Hello,
We've been stuck on the base ECC 6.0 release for quite a while. There hasn't been management support for the time/resources necessary to implement and test any upgrades. We also have a lot of local modifications to SAP supplied programs that we're planning on phasing out so that we keep closer to standard. This is one of the main reasons we haven't been able to upgrade because of the effort involved in changing processes back to standard. There was also an unwillingness on specific parts of the user base to change their processes. We're now in a position where business and reporting requirements are going to force a system upgrade. We also need run a unicode conversion from non-unicode at the same time.
As we're starting the planning process we're unsure of the best path to allow us to implement future upgrades as necessary. I see that EHP 7 runs on a basis version of Netweaver 7.40. Is upgrading to an EHP pack for ECC 6 better than upgrading directly to 7.4? Can the unicode conversion be done at the same time?
I looked over previous discussions in upgrades but haven't found something that seems to match what we're looking to do.
Thanks.