Custom Code Management

Eventually the IT department has to build custom codes or modify SAP standard objects to fulfil business requirements due to organizational strategy, legal requirement or to streamline the businesses. However, the lack of governance, skilled peopled, documentation, and toolset often lead to higher complexity and costs of maintenance, and restricted innovation.

Based on SAP’s experience:

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  • There are over 10,000 objects in the customer namespace and 2,000 modifications/enhancements

  • 65% of them have not been used within the last 4 weeks

  • Up to 15% are identical or very similar to each SAP standard object

  • Some more became obsolete through recent SAP standard functionality

  • 30-50% of them need to be adjusted on the occasion of an SAP standard upgrade

  • 20% of the system resources are attributed to the execution of custom code

  • ATC checks return several hundred severe messages per development package

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SAP Solution Manager 7.2 offers a toolset to support SAP customers in managing Custom Code Lifecycle, from Requirement-to-Retirement. To mention a few:

  • Improving the quality of custom codes

  • Detect the usage of custom codes

  • Decommission obsolete custom codes

  • Eliminate identical clones

Custom Code Management