S4HANA Embedded Live-Cache Activation

Within the S/4HANA environment, you have the flexibility to choose between activating the embedded liveCache for Supply Chain Management (SCM) functionality or maintaining your existing SCM liveCache in a separate system. This blog post will focus on the steps required to activate the SCM liveCache embedded within S/4HANA.

Key questions that will be addressed in this blog include:

1. How to activate the embedded S/4HANA liveCache from a technical perspective?
2. How to effectively monitor the embedded S/4HANA liveCache?
3. How to activate the embedded S/4HANA liveCache to enable its functional capabilities?

Installation Process:

1. Begin by reviewing the OSS note "2593571 – FAQ: SAP HANA Integrated liveCache" to gain a comprehensive understanding of embedded liveCache in S/4HANA.
2. Utilize OSS note "2074843 – Version Matrix for HANA integrated liveCaches" to determine the precise version that needs to be downloaded and installed for your specific requirements.
3. Follow the step-by-step manual installation instructions outlined in OSS note "2407589 – Manual installation of liveCache for S/4HANA." Please note that the duration of the installation process may vary from a few hours to several days, depending on your level of experience and system complexity.

By following these guidelines, you can seamlessly activate the embedded S/4HANA liveCache, enhancing your organization's supply chain management capabilities within the S/4HANA environment.

Technical checks

When you start the LC10 transaction, like you are used to on an SCM server, you will be redirected to the DB50 or DBACOCKPIT transaction:

Note :

The liveCache assistant (transaction LC10) is used only for monitoring an SAP MaxDB liveCache. To monitor the SAP HANA-integrated liveCache, use transaction DB50 or select the local database in transaction DBACOCKPIT.

In DBACOCKPIT you can see the 3 schemas for Livecache:

You can see all live cache-related technical parts:

Functional activation

After the technical activation, the functional activation has to be done in customizing for advanced planning and scheduling in SPRO.

And separately for global ATP:

Functional testing

After the activation, you can check to see all works by creation of new material in transaction MM01. The new tab Advanced Planning should be available now

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