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Travel-retail SAP data migration

Parbel of Florida (L'Oréal) · SAP FICO Techno-Functional Consultant

Designed and built SAP data-migration programs for FI/CO, MM and SD data when L'Oréal's travel-retail companies in Florida merged their systems into one SAP ECC system.

Client / organization
Parbel of Florida (L'Oréal)
Consulting firm
VISEO USA
Role
SAP FICO Techno-Functional Consultant
Period
Oct 2017 - Feb 2019
Location
Miami, Florida, USA
Team
Up to 8 people

Business context

L'Oréal's Parbel of Florida travel-retail (airport) companies were merging their systems into a single one. Finance, controlling, materials and sales data had to move from the source system to the new SAP system on ECC 6. Techno-functional FICO consultant on the migration, from analysis and design of the migration programs through extraction, reconciliation and testing.

Key contributions

  • Analyzed and designed the data-migration programs for FI/CO, MM and SD data.
  • Built the extractions for FICO open items, G/L accounts and the material master.
  • Reconciled the migrated data and ran the functional analysis behind it.
  • Ran extraction tests and integration tests on the migrated data.

Responsibilities in detail

Analysis & design

  • Analysis and design of data-migration programs.
  • Functional analysis supporting reconciliation.

Development

  • Developed the migration programs.
  • Extraction of FICO open items.
  • Extraction of G/L accounts.
  • Extraction of product (material) master data.

Testing

  • Data-extraction testing.
  • Reconciliation and functional testing.
  • Integration testing.

Scope

The migration covered three families of data:

Area Data extracted and migrated
Finance (FI/CO) Open items; G/L accounts
Materials (MM) Product / material master data
Sales (SD) Sales data in scope of the merger

How the work ran

  1. Analysis and design of the migration programs for each data object.
  2. Development of the migration and extraction programs.
  3. Extraction testing to check that the source data came out complete and correct.
  4. Reconciliation and functional analysis between the source and target systems.
  5. Integration testing of the migrated data in the new SAP system.

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