Migrating to SAP S/4HANA or moving to the RISE with SAP model is a mission-critical initiative for many enterprises aiming to modernize operations and future-proof their technology landscapes. Yet, what often slows this journey down isn’t infrastructure or strategy—it’s the complexity of migrating custom ABAP code at scale.
Legacy remediation methods involve painstaking manual effort, inconsistent compliance enforcement, and fragmented documentation. This leads to prolonged timelines, elevated costs, and post-migration performance issues.
Diligent Global’s Smart Code Migration (SCM) Tool is engineered to solve precisely this challenge. Built with intelligent automation and SAP-aligned remediation logic, the tool empowers organizations to remediate their custom code faster, and with 80% less manual workload. With 100% report test coverage and audit-ready documentation, SCM sets a new benchmark for code remediation along with quality and control in SAP S/4 transformations.
This article explores the key pain points enterprises face during code migration, and how the SCM tool makes that process smarter, leaner, and built for enterprise scale.
Under the Hood of SAP Migration: What Slows Down Enterprises Today
Custom code often holds the business logic that runs your operations, but during migration, it becomes the most unpredictable and time-consuming element to manage.
Here are the barriers organizations face when migrating custom code:
- Overwhelming Volume of ATC Errors: The ABAP Test Cockpit (ATC) often generates a vast number of error messages, making it challenging for teams to identify and prioritize critical issues amidst the noise.
- Labor-Intensive Manual Remediation: Manually addressing each code issue or using non efficient tools is not only time-consuming but also increases the likelihood of human error, leading to increased project timelines and effort.
- Manual Testing Coverage of Reports: Can result in undetected errors slipping into the production environment, compromising system performance and user satisfaction, and delaying the projected live schedules.
- Lack of Comprehensive Documentation: Insufficient documentation of code changes can hinder future maintenance efforts and complicate compliance audits, posing risks to governance and operational transparency.
These challenges underscore the need for an intelligent, automated solution like the Smart Code Migration Tool that can streamline the migration process, reduce manual effort, and ensure a smooth transition to SAP S/4HANA.
Introducing Diligent's Smart Code Migration Tool: Redefining SAP Custom Code Migration
Manual processes aren’t built to scale with SAP S/4HANA or RISE with SAP demands. Enterprises need a structured, SAP-compliant, automation-first solution.
What is the SCM Tool?
Diligent’s Smart Code Migration Tool is an advanced platform engineered to automate the end-to-end process of custom ABAP code migration during transitions to SAP S/4HANA or RISE with SAP. It seamlessly integrates with the existing SAP landscape, offering a structured and efficient approach that minimizes manual intervention and accelerates project timelines.
Key Benefits:
- Substantial Workload Reduction: By automating custom code remediation. The SCM Tool achieves up to an 80% reduction in manual effort, allowing teams to focus on strategic initiatives and innovation.
- Comprehensive Testing Assurance: Ensures 100% coverage in testing of custom reports, safeguarding against post-migration errors and enhancing system reliability and user confidence.
- Cost Efficiency: Optimizes resource utilization, minimizes rework, and expedites time-to-value, leading to significant cost savings and a more predictable migration budget.
- Enhanced Code Quality: Identifies and rectifies inefficiencies, enforcing SAP best practices to promote long-term system stability, maintainability, and performance.
- Seamless Transition to SAP S/4HANA: Simplifies the migration process, reducing complexity and aligning with SAP RISE for a smooth and efficient transition.
- Accelerated Go-Live with Minimal Disruptions: Facilitates faster deployment through automated validations, ensuring business operations continue uninterrupted and reducing downtime.
By integrating the SCM Tool into their migration strategy, enterprises can navigate the complexities of SAP transformations with confidence, efficiency, and a focus on future readiness.
What Makes the Migration Smart: Intelligent Features of the SCM Tool
Achieving a seamless SAP migration requires more than just automation; it demands intelligent features that address specific challenges:
Code Analysis:
In the initial phase of migration, understanding the existing custom code landscape is crucial. The SCM Tool conducts a comprehensive analysis to identify legacy custom code incompatible with SAP S/4HANA. It prioritizes issues based on SAP’s ABAP Test Cockpit (ATC) compliance standards, providing a clear roadmap for necessary adjustments.
Quick Fix Automation:
Manual code remediation is often a bottleneck in migration projects. The SCM Tool applies SAP-recommended solutions instantly to detected issues, significantly reducing remediation effort. By eliminating manual code adjustments, it accelerates migration timelines and reduces the risk of human error.
Unit Testing:
Ensuring that modified reports function flawlessly in the new landscape is vital. The SCM Tool executes automated test cases, providing comprehensive testing coverage for accuracy and performance. This rigorous testing process ensures that the migrated code meets quality standards and operates as intended.
Automated Documentation:
Maintaining detailed records of code modifications is essential for compliance and future maintenance. The SCM Tool generates structured documentation of all code changes, ensuring audit-readiness and facilitating easier knowledge transfer among team members.
These intelligent features collectively contribute to a migration process that is not only faster but also more reliable, cost-effective, and aligned with industry best practices.
From Code to Value: The Business Impact of Smart Migration
The value of Diligent’s Smart Code Migration Tool is best illustrated through the results it has delivered in real enterprise settings. These organizations overcame massive codebase complexities, compressed project timelines, and maintained full compliance, without compromising performance or quality.
Global Natural Gas Company
Tasked with migrating over 25,000 custom line items, the organization leveraged the SCM Tool to complete the project within six weeks. Despite the scale, the tool enabled prioritized issue handling, automated corrections, and 100% testing coverage, resulting in zero post-migration disruptions and full audit traceability.
- 25,000 custom line items
- Completed code migration in 6 weeks using SCM Tool
- Achieved ATC compliance, audit readiness, and full testing without delay
Integrated Global Energy Enterprise
With 13,000 custom objects to convert, this company used SCM to fast-track remediation and validation, completing the process in just three weeks. Through parallel processing and automated documentation, the enterprise met its S/4HANA go-live deadline and eliminated the risk of ATC failure bottlenecks.
- 13,000 custom line items
- Delivered in just 3 weeks
- Parallel processing reduced backlog and improved migration efficiency
American Agricultural Chemical Company
Faced with 5,000 custom line items, the company completed the entire migration lifecycle in just two weeks using SCM. The tool enabled seamless alignment with SAP Clean Core standards and immediate readiness for RISE with SAP operations without straining internal resources.
- 5,000 custom line items
- Migrated and validated in 2 weeks
- Enabled early cutover into the SAP S/4HANA landscape without rework
Each of these examples proves that intelligent automation, paired with strategic design, can transform complex custom code migrations into structured, predictable, and success-driven outcomes.
Accelerate SAP Transformation with Smarter Code Migration
Custom code should never be the reason your SAP transformation slows down. Manual remediation, incomplete testing, and disorganized documentation introduce risks that businesses can’t afford during high-stakes SAP S/4HANA or RISE with SAP transitions.
Diligent’s Smart Code Migration Tool delivers the future-ready approach enterprise IT teams need: automated code fixes, prioritized remediation, 100% unit test coverage, and audit-grade documentation—all engineered for speed, stability, and compliance.
It’s time to eliminate the inefficiencies that hinder transformation and adopt a smarter, faster, more controlled approach to custom code migration.
Ready to simplify your SAP journey? Book a personalized demo of Diligent’s Smart Code Migration Tool and see how effortless SAP code transformation can truly be.
FAQs:
1. How does Diligent’s Smart Code Migration Tool reduce workload during SAP S/4HANA or RISE with SAP migrations?
The SCM Tool automates the most time-intensive phases of custom code migration including analysis, issue prioritization, remediation, testing, and documentation. It applies SAP-recommended quick fixes, filters false positives, and executes unit testing automatically. As a result, enterprises achieve up to 80% reduction in manual remediation effort and significantly shorten project timelines without compromising on code quality or compliance.
2. What makes the SCM Tool different from standard ABAP Test Cockpit (ATC) usage?
Unlike traditional ATC workflows that require manual review and correction of every flagged issue, SCM intelligently prioritizes errors, auto-applies SAP-compliant fixes, and distinguishes false positives from true risks. It also integrates built-in testing and documentation, creating a closed-loop remediation process that standard ATC tools do not provide on their own.
3. How does the SCM Tool ensure compliance with SAP’s Clean Core and coding standards?
The SCM Tool embeds SAP best practices into every phase of remediation. It validates custom code against SAP’s Clean Core principles, ensures compatibility with S/4HANA architecture, and prevents deprecated syntax or unsupported patterns from being migrated. Every change is logged and documented for full audit visibility and traceability.
4. Can the SCM Tool support large-scale custom code migrations across multiple SAP systems?
Yes. The SCM Tool is built for enterprise-grade scalability. It supports parallel code remediation across thousands of custom objects, enabling organizations with extensive SAP landscapes to execute large-scale transformations efficiently. Its automation-first design allows IT teams to manage complex codebases while maintaining consistency across all systems.
5. What kind of testing and validation does the SCM Tool perform post-remediation?
The SCM Tool performs automated unit testing with 100% coverage for all modified reports and custom code components. It validates both logic and output, ensuring that migrated objects perform reliably in the SAP S/4HANA or RISE with SAP landscape. This eliminates guesswork and prevents functional regressions, supporting faster go-lives with fewer risks.
