Shaping Implementation Solution Management using Solution Manager

Hi Everyone,
Its truly amazing to see the way SAP solutions are shaping up and the way SAP is moving ahead with its roadmap of achieving 1 Lakh Customers by 2010. As we move ahead, we see solutions that focus more on business processes and break these business processes into smaller components, the utility of a tool that integrates applications and solutions becomes imminent.
Though <b>Solution Manager</b> has seen extensive usage in the area of support and monitoring, it still has to make a mark in the area of implementations. This gives us an opportunity to seek and suggest improvements to Solution Manager tool, specifically in implementations. Request if you all could share your experience with Solution Manager in the following areas
Key Functions
Scoping the solution landscape and business process
Project Scoping, issue tracking and reporting
Project Administration
Template Management
Roadmaps
Business Blueprint
Configuration
Customizing distribution
Quality Management
Test Management
Integration Management
Data Management
Regards
Sridhar Sundaram

Hi,
Welcome to sdn.
This is something which can't covered in a single reply.
Check the following link which has solution manager weblogs.
Weblogs Related to Solution Manager
Also visit the solution manager on help and service.sap portal.
List of tcodes availble in solman
https://forums.sdn.sap.com/click.jspa?searchID=5183519&messageID=4075355
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We are trying to use solution Manager for managing our IT projects - specifically for SAP projects.
We browsed through the existing functionalities that are available and are not able to get info on the following:
___Project Admin tab for Roadmaps :_ __ In the transaction RMMAIN, we are able to define the scope of the activities at each phase and assign team members and track the status of the activity / task.
However we do not have the tab for tracking the planned start date / end date and the actual start / end dates. Similar is the case for efforts.
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Hi Suresh,
Solution Manager is a Project Management tool. But it is not for Project Planning. If you want to do Project Planning also from the SolMan system, then you have to enable cProjects component of SolMan.
Synchronization between your MS Project and cProjects is possible. But synchronization between SolMan's RoadMap/Blueprint and MS Project is not possible.
In RoadMap, you can capture and track the status of all phase-wise activities as to what is their status. Here capturing date details is not possible.
In Blueprint/Configuration you can capture and keep track of the individual object's blueprinting and configuration activities. Here you can capture the planned/actual start/end dates for each object.
As I said earlier, Solution Manager provides lot of Project Management features, but Project Planning is not possible. For that we have to start using cProjects component in SolMan.
Hope it helps.
best regds,
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The step by step process and transaction codes used for implementing it are there any guides provided by SAP for implementing the ASAP methodology in Solman.
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Hi,
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regards
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Hi,
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