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With enhanced package delivery technology, SAP can provide new developments and enhancements to your applications for your existing SAP ERP installations. This means that you can use the new development provided for your business processes as needed and on your own terms.

New developments and enhancements take effect only after you decide to use these new features, install the relevant technical Components, and activate the corresponding business functions in the ABAP-based SAP Enterprise Central Components system (SAP ECC System). Existing business processes that you do not activate business functions remain unchanged.

This delivery philosophy gives you the following advantages:

(1) It provides you with long-term planning security on a stable platform, but that doesn’t mean you can’t take advantage of innovations and new developments.

(2) You do not need to import the new SAP NetWeaver version to use the new development.

(3) You can provide new developments for each department at any time, while other departments can continue to work and there is no change in system behavior or user interface.

(4) Since implementation activities are only necessary for new functionality, this significantly reduces the amount of effort and time required to implement new applications and functionality. Business processes that are not affected by the new functionality do not require any activities.

(5) Your employees and users only need to be trained on the applications and features that you actively decide to use. Changes to interfaces and business processes are only effective for applications that you have activated on the system. Other applications are not affected.

(6) You can also reduce the amount of testing required. You only need to test an application that has proactively determined optimized business processes by activating business functions.

(7) For each business function, SAP provides a test case template, making it easier for you to test new functions

Prerequisites for using SAP Enhancement Package:

You are using the relevant full version (for example, SAP ERP 6.0) and you have set up the business processes relevant to your business there.

Before installing the enhancement pack, you get information about the business functions relevant to your business process. Then implement the relevant software component versions and content packs based on the business functions you want to use. Please refer to SAP Note 1052470.

For information about business functions, See SAP Service Marketplace under SAP ERP Central Component <number of the enhancements > SAP Library Business Function Sets (service.sap.com/erp-ehp) and SAP Help Portal (help.sap.com) and business functions.

You have implemented the SAP ERP and SAP NetWeaver support stack for the required enhancement packages on your system.

You can implement the required stack of support packages first, and then implement the enhancement packages in step 2. However, we recommend that you implement the enhanced package when implementing the current support package stack, as this leads to synergies in testing.

The new delivery concepts described here are available starting with SAP ERP 6.0 Enhancement Package 2.

New features and enhancements in the enhancement pack are built on top of the underlying SAP ERP product instances. Enhancement packs are provided through new versions of the various components of the SAP ERP product instance.

We used the Business Function concept to provide new functionality in enhancements. For each business function, we define and describe in the documentation the various technical components that you must implement in the system environment in order to use the new capabilities provided by the business applications and business functions. Therefore, you only need to implement a specific part of the enhancement package delivery scope.

The enhancement packs build on each other, so all of them are numbered according to when they appear. If the first enhancement you use is not the first one provided by SAP, subsequent enhancements will automatically include the development of the previous enhancement, which means you can still use the business functionality of earlier versions.

In an ABAP-based ECC system, you only need to implement the versions of software components required for the business functions that you have enabled or intend to enable.

Look at an example:

For SAP ERP 6.0, you do not want to use the business function of human capital management. In this case, you leave the ECC software component versions SAP_HR and EA-HR at level 6.0.

For your SAP ERP 6.0, you really want to use the business capabilities of Enhancement Pack 2 for the learning solution area. In this case, you will implement a new version of the ERP product instance described in the business function document. For business function HCM, learn Solution 01, they are as follows:

  • Software component versions EA-HR 602, LSOFE 602 for ABAP-based systems

  • JAVA software component versions LSOAE 602, LSOOP 602, and LSOCP 602

  • Teacher/Mentor Business Package (SAP ERP) 1.20

Here are some examples of my SAP CRM system, the version number of enhancement Package is EHP3: