SAP Clean Core Assessment and Continuous Control

Decision context

Clean core is an ongoing method, not a badge produced by one scan. A useful system must identify the observed extension or dependency, explain the rule, distinguish evidence from inference, record the chosen treatment, and detect when a later snapshot reintroduces drift.

Adranum combines ATC and readiness findings, custom-code dependencies, architecture context, requirements, and policy decisions. It produces a transparent score with interpretable factors, but the score never replaces the underlying findings or imply official SAP certification.

Teams can preserve an exception with an owner and rationale, remediate a supported pattern, replace behavior with a target extension, or retire unused code. Repeat snapshots compare newly introduced, resolved, and persistent findings so clean core becomes an accountable release practice.

What the workflow must cover

• Transparent assessment. Show finding severity, rule, affected object, dependency context, source coverage, and score contribution. Missing evidence reduces confidence instead of improving the score.
• Disposition governance. Record keep, replace, remediate, or retire decisions with owners, rationale, policy checks, and approval history.
• Release-to-release drift. Compare snapshots to identify new violations, changed dependencies, reopened risks, and exceptions whose review period expired.
• Evidence export. Export source hashes, finding state, decisions, diffs, validation boundaries, approvals, and control mappings for technical and procurement review.

Implementation workflow

Start with a bounded customer scenario and explicit acceptance criteria. Preserve native SAP permissions and accountable review while the software creates a repeatable evidence chain.

1. Collect supported custom-code and readiness evidence.
2. Review scan coverage before interpreting the score.
3. Assign treatments, owners, and exception expiries.
4. Generate and validate supported remediation.
5. Repeat the snapshot and investigate new or persistent drift.

Evidence to require

A transformation claim should resolve to observable artifacts, decisions, and execution receipts. Ask for the following evidence in a representative evaluation:

• Coverage denominator
• Rule and finding version
• Object dependencies
• Score factor
• Disposition history
• Exception owner and expiry
• Remediation validation state
• Snapshot comparison

Boundaries and non-claims

Adranum separates analysis, proposal, human review, package creation, customer-local validation, and production execution. A later state never rewrites the evidence that supported an earlier decision.

• Adranum does not issue an official SAP clean-core certification.
• A clean score is bounded by supplied artifacts and observed connectors.
• Architecture decisions and production release remain customer responsibilities.

Buyer checklist

• Is the score formula interpretable?
• Are missing objects included in the coverage denominator?
• Can exceptions expire and be re-reviewed?
• Does the system distinguish proposal from SAP validation?
• Can teams compare drift between releases?