Clean Core is SAP's five guiding principles for continuous business transformation — agile, innovative, efficient systems, instead of heavy custom development. Our path turns those principles into three sequenced steps: Plan Clean. Get Clean. Stay Clean.
SAP defines Clean Core as five guiding principles for continuous business transformation. Our path narrows the work into three sequenced steps — prioritizing the Level-D findings that block upgrades — to prepare for the next release upgrade.
Keep competitiveness while reducing complexity.
Decouple extensions from the standard.
Control data according to the latest standards.
Keep the landscape reliable and flexible.
Keep operations effective and efficient.
Inventory the estate. Classify against A–D. Decide per object: keep, refactor, migrate, retire.
Remediate. Migrate. Validate. Make our system ready for S/4HANA 2025 — measured live in our dashboard.
Every new requirement runs through one decision tree. Standard first. New build last — and only outside the core.
Predictable upgrades.
Stable systems.
AI-ready core.
PI 26-2 is the analysis phase. We use the RISE with SAP Methodology Dashboard to make the system upgrade stable: every finding named, classified against the A–D model and assigned a verdict — with Level-D findings holding the highest priority.
Pull all Clean Core findings from the RISE Methodology Dashboard. Group by system, by dimension, by A–D level.
Apply the A–D extensibility model to every finding. Level D — not recommended, not upgrade-stable — is the highest priority.
Two Program Increments turn the plan into delivery. We're in PI 26-2 today. PI 26-3-4 starts the redesign of Level D.
Ensure long-term stability and upgrade-readiness of SAP systems by replacing not-recommended extensions, based on SAP best practices.
PI 26-3-4 is where we redesign every Level-D finding — replacing not-recommended extensions with SAP best practices and standard alternatives. The dashboard tells us how close we are, every week.
Live status of every system, every Level-D finding, every remediation in flight.
Once we're past the redesign, Clean Core becomes our operating posture. We adopt SAP's measurement framework — governance, KPIs, Q-gates, the RISE Dashboard — and run every new requirement through the decision tree below.
Governance & maturity assessed, KPIs tracked, actions defined — the loop SAP designed for staying clean, applied week after week.
System View, Operations View, Customer Objects app. Continuous KPI tracking against the A–D model.
Quality gates baked into the RISE methodology. Every release passes through them — no bypass, no exceptions.
The SSB owns governance & maturity: tools, structures, expertise required to get and stay clean.
Priority 1 and 2 findings block transports in DEV. The technical floor under everything else.
For every new requirement, the same four questions, in the same order. Standard first. Roadmap second. Enhancement third. New build last — and only when we've chosen the right place to build it.
The detailed brief covers every dimension, the A–D maturity model, the full toolchain and the risks. The dashboard shows where each system stands today.
Clean isn't perfect.
Clean is sustainable.