19.5    Summary

This chapter strongly advocates carefully planning the architecture for your future SAP PO landscape. By making the right choices at the start of the implementation, you’ll ensure that SAP PO rests on a solid foundation that will provide advantages for the rest of the lifecycle of the system landscape and will facilitate the ongoing maintaining tasks.

Obviously it’s not always possible to know all future business needs and requirements of your SAP PO landscape in advance. However, you can set up the system landscape in such a way that it’s scalable for future needs without causing too much negative impact to the business.

After reading this chapter, you should now be better equipped and informed about the critical areas to keep an eye on to ensure that your system keeps performing. If you run into any issues, you should also know where to focus when collecting critical information for troubleshooting.