Describing Key Capabilities

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to describe the key data management capabilities

Central Data Governance

The primary goal of SAP Master Data Governance is to ensure that master data is clean based on its consolidation, central governance, and data quality management capabilities.

But which SAP Master Data Governance solution to choose?

The table below lists the various installation/deployment options for SAP Master Data Management solutions.

Private CloudOn-premisePublic Cloud
SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, master data governanceSAP Master Data Governance on SAP S/4HANASAP Master Data Governance, cloud edition
Note: Functional scope is identicalSAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, master data governance

This video introduces the key capabilities and the different Master Data Governance solutions provided by SAP for this purpose.

SAP Master Data Governance, Central Governance allows domain-specific enterprise master data management to centrally govern the creation, change, and distribution of master data across the entire enterprise system landscape. This proactive approach ensures that master data complies with company standards when activated. This way, organizations can ensure flawless business processes and trustworthy analytics right from the beginning.

Central Governance enables you to:

  • Provide central ownership of master data in-line with a company’s business rules and processes

  • Work with out-of-the-box master domains or use the built-in framework to create customized master data domains

  • Put change request-based processing of master data in place in your enterprise with integrated workflows, approval, activation, and distribution

  • Deploy MDG as a separate hub system, or co-deploy it with SAP S/4HANA. In both cases, MDG can use SAP and company-specific business logic to create master data ready to be used in a company’s business processes

The following video explains what a typical SAP Master Data Governance Process Flow looks like.

Central Governance for SAP Master Data Governance on SAP S/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, master data governance, supports the following domains:

  • Business Partner including Supplier and Customer
  • Material Master
  • Financial
  • Custom Objects

Master Data Consolidation

Master Data Consolidation is an effective master data management approach to identify duplicates and determine the single source of truth for the customer, supplier, and product data not maintained centrally.

SAP Master Data Governance, Consolidation delivers capabilities to load master data from different sources, standardize the master data, and identify duplicates. For each of the determined match groups, it calculates the best record from the duplicates in that group, based on the survivorship rules for the master data attributes. You can then use these best records in dedicated analytical or business scenarios.

Within MDG, you can combine consolidation and central governance to support various master data management scenarios. Typical scenarios include the initial load of master data as a starting point for central governance, consolidation of master data after mergers and acquisitions, or combinations where you maintain decentralized ownership of master data in some parts of the company and centralized master data ownership in other parts.

The figure below depicts the domains and processes supported by SAP Master Data Governance, Consolidations process.

Given here are the different domains and processes supported by the Consolidations process. Processes include, Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, Design to Order, Service and Maintain, and Acquire to Retire. Domains supported are - Customers, Finance, Vendors, Materials, Products, Assets, and Location

All Use Cases and Implementation Styles

  • Continuous consolidation for analytical purposes
  • Consolidation for initial load before central governance
  • Consolidation for Merger and Acquisitions
  • Central governance only
  • Coexistence hybrid approach

Domain Coverage for Consolidation Process

SAP Master Data Governance, Consolidation supports the following domains:

  • Business Partner, including customer and vendor
  • Business Partner Relationship
  • Material Master
  • Custom Objects

Data Quality Management

SAP Master Data Governance, Data Quality Management is a business user application that allows to manage master data quality by defining and applying quality validation rules across all points of master data entry. It also features data quality monitoring and seamless remediation.

Data Quality Management is responsible for maintaining the quality of your product and business partner master data.

With Data Quality Management, you can:

  • Define derivation scenarios to deduce master data based on derivation rules
  • Define validation rules and data quality Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
  • Evaluate the quality of your master data according to these rules and monitor the current state of the data quality and its trend

Data Quality Management delivers you information about, e.g.:

  • Latest Data Quality Score
  • Data Quality Trend
  • Incorrect Data
  • Latest Data Quality Evaluations

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