Concept activation overview
Some functionality in LN must be activated before you can use it.
Activation is a set of processes that consist of a preparatory stage and an activation stage. The progress of the activation processes is indicated by various statuses.
During the preparatory stage, you must define or adjust master data and set parameters.
The activation stage entails launching the process that builds data based on the setup completed in the preparatory stage.
The functionality that must be activated is subdivided into overall concepts, concepts, and activation activities.
An overall concept consists of one or more concepts. A concept is a specific functionality subset.
For example, the Multisite overall concept includes these concepts:
- Item Type Product
- Standard Cost by Enterprise Unit
- Planning Cluster Mandatory
- Sites
- Job Shop by Site
- Resources by Site
The Kanban Integration overall concept includes only one concept, Integrate Kanban with Warehousing.
A concept, in turn, consists of multiple activation activities. An activation activity is a step that you must complete to activate a concept, for example, setting parameters in a specific session. When all activation activities of a concept are completed, you can activate the concept.
An overall concept is activated when all of its concepts are activated.
When a concept is Active, you cannot perform the activation activities or change the concept status, but you can view the activation data and access some of the activities in the Activation Activity (tcemm4610m000) session.
Activation almost identical for overall concepts
The activation process is almost identical for all overall concepts.
The order in which the concepts must be activated is different for each overall concept. Differences in the activation processes are discussed in separate topics.
Multicompany environments
Concept statuses are set for all companies of the multicompany environment at once.
Most activation activities are performed for individual companies.
Some activation activities, such as Assign Sites of the Sites concept in the Multisite overall concept, are also performed for the entire multicompany environment. This is because the database tables of the Enterprise Modeling Management module are shared among the companies of the multicompany environment.
Consequently, this data is identical for each company and therefore, this activity can be performed for the entire multicompany environment at once.
Before you can set a concept to Active, the mandatory activation activities of the concept must be completed in all companies of the multicompany environment.
To complete the activation activities, you can work simultaneously in multiple companies of the multicompany environment.