ERP Go‑Live Accelerator: Transport Dependency Twin & Delay Killer
9/10
Demand Score
Every slipped transport or data load can cascade into multi-week go‑live delays, burning SI and infra budgets.
7/10
Blue Ocean
Competition Level
$5k-20k
Price/Month
Predicted customer spend
10 days
Time to MVP
Difficulty: Hard
The Problem
A SaaS that builds a live dependency graph of SAP S/4HANA transports, customizing, and data migration tasks to predict and eliminate delays. It ingests CTS+/ChaRM, Jira/ADO, and basis job queues; simu
🔗 Validated by Real User Complaints
This problem has been verified through 5 real user complaints:
Competitor Landscape
- SAP Solution Manager/ChaRM
- SAP Cloud ALM
- Celonis (project/process mining)
- Signavio (process intelligence)
- Jira Advanced Roadmaps
- ServiceNow ITBM
Must-Have Features for MVP
Transport/customizing dependency graph with cycle detection
Monte Carlo delay forecasting on real project data
Automated sandbox provisioning and teardown (Terraform/Ansible)
Pre-flight checks for data migration (synthetic prod-like dataset, row counts, keys)
Safe parallelization planner with conflict simulation
eCATT/Tosca smoke test orchestration on each rehearsal
Live critical-path board synced with Jira/ADO
Role/owner auto-assignment for blockers with SLA tracking
Readiness scorecards for each workstream
⚠️ Potential Challenges
- Read-only access to CTS+/ChaRM and transport logs
- Mapping custom objects to dependency graph
- Change-freeze windows limiting test runs
- Convincing SIs to follow auto-generated plan
Risk Level: Low
🎯 Keys to Success
- ≥30% reduction in average transport cycle time to production
- ≥50% reduction in rework due to sequence conflicts
- Go‑live date variance under 5%
- Fewer than 3 critical blockers outstanding at any time
- Sandbox rehearsal pass rate trending upward week over week
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