Integrating SAP Master Data Integration

SAP Master Data Integration, when integrated with SAP Subscription Billing, facilitates the synchronization and management of customer master data across various systems and applications within the SAP landscape. It ensures that consistent and accurate customer data is utilized within the subscription billing process, enabling streamlined customer management and billing operations.

By centralizing master data management, SAP Master Data Integration facilitates data governance, data quality management, and data harmonization, reducing duplication, errors, and inconsistencies that may arise from disparate data sources.

As mentioned in a previous unit, SAP Integration Suite can also be used for master data replication between SAP Subscription Billing and other systems. However, there are differences in the functionalities and approaches to master data management between Master Data Integration and the SAP Integration Suite.

SAP Cloud Platform Integration is a dedicated integration platform for replicating master data across different systems, offering flexibility and customization for various data sources. In contrast, SAP Master Data Integration is a specialized component specifically designed to synchronize and manage customer master data within the SAP Subscription Billing environment, focusing on the consistency and accuracy of customer data within subscription billing operations.

While the SAP Integration Suite can facilitate the movement of master data, it does not inherently provide the same level of comprehensive management, governance, and data harmonization features as SAP Master Data Integration.

Integrating SAP Master Data Integration with SAP Subscription Billing is straightforward. The first step is to subscribe to the SAP Master Data Integration application. Then, within the SAP Subscription Billing Subaccount, create a new destination using the service key information from your SAP Master Data Integration instance. This allows for the replication of Business Partners from SAP Master Data Integration to SAP Subscription Billing, and products and rate elements from SAP Subscription Billing to SAP Master Data Integration. From SAP Master Data Integration you can send the master data to other systems like SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud.

Now that you have a better idea of how SAP Master Data Integration provides a dedicated solution for synchronizing and managing customer master data when integrated with SAP Subscription Billing, let’s look at how to integrate non-SAP systems.