About this Document

You use the Master Guide to get an overview of Plant Connectivity (PCo), its software units, and its scenario, as seen from a technical perspective. The Master Guide is a planning tool that helps you design your PCo system landscape. It contains references to the further necessary documentation, mainly the following:

• Installation guides for individual software applications

• Upgrade information

• Important SAP Notes

• Configuration documentation

• Links to SAP Library and Service Marketplace documentation

For a general overview of the available SAP documentation, see The Main SAP Documentation Types.

The Master Guide consists of the following main sections:

• Getting Started

  This section contains information about using this document and related information crucial to the installation.

• Plant Connectivity Overview

  This section contains the following information:

  • A short introduction to PCo

  • The software component matrix that provides the information about which components are used in the business scenarios and whether the corresponding component is mandatory or optional

  • System landscape information

  • Upgrade information

• PCo Business Scenarios

  This section contains an overview of the business scenarios and their implementation sequence.

• List of Documents

  This section contains the list of documents related to PCo and its business scenario.

• The Main SAP Documentation Types

  This section contains information about the documentation types for your SAP solution.