1. SAP Master Data Governance
David Pugh – Solution Specialist SAP D&T
16th October 2015

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3. Enterprise master data Reporting and analytics
Customers’ approaches to master data management Central governance & distribution / de-central ownership & consolidation
Systems under central governance
LoB customer
LoB procurement
LoB finance
LoB PLM
Other LoB
SAP MDG, central governance
Create master data in-line with business processes (e.g., integrated product development, supplier management)
SAP MDG, consolidation*
Consolidate master data into a single view for accurate analytics and operational insight (continuously or on request e.g. for initial load or mergers & acquisitions)
*) new with SAP MDG 8.0
Enterprise master data
Systems not under central governance
Legacy systems
Reporting and analytics
Business networks
Cloud

4. SAP Master Data Governance Transactional or analytical systems
SAP Master Data Governance Centrally govern master data for your enterprise
SAP MDG is a state-of-the-art master data mgmt solution, providing out-of-the-box, domain-specific master data governance to centrally create, change and distribute or to consolidate master data across your complete enterprise system landscape
Provide
SAP Master Data Governance
Consume
Transactional or analytical systems
Governance
Enables governance, compliance and transparency of master data during creation and change through integrated staging, approval and central audit trail
Consistency
Delivers consistent definition, authorization and replication of key master data entities. Eliminates error prone manual maintenance processes for master data in multiple systems
Consolidation
Consolidate master data in any enterprise system landscape, create best records and key mapping between duplicates, and optionally combine consolidation with central governance for sustained master data quality
Integration
Provides native integration in SAP solutions, incl. re-use of data model, business logic, and configuration for validation while offering openness to integrate 3rd party services
Flexibility
Open to extend the standard models and to create governance for your own master data and flexibly for non-SAP environments
Data Quality
Measure process quality using SAP Smart Business and integrate with SAP Data Services & Information Steward for quality, enrichment, & remediation
Calc. Best Record
Match
Standardize
Activate
Validate
Data Load
Master Data Consolidation
Central Master Data Governance
Approve
Maintain
Adapt
Replicate
Optional Integration

5. SAP Master Data Governance, Central Governance Simplified Process Flow Description
External Providers
Validate
External Services
Re-use existing business logic, integrate external services for data enrichment, address cleansing, duplicate detection, … 2
SAP Master Data Governance
Approve
Collaboration
Adaptable workflow
Auditable change process 3
Maintain
Central maintenance of master data in staging area 1
Maintain
Validate
Approve
Replicate
Adapt
Replicate
Automatic replication to non-SAP and SAP systems 4
Business Processes
Adapt
Adaptation / enrichment in local systems 5

6. SAP Master Data Governance Easy to use, but fully integrated into your business logic
HTML-based user interfaces
MDG UIs are accessed via the SAP NW Business Client or any portal
Fully aware of the business context
Fields are provided with value help look-ups
Validation against the complete underlying business logic…
…taking your company’s configuration into account

7. SAP Master Data Governance and SAP Fiori Easy to use, but fully integrated into your business logic
Feature description
SAP Fiori Request and Approval: SAP MDG 8.0 now provides lean requests for Material, Business Partners, Customer, Supplier, Cost Centers and Profit Centers as well as approval apps for Cost Centers and Profit Centers.
More is planned for upcoming Support Packs.
Business value
Intuitive, mobile access
Consumer-grade usability allows every employee to request master data changes or creation
Person in charge can check and approve anywhere and from any device
Fully integrated
Data is always validated and value help is provided
Support functions (such as attachments, duplicate detection)
End-to-end traceability of the SAP MDG change request route.

8. SAP Master Data Governance Out-of-the-box content provided for standard domains
Supplier & Customer
Enterprise Asset Mgmt *
Financials
Material
Out-of-the box delivery of proven data models for operational and financial master data
Accounting ,Controlling and Consolidation
Basic & Classification Data
Business Partner Attributes
Equipment Master
GL Account/
Chart of Accounts
General Data & Descriptions
Basic, General, Manufacturer and Reference Data, Class Assignment
Central Data
Roles
Financial Reporting
Structures: Balance Sheet, P&L Statement
Units of Measure
Bank Details
Identification
Location Data
Quality Data
Org. Data: Account Assignments,
Responsibilities, Structuring
Tax Numbers
Industry Sectors
EAN, UPC
Addresses with Usage and Versions
Functional Location
Basic and General Data,
Manufact. Data, Reference Data
Cost Element/
Hierarchies
Classification
Document Link
Business Partner Relationships
Location Data
Cost Center/
Hierarchies
Logistics Data
Sales Data
Organizational Data: Account
Assignments, Responsibilities
Supplier Attributes
Customer Attributes
Profit Center/
Hierarchies
Plant Data
General Data
General Data
MRO Bill of Material
Header: Identifying and Quantity,
Validity Data, Material Data, Texts
Storage & Warehouse Data
Company
Comp. Code Data
Comp. Code Data
Consolidation: Item, Group & Hierarchies, Unit, Break Down Category
Item Overview Data
Production Version
Purchasing Data
Sales Area Data
Item: Detail, Quantity, Status, MRP Data, Purchasing Data,
Text and Document Assignment
Value
Valuation, Costing,
Material Ledger
Tax Indicators
*) SAP MDG, enterprise asset mgmt extension by Utopia

9. SAP Master Data Governance, Consolidation Process Flow
Data Load
Open to SAP HANA services (smart data integration), non-HANA based ETL mechanisms from SAP, and non-SAP ETL options
Standardize
Match
Calculate Best Record
Validate
Activate
Validate and enrich address data
Possibility to connect to 3rd party tools for standardization and enrichment
Find duplicates based on customer specific matching rules
Review match groups
Create “Best Records” based on approved match groups
Validate best records
against backend
customizing to verify whether records can be activated
Provide consolidated master data for analytical or operational use
Option to activate directly, or indirectly triggering post processing using central governance

10. SAP Master Data Governance, consolidation Prerequisite: Data Load
Open to SAP HANA services (smart data integration), non-HANA based ETL mechanisms from SAP, and non-SAP ETL options
Standardize
Match
Calculate Best Record
Validate
Activate
SAP HANA In-Memory Platform
Recommendation, if you run SAP MDG on SAP HANA:
SAP HANA smart data integration provides SAP HANA-native real-time transactional replication, batch / bulk ETL and transformations into SAP HANA from both SAP and non-SAP application databases
Services
Smart Data Integration
Other recommended ETL options include:
Real Time Replication: SAP Replication Server for non-SAP application sources incl. transformation; SAP Landscape Transformation Replication Server for SAP application sources without replication
Bulk / Batch ETL: SAP Data Services for all bulk / batch ETL scenarios from SAP and non-SAP application sources (incl. transformation)
…or bring your own ETL tool

11. SAP Master Data Governance, consolidation Standardizing data
Data Load
Standardize
Match
Calculate Best Record
Validate
Activate
Recommendation, if you run SAP MDG on SAP HANA:
SAP HANA smart data quality transforms data to common format to enable high-quality matching. This includes out-of-the-box address validation and address standardization.
SAP HANA In-Memory Platform
Services
Smart Data Quality
Process-step specific KPI’s are shown:
Other recommended address validation and standardization options include:
Called through BAS interface: SAP Data Services on any other BAS-certified solution

12. SAP Master Data Governance, consolidation Matching data
Data Load
Standardize
Match
Calculate Best Record
Validate
Activate
Recommendation, if you run SAP MDG on SAP HANA:
SAP HANA smart data quality provides batch matching features to identify duplicate data
SAP HANA Fuzzy Search including similarity score ensures high detection quality in search and matching
SAP HANA In-Memory Platform
Services
Smart Data Quality
Process-step specific KPI’s are shown:
Other recommended matching options include:
Called through BAS interface: SAP Data Services

13. SAP Master Data Governance, consolidation Matching data
Data Load
Standardize
Match
Calculate Best Record
Validate
Activate
A Match Review application allows verifying whether duplicates have been correctly identified and grouped
You can for example:
Approve or reject a match group
Delete or split single or multiple records from a match group
Approved match groups are then provided for subsequent calculation of best records

14. SAP Master Data Governance, consolidation Calculating the best record
Data Load
Standardize
Match
Calculate Best Record
Validate
Activate
Create best records per match group according to survivorship rules
These rules for example include:
Survivorship rule types on table level: like source system reliability, recency,…
Survivorship rule types on field level: like completeness,…

15. SAP Master Data Governance, consolidation Validating data
Data Load
Standardize
Match
Calculate Best Record
Validate
Activate
Check whether new records, calculated best records, and updated existing records have been computed correctly, for example:
Use validation against backend customizing to verify whether records could be activated
Process-step specific KPI’s are shown, for example:
status of new “Single Records”, new “Best Records”, and status of “Updates”

16. SAP Master Data Governance, consolidation Activating data
Data Load
Standardize
Match
Calculate Best Record
Validate
Activate
Provide consolidated data for analytical or operational use, or initiate governance
To achieve this, the activation type can be flexibly configured:
Direct activation (typically for analytical use cases)
Activation initiating central governance (i.e. triggering an SAP MDG change request)

17. SAP Master Data Governance Consolidation optionally combined with central governance
Get data clean
Approve
Validate
Maintain
Adapt
Replicate
Central Master Data Governance
Calculate Best Record
Match
Standardize
Activate
Data Load
Master Data Consolidation
Optional Integration
Keep data clean

18. SAP Master Data Governance Covering many use cases (consolidation optionally combined with central governance)
Continuous consolidation for analytical purposes
Ensure data consistency via consolidation for analytical use cases, e.g., global spend reporting 1 2
Consolidation for initial load before central governance
Ensure data correctness and accuracy via consolidation run before starting central governance
Consolidation for M&A
Ensure data consistency via consolidation runs every time it comes to M&A process while continuously running central governance
Central governance only
Ensure clean data at the point of creation or change
Continued hybrid approach
Deliberately keep some parts under local ownership with continuous consolidation and some parts under central governance

19. SAP Master Data Governance Contextualized SAP HANA-based analytics
Feature description
Combining change request data with master data object attributes and change docs: Analytics of master data is now also sensitive  towards data that is directly associated with the change request itself, covering master data attributes, change documents, and SAP Business Workflow  based information.
Business value
Detailed analysis and drill-down available based on master data attributes, their changes and the related workflow data
Real-time identification of process issues in large information amounts
Appropriate remediation through systematic analysis of SLA failures
Collaboration with the persons in charge for fast correction
Object-based analytics
(like average processing time of change requests for specific material types)
Change-documents based analytics
(like a dashboard with all CRs for material data where specific plant was created or changed)
Workflow-based analytics
(like open work items per org. unit to show which unit has most open work items)

20. Product Lifecycle Mgmt
SAP Master Data Governance 8.0 End-to-end integration in heterogeneous landscapes
SAP S/4HANA
Some examples of SAP MDG integration scenarios:
Provide MDG key mapping to Central Finance, SAP S/4HANA Finance and MDG co-deployed, SAP S/4HANA as a target system for MDG
Business-led integration
MDG provides interfaces based on a process choreography for easy end-to-end integration…
…not just technical interfaces
Not only for SAP
SAP MDG provides open interfaces to integrate with every solution as needed
Out-of-the-box for SAP
In addition, for SAP to SAP integration, we provide out-of- the-box integration content
External Authorities or Knowledge Providers
Data Quality Solutions
Quality trend and KPI monitoring, error detection and then remediation via SAP MDG
(e.g. integration to SAP Data Services and SAP Information Steward)
Validate addresses versus external references, tax jurisdiction codes via Vertex, identify denied parties via business partner screening, etc. etc. (e.g. user interface integration to SAP Business Partner Screening)
SAP MDG
Customer Relationship Mgmt
Enterprise Resource Planning
Allow for de-central look-up and ad-hoc replication, or for de-central creation and subsequent global governance
(e.g. user interface in de-central SAP ERP to search customers remotely in MDG hub)
Material master data validated and ready to be used in purchasing, production, storage, sales, transportation, accounting, etc.
(e.g. re-use of SAP ERP validations in MDG)
Business Analytics … …
Product Content Mgmt
Provide trusted master data and key mapping between duplicates for better insight into transactional data or big data analytics
(e.g. export of MDG key mapping to SAP Business Intelligence)
Synchronization of product master data and enrichment towards product catalogue and ecommerce solutions
(e.g. data flow integration to hybris PCM)
Product Lifecycle Mgmt
Integration of material master data mgmt into the broader engineering change process (e.g. UI and process integration to SAP PLM)

21. SAP Master Data Governance Summary of the key capabilities
SAP MDG provides end-to-end processes for the entire master data lifecycle, covering central governance and consolidation. MDG helps to empower business agility with SAP HANA-based analytics and consumer-grade user experience. It is built on a strong foundation to provide improved business efficiency and process flexibility, enabling simplification.
Out-of-the-box applications for central MDM
SAP MDG for financial data (financial accounting / consolidation data, companies, profit & cost centers)
SAP MDG for supplier data (corporate, company, and purchasing related data, partner functions)
SAP MDG for customer data (corporate, company, and sales related data, partner functions)
SAP MDG for material data (corporate, sales org, plant, storage, warehouse, valuation & costing data)
SAP MDG for enterprise asset mgmt data (equipment, functional location data, MRO bills of material)
Flexible framework for your own master data
Foundation for flexible adjustments of data models, processes, user interfaces, and to define governance for custom-defined objects
Master data consolidation
Load, standardize, match and calculate best records (for business partner master data)
State-of-the-art MDM solution
Compelling user experience and dedicated SAP Fiori apps for master data request and approval
Advanced data standardization, search, and duplicate detection (SAP HANA as an option)
Governance of master data hierarchies as a basis for trusted business insight
Process quality trends or KPI reporting and data quality analytics with remediation
Data replication to all cloud and on-premise systems in the landscape
Calc. Best Record
Match
Standardize
Activate
Validate
Data Load
Master Data Consolidation
Central Master Data Governance
Approve
Maintain
Adapt
Replicate
Optional Integration