Score Your S/4HANA Program Before Go-Live Does
Kumar Vivek
Two self-checks, one for the program and one for finance. About 20 minutes each to score, plus the time to pull the evidence behind your answers
Get the Go-Live Readiness Kit
Free. Two self-checks and a scoring guide that shows what your two scores mean together. Download starts right after you submit.Score Your S/4HANA Program Before Go-Live Does
Most S/4HANA programs can show the system is ready. Far fewer can show the books are.
Go-live checklists cover the cutover weekend. The expensive surprises arrive about six weeks later, at the first quarter-end close, when open items don’t tie and postings don’t match what ECC would have produced.
The S/4HANA Go-Live Readiness Kit gives your program lead and your CFO one self-check each. Score them separately, then read them together. The gap between the two scores is the finding.
Why the First Close Should Be Your Priority
The deadline is real, and schedules are already slipping. Pressure on the date squeezes the work that proves the books are right: reconciliation, regression testing and a dry run of the first close.
End of 2027
SAP’s mainstream maintenance for ECC ends. Extended maintenance runs to the end of 2030, at a two-percentage-point premium on maintenance fees.
54%
of DSAG member companies surveyed still run SAP ECC or an older Business Suite. DSAG says not all will finish the move by 2027.
Nearly 60%
eof SAP migration projects are delayed and over budget, according to ISG research
A date you hit with broken books costs more than a date you move.
What You’ll Learn in This Kit
- Whether to hold the date, close the gaps first, or have the date conversation now, from a program score out of 40.
- How to score finance’s readiness separately, out of 24, and why a strong program score with a weak finance score is the most expensive combination.
- Which of the five failure points is weakest in your program: master data, the books, interfaces, edge cases or the first close.
- What counts as evidence, and why a “yes” needs a reconciliation, a test result or a named owner.
- The questions your CFO, controller and auditors will ask before they sign off the go/no-go.
- Where to start, section by section, for every combination of your two scores.
Built for Leaders Who Own the Go-Live Decision
For CIOs and program leads who answer for the system, and for CFOs and controllers who answer for the books. The kit is built for ECC to S/4HANA system conversions. Planning a new implementation instead? Mark the questions that don’t apply as N/A and score by percentage.
How QyrusAI Phase Zero Closes the Gaps You Find
If your scores come out lower than you’d like, QyrusAI Phase Zero gives you an evidence-based readiness baseline in 4 to 6 weeks. It is read-only and fixed fee. You keep:
- A scored map of every interface. What connects to what, and how ready each connection is.
- The blast radius of each change. What else moves when a transport, a fix or a configuration changes.
- A Business Partner and data readiness view. Where customer and vendor conversion, deduplication and reconciliation stand.
- A regression baseline on critical flows. A repeatable reference to test every later change against.
- An agreed baseline for every claim. So “ready” means the same thing to the program, to finance and to your SI.
- A view independent of your SI. From a party that isn’t running your conversion.
Disclaimer: Phase Zero outcomes are targeted and validated against your own baseline. The kit is a rule of thumb for a leadership conversation, not an audit opinion or formal assessment.
Know Whether the Books Will Balance Before You Commit to the Date.
Download the kit, score both checks and bring the gap to your next steering committee. Scored lower than you’d like? Book 30 minutes and we’ll tell you honestly where to start.
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October 26, 2026 
20 min
