SAP projects often fail not because of technology—but because of communication. Modules, functions, processes, and technical objects are constantly conflated. SFAM creates a common language for PMO, cutover, module consultants, test management, migration, and architecture.

This gives project teams a common language—which reduces misunderstandings and improves planning, cutover, and project management.

Imagine a cutover meeting with your FI consultant. You ask about the cutover activities, and he explains that the project includes Asset Accounting (FI-AA) and the General Ledger (FI-GL). He also mentions the migration of balance sheet data (BKPF/BSEG) and asset master data (ANLA/ANLB).

Later, the data migration team informs you that Cost Center Accounting (CO-OM-CCA) and Internal Orders (CO-OM-OPA) must also be migrated—including the order master data (AUFK) and the cost center master data (CSKS/CSKB)—since these functions have been implemented. You contact your FI consultant again and ask why this wasn’t mentioned. His response: “That’s Controlling. It’s not within my area of responsibility.”

Then the PMO informs you that it only tracks the “Record-to-Report” process and was unaware of the user-defined company codes, since it assumed this pertained to the Special General Ledger (FI-SL) and might even fall outside the scope of the project.

You’ve just experienced a typical communication problem within an SAP project: modules, submodules, functions, end-to-end processes, conversion types, and technical objects—everything was jumbled together, even though these elements are closely interlinked.

FI-SL (Special General Ledger) refers to the user-defined company code function, which is part of the “Record-to-Report” end-to-end process, whose conversion type is the general ledger configuration with the technical object GLT0.

That’s exactly what the SFAM™ offers. The SAP® Function Assignment Matrix links: modules and submodules, functions, end-to-end processes, cutover types, technical objects, and roles.

This creates a unified, consistent overview of the structure of SAP functionalities—which eliminates ambiguities and improves communication between project teams.

The image below shows the SFAM™ for Finance (FI).

The SFAM™ is included in my book “SAP Cutover Management,” and you can download it for the price of a cup of coffee.