In Site Maintenance, you create sites (see Site and Site Maintenance).

In System Setup Maintenance, you review and change various system and audit log settings as needed (see System Setup Maintenance).

In System Rule Maintenance, you review and change various system rule settings as needed (see System Rule Maintenance).

In Background Process Execution, you schedule background processes (see Background Process Execution).

In Next Number Maintenance, you define numbering patterns (see Numbering Patterns).

In Activity Group Maintenance, you review and group system activities (see Activity Group Maintenance).

In Activity Maintenance, you review activities and their rule settings (see Activity Maintenance).

In Activity Code Maintenance, you define and change activity codes (see Activity Code Maintenance).

In User Group Maintenance, you create user groups and define what activities the users assigned to the group are able to execute (see User Group Maintenance).

In User Maintenance, you assign users to user groups (see Maintaining User Accounts).

You set up production calendars (see Production Calendar).

You set up activity hooks (see Standard Hook Point Activities and Setting Up Activity Hooks).

In Data Field Definition Maintenance, you define fields for the data to be collected during the manufacturing process. In Data Field Assignment Maintenance, you group these data fields and associate them with a data type of the required category (see Data Field Definition and Assignment).

In Custom Data Maintenance, you define custom data (see Custom Data).

You set up printing of production-related documents (see Printing of Production-Related Documents).

You set up the archiving function (see Archiving).

You set up operational data store (ODS) (see  http://service.sap.com/instguides SAP Business Suite Applications SAP Manufacturing SAP Manufacturing Execution 6.0 ODS Reporting Guide ODS Configuration ).

If required, you set up 2D barcode scanning (see Two-Dimensional (2D) Barcode Scanning).