SAP S/4HANA System Administration — Lesson 1: SAP S/4HANA Technical Architecture, Infrastructure, Sizing, Installation, and Landscape Planning

Learning Objectives

• Interpret the SAP structures, master data, settings, roles, and dependencies relevant to this lesson.
• Perform the lesson workflow and create a reviewable S/4HANA technical implementation blueprint.
• Evaluate the situation where infrastructure sizing omits peak batch workload and choose proportionate corrective action.

Detailed Topics

• SAP S/4HANA Technical Architecture applied to the course scenario, system behavior, and expected evidence.
• Infrastructure applied to the course scenario, system behavior, and expected evidence.
• Sizing applied to the course scenario, system behavior, and expected evidence.
• Installation applied to the course scenario, system behavior, and expected evidence.
• and Landscape Planning applied to the course scenario, system behavior, and expected evidence.

Instructor Demonstration

The instructor traces an end-to-end case involving a technical implementation team building and operating a multi-system SAP S/4HANA landscape. The demonstration explains system navigation, configuration dependencies, transaction results, and the evidence recorded in S/4HANA technical implementation blueprint. It also tests the exception where infrastructure sizing omits peak batch workload.

Hands-On Exercise

Complete a controlled exercise for SAP S/4HANA Technical Architecture, Infrastructure, Sizing, Installation, and Landscape Planning. Confirm the business or technical objective, perform the required SAP steps, capture results, investigate the stated exception, and preserve the final outcome in S/4HANA technical implementation blueprint.

1. Confirm scope, prerequisites, master data, roles, configuration dependencies, and expected results.
2. Execute the process while recording transactions, settings, observations, and system messages.
3. Test normal behavior, the stated exception, and one integration or authorization dependency.
4. Document corrections, owners, verification steps, review triggers, and operational handover notes.

Scenario Analysis

• Identify the SAP object, rule, setting, or process step with the strongest influence on the result.
• Compare two defensible responses and explain their business, technical, control, and evidence trade-offs.
• Determine how the S/4HANA technical implementation blueprint should be approved, retained, retested, and updated.

Troubleshooting Guidance

Begin where expected SAP behavior first differs from the observed result. Check organizational assignments, master data, configuration sequence, authorization, integration, and transaction evidence separately. Treat “infrastructure sizing omits peak batch workload” as a hypothesis until the relevant settings, logs, documents, and process outcomes confirm the cause.

Validation Checklist

• Required SAP structures, master data, roles, settings, and dependencies are present.
• The S/4HANA technical implementation blueprint connects the final conclusion to reviewable system evidence.
• Normal processing, the stated exception, integration behavior, and follow-up were tested.
• Corrections, ownership, retest criteria, documentation, and operational handover are complete.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can perform SAP S/4HANA Technical Architecture, Infrastructure, Sizing, Installation, and Landscape Planning, explain the system behavior, and defend the result through S/4HANA technical implementation blueprint.