically generated by the system based on the assigned catalogs and restrictions, not manually assigned.

1. SAP Help Portal

SAP S/4HANA Cloud: Document "How to Maintain a Business Role".

Section: Procedure

Step 4: "On the Assigned Business Catalogs tab

you can add business catalogs to your business role." (Supports Answer A).

Section: Procedure

Step 5: "You can maintain the access restrictions for each business catalog that you have assigned to the business role... You can define the access by setting the read

write

and value help access to Unrestricted

No Access

or Restricted." (Supports Answer B).

2. SAP Learning Hub: Course S4C01 - "Implement and Run SAP S/4HANA Cloud

public edition".

Unit: Identity and Access Management

Lesson: Maintaining Business Roles: This lesson details the process within the 'Maintain Business Roles' app

explicitly showing the steps of assigning business catalogs and then defining restrictions for authorization fields. It clarifies that technical artifacts like PFCG roles are generated from this business-level definition. (Supports Answers A and B; refutes D).

3. SAP Help Portal

SAP S/4HANA Cloud: Document "Business Catalogs".

Section: Business Catalogs vs. Technical Catalogs: "Technical catalogs are delivered by SAP. You cannot change them... You use the Maintain Business Roles app to assign business catalogs to business roles." This clearly separates the maintenance of technical catalogs from the activities performed in the 'Maintain Business Roles' app. (Refutes Answer C).

The Digital Discovery Assessment (DDA) is the primary tool used during the Discover phase of the SAP Activate methodology to capture the initial project scope. It is a self-service questionnaire completed by the customer to define their high-level business requirements, required country localizations, and the initial list of known integrations needed for their SAP S/4HANA Cloud solution. The output of the DDA is a foundational document that informs the project contract, scope, and serves as a key input for subsequent phases, including the Fit-to-Standard workshops where these integrations are discussed in detail.

A. In the Business Driven Configuration Questionnaire: This questionnaire is used later, during the Explore phase, to gather specific configuration values for the already-scoped business processes, not to define the initial integration list.

B. In SAP Cloud ALM: SAP Cloud ALM is the application lifecycle management tool used to manage project tasks, requirements, and tests. The integration requirements identified in the DDA are later imported and managed here, but it is not the initial point of documentation.

D. In the Fit-to-Standard Workshops: These workshops, held in the Explore phase, are used to validate and detail the requirements, including integrations, that were initially identified and scoped in the Digital Discovery Assessment.

1. SAP Activate Roadmap Viewer: In the "SAP Activate Methodology for SAP S/4HANA Cloud

public edition" roadmap

the task "Complete Digital Discovery Assessment" within the Discover phase states its purpose is to "assess the solution scope... This includes the selection of business priorities

countries/regions

and required integrations." This confirms the DDA as the initial documentation point. (Access via SAP Roadmap Viewer > SAP S/4HANA Cloud

public edition > Discover Phase).

2. SAP Learning Hub Course S4CPB1 - Implementing SAP S/4HANA Cloud

public edition: Unit 2

Lesson 2 ("Discover Phase") explicitly details that the Digital Discovery Assessment is the tool for customers to specify their initial scope

including the necessary integrations with other SAP or third-party systems. The resulting Discovery Assessment Report is the key deliverable.

3. SAP Help Portal - Digital Discovery Assessment: The official documentation describes the DDA as the "first step in your journey to the cloud" where you "provide information about your company's requirements

for example

which business processes and countries you need and what integrations you plan to use." (Search for "Digital Discovery Assessment" on help.sap.com).

SAP Central Business Configuration (CBC) is designed to simplify the configuration process by translating business requirements into system settings. It achieves this through a guided, question-based approach. The Business-Driven Configuration Questionnaire is the core tool within CBC used to ask business-relevant questions. The answers provided by the project team in this questionnaire are the values that CBC uses to automatically perform the technical configuration activities in the backend system, eliminating the need for direct interaction with the traditional implementation guide (IMG) for many settings.

A. SAP Cloud ALM Processes app: This application is used for modeling, documenting, and managing business processes, not for the direct input of configuration values.

C. SAP Cloud ALM Requirements app: This application is used to capture, document, and track business requirements, which serve as the input for scoping and configuration but is not the tool for entering the configuration values themselves.

D. Availability and Dependencies of Solution Processes Excel: This is a reference document used during the scoping phase to understand which solution processes are available and their interdependencies, not a tool for collecting configuration data.

1. SAP Help Portal

SAP Central Business Configuration

Product Assistance

"Configuration Activities": "Configuration activities are completed by answering questions in the Business-Driven Configuration Questionnaire. The answers you provide are the values that are used to configure your system."

2. SAP Activate Roadmap Viewer

SAP S/4HANA Cloud

public edition

3-system landscape: In the "Realize" phase

the task "Fine-Tune the System Using SAP Central Business Configuration" describes how configuration activities are presented as questions to be answered

which corresponds to the function of the Business-Driven Configuration Questionnaire.

3. SAP Learning

Course S4C80 (SAP S/4HANA Cloud Implementation with SAP Central Business Configuration): Unit 3

Lesson 2

"Perform Scoping and Configuration

" details how the selected scope generates configuration activities that are processed by answering questions in a guided procedure

which is the Business-Driven Configuration Questionnaire.

The Digital Discovery Assessment (DDA) is a mandatory tool used in the Discover phase of the SAP Activate methodology. Its primary output is a detailed report that captures the customer's business priorities and requirements, which in turn defines the initial solution and business process scope for the SAP S/4HANA Cloud implementation. This DDA report is the foundational document that the partner Line of Business (LoB) expert references to identify and prepare the specific business processes that will be covered in the Fit-to-Standard workshops during the Explore phase.

B. SAP Signavio Process Collaboration Hub: This is a platform for viewing, sharing, and collaborating on business process models, not the source document for defining the initial project scope.

C. SAP Signavio Journey Modeler: This tool is used for modeling customer experience journeys, which is not the primary input for scoping core ERP business processes in Fit-to-Standard workshops.

D. Business Driven Configuration Questionnaire: These questionnaires are used during the Fit-to-Standard workshops to collect detailed configuration values, not to identify which processes to include in the workshops.

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1. SAP Activate Roadmap Viewer: In the "SAP Activate Methodology for SAP S/4HANA Cloud

public edition" roadmap

navigate to the Explore phase. The description for the deliverable "Fit-to-Standard Analysis" explicitly states its purpose is to "validate the solution scope that was defined in the Digital Discovery Assessment." This confirms the DDA is the primary input.

2. SAP Learning Hub: Course S4CPB1 - SAP S/4HANA Cloud

public edition - Onboarding Fundamentals. Unit 2: SAP Activate for SAP S/4HANA Cloud

public edition

Lesson: Explore Phase. The official course material details that the scope determined and documented in the Digital Discovery Assessment serves as the baseline for conducting the Fit-to-Standard workshops.

3. SAP Help Portal: Document: SAP S/4HANA Cloud

public edition - Implementation with SAP Activate. The documentation for the Explore Phase specifies that the activities

including the Fit-to-Standard workshops

are planned and executed based on the business process scope identified in the Digital Discovery Assessment report.