Modernize a Retail SAP Customization Strategy with Sidecar Apps
Overview
What this challenge is about.
Classify 23 retail SAP customizations, recommend BTP sidecar targets, and earn a verifiable certificate.
The scenario
Tienda Aurora is a mid-sized Mexican retail chain whose IT team customized SAP S/4HANA Cloud heavily to fit local pricing, promotions, and store operations, and now finds that those very customizations stall every routine platform upgrade.
The Brief
What you'll do, and what you'll demonstrate.
Move 23 in-system SAP customizations into separate sidecar applications so that quarterly upgrades are no longer blocked by customization regression testing.
Earning criteria — what you'll demonstrate
- Classify enterprise customizations by type and by their drag on platform upgrade cycles using documented evidence
- Match each class of customization to the correct sidecar primitive on a cloud platform and justify the choice
- Implement a real workflow as a decoupled sidecar application rather than in-core logic
- Translate an architecture change into a credible, evidence-grounded delivery and upgrade-velocity projection
Program Fit
Where this fits in your program.
Sharpens the same skills your degree expects you to demonstrate.
Aligned coursework coming soon.
Skills
Skills you'll demonstrate.
Each one shows up on your verified credential.
- Sap Btp
Apply sap btp to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Cap Framework
Apply cap framework to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Enterprise Architecture
Apply enterprise architecture to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Sidecar Pattern
Apply sidecar pattern to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Ui5 Extensions
Apply ui5 extensions to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Workflow Design
Apply workflow design to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
Careers
Career paths this challenge builds toward
Completing this challenge demonstrates skills that transfer directly to these roles:
Enterprise / Solution Architect
This challenge mirrors the core architect task of decoupling custom logic from a vendor platform to protect upgrade cadence, building the judgment to choose patterns and defend them to stakeholders under real constraints.
This challenge sharpens
- enterprise-architecture
- sidecar-pattern
- sap-btp
SAP BTP Developer
Rebuilding the pricing-approval workflow as a sidecar service exercises exactly the hands-on platform skills employers hire for: standing up CAP services, modeling workflows, and extending UI5 screens outside the core system.
This challenge sharpens
- cap-framework
- ui5-extensions
- workflow-design
ERP Modernization Consultant
Producing an evidence-grounded migration register and upgrade-velocity projection bridges to consulting roles that sell and steer clean-core modernization programs for clients stuck on heavily customized ERP systems.
This challenge sharpens
- enterprise-architecture
- sidecar-pattern
- sap-btp