| # Model definition In the Master Data, you set up a framework in which business models can be created and maintained. However, to build a business model you need to create various model items that together can make up a project model or reference model. The repository procedure Apart from support applications, you can link a text to all model items to provide them with more information. These texts can be created in the repository and in the business model. Introduction The enterprise-structure model visualizes the multisite structure of an organization. The multisite concept consists of enterprise units that contain entities that belong to the same financial and logistic company. An enterprise unit’s entities must belong to the same logistic company, but a logistic company can be linked to multiple enterprise units. You can divide a logistic company over multiple countries, as the enterprise units can be located all over the globe with their own currency. Introduction Business model is a generic term for a reference and a project model. Both models are built from a collection of model items created in the repository. A reference model represents a line of business or business typology. A project model represents a customer specific model. Data models The data model is the fourth type of diagram you can model in the Modeler. A data model describes the permanent storage components, and their structures, on multiple abstraction levels. |