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Compatibility Scope after 2025: CS, LE-TRA and PP-PI to 2030

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When SAP built SAP S/4HANA, it kept some ECC functions inside the new product for a limited time so customers could convert without replacing everything at once. These functions are the Compatibility Scope, also called compatibility packs. SAP Note 2269324 (the Compatibility Scope Matrix for SAP S/4HANA) lists them, about 100 items, with the strategic alternative for each. They exist in SAP S/4HANA on-premise and Private Edition; Public Edition never had them.

The dates as they stand in October 2026

The original plan was simple: use rights for most Compatibility Scope items ended on December 31, 2025. SAP then updated the matrix note at the end of 2025 and explained the changes in a user-group deck in February 2026. Read the current note for your own items, but the shape is this:

SituationUse rights endComment
Most Compatibility Scope items, SAP S/4HANA under an on-premise licenseMay 31, 2026Already past. Continued use is a license issue, not a support issue.
Compatibility Scope items in SAP S/4HANA operated under a cloud subscription (for example RISE / SAP Cloud ERP Private)Longer than on-premise (check SAP Note 2269324 for the current date)Subject to license conditions; confirm with your account team
Selected items in Customer Service (CS), Transportation (LE-TRA) and Production Planning for Process Industries (PP-PI)December 31, 2030, also on-premiseOnly the selected items; the matrix names them
Items whose successor is delivered as a cloud service and licensed accordinglyCan benefit from the extensionCheck the matrix note entry

Compatibility Scope use-right dates after SAP's December 2025 update (verify in SAP Note 2269324).

SAP's decision tree in short: selected CS, LE-TRA and PP-PI items keep use rights to the end of 2030; systems under a cloud subscription such as RISE keep them longer (check SAP Note 2269324 for the current date).
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The original 2025 cutoff became May 2026 for on-premise licenses; 2030 applies to the selected CS, LE-TRA and PP-PI items, and cloud subscriptions run longer (check SAP Note 2269324 for the current date).
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Successors you will meet

Compatibility Scope areaTypical strategic successorAcademy course
Warehouse Management (LE-WM)Extended Warehouse Management (embedded or decentralized EWM)sap-ewm-101
Transportation (LE-TRA)SAP Transportation Management in SAP S/4HANAPlanned course on TM in SAP S/4HANA
Customer Service (CS)SAP S/4HANA ServicePlanned course on moving from CS
Selected PP-PI functionsThe alternative named per item in the matrix notesap-pp-304
Other itemsAlternative named per item in SAP Note 2269324sap-s4t-202

Each matrix entry names its alternative; the item-level entry beats any summary.

How to find out what you use

Do not answer "do we use compatibility scope?" from memory. Use the tools that read the system:

  1. Run SAP Readiness Check for SAP S/4HANA on the source system. Its compatibility scope analysis lists the items whose usage it detects.
  2. Run the Simplification Item Check (framework note 2399707, report /SDF/RC_START_CHECK). Compatibility items appear as simplification items; for "probably relevant" results, check the business impact note and verify usage in the data.
  3. For a converted SAP S/4HANA system, run the same check there; SAP's deck points to the report in note 2399707 to verify usage.
  4. Confirm each hit with the process owner: is it used productively, how often, and by whom?
  5. Record the item ID, its end date and its successor in the deadline map.
  1. DetectReadiness Check compatibility scope analysis and SI-Check on the system
  2. ConfirmProcess owner confirms productive use and volume
  3. DateLook up the item in SAP Note 2269324 for its use-right end
  4. PlanSuccessor, project slot, test scope
  5. ProveRe-run the check after replacement: usage gone
From "do we use it?" to evidence that you no longer do.
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Contoso's result

In Contoso's course data, the Readiness Check on EP1 flagged two compatibility items in productive use: LE-TRA shipments (VT01N) for fleet deliveries from shipping point 1710, and CS service orders used by the Detroit repair desk for warranty repairs on returned alternators. Both survive the conversion. Both areas are in the 2030 group, so the use rights run at least to the end of 2030; Contoso's RISE subscription runs longer (check SAP Note 2269324 for the current date), but Grace plans to the 2030 date. That gives time, not permission to forget: Grace puts a TM project and a Service project on the post-conversion roadmap.

What replacing a compatibility item means for testing

Replacing a compatibility item is not a technical upgrade. It changes how people work, which documents exist and which reports show the result. When LE-TRA shipments are replaced by SAP Transportation Management, the shipment document becomes a freight order, freight cost settlement changes, and the output that carriers receive changes too. Plan it like a small implementation, with its own fit-to-standard, data migration of open documents and user acceptance.

Test areaLE-TRA to TM example at ContosoEvidence
Process regressionOrder-to-cash from sales order 1000457-style orders through delivery, shipment planning and goods issueEnd-to-end runs in CMR with document flow captured
Open documentsShipments open at cutover are completed in LE-TRA or recreated as freight ordersCount of open shipments before and after, signed by Maria, the O2C key user
CostsFreight costs posted to the same accounts and cost centers as beforeReconciliation of freight cost postings, signed by Dan
Output and interfacesCarrier messages and delivery documents still reach carriers and Great Lakes Fleet ServicesInterface test results and partner confirmation
RetirementNo LE-TRA usage after the switchReadiness Check or SI-Check re-run

A compatibility replacement needs process, data, cost, interface and retirement evidence.

What would you do?

Sam reports that a sister company running SAP S/4HANA on-premise under a perpetual license still uses classic Warehouse Management (LE-WM) in one plant. It is October 2026. What should the deadline map say?

Key points
  • SAP Note 2269324 is the Compatibility Scope Matrix: about 100 items, each with an alternative.
  • On-premise licenses: most items lost use rights on May 31, 2026.
  • Selected CS, LE-TRA and PP-PI items keep use rights to December 31, 2030; cloud subscriptions such as RISE run longer (check SAP Note 2269324 for the current date).
  • Detect usage with Readiness Check and the SI-Check, then confirm it with the process owner.

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Lesson check

  1. 1. Which SAP Note is the Compatibility Scope Matrix?

  2. 2. Which areas have selected items with use rights to 2030 even on-premise?

  3. 3. When did most items lose use rights for on-premise licenses?

  4. 4. Why does Contoso have at least until 2030 for its LE-TRA shipments?

  5. 5. What is the first step to find compatibility items in use?