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Data Conversion
In a global rollout situation where multiple legacy systems will be converted into SAP T&E, you need to plan ahead when it comes to data conversion. You might have to convert thousands of courses into SAP that all must fit into their logical place in the catalog hierarchy. It is very likely that you will encounter duplicate courses: courses that have similar names but are in fact the same course. At this point it would be good to identify these courses to avoid populating SAP with duplicate or triple entries. It is beneficial to bring business lines and training departments together as much as possible in order to try to centralize the management of certain types of training. You also need to identify courses that are owned by a certain training department but offered by others and who is responsible for which processes in the training cycle.
Before you can convert any course data however, your training catalog has to be in place first. Only then can you load business event types into SAP.
As far as other data are concerned, you might want to use a CATT to load resource types, locations, instructors etc. The more data you can load programmatically, the better. In a large-scale implementation, it reduces human errors and will save you a lot of time.
You also need to think about historical data - do you want to load them into SAP so that you have one reporting system or do you want to keep them in the legacy system? Once you have loaded the courses, it is not a difficult task to create training history for employees.
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