In order to avoid delays in the process and to be able to deliver the required quality in the end, the consultants had to plan and coordinate the project thoroughly from the very start and, above all, coordinate it continuously with all departments of the Group companies. “We provided SWB Bus und Bahn with comprehensive advice from the outset and kept them up to date with the planning and design. In addition, we continuously ensured the quality of the deliverables so that potential problems could be identified at an early stage,” says Nadine Burghardt. The consulting covered, for example, every module used, such as the consolidation module EC-CS. It also covered additional requirements for reporting.
The GAMBIT specialists worked with an SAP tool that had already proven itself on many occasions for cases such as this and that had already been used by the SAP experts to implement numerous projects: SAP Landscape Transformation 2.0 (SAP LT 2.0). This is a standardized tool that can be used to convert data objects in SAP architectures efficiently. In this project for SWB Bus und Bahn, the LT scenarios “company code merge”, “profit center merge”, and “cost center merge” were implemented in parallel. SAP LT 2.0 can also be adapted to customer requirements, for example, through additional implementations within the tool. The IT experts also used these, since the continuation of the SWB Service processes in the merger company was subject to special requirements that had to be mapped technically. The consultants used other tools as well: the data migration tool LSMW (Legacy System Migration Workbench) and special GAMBIT tools in the form of additional developments.