Use enhanced variant management

The following descriptions refer to a country-specific scenario.

Variant management enables the master owner to capture general processes in master models and trigger roll-out across country borders. The variant owners adapt the model variants to their country-specific requirements with system support. When adapting model variants to updated master models, variant owners are supported by the Roll-out resolution functionality to decide which changes should be adopted for their country. Master owners can use the dashboard to check which model variants of an updated master model have already been adjusted. Variant owners can use the dashboard to check the roll-out status of their model variants.

The enhanced variant management supports non-lane models and lane models, such as models of type EPC, EPC (table display), and BPMN diagrams.

This use case is only an example. The example uses a simplified database structure. The processes, responsibilities, and database structure for your company will differ from the following description.

The steps of the use case:

  1. Create the database

  2. Create the objects for reuse

  3. Create the master model version 1

  4. Create the variants

  5. Customize the variants

  6. Release the master model version 2

  7. Solutions of the roll-out

  8. Review the roll-out progress