US Patent 11442957 Cloud-based fiscal year variant conversion

A computer-implemented method is disclosed. In a deployed enterprise resource planning system implementing a first fiscal year variant, the method can configure a second fiscal year variant that is different from the first fiscal year variant. The method can identify a list of target tables in the deployed enterprise resource planning system that contains the first fiscal year variant. The method can convert the first fiscal year variant to the second fiscal year variant in the list of target tables. In certain embodiments, the method can replace the first fiscal year variant with the second fiscal year variant in a reference framework interfacing with the list of target tables.