SAP MII in a multi plant landscape

[former_member1033642]

Does anyone have architectural hints or design on multi-plant MII landscape?
Is it worth doing? Which are the advantages and conts?
How can this be configured?

[former_member1033642]

Thank you very much Mike and Kevin for your kind answer.

Actually in our specific case the two plants are very far from each other, in different continent, therefore the physical latency is a burden.

Where can I find some architectural guide on how to set up the multi site landscape?

Does the same considreations applies also to SAP ME instances? Is it possible to have a multi plant installation of SAP ME as well. Is there a guide on it?

[Kevin_Hunter]

Hi Filippo

Difficult question to answer without knowing your use case and overall company structure.

SAP MII supports several different scenarios including a single instance with multiple plants, single instance at each physical plant, single instance at each physical plant reporting to a central corporate instance, and a hybrid of all of these.

Each of the scenarios has advantages and disadvantages and to select which one best suits your needs depends on a lot of different factors. If you are unsure then I would recommend engaging an experienced SAP partner (or SAP Services) to help discuss the options, advantages and disadvantages.

Thanks

Kevin

[agentry_src]

In addition to Kevin's Answer, one might also have to consider the network strength at each of the plants. Plants with lousy network infrastructure and capacity may be better served by having a local MII presence such that network performance affects downloads and uploads and not production transaction processing.

[Kevin_Hunter]

Hi Mike, agreed, when you have lousy network infrastructure there is an advantage to having an MII instance in the local plant, the disadvantage is the additional cost of the servers and support.

You have to look at your current requirements of the system in terms on performance, reliability, supportability, cost etc, then look at the long term roadmap of your future requirements and finally work out the best fit architecture for your requirements.