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Summary
This article highlights the top-10 features of SAP MDG from the experience of the author during customer presentations. Author: Steffen Ulmer
Author Bio
The author is a principal solution consultant in an SAP environment since 2001. He has an extensive knowledge of reseller and consumer goods producers sectors. The main focus of his SAP consulting lies on software/solution-architecture and business process expertise. Thereby he is an expert for the SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Portals, SAP MDG, SAP MDM, SAP GDS and SAP BPM/BRM. Since a long time he also a remarkable expertise in Web Dynpro Java development. Since 2007 he is also a member of various special focus-groups within SAP. This activity includes the building and moderation of e-learning session in the context MDM and BPM, the preparation and development of MDM and MDG demo scenarios with new technologies as well as the support of the SAP sales department and product management.Since 2008 he is working as an enterprise architect for master data for a large enterprise customer in UK and NL. Within this role he attended as well several SAP major events (Sapphire, TechEd) as a speaker and POD representative to share his knowledge and experience with other customers and partners.In 2007 he also completed his certification to act as an official SAP Ramp Up Coach. In the last years he was working in that role in several different customer projects. The consultant was a member of the SAP Development Department for SAP MDG in our headquarters in 2012. During this time he was acting as a fellow for the product owner of the MDG application with a focus on Cross System Workflow Monitoring.
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Table of Contents
Introduction ......................................................................................................................................................... 3 Out of the box content ........................................................................................................................................ 3 Focus on Business User with User Interface features ....................................................................................... 4 Change documents ............................................................................................................................................. 5 Data Quality functions ......................................................................................................................................... 5 Material classification & Hierarchy maintenance ................................................................................................ 6 Robust Data Replication ..................................................................................................................................... 7 Template Creation .............................................................................................................................................. 8 Mass maintenance .............................................................................................................................................. 9 Analytical features for processes ...................................................................................................................... 10 Extensibility & Custom Objects ......................................................................................................................... 11 Related Content ................................................................................................................................................ 12 Copyright........................................................................................................................................................... 13
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Introduction
Recently, I gave a lot of EIM and MDG demos and overview presentations to people and customers who are not so much involved yet into the SAP EIM portfolio directly. In most cases, these people turned out to be real experts in the master data topics itself, knowing the overall advantages of a proper master data strategy including centrally governed creation. In other words: I had the pleasure to demo SAP MDG to people who have a clear understanding of the features and functions needed to achieve a very high data quality of the master data in a master data hub.
In this article I would like to explain 10 highlights of SAP MDG that sparked off the most attention from the audience when I presented the software in action.
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are available where it makes sense. The following screenshots shows how the SAP MDG system triggers the generation a PDF document from within a material overview screen. As you can see, its not just a screenshot of the web form. Example for PDF generation in SAP MDG-M
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Change documents
In SAP MDG you will add or modify the attributes of master data objects in a governed way. Later on, business users might want to know Who changed which attribute and how? These questions can be fully answered in SAP MDG with the Change Documents feature. Instead of going to a different User Interface or even into technical log files, the feature is available for business users directly in their user Interface. The button is available in SAP MDG as it makes perfect sense there. The following screenshot explains the feature from a UI perspective: Example for Change Document User interface
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Users can assign Centrifugal pump to a material and this level will inherit the attributes from upper classes: Enter classification characteristic values in SAP MDG-M
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The next screenshot shows the Replication Status Information. As you can see all kind of information regarding the replication is exposed to the user incl.: - Status - The target system - The object type and ID - The message number - Communication Channel: via iDoc or Services
And even a link to the detailed log file.
Template Creation
The function Template Creation will speed up the way how your users will be able to create new master data records: Instead of starting each time from scratch they can search for existing (similar) records and use them as templates. You can also create Dummy-records in the SAP MDG system as copy-templates. In the newest SAP MDG release this function is also available for segments below the basic data such as for Material: Plant, Distribution Channel and Sales Organization.
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Mass maintenance
SAP MDG supports mass processing: Mass processing in MDG is used for Processing multiple selected objects of the same entity type in one step During one transaction the same changes are applied to this selection You can perform multiple transaction (and selections) using the same change request Multiple processors can work on the same change request The following screenshot shows the functions available in SAP MDG-M:
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Related Content
SAP MDG on SDN SAP MDG on SAP Help SAP MDG on sap.com
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Copyright
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