Provisioning Requirements Valuation Cockpit

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to configure RVC settings on an SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) consumer subaccount.

Subscription to RVC, requesting user-role assignment from CENIT and Destinations Creation

Introduction

This lesson focuses on provisioning Requirements Valuation Cockpit (RVC) by CENIT on a SAP BTP sub-account.

Destination for RVC Settings

The destination to configure the basic settings for RVC needs to be in your company’s sub-account under CENIT’s SAP BTP global account.

  1. In the web browser, log on to the SAP BTP cockpit, and choose the relevant sub account.
  2. In the left panel, under Connectivity, choose Destinations.
  3. Search for the destination with name RVC_srv.
    1. If the destination exists, ensure that the configuration is as shown in the screenshot below.
    2. If the destination does not exist, choose New Destination, and under Destination Configuration, enter the destination details as shown in the screenshot below.
  4. Save your changes.
Screenshot of Destination for RVC’s settings with additional properties

Note

Refer to RVC's Administration Guide for more information about destinations.

Destination for SAP Authorization and Trust Management

The destination to connect to SAP Authorization and Trust Management service needs to be in your company’s sub-account under CENIT’s SAP BTP global account.

  1. In the web browser, log on to the SAP BTP cockpit, and choose the relevant sub account.
  2. In the left panel, under Connectivity, choose Destinations.
  3. Search for the destination with name RVC_SAPXSUAA.
    1. If the destination exists, ensure that the configuration is as shown in the screenshot below.
    2. If the destination does not exist, choose New Destination, and under Destination Configuration, enter the destination details as shown in the screenshot below.
  4. Save your changes.
the screenshot illustrates the destination for SAP Authorization and Trust Management service

Note

Refer to RVC's Administration Guide for more information about destinations.

Destination for Email Server

The destination to connect to the email server from RVC needs to be in your company’s sub-account under CENIT’s SAP BTP global account.

  1. In the web browser, log on to the SAP BTP cockpit, and choose the relevant sub-account.
  2. In the left panel, under Connectivity, choose Destinations.
  3. Search for the destination with name RVC_mail.
    1. If the destination exists, ensure that the configuration is as shown in the screenshot below.
    2. If the destination does not exist, choose New Destination, and under Destination Configuration, enter the destination details as shown in the screenshot below.
  4. Save your changes.
screenshot illustrates the destination for Email server and the required additional properties like port, mail address, host names

Note

Refer to RVC’s Administration Guide for more information about destinations.

Request assignment of roles to users

For your users to be able to work with RVC, roles need to be assigned to your users in your company’s sub-account under CENIT’s SAP BTP global account.

RVC provides following roles:

RoleDescriptionEntry Point on SAP Fiori LaunchpadFeatures
RVCAdminBusinessRole to perform business configuration for RVC.RVC ConfiguratorCreate/read/update/delete decomposer configuration options
RVCManagerAccountRole to view requirements projects and their requirements in any state and to extract data for quote.Requirements Valuation Cockpit
  • Read/update all requirements projects
  • Read all requirements of requirements projects
RVCManagerProjectRole to create, modify and manage requirements projects.Requirements Valuation Cockpit
  • Create/read/update all requirements projects
  • Read/update all requirements of requirements projects
RVCManagerRequirementsRole to decompose and quality-check requirements projects and their requirements.Requirements Valuation Cockpit
  • Read all requirements projects
  • Open SAP IPD RM application to import requirements and restructure them
  • Decompose requirements
RVCProcessorDepartmentRole to evaluate and explore assigned requirements.Requirements Valuation Cockpit
  • Read/update specific properties of assigned requirements
  • Take over/reuse existing requirements
  • Link existing solutions (business objects)
  • Invite suppliers or customer for evaluation
RVCProcessorSupplierRole to evaluate assigned requirements.My CollaborationsRead/write specific properties of assigned requirements
RVCProcessorCustomerRole to clarify and validate assigned requirements.My CollaborationsRead/write specific properties of assigned requirements

RVC provides following role collections:

 Role Collections      
Role Templatervc- RVCAdminBusinessrvc-RVCManagerAccountrvc-RVCManagerProjectrvc-RVCManagerRequirementsrvc-RVCProcessorDepartmentrvc-RVCProcessorSupplierrvc-RVCProcessorCustomer
RVCAdminBusinessX      
RVCManagerAccount X     
RVCManagerProject  X    
RVCManagerRequirements   X   
RVCProcessorDepartment    X  
RVCProcessorSupplier     X 
RVCProcessorCustomer      X
  1. Open a support request at CENIT
  2. For each user you want to assign RVC role collections to, make sure to
    1. name the user’s User Name from your company’s sub-account under CENIT’s SAP BTP global account.

      i. This information can be found under Security/Users in SAP BTP Cockpit

    2. name the RVC role collections to assign.

Note

Refer to RVC’s Administration Guide for more information about getting support from CENIT.

Summary

Let's summarize what you've learned:

  • A destination needs to be set up for RVC’s basic settings.
  • A destination needs to be set up for SAP Authorization and Trust Management service.
  • A destination needs to be set up for your company’s email server.
  • RVC comes with 7 roles for 7 different purposes.
  • A support request needs to be created at CENIT for assignment of RVC roles to users.

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