Setting Up Model Generator

This section discusses how to set up the model generation definition.

Activity-Based Management Model Generator automates the process of setting up the metadata for filters and constraints as well as setting up Activity-Based Management objects, drivers, and the pointers for driver quantities.

Model Generator generates:

Activity-Based Management resources, activities, and cost objects.
Drivers, interunit drivers, and constraints and filters for driver quantities.

To accomplish this, Model Generator requires source data that can be loaded into the system from a spreadsheet.

To run Model Generator, set up a model generation ID to specify:

The location of the source data.
Source and target setup.
Driver quantities and rates.
Any interunit drivers.

Page Used to Set Up Model Generator

Page Name	Definition Name	Navigation	Usage
Model Generation Definition	AB_MODELGEN_TBL1	select Activity Based Management, then select Setup, then select Model Generator, then select Model Generation Definition	Set up the model generation definition by defining the model generation ID and parameters. This page lets you build your model one step at a time by defining multiple generator sequences.

Model Generation Definition Page

Use the Model Generation Definition page (AB_MODELGEN_TBL1) to set up the model generation definition by defining the model generation ID and parameters.

This page lets you build your model one step at a time by defining multiple generator sequences.

Navigation

select Activity Based Management, then select Setup, then select Model Generator, then select Model Generation Definition

Image: Model Generation Definition page

This example illustrates the fields and controls on the Model Generation Definition page. You can find definitions for the fields and controls later on this page.

Load sequence

Enter the sequence of each source and target type mapping that you add.

Note: Load sequence 1 specifies that this is the first step in driving monetary amounts from a source to a target.

Constraint Code

Enter a constraint code to identify the location of the source data.

Source Field Seq (source field sequence)

Select a source field sequence to specify the datamap column sequence number that you want to use for the source.

This is the location of the source information for your model. Specify whether this source is a resource, activity, or cost object.

Source Desc Field Seq (source description field sequence)

Select the location of the description for your source.

Target Field Seq (target field sequence) and Target Desc Field Seq (target description field sequence)

Select the location of your target information on the source data table.

Specify whether this target is a resource, activity, or cost object.

Actual Driver Quantity, Budget Quantity, Capacity Driver Quantity, and Frozen Rate

Select the location of the actual, budgeted, and capacity driver quantity information as well as the frozen rate.

IBU Business Unit and IBU Model ID

If this is an interunit model, select the location of the IBU business unit and IBU model ID.